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TREND: Florals by Dolce & Gabbana, GET THE LOOK

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Florals are great to wear anytime but especially in the Spring and Summer months.

We spotted some of our diva-level Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums recently sporting the feminine pattern in sophisticated dresses and billowy peasant tops.

Jennifer Lopez wore a black and silver floral Dolce & Gabbana cap sleeve mini floral print dress with a matching D&G Sicily mini printed leather shoulder bag and white pumps at a recent event.

Beyonce, who is on active Bumpwatch, was seen recently in a billowy Lucy Paris floral peasant top with black trouser shorts and sandals. Late last month, the singer-songstress headed out in a Dolce & Gabbana knee-length dress that she accessorized with black Ray Ban sunglasses, a Stuart Weitzman Nudist Ankle Strap sandal and a nude Dannijo Lypton Chain detail cross body bag.

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You Discover your Husband has a LOVE CHILD he didn’t know about, What Would you Do?

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Sticking with a Beyonce-inspired theme today (and Dad-theme from yesterday).

Beyonce’s dad, Matthew Knowles, was infamously busted for having fathered a love child while still married to her mom, Tina Knowles. As you may know, Tina recovered from the betrayal and went on to wed actor Richard Lawson in an all-white wedding aboard a 140 feet yacht earlier this year.

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Tina Knowles and new husband Richard Lawson.

The wedding reminded me of a very interesting and popular Yahoo!Answers question from a real-live woman entrenched in a similar type of quandary.

Here’s the question:

Suppose you are a married woman with kids. One day, a letter comes from a woman with pictures of her and her child. The woman is looking for the child’s father and says the father is ____ (your husband’s name). She says she has been looking for the child’s father for years. She does not know for sure that he lives at the address she sent the letter to. Your husband admits he is the father of the child and that he abandoned the woman in pregnancy and never saw the child. He didn’t cheat on you – this happened before you met. But not a long time before you met. Let’s say the child was born earlier in the same year that you met, and he was not very young when he fathered the child – he was in his 30s. It was not a one-night stand and He knew the woman for a couple of years.

Would you:

a – encourage your husband that it’s time to start paying child support and being a part of the child’s life

b – want to leave your husband because he’s not the man you thought he was.

c – do nothing, it’s up to your husband to decide what to do, and hope he says nothing and the woman will drop the whole thing.

d – call up the woman yourself and tell her the person she’s looking for does not live there and you don’t know him, and hope she is convinced and doesn’t investigate further.

e- call up the woman and pretend you are someone other than the wife – perhaps a sister or another relative – and say he does not live there, and say she must have the wrong person.

How would you answer?!

CHECK OUT THE INTERESTING ANSWERS SHE GOT at Yahoo!Answers

UPDATE: The post was updated by the woman posing the question who admitted that she was the “other woman” (not the wife) and the wife chose (e), and she was hoping the wife would acknowledge the child so that he could meet his half-siblings. She thought it odd the woman chose (e) and went to Yahoo! Answers to learn how others would react.

Get Inspired by Beyonce’s Bold Statement Jewelry

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I love statement jewelry and my muse is our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum Beyonce Knowles Carter.

Each outfit she wears is accented perfectly with just the right ring, bracelet, earcuff, bracelet, necklace or body jewelry to complete her look. I was most impressed with the exquisite unique pieces Blue Ivy‘s mom wore in the videos to her 2013 self-titled album.

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My fave was the Black Lynn Ban PVD Armor Ring that she wore as knuckle rings in the “Superpower” music video! They retail at $420 each so you’d be set back  over $3,000 to replicate the precise look on your hands. She also wore 16 of the designer’s  Pave Coil midi rings in the “Haunted” video. They are embedded with white diamonds and black diamonds which retail at about $3500 each   I think that vid helped bolster the midi ring craze that following Spring.

You can get a similar style for under $20 from Free People or Ily Couture. And you can find the bold statement rings she wore in the “Telephone” jewelry at mid price range from other jewelers.

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Another coveted set of jewelry are the Edie Borgo wrist cuffs and ear cuffs Bey rocked in the “Jealous” video.

That was one of my fave tunes from that visual album. Can you tell I recently discovered that the videos were released to the public last November? This past weekend, I relived my enjoyment watching  them all again on a larger screen. I  first purchased the album back when it first came out and had to view the videos on my iPhone.

The other great thing I discovered was that the Edie Borgo pieces from that video all are in a mid-range price point under $150 so they’re totally affordable!

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And when Bey‘s not killing the game in her edgier looks, Mrs. Carter steals the spotlight in her bright and vibrant pieces, like these colorful Aztec art necklaces paired with that fab Mayan-inspired ring in that photo on the right.

I was totally crushing on those eye-catching accessories and adornments.  

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Revisiting that album last weekend also reminded me of how much I really dug the complete layered jewels look in the “XO” video too. I curated and assembed some inspiration pieces from our partners at ShopStyle for you to consider getting or using as a guide for the next time you’re out jewelry shopping.

If you want to nab some of  these glam pieces of jewelry, you can be creative and check out arts and music festivals this Summer.  Those events that have vendors who are at-home jewelry makers. They typically sell interesting and one-of-a-kind selections, and usually you can find big bold selections as well.

Happy shopping fellow jewelry lovers!

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NAACP Image Awards, Grammy Weekend (PHOTOS)

This is a busy weekend for award shows and events, showcases and parties leading up to the biggest music industry award show for the year, The Grammy Awards. The NAACP Image Awards also took place this weekend as did the Essence Music event. 
We spotted some of our past Bellyitch Bumpwatch moms and moms-to-be at various events:
Kerry Washington looked her best in a red lace, spaghetti strap, A- line skirt dress from the Zuhair Murad Spring 2015  collection while on the red carpet and presenting an award at the 46th NAACP Image Awards presented by TV One at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 6, 2015 in Pasadena, California. 
She accented the fun sexy look with Cathy Waterman jewels, red python Christian Louboutin “Pigalle” pumps and a clutch by Salvatore Ferragamo.
Beyonce Knowles Carter and Kim Kardashian West wowed while attending the Roc Nation and Three Six Zero brunch yesterday, Saturday, February 7 along with a bevvy of other celebs including their hubbies Kanye West and Jay Z, Rihanna (above with Kim in a red floral bra and skirt by Altuzarra (retail $825)), Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Janelle Monae and more. 
Beyonce disproved pregnancy rumors in this low v-cut black Alexandre Vauthier Haute couture top and pants with strappy Alaia laser cut suede platform sandals ($1760) with Willow Smith and Jay Z.

Kim K did her signature crop top with pencil skirt look (both Balmain) and showed off a drastic hair cut. Cute. I like her Lanvin statement Crystal Eagle necklace ($1990) and Glass Detail Cuff. ($424)
Do you like the weekend fashion so far? Check in here later for Grammy red carpet fashion.

photos: Getty

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What Celebrity moms are up to on Instagram

What are some of the celebrity mothers we’ve profiled here on Bellyitch are up to these days? A good place to keep track of their ups and downs and projects is by checking in on them in Instagram where they freely share pics and other updates like Eva Marcille above who recently won a battle with her ex Kevin McCall over their 1-year old adorable daughter Marley. Here she is looking effortlessly chic while driving in her ride somewhere. 
What else? We stalkfollow them so you don’t have to!
Gwen Stefani recently visited Qatar 
Beyonce too is/was in Asia & took some time off to hit her computer and look stylish while doing so.

 The Wests’: Kim Kardashian West, Nori West & Kanye West visited the zoo. Awwww!

Nicole Richie was in a hijab the same week as World Hijab Day while scouting for fabric for her fashion line

Alicia Keys and hubby Swizz Beatz were having their first date after the birth of their second son: Rollerskating! How fun!

Drew Barrymore was playing the part of Baby from Dirty Dancing for pal Jimmy Fallon‘s lip sync battle with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart.

 

  Ciara was showing off her cute cherubic son, Future to her fans and followers whilst barefooted.

Kerry Washington looked absolutely beautiful while promoting a book charity drive for FirstBook.Org.

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Jay Z hints that Beyonce may be pregnant

During a 2-day special performance extension of Jay Z and Beyonce‘s On-the-run tour at the Stade de France in Paris this weekend, Jay dropped a hint that his wife may be pregnant with the couple’s second child.
While performing the song “Beach is Better“, he changed up the verse “I replace it with another one” with the lyrics “pregnant with another one.”  The switch up created a frenzy on the interwebs among fans of the dynamic married duo.
Hova showed the City of Light mad love when he added during the closing, “We love Paris..It’s special to us because we got engaged here and this is where baby Blue was conceived.”
Bey returned the love and told her hubby, “I’m your biggest fan. I love you,” to which he replied, asking the audience to give it up to the “greatest entertainer in the world. I love her. She’s my wife.”
So much divorce squelching fodder that we’re sure the haters will still dismiss as an act, but forget the haters cause you know? Haters are gonna hate. That’s what they do best. 
Anyway, so Beyonce image control crew tried to put the rumors that circulated around Jay’s verse switch up by posting a photo of the two celebrating after the show holding champagne in glasses, but as it is a photo and not a video, we really don’t know if she drank any or it or if it was Martinelli‘s which is non-alcoholic! ha! You’re not fooling us, doll. (smile)
The two-night headline was filmed for an upcoming HBO special produced in conjunction with Live Nation. These two stay making money, tho, right?
— Bellyitch staff
photo: Twitter, Facebook

Independence Day: More Celebs in Stars and Stripes (PHOTOS)

Following up on our annual feature of celebrities wearing red, white and blue, we have drawn some more celeb stock images file and from that exercise realize that no celeb wears Old Glory more than…
 Katy Perry!
And she even has repped the half British version too. 
And boy has Beyoncé come a long way…
…from these days.
And then there’s Lady GaGa doing the bikini stars and stripes .
While Busy Phillips and Meryl Streep went more sweet and demure. 

2014 Met Ball Red Carpet Trends as worn by celebrity moms

Among the A-List celebs strutting their looks on the red carpet to this year’s Met Ball were several of our Bellyitch alum moms last night, May 5.
There was a departure from the traditional avante garde fair this year given the theme “Charles James: Beyond Fashion”, named after the newest exhibit at the museum. It allowed the ladies to do old Hollywood glam, which is safer and more feminine for the annual gala put on by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and produced by Vogue editor-in-chief Ana Wintour.


The actual exhibit featured vintage old and recent Hollywood red carpet and other formal evening dresses worn by major US and international stars. 
We saw some trends starting with the traditional trains, as spotted on Beyonce in a Givenchy dress and shoes adorned with Lorraine Schwartz jewelry; and on Charlize Theron in a black and white Dior dress worn with Fred Leighton jewels.

Actress Lake Bell held it down for the pregnant ladies in Tomy Hillfiger while Ivanka Trump did an earthy pattern in Oscar de la Renta.

Event co-chair Sarah Jessica Parker also wore Oscar de la Renta in a black and white ball gown while Victoria Beckham went as herself, in a sleek strapless Victoria Beckham evening dress.

Dark colors were seen on Marion Cotilliard in Christian Dior and Kim Kardashian in a sateen teal Lanvin evening dress with Lorraine Schwartz jewels.
 
Metallic and Silver were worn by singer Lily Allen in Chanel Couture, model Lily Aldridge in Michael Kors and Nicole Richie in Donna Karan Atalier

Going with bold color was Katie Holmes in a full sunny gown by  Marchesa and Reese Witherspoon looking polished and pretty in Stella McCartney.

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Pregnant Celebrities who don’t share bump progression pics accused of faking it: The Jwoww Case Study

So this week, Jersey Shore  reality TV star of the longtime MTV hit, Jenni “JWoww” Farley teased some of her 3.58 million Twitter followers on an upcoming bump photo. Since the Snooki and Jwoww star announced her pregnancy with fiance Roger Matthews last December, she is yet to share an all-out baby bump photo.
Interestingly enough, the comments to the post she linked with details about a teal one-shoulder Rissa of LaBling dress she wore October 2013 on Chelsea Handler‘s talk show this week piqued accusations that she isn’t really pregnant at all.
“Maybe she is not carrying the baby?? Maybe she has a surrogate?” one named Chloe questioned.
“I bet she faking a preg I think she adopting a baby!!” another named Joan added.
And thus the convo diverted to commentary about whether she is pretending to be pregnant as a publicity stunt.
Recall Danielle Jonas and Kevin Jonas‘ first pregnancy was similarly dogged by similar rumors and infamously Beyonce as well.
One might notice that a sure sign a celebrity woman is pregnant is when she ordinarily posts non-stop selfies of her full body on social media but suddenly shares only face pics. It could be she is uncomfortable with her changing body and not yet figured out how to dress her bump or she is just keeping the news under wraps until the critical first trimester passes.
It may very well be that Jwoww didn’t wait the three months and shared the news immediately and thus has not really started to show much. 
The speculation is unwarranted even if she is farther along because many women don’t show until well into their second trimester and others do a great job in hiding the bump under baggy or loose clothing.
This incident may reveal a new disturbing trend among baby bumpwatch fans and followers of celebrities who announce their pregnancy. If they don’t reveal a bump or show a “normal” progression, they may be dogged by fake pregnancy rumors.

What do you think?

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Androgynous Maternity as rocked by Ciara, Beyonce & Kim Kardashian

When Ciara showed up to the 2014 MusicCares Gala in a navy Lanvin mens style pinstripe suit, many scrubbed their chins, cocked their heads and went, “hmmmm.”   Not all were convinced at how fashion forward the look was for maternity wear.

Little did they know she was only channeling the spirit of her fore-mothers who rocked Androgynous maternity before her.

Behold:

Ciara has been wearing androgynous looks this pregnancy like Beyonce & Kim Kardashian did before her.

Meanwhile, the first openly gay woman athlete to sign a Nike modeling contract, WNBA player Brittney Griner was signed to model men’s apparel.
And as an ESPN.com story about the deal noted: 

Androgynous models are coveted in high-end fashion, but the trend toward gender-neutral clothing has only just begun to reach the sports world, with NBA stars Russell Westbrook and Dwyane Wade blurring the lines in their tight jeans and fitted sweaters. No sports apparel company has taken it a step further and expressly targeted the gender-fluid crowd — and whether Nike is willing to ride the edge with Griner remains to be seen. “We can’t get into specifics,” says Nike spokesman Brian Strong, “but it’s safe to say we jumped at the opportunity to work with her because she breaks the mold.

The former Baylor women’s player and current Phoenix Mercury star won the ESPY award for best female athlete in 2011 and rocked the red carpet in men’s wear the following two years.

The era of androgyny has been a thing for a while now, but is mos def an “in” thing again.

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