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This Reality TV Star Beat Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to Naming Their Son, Saint.

May 16, 2019 by JJ

While reading about BravoTV‘s reality TV star of Southern Charm Kathryn Dennis‘ drama with her ex and co star Thomas Revenel, I learned that the couple actually beat Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to naming their son Saint.

Dennis and Revenel welcomed their second child together St. Julien Rember Ravenel on November 9, 2015 and the Wests’ first son Saint West was born a month later on December 5, 2015.

It was shocking for me to also learn that Dennis reconciled with Ravenel and decided to have a second child with him despite what she said he put her through. In a very recent interview with PEOPLE magazine in advance of the show’s Season 6 premiere, Dennis claimed Revenel sent her away to another city, forced her to hide her pregnancy and birth of their first child, a daughter.

Dennis had her baby girl Kensington Calhoun, now 5-years old, alone, sad and ostracized right after giving birth, she claimed.

“I was removed,” Dennis, told the celebrity and entertainment magazine. “He moved me immediately to a different state, kept my pregnancy a secret until the day I gave birth.”

Dennis was 22-years old at the time and Revenel, the son of former South Carolina Congressman Arthur Ravenel Jr., ran as an Independent candidate for the United States Senate that year.

I won’t say more as those two are in a bitter and contentious custody battle with explosive allegations about each other’s fitness to be a caregiver that you can read more about here.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Welcome 4th Child, via Surrogate

May 10, 2019 by JJ

Congratulations to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on the birth of their fourth child, via surrogate.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star confirmed the news on Twitter on Friday.

“He’s here and he’s perfect!” Kardashian West tweeted.

He’s here and he’s perfect!
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019

He’s also Chicago’s twin lol I’m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her ✨
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2019

Congrats!

Kanye West’s Easter Service Attracted Over 50,000

April 22, 2019 by JJ

Our Easter celebrity round up cannot be concluded without reporting on the sunrise Easter service Kanye West held during Coachella music festival.

According to TMZ‘s sources at the popular event, over 50,000 people attended to watch acts like Chance the Rapper, Donald Glover, Kid Cudi, DMX and our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alum Teyana Taylor perform alongside the controversial rapper, designer and now reality TV star.

When I was first into blogging and going to Blogging conferences, I attended a session at Blogging While Brown called the “What Yeezus Taught Us. As a fan of Mr. West, I found it intriguing to hear the two men on the panel talk about how they found the genius of Ye to be something they need to study and follow, almost religiously.

Some say Ye’s whole church service is sacrilegious. Similar was said of his popular song “Jesus Walks” and the contentious 2006 cover of Rolling Stone and the accompanying article called, “The Passion of Kanye West .” The man himself has said he has always wanted to start a church and is quoted often as considering himself religious.

In January, he famously tweeted: “We will change the world. God is on my side. I am a Christian. I am a tax payer. I am myself. God is with us,” he continued, adding, “2024.”

We will change the world. God is on my side. I am a Christian. I am a tax payer. I am myself. God is with us.
— ye (@kanyewest) January 1, 2019

The arrogance one would need to compare himself or herself to a historic figure like Jesus Christ by dubbing oneself “Yeezus” is also the same type of Chutzpah or belief in one’s own hype to command $225 for a hoodie that says “Holy Spirit” and $50 for “Jesus Walks” socks at an event billed as a “service” and not a concert.

#SundayService merch? $50 socks?

What do you all think of this? pic.twitter.com/PxS53QDApL
— Nigel D. (@NigelDPresents) April 21, 2019

The services are not new and this mega one at Coachella is the latest in a series of religiously themed weekly concerts he has thrown at his home where where he remixes popular old songs into gospel versions and is backed by a choir that wears Yeezy sweats instead of traditional robes, The Cut reports.

Well they really are concerts cause I do not think there are any scripture readings or traditional sermons or homilies given. Fans loved it. It was a resounded success. Hate him or love him. Me personally, I’m tepid after his political stances and declaration that slavery was a choice, but I remain fascinated.

Here are some social media shares of the event:

Kanye with @MarcusHyde at Sunday Service. 🙏💜 | 🎥 @solesupreme pic.twitter.com/g2SF4GoH1K
— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) April 22, 2019

SUNDAY SERVICE 💜 #Powerful #Coachella pic.twitter.com/dgDp3PlkmJ
— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) April 21, 2019

ICYMI: Kanye West, after a Saturday at #Coachella capped by an after-midnight cameo at Kid Cudi’s Sahara tent set, awakened early — or, just as likely, never went to bed — to celebrate #Easter with a Sunday service https://t.co/qK73tP44t3 pic.twitter.com/urBm6p8ZlQ
— LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) April 22, 2019

Some have called it “cult like” but then again, as The Cut’s Mariah Smith put it so well:

Matthew 18:20 reads, ‘For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.’ Which basically means that if you and your friends even bring God up in your small gathering or find a way to praise His name with one another, you’ve essentially stumbled your way into a church service.

There you go!

Weekend Bump Watch Round UP {Links}

January 19, 2019 by JJ

It’s been awhile so it’s time to update you guys with what’s going on in the celebrity baby bumpwatch and kids world with a few links:

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West confirmed they are expecting their fourth child via surrogacy. (People)

Mario Lopez and his wife Courtney are expecting their third child after almost giving up (Celebrity Baby Scoop)

Jessica Simpson‘s contribution to the 10 Year Challenge featuring her pregnant swollen feet is hilarious (CelebrityInsider)

Behati Prinsloo shared she suffered Post partum depression after the birth of her first child (US Weekly)

Keisha Knight Pulliam‘s daughter turns 2 (BCK Online)

Chanel Iman‘s daughter Cali Clay is getting big and she’s doing the model baby prop posing thing new moms like the Kardashian/Jenners love to do (Instagram)

Celebrity 2018 Family Halloween Costumes That Rocked

November 3, 2018 by JJ

Ok. Halloween was Wednesday but I say until the end of Daylight’s Savings Time, it’s open season for bloggers to share Halloween costumes and their fave costume posts before we launch into Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Holiday season posts.

So…Here is my list of fave celebrity Halloween costume photos featuring their families and children that they shared in social media.

First, our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums, the celeb women whose pregnancies we’ve featured on this blog:

Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel and their son Silas went as the Lego version of Batman, Robyn and Harley Quinn!

Neil Patrick Harris and his fam usually do the best each year and this year was no different when they dressed as ghosts from the past.

Ciara and her fam dressed as characters from the Black Panther movie.

Khloe Kardashian and her daughter Tru dressed as Unicorns.

They also dressed as tigers.

Kylie Jenner and her daughter Stormi dressed as butterflies

They also dressed as “Stormi Weather”

Saint and North West and Penelope and Reign Dissick as Kanye West and Lil Pump

Pink and son, Jameson were the cutest pirates during the week.

And later with the whole family as The Greats Showman on Earth!

Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth and youngest son dresses as ghoulish characters and her older son dresses as a rapper?

Alyssa Milano and her children dressed as Pokemon characters.

Hilaria Baldwin and her husband Alec Baldwin and their kids, Carmen, Rafael and Leonardo Baldwin are astronauts.

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)Over 9 million people have enjoyed Bellyitch's Award-winning Celeb "bumpwatch" pregnancy and parenting blog. Trying to Conceive? Download our FREE Fertility 100 ebook. Hunting for Top Maternity or Kids Brands? Our Bellyitch 100 is the free resource for you. Baby Shower Shopping? Check out out Top Picks on Amazon or our Gift Guides.

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!

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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.”

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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: