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2019 MTV VMAs: Moms on the Red Carpet

Posted on August 27, 2019

If you’ve followed this blog for the past 10 years, you know I enjoy spotting on Red Carpets the celebrity women who’ve been spotlighted here before when they were expecting a baby.

Last night, on August 26, the MTV Video Music Awards were held in New Jersey for the first time at the Prudential Center.

One of our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums, Cardi B won for Best Hip Hop video for her song “Money” (she was nominated for Artist of the Year too but lost to Ariana Grande). She was also nominated for Best Pop video for “Please Me” with Bruno Mars and Best Dance and Best Power Anthem for “Taki Taki” and “Wish Wish,” respectively.

One other featured mama from the past Alicia Keys was nominated for the Best R&B video for the video for her song “Raise a Man” but lost to former Fifth Harmony girl band member Normani.

CONGRATS AGAIN TO @iamcardib ????#VMAs pic.twitter.com/Eg6l8ducqk
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 27, 2019

The show caters to younger audiences so I have to admit I’ve had to watch the nominees right before publshing this post. Shame. lol In any event, congrats to the winners and shout out to the moms who looked fab on the red carpet including:

Adriana Lima in Sally LaPointe with Chopard jewelry and Christian Louboutin heels.

Monica in Libertine

Heidi Klum in Nedo with Judith Leiber handbag and Lorraine Schwartz jewelry

Blac Chyna in Attico

Whitney Port in Balmain

Lil Kim

Jenni “JWOWW” Farley in liastublla

Nicole “Snooki” LaValle in The Snooki Shop

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Jersey Shore Grown Up: JWoww welcomes Second Child

Posted on May 7, 2016

Congrats to former MTV reality TV star Jennifer “JWoww” Farley on the birth of her second child with husband Roger Mathews.

The couple named the new arrival whey welcomed on Thursday, May 5, Greyson Valor Matthews. She announced the news via Instagram, the way all celebrities relay news these days.

“So blessed to welcome our precious son,” Farley captioned the photo. “He arrived healthy at 6:03pm tonight and the most beautiful part is Roger got to deliver him with our doctor. Our family is complete!”

Greyson joins 21-month old big sister Meilani Alexandras.

So blessed to welcome our precious son Greyson Valor Mathews. He arrived healthy at 6:03pm tonight and the most beautiful part is Roger got to deliver him with our doctor. Our family is complete! I took so many videos and pics and want to share them all in one place. Download my app and over the next two weeks, I will be adding the most beautiful photos and videos!! #Thankful #Fullfilled #InLove #BabyMathews
A photo posted by Jenni JWOWW (@jwoww) on May 5, 2016 at 7:20pm PDT

Rogers Instagrammed a photo of himself participating in the delivery.

Yesterday at 6:03 pm (with the help of my assistant Dr. Rezai and my wonderful staff) I delivered our 7lb 2ounce son Greyson Valor Mathews into the world. Moments after my wife @jwoww water broke Dr. Rezai looked at me and said “Scrub up Stat ! You’re gonna deliver your son.” Ok so I made up the “Scrub up Stat” part but In my head he said it. Life is only gonna offer you opportunities like this once so you better capitalize on it. I would describe the experience like doing 3 back to back combat tours in Iraq while winning the Nobel Peace Prize simultaneously. What an amazing experience to literally witness the miracle of life from the very onset. He’s our little man, our perfect bundle of joy, the baby brother to an anxious little girl ready to met her Bubba. What a ride this thing called life is ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the love and support for our newest chapter. We are blessed and we pray health and happiness finds you in reading this.
A photo posted by Roger Mathews (@rogermathewsnj) on May 6, 2016 at 5:47am PDT

JWoww and her bff Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi grew up to be responsible adults after living their summers full of debauchery and drunkedness in front of the cameras as stars of the long-running MTV show “Jersey Shore”, which followed a group of friends that vacationed on the shore each summer.

Palozzi is a married (to Jionni LaValle) mom to a daughter Giovanna Marie and son Lorenzo Dominic too and the two host a web series together about the reality of motherhood.

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Snooki & JWOWW give up reality TV to become fulltime stay-at-home moms

Posted on January 29, 2015

The Jersey Shore era has officially ended.

Next Wednesday will be the last episode of the spin off, Snooki & JWOWW, to the wildly popular MTV reality TV show which featured the some alcohol-induced, testosterone bucking and ratchet debauchery days and nights of a group of friends who vacationed on the New Jersey shore for summer vacation. The original show ran from 2009 to 2012 ending with the season Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was pregnant.

Jennifer “JWOWW” Farley penned a sweet note alerting her fans of the end on her blog:

The end of Snooki and JWOWW is near! As women, it’s all about our kids. We don’t care about getting our hair or makeup done. We’re basically stay-at-home moms. The “Snooki and JWoww” series finale airs next Wednesday where you will see Snooki and Jionni get married and our baby Meilani get christened. It’s the end of a big chapter of our lives and it’s bittersweet. I think both Snooki and I want our kids to grow up having normal lives and not be in front of the cameras 24/7. We did it as adults so we had a choice, it’s time we let them have that choice to. Just because we won’t be on your TV screens anymore doesn’t mean you won’t be hearing our honest and dirty rambles! You just have to stay tuned to see where we’ll be next! Can’t wait for the next chapter in our lives! XOXO

This show lasted only two seasons because it appears there’s no ratings for breastfeeding moms. *snark*

I am actually that old that I remember when MTV used to just do specials in the summer following a few kids to the shore (not this group) for vacation and never imagined it would turn into a full-time show that will create stardom for its cast members. (Nicole has over 6 million followers on Twitter and JWOWW has close to 4 Million). At times, it was the highest rated show for the music network.

Polizzi, who has two children, has gone on to pen a New York Times best seller and has a bunch of other lucrative entrepreneurial ventures. Jennifer “JWOWW” Farley, too started a tanning lotion line and sells many products as well as appears on a variety of other reality TV shows on TV.

Among some of the other successful cast mates include Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino who has his own show on TVGN about his life and Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio is a highly-paid and sought after DJ who has worked with 50 Cent to Britney Spears.

It was a fun ride.

Time for full time mommyhood! What do you think of their decision?

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Jersey Shore’s JWoww gives birth to daughter, Meilani

Posted on July 15, 2014

Congrats to Jenni “JWoww” Farley and her fiance Roger Matthews on the birth of their first child together, a daughter, E! News reports.

The couple, who both starred on the MTV reality TV show Jersey Shore, named the new arrival Meilani Alexandra Matthews.

JWoww currently stars in a spinoff Snooki and JWoww with her bestie Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi who is also expecting her second child with fiance Jionni LaValle.

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JWoww thinks “Pregnancy Sucks” and so did these other celebrity reality TV women when they were preggers

Posted on May 3, 2014

So it seems Jennifer “JWoww” Farley is taking cues from her bestie Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi when it comes to declaring in the public how much she dislikes pregnancy.

Snooki infamously told TMZ cameras she thought pregnancy was “disgusting“.

In an inside story in this week’s In Touch Weekly magazine, JWoww declares that “pregnancy sucks!”

While keeping it real, she adds. “I’m exhausted, my boobs are massive and I’ve never been this big. I mean, it’s a blessing, but it’s crazy.”

But JWoww is but the latest in a slate of Reality TV show moms who had spoken openly about their disdain for being pregnant while they were recently preggers.

America’s Next Top Model All-Stars winner Lisa D’Amato said pregnancy is pretty “gross.”

Tamar Braxton-Herbert said one episode the WE TV shows Tamar and Vince that she thought the idea of breastfeeding a baby was “disgusting” and repeatedly focused on the weight gain and being and feeling “fat.”

Much of Kim Kardashian‘s time shown to TV audiences while she was pregnant was dedicated to how fat and unattractive she felt pregnant and her lamenting on being anxious about shedding the weight and posing nude after giving birth.

Certainly, they are entitled to be candid and open and honest. We thought actress Busy Phillips was refreshing when she also shared how it’s never as rosy and perfect as most other celebrity women paint it to be.

Nonetheless, know that with all this public negative chatter, will come harsh words especially from the very large members of the infertility and TTC (trying to conceive) set who would gladly trade nine lives of their lives to experience all the woes and “horrors” of pregnancy.

Just keepin’ it real.

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‘Snooki and JWoww’ gets renewed for third season

Posted on April 26, 2014

Congrats to moms-to-be Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and her pal Jennifer “JWoww” Farley on the news that their MTV show Snooki and JWoww got renewed for a third season.

They announced the news via Twitter after the network’s upfronts this week.

You could barely see a bump on either ladies. Snooki is still early in her pregnancy and JWoww wore a draped top that scrunched in the middle.

Snooki announced earlier this month that she and fiance Jionni Valle are expecting their second child. JWoww revealed her news last December.

Congrats!

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

Posted on April 3, 2014

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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