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Bump Round Up: Lily Aldridge, Hilary Duff, April Geary and More (LINKS)

August 23, 2018 by JJ

We stalk your fave expecting, new or vet celebrity parent so you don’t have to, so here is what they’re up to around the web:

Lily Aldridge and husband Kings of Leon Caleb Followill are expecting their second child.(Celebrity Baby Scoop)

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reportedly have one more embryo to possibly grow into a baby via iVF or surrogacy (US Weekly)

Robin Thicke and his girlfriend April Geary are expecting their second child and she revealed she had a miscarriage too. (PEOPLE)

Hilary Duff is showing off her growing bump and anxiously awaiting the birth of her second child (Daily Mail)

Jesse Williams and his wife both lost their child support adjustment requests during a contentious post-divorce battle (BCK Online)

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Bey and Jay Release Joint Album: Planned Blog Post Canceled!

June 17, 2018 by JJ

I was going to blog about something totally different this afternoon, but you know how Beyonce releasing an album has a habit of throwing all of my plans in disarray. [See review of Beyonce projects here] and [here] She and her husband Shawn”Jay Z” Carter released a 9-track album called “Everything Is Love” smack dab in the middle of their On the Run II tour. [This is right after the Beychella performance which was right after Jay’s album “4:44” which was right after Bey’s “Lemonade”]

These two don’t want us to keep our coins in our own pockets this summer. Anyway, I digress…

Dee Locket of Vulture did an excellent job summing it up for me so I’ll syndicate her opening paragraph to an excellent review you can read in its entirety HERE:

Your weekend plans: Canceled. Yeezy season: Dismissed. Drake: Who? Beyoncé and Jay-Z have pulled a Beyoncé and Jay-Z and surprise-dropped yet another album — but this time, as a couple. Their first-ever joint album Everything Is Love — the one that’s been percolating since even before Lemonade and 4:44 — was released on Saturday evening at the end of the duo’s London show on their On the Run Tour II with one casual parting announcement: “Album Out Now.” Out! Now! The nine-song album, complete with one visual component and a bonus track, is streaming in full on Tidal as we speak. With their trilogy recounting marital strife to remarried bliss now complete, what do we make of this closing chapter? From the shots at Trump, the NFL, Spotify, the Grammys, and Kanye West, to the Blue Ivy cameo, to filming a music video in the Louvre, here’s everything you need to know about the conversation the Carters have caused now.

Phew! What an intro. Well, today is Father’s Day and before heading out to celebrate, while the men are busy watching World Cup games, I hopped on to pen a few thoughts.

First, I don’t have Tidal, where the album exists exclusively. Yes, they are still trying to make it happen, and even have gone as far as declare war on Spotify. No really, they mention the streaming competitor in one of the songs. My subscription expired so my options are to re-up it to listen to the complete set or wait until it slowly releases on other platforms. le sigh.

I hear it’s getting mixed, but mainly good reviews. Because I have nothing to add substantively, I’ll share that I loved the only released-to-the-public video out: “Apeshit”. Imagine! They rented out The Louvre in Paris, France for the video shoot! Wow!

Surprise! pic.twitter.com/SYnAm6zCy7

— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@BeyLegion) June 16, 2018

The video for the song is a cinematic and visual treat. I love art. All art. Musical, visual, performing but especially art of yesteryear and religious art so it was a bonus to get to see flashes of famous pieces in the video.

And it is also a bit political. In the middle, there is an overt swipe at the anti-Take A Knee movement.

There is a lot to digest and there have already been publised a bevy or reviews. One thing I can offer that may not have been shared by others about “Apesh*t” is some of the similarities to other visual stimuli in other pieces.

Screeeeech!! Hold up, before I go there, I was also taken by the fact the song is Trap and besides both dropping some serious bars and Jay Z delivering an exceptionally good performance, he later gets side-graded (*is that a word?*) in my opinion to be to the sound effects emoting guy to Beyonce’s shine when it’s her turn to spit verses.

You know, like the guy Takeoff in the group Migos? ha!

Anyway, back to the visual similarities I spotted…

First, her sister Solange is famous for her love of dance and art combined. Her wedding reception took place at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and earlier this year, she unveiled a performance piece at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and performed her title song to her first Grammy-winning album “Cranes In the Sky” at the Guggenheim in New York City.

"An ode to" 2017

A post shared by @ saintrecords on May 19, 2017 at 10:09am PDT

And so her big sister went bigger.

The second similarity. The dancers in all brown reminded me of the all Brown clothing the dancers in Remy Ma (featuring Chris Brown) video “Melanin Magic.”

And finally, the album cover is of a woman braiding a man’s hair. It was reminiscent of Rihanna shaving dancer Mette Towley‘s hair in the intro to N.E.R.D.’s song Lemon.

Art begets Art. There is nothing truly original anymore and everyone’s interpret, pay homage to and weave in aspects of previously done works.

What else did I spot?

I love that there is a shot in the video that is an ode to us Virgos! Beyonce is one too. I got this long lingering shot…

More visuals:

Beautiful! Bravo!

Drake/Pusha T Rap Beef: Would a Guy Denying His Son Do This? (PHOTO)

May 30, 2018 by JJ

There is an innocent infant at the center of the latest rap battle between Drake and Kanye West GOOD label protege Pusha T.

If you care for the origins, you can find a timeline here.

The latest came from Pusha T who released a diss track asserting among many other things, like digs at Drake being abandoned by his own dad at age 5 and taunting death on a close friend and confidante of Drake’s who is suffering from the effects of advanced multiple Sclerosis, that Drake doesn’t acknowledge his own son.

But the fact is the fact the baby was conceived as a result of an 8-year on-again-off-again relationship with former French porn star turned surreal art painter named Sophie Brussaux, Drake has since conceded paternity. (Thanks to a Paternity Test)

Pusha T, the 41-year old rapper whose real name is Terrence LeVarr Thornton, takes shot at the couple’s baby on his diss track:

“Adonis is your son
And he deserves more than an Adidas press run, that’s real
Love that baby, respect that girl
Forget she’s a porn star, let her be your world, yuugh.”

The diss track is titled “The Story of Adidon” and apparently is in reference to an Adidas shoe line that will be named after Drake’s son, Adonis, and according to reports, will feature the young boy in the marketing campaign.

But as we blogged last October, Drake took his fans on a snap chat tour of his new home that included stops at the baby’s Hermès -themes baby nursery.

The family vacationed in Dubai and Brussaux has commented about how her son is living “the good life” at such a young age.

So the baby which was born on October 24, 2017, ironically on Drake’s birthday, isn’t really being denied but perhaps kept in private for now.

There is a difference.

And for Wayback Wednesday purposes, below is a Snippet of our last October post:

Although Toronto rapper Drake denied that a fling with model and former porn star Sophie Brussaux resulted in a pregnancy, a paternity test later, and there are reports out that he has set up a neutral Hermes-themed infant nursery and playroom in the multi-million dollar mansion he has been building in his home town.

Over the weekend, October’s Very Own took his followers on an MTV Cribs like tour of the digs. What caught people’s eye were the stops along the way that featured a pretty swanky gender neutral playroom.

Inside Chrissy Teigen’s 2nd Surprise Baby Shower

May 1, 2018 by JJ

We are sensing a pattern.

Chrissy Teigen has said she doesn’t like baby showers so her friends throw her surprise ones each time she is pregnant.

She gets two: a surprise baby shower in New York City for her east coast friends and family and one in Los Angeles, usually thrown by her Kardashian pals.

This time was no different.

After celebrating her and husband John Legend’s impending arrival in Manhattan at a surprise baby shower in November, this past Friday, Kim Kardashian-West hosted another low key baby shower.

Last round, the make up module treated her friend to a McDonald’s feast to celebrate now two-year old baby Luna before she was born.

This time, Kardashian chose Shake Shack to cater the event for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.

The all-star guest list included Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Legend, Kris Jenner, and more.

A buffet of five elegant cakes followed, each featured puns and phrases with the word “Legend” in it like, “A Legend in the Making” and “Legendary.”

a lot goin on at surprise baby shower 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Wg6jjsBaeh

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 28, 2018

Teigen, who conceived her daughter through in vitro fertilization, decided to try IVF again for the couple’s second child. “You do the whole process again to try to get as many embryos and eggs as possible,” the mother-to-be told People back in February. “Everyone is freezing everything, and then you make the embryos out of what you freeze and try to make viable perfect embryos.”

h/t Celebrity Baby Scoop

We’re Loving Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert’s New Reality TV Show (VIDEO CLIPS)

April 24, 2018 by JJ

I have a new family reality TV show to watch! Your Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum, dancer, recording artist and model Teyana Taylor and her husband Cleveland Cavalier’s Iman Shumpert‘s!

Teyana and Iman on VH1 is an intimate look into newlyweds Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert’s. After Taylor hit major crossover appeal following her fabulous appearance in Kanye West‘s “Fade” music video, her career has taken off in a meteoric ways, booking modeling gigs, launching companies and now this show.

INGLEWOOD, CA – AUGUST 27: (L-R) Teyana Taylor, Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr.and Iman Shumpert attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

The couple redefine the contemporary notion of the modern love story. He’s from the burbs. She’s from Harlem, NY. And on the show, you get to see Taylor do her mompreneur thing while trying to make sure her daughter Iman Jr (better known as Junie) experiences all the things Taylor didn’t as a kid, like camping.

Per the show description: ” As they take on the music, sports, and fashion worlds, the success in their careers is only rivaled by their passion for one another and their daughter Junie. Teyana & Iman features plenty of red-hot moments, playful humor, and a 360-degree view of true #RelationshipGoals.”

Here are some clips:

Kylie Jenner’s Expensive Baby Stroll Ushers Resurgence of Fendi Double F Brand

April 13, 2018 by JJ

Kylie Jenner is helping designer Karl Lagerfeld bring back the 53-year old French designer Fendi’s monogram logo back in style with her recent Instagram snap of herself outifitted in a skin tight Fendi mini dress pushing her three month old daughter Stormi in a monogram Fendi baby carriage while carrying her essentials in a vintage Fendi Fanny pack with the logo on it as well.

The stroller retails for $12,500 so the money emoji she punctuated the caption to the photo, “Stormi Strolls” with is quite appropriate!

The logo became part of popular culture through TV shows like Sex & The City and its prominence within the old school hip ho music scene. As upscale retail site Heroine pens in its blog post:

The world of Hip-hop has always had a thing for the Fendi logo: Dapper Dan of Harlem used fake Fendi fabrics featuring the Double F to dress artists on stage and off-duty and Kanye West became a living advert when he shaved the Fendi logo onto the side of his head in 2006 while attending a party the brand was hosting in Tokyo, Japan. Fendi became a prime choice for male and female rappers, and many rappers and urban artists have used Fendi in their lyrics. The brand is referenced in many songs including Black Eyed Peas’ 2005 hit My Humps, Yo Gotti’s 5 Star Chick remix from 2009 and in Kanye West‘s Don’t Stop a year later, and Chamillionaire’s Gucci & Fendi in 2012. But, the name-drop isn’t the prerogative of hip-hop: Lady Gaga also cites Fendi in her 2013 song Fashion.

Add a logo diaper bag, which retails for about $1430, to the ensemble and you got a very expensive stroll!

stormi strolls 🤑

A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Apr 12, 2018 at 5:22pm PDT

Jenner’s half sister Kim Kardashian -West promoted the logo brand in a recent post as well. I can dig it. The trend-setting Kardashian/Jenners are at it again:

Style and fashion blog Heorine added to its treatment of the resurgence of the brand which Kylie’s sister Kendall promoted when she walked for the line recently:

Fendi’s Spring/Summer 2018 collection, Karl Lagerfeld brought back the 53 years old emblem to the catwalk. Modeled by Kendall Jenner, a cropped fur blouson and matching tote bag were printed in the brand’s iconic Zucca print, while Lexi Boling was dressed in a knee-length fur coat trimmed with the brand’s monogram. For the Autumn/Winter 2019 collection, the inverted Zucca again played an essential role. Karl Lagerfeld understands the power of branding, and Fendi’s logo is a key element of the brand’s overarching strategy. Celebrities, too, know how to play with such iconography. In February 2018, Kim Kardashian posted a selfie on her Instagram account, on all fours, dressed in vintage Fendi logo stockings with a matching tied-up top, the caption reading: “Fendi Fan.”Logomania is in, and the Italian brand is at the forefront of the trend.

Fendi’s inverted Zucca has become, like most fashion logos, a sign of style appurtenance. It makes one feel part of a certain elite synonymous with Italian high fashion, high drama, and high craftsmanship. It is the coat of arms of an empire that helps keep the Fendi spirit alive and desirable thus its Helvetica typeface being easily and widely counterfeited around the world. Lagerfeld’s perspicacious creativity has led him to design one of our favourite luxury hallmarks in just “three seconds.”

The celebrity mom took to Twitter to answer questions about her life as a parent a few weeks ago. “There really was no worst part,” Kylie said of her experience with pregnancy. “Probably not being able to eat sushi,” Kylie mused. “I had such a perfect experience. she moved a lot,” the celebrity mom said.

i have tons! Maybe I’ll share one day ☺ https://t.co/vUSje0SJdN

— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) March 12, 2018

Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson Welcome Their Daughter (UPDATED)

April 12, 2018 by JJ

Congratulations to Khloe Kardashian on the birth of her first child, daughter, in a hospital outside Cleveland, Ohio this morning, TMZ reports.

The Good American Apparel co-founder announced her pregnancy with NBA‘s Cleveland Cavaliers star, Tristan Thompson, just last December after much speculation.

Since then, the Revenge Body on E! host has been sharing a lot about her pregnancy experience through her personal app and website, from what’s inside her hospital bag to her pregnancy fitness and post-baby exercise routine.

The delivery comes on the heels of very public videos, suggesting that her beau since September 2016 was cheating on her with a woman in NY and a couple of other women at a hookah lounge outside DC last October. Neither Khloe, her family or Thompson have publicly addressed the reports.

Today, it was reported that the family is rallying around the youngest adult female Kardashian. (Her brother Rob Kardashian‘s daughter Dream Kardashian technically is the youngest Kardashian)

According to an insider to E! News:

the 33-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star went into labor on Wednesday. After her water broke, the reality star went into labor for “several hours,” per another source. She then delivered the baby at a Cleveland hospital Thursday morning. Thankfully, her mother, Kris Jenner, her sisters, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian, and her BFF, Malika Haqq, were all there for support.

“She labored with Kris all day on Wednesday,” the first insider said.

The first insider also said the baby’s father, Tristan Thompson, was there for the birth. The Cleveland Cavaliers player had a game against the New York Knicks in Ohio on Wednesday.

“He wants to spend as much time with the baby as he can,” the first insider added.

The birth came days after videos of Thompson kissing and being intimate with other women surfaced online. The second source told E! News Khloe is “distraught” over the allegations but is focusing on the baby. While the aforementioned source said Khloe wants the baby to have a relationship with the father, the insider also said she and Thompson are not on good terms. Khloe also reportedly plans to head back to Los Angeles as soon as possible and raise the child there.

The new baby will have plenty of cousins: in addition to Dream, whose mom is Blac Chyna (real name Angela Renee White), North, Saint and Chicago West (daughters and son of Kim Kardashian-West and husband Kanye West); Stormi Webster (daughter of her half-sister Kylie Jenner and her hip hop star boyfriend Travis Scott, real name Jacques Webster); and Penelope, Mason and Reign Disick (daughter and sons of Kourtney Kardashian and her ex Scott Disick)

The baby’s arrival was showered at a lavish pink baby shower earlier this year.

Congrats to Khloe and we are thinking and praying for a healthy recovery and that she overcomes this very stressful situation.

The baby also has a half-brother, Thompson’s 1-year-old son Prince from a previous relationship with Jordan Craig, who is first cousin to our other Bumpwatch alum, Eniko Parrish Hart.

Celebs Who Welcomed Babies So Far in 2018

February 6, 2018 by JJ

We previously shared news about the arrivals of Klyie Jenner and Travis Scott daughter on Februar 1; Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s baby girl — via surrogate on January 15th; Lady Antebellum‘s Hillary Scott and Chris Tyrrell identical twin girls Betsy Mack and Emory JoAnn on January 29th, and about Donald Glover and his girlfriend Michelle’s second son’s birth.

Also, recently, actress Brooklyn Decker and tennis star Andy Roddick welcomed a daughter who they named Stevie who joins the couple’s 2-year-old son, Hank.

Hamilton creator and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and his wife Vanessa Nadal welcomed their second child, a son named Francisco Miranda, in February.

And finally The Sopranos alum Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Major League Baseball player husband Cutter Dykstra welcomed their second child, a son named Jack Adam Dykstra.

Finally Jack Osbourne and wife Lisa, welcomed their third child, Minnie Theodora, on Feb. 3, joining the couple’s two daughters, 5-year old Pearl and 2-year old Andy Rose.

Congrats to all!

Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Named Their Daughter Chicago

January 19, 2018 by JJ

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West named their new-born daughter, delivered by surrogate on Monday, Chicago West.

Kardashian West said that not carrying the child herself was “so hard”, but that the couple had an instant connection with her.

West was raised in the US city Chicago.

Kardashian West carried and gave birth to her older children but was advised against getting pregnant again because of possible medical complications.

Her daughter North is now four years old and her son Saint is two.

But she suffered from pre-eclampsia and placenta accreta on those occasions.

Pre-eclampsia is a condition that usually occurs in the second half of pregnancy and can cause serious complications including seizures and death if not monitored and treated.

What We Know About Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s New Baby

January 17, 2018 by JJ

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West‘s third child and second daughter has arrived via surrogate, Kardashian West shared via her website Tuesday.

Kim Kardashian West and her husband Kanye West welcomed their third child together, a daughter, born on Monday, Jan. 15, at 12:47 a.m.

According to a post on Kim’s website, the baby weighed 7 lbs., 6 oz.

“Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” Kardashian West wrote in a post titled “She’s Here!”

“We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care.”

The new addition joins big brother 2-year old Saint and almost 5-year old North.

“North and Saint are especially thrilled to welcome their baby sister,” the business mogul and reality TV star said.

Congrats!