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And Baby Makes 4 For Tia Mowry Hardrict Who Just Welcomed A Baby Girl

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Congrats to Sister, Sister alum Tia Mowry Hardrict on the birth of her second child, a daughter.

The Tia and Tamera reality TV show star announced the news on her Instagram page on Sunday.  The baby girl, whom she conceived after bouts of endometriosis and other fertility problems,  arrived Saturday at 10:29 a.m. She weighed 6 lbs., 4 oz., and measured 19.8 inches long.

“Feeling grateful and blessed as we welcome our little baby girl into the world!” the couple wrote in the caption, going on to add, “We are in heaven 🙏🏽.”

The new arrival is the second child with Hardrict for 38-year old The Game alum. The couple of 10-years are also parents to 6-year old son Cree Taylor.

the spouses of 10 years also have a 6½-year-old son named Cree Taylor.

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Inside Tia Mowry’s Bohemian Farmtable Baby Shower

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This weekend actress and author Tia Mowry Hardrict and her husband Cory Hardrict celebrated the impending arrival of their second child, a daughter, at a Bohemian and “whimsical” themed Farm table baby shower at the Il Pastaio restaurant in Beverly Hills.

The Sister, Sister and The Game alum enlisted the help of celebrity event planner Mindy Weiss  who incorporated pink florals, wooden place mats, and twinkling lights at the intimate evening affair.

The mom-to-be of the hour wore a coral lace maxi dress to the event also attended by her 6 1/2 year old son Cree Taylor, her sister Tamera Mowry-Housley, and brothers Taj  and Tavior.

“I’m literally still on a high from my baby shower,” the Instant Mom alum told PEOPLE about her March 31st celebration. “We chose the boho theme mainly because my husband and I have been looking at a couple of names and have been narrowing down. And we felt like her name fit that theme…So we wanted to give some sort of tribute to her already. Cory and I also love the boho styles and everything. It made a lot of sense. The baby shower was in theme with her name.”

 

They didn’t share what the baby’s name will be but did reveal that her initials will be CTH, same as her son’s.

“I learned my lesson, so many people have so many opinions and this is kind of just between you and your husband,” she told the celebrity site. “I’m definitely going to wait, but we did play a game where guests can guess the baby’s name. And some of them were pretty close.”

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“It was so incredibly beautiful. It was family and friends, it was all intimate. Whenever Cory and I throw a party, we always love it to be intimate,” Mowry-Hardrict explains. “We don’t really look for really big rooms, we look for rooms where people when they sit down they’re gonna have to talk to each other. It’s all about the experience. I’m such a nurturer at heart and it’s like, ‘Yes I want to have a great time,’ but it’s all about everyone else celebrating this amazing moment. Everyone getting in on this celebration so it was full of love and full of tears.”

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Tia revealed that her husband was instrumental for including some of the surprises at the event.

“My husband surprised me, I had no idea. He had Kenny Lattimore come and sing. It was special for me because Kenny Lattimore sang at our wedding. He sang ‘For You’ which is the song I walked down the aisle to,” she says of the special song that also commemorated their 10-year anniversary, which is April 20. “Cory wanted to surprise me with his present. I walked into the room and gasped like, ‘What is happening here?’ and just sang the song. There was not a dry eye in the room. It was just so amazing. It was just wonderful.”

The event was made even more special because of the struggles the couple had to conceive their second child.

“I didn’t think I’d be able to have a second child, and it’s been over seven years since my first pregnancy… I put it off, but I did want to have another child,” she shared to PEOPLE earlier. “I didn’t let my infertility issues define me or define what my goals were and what I wanted out of life. We did try for a long time. It was hard. But I didn’t give up.”

Her husband Cory recently opened up to ESSENCE about his undying love for his pregnant wife:

“I could go on forever talking about my wife [but] I will make sure that I will always do anything that she wants and needs at the drop of a finger to make sure she’s happy… It’s just like how I live my everyday life. [Even] when y’all don’t see that, that’s still what happens in the house. I’m rubbing her feet, running her a bath, doing whatever I can to make sure she’s okay.”

Altogether now….Awwwww!

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Tia Mowry Hardrict is Expecting Her Second Child!

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Congrats to actress, cookbook author and TV Cooking show host Tia Mowry Hardict and her husband actor Cory Hardrict who are expecting their second child.

The Sister Sister and The Game alum announced the news on her Instagram showing an adorable photos of her husband and son Cree kissing her sizable bare baby bump. She captioned the precious shot, “❤️❤️❤️❤️.

Her twin sister, Tamera Mowry-Housley, shared her congrats via social media too soon after Tia revealed the news.

“Yayyyyy! Couldn’t wait to tell the world. I’m going to be an auntie!!!!!”  The Real host tweeted .

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Cory and Tia got engaged in 2006, married two years later and welcomed son Cree in 2011, before her sister Tamera had her first child, and was still a newly wed.

We know Tamera gave birth to children, 4-year old Aden John Tanner and 2-year old Ariah Talea, with husband, FOX News Correspondent Adam Housley while Tia, presumably was trying to expand her family as well.

As far back as 2013, Tia has expressed interest in having a second baby. “It’s something that we’re talking about on a daily basis, so…we’ll see!” she told E! News at the time.

It’s been a long time coming and perhaps she will share some of her journey later with the public… or not! We’re not entitled to know. (smile)

Congrats! We are so thrilled and happy for this news! Both are our Bellyitch Bumpwatch alums.

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What’s Up with Mags Making Celeb Kids Models Look This Adult?

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Halycon Kids, a quarterly magazine for preteen and teen readers which focuses on  fashion, art and DIY, has several celebrity kids models on the cover of its Fall 2016 issue. We love the pop of red featured boldly in the spread and the gold, silver and black Michael Kors kicks they are all wearing.

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D’Lila, Jessie, and Chance Combs, whose parents are Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Kim Porter, are wearing a dress by Tago Look and shoes by Michael Kors.

Sean “P.Diddy” Combs‘ and his ex Kim Porter‘s children, twin 9-year old daughters Jessie and D’Lila Combs are featured in Newspaper print dresses , as is his daughter with ex Sarah Chapman, 10-year old Chance Combs in a cute crimson bubble dress with royal sleeves.

Chance Combs, daughter of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Sarah Chapman, is wearing a dress by Junona and shoes by Michael Kors.

Chance Combs, daughter of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Sarah Chapman, is wearing a dress by Junona and shoes by Michael Kors.

Cali Dream, the daughter of rapper The Game is also featured in a cute dress with a tu-tu skirt and is the only one who looks her age, albeit she too is toting a pound of excess weave on her head.  Don’t get me wrong. I think they all look very cute, albeit very serious and very adult. Maybe a little too adult.

 

Harper Tillman, daughter of Kiki and Travares Tillman, a retired NFL player is also on the cover and is used to being made up because she is a professional child model who walks in many fashion shows. Tilman is often dressed up and made up like a little adult in many mag spreads. Maybe I’m an old folgie and I am paranoid over the existence of pedophiles who search the internet for kids images but something about how grown these children look in these photos make me uncomfortable.  I mean, Harper looks twice her age in most of her pics like these:

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harper 7 harper 8Disney channel actress Skai Jackson  is also featured in the magazine and by the looks of her Instagram page, it appears that she has become the latest fave for magazine editors and is getting lots of coverage, which is really cool. She started to get wide spread popularity beyond the kids’ TV scene when she took on rapper Iggy Azalea in a famous Twitter beef this past May.  Before that, she was featured often in a meme.

Since shutting Iggy down on Twitter, she’s the new teen “it” girl and has been featured on Paper magazine, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, YSB Now and of course, Halycon Kids and many others. She’s riding high and that’s a wonderful thing! But still…..

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Fastest growing US baby names reflect changing population: Daleyza, Jayceon & Jurnee

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The big news from the United States Social Security Administration‘s list of most popular American names this week isn’t just that for the first time after 14 years, Jacob finally got dethroned as the #1 boy name.  Nope! Beyond the fact that Noah clawed to number 1 this year is what can be learned from the fastest climbing names: that they reflect the changing demographic in the US.

This year, the name Daleyza jumped from number 3,130 on the list to No. 585!  Daleyza is the name of the young daughter of Larry Hernandez, a singer who stars in a mun2 Spanish-language reality TV show called Larrymania.
Hmmm.
Population statisticians predict that by 2050, the Hispanic/Latino-American population, Asian or of two or more races will be the majority of the 17 and under population in the United States.

“In the past, most parents were picking from a pretty well-defined set of names,” Laura Wattenberg, creator of Babynamewizard.com said. “Literally for hundreds of years, the English royal names dominated. You had John and Mary and James and Elizabeth.”

Today, she said, “we get names everywhere.”

RealityTV is a hot spot for picking names. 

For boys, Jayceon, a name of two hip hop artists, jumped 845 spots to #206 on the list. Popular rapper “The Game” real name is Jayceon and was featured on a VH1 reality TV show for a few seasons.

“Names have more widely become seen as a personal brand, a statement of individual style and personality, and so people are looking for a name that’s different from what other people have,” Pamela Redmond Satran, co-founder of Nameberry.com  told AP. “In the 1950s, everybody was looking to blend in.”

Among the other top risers for girls: Marjorie, Lennon and Jurnee. Jurnee Smollett-Bell is an actress who starred in the TV show Friday Night Lights and currently stars in Parenthood on ABC.
Among the other top risers for boys: Milan, Atlas, Jayse and Duke.
Read more about the names from the Associated Press coverage HERE.

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Tia Mowry: Money was being thrown at me to do post-pregnancy surgeries to lose weight fast!

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Tia Mowry arrives at the Wendy Williams show studio in NY on May 15 with son Cree
Actress, reality TV star and now author Tia Mowry opened up with Bellyitch about the truth behind some celebrity moms’ rapid weight loss after baby.   
We have all suspected and thought it true, but some plastic surgeons and surgery centers actually offer actresses free post-pregnancy rapid weight loss surgeries after their deliveries to help them lose weight super fast!
Shutterfly.com New Customer 50 Free Prints OfferWhile making an appearance this past Saturday, May 19, at the Baby Blash & Bling lifestyle expo outside Washington DC promoting her new May-15th released book Oh Baby!,  I sat down with Mowry to talk about her book project and share how she managed to look so fabulous and fit a mere year after giving birth to her gorgeous son Cree Taylor. 
“Money was being thrown at me to do surgeries and I said no, ‘I want to do it the right way’ because I know there are moms out there who can relate,” revealed the very beautiful, open and grounded former Sister, Sister  teen star.
“ I lost 5 lbs a month which is what your OB/GYN suggest you to do, I would work out 3 times out of the week because moms who are working moms who want to spend time with their baby don’t have time to be in the gym 2 hours a day.”
Mowry revealed that the main key, however, to her phenomenal weight loss journey was diet. 

“Ninety percent was my diet,” said the star of the BET hit The Game who recently announced her departure from the show, adding that   “80% was vegetables, 20% was protein and I stayed away from all sugar  and the only sugar I ate was in fruit.”
She ate an extremely low carb diet  but would routinely sneak in healthy or low carb grains like brown rice and quinoa, a whole grain seed that can be prepared like rice.  
“You’d have fish and brown rice for lunch, in the morning you have eggs and spinach, for dinner lamb, quinoa and zucchini,” Mowry added.  “Those are like great healthy meals.” 
Even though she gave up most sugar she did say “you can give yourself a treat on the weekend and have a cupcake if you want but I did have those limitations.”
Cutting up with Tia Mowry during a brief presser during a book signing

It was so refreshing to hear a star be open and honest for once about their weight loss, and now we know so many actresses succumb to the pressure to have surgical assistance. It’s sad that they lie to the public and fool other women into thinking they did it the natural way. It sets up other new moms to fail trying to replicate stars’ successes.

It can be a challenge on several fronts because all eyes are on them and  there is tremendous pressure and media scrutiny. And when they don’t lose it fast enough, you have what happened with producer Ron Howard’s daughter  Twilight actress Bryce Dallas Howard recently.
On hearing me break the news to her about the recent TMZposting that essentially called new mom BryceDallas Howard fat for not losing her baby weight, Mowry chimed in:
It bothers me when you see people kind of putting down moms who has just had a baby. Give this woman a break. She’s been carrying a child for 10 months. She just delivered a baby. It’s like have a little bit of sympathy. I like moms who take their time to lose their weight because to me it shows that you were focusing on being a hands on mom rather than being a gym rat.  I’m sure there are some moms that do both which is great and they’d use their baby’s to work out.  Not every mom is going to look like that. What I was surprised is that it’s still taking a long time for my belly to go down. We live in such a society that glorifies moms who are on the beach in a bikini three months after having a baby. That’s not normal to the norm.
I did it the right way.
 Tia Mowry  at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards held at on February 17, 2012
And it worked! At one point during Saturday’s expo, Mowry was taking a photo with one of the vendors at the event and I didn’t realize it was her at all.
I was used to seeing the heavier version of Mowry right after she had given birth on the later episodes of that last season of her Style Channel  show  Tia and Tamera: Take 2 and was not expecting to see the super svelte post-partum version at all.
And on what makes “Oh Baby” different from thousands of other baby books currently on the shelves, Mowry said is how blunt, open and honest she is to moms about how their bodies will change during pregnancy.
“Most of the books our there are medically-driven, but they don’t really get down to the real truths,” she said. “No one told me about uncontrollable amounts of gas and that when you laugh or cough or sneeze, you can pee on yourself. These are some social things that we should know about.”
In addition to top maternity wardrobe tips,  Oh Baby!  also includes recipes on what she ate while pregnant, styling the nursery, to-do list items and other nuggets of information.
“My book is fun. It’s comedic and informative,” she said. “Most books focus on what is going on with the baby and the uterus, but my book also focuses on what’s going on with the mom.”
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She also gave fellow authors at her publishing company a run for their money by finishing her book within a week of delivering her son.
“I was writing this book during my third month in pregnancy and wrote it all the way through pregnancy,” Mowry revealed.  “I’d never forget the publisher saying to all the writers out there who wouldn’t meet their deadlines, you guys manage to let a pregnant woman out do you!”
And there you have it, Tia Mowry! Actress, author, producer, entrepreneur and business woman, supermom doing it all! 
Other things I overheard about Mowry while eavesdropping on interviews she gave with other local press while I waited my turn to chat:
  • She’d love to write another book for moms soon.
  • She’s thinking about having a baby after a year or so.
  • Her husband actor Cory Hardrict will join the film project, Lovelace, starring James Franco, Amanda Seyfried, Demi Moore & Sharon Stone
  • Her secret to being happy and successful is doing what you love to do, “ I never think I’ve made it” or reached the pinnacle of success because that way I’m constantly trying to do my best.
  • On what makes her relationship with husband work: “We are very honest with each other, dedicated to each other and we forgive.” No matter if it’s your best friend, mom, you always say things that we don’t mean and hurt but forgiving saves relationships.
  • She learned about the fact that she and The Game producers wouldn’t be able to broker a deal on her contract for season 6 directly from executive producer and show creator Mara Brok Akil
  • She will be starring opposite another current and frequent member of the Bellyitch Bumpwatch club, Tori Spelling, in an ABC Family tele-musical movie slated for a Christmas release, Mistle-Tones.

Stay tuned for a follow up post and photos from the Baby Bash and Bling traveling lifestyle expo.

Check out local CBS affiliate USA9’s reporter J Carter get Tia, during the expo, to share what fans can expect out of this upcoming season of Tia and Tamera which starts this June! AlexandAlexa.com

 

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Tia Mowry to promote new parenting book at Baby Bash and Bling expo

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The producers of Baby Bash and Bling expo have confirmed that The Game actress Tia Mowry will be attending its latest expo to take place this May 19th at the Renaissance hotel in Arlington Virginia. The reality star of Style channel’s Tia and Tamera: Take 2  will be promoting her new book, “Oh, Baby!” which features tips and tales from one hot mama to another.  I’m not sure how she found time to pen a book while gushing over her incredibly adorable baby Cree Taylor, who she delivered last June.  But she did. Her book is due for release on May 14.
Back again will be the very electrifying “Bump the Runway” fashion show and various vendors sharing services, products, tips and advice for the fashion-forward pregnant mama-to-be. New features will be a healthy snack bar, a sweet treats station and a beauty and the bar station. Mowry, who is a recent Bellyitch Bumpwatch class member, is married to actor husband Cory Hardrict.

Should be fun! We’ll be there taking pics and video!  Join us! 
In case, you’ve missed other sites’ photos of the gorgeous Mowry-Hardrict family, here are a few photos:
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At Parenting mag in February 2012

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Tia Mowry’s pregnancy documented on upcoming Style Reality TV show

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Sister, Sister stars Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry are teaming up once again for their new style show, Tia & Tamera (formerly titled Tia & Tamera Take 2 after their one-off special that aired in July) and The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively that the eight-episode reality series will debut on the Style Network on August 8.

The series follows the 32-year-olds as Tia goes through her first pregnancy — she and her husband, actor Cory Hardrict, are expecting a boy in just a few weeks — and Tamera plans her wedding to FOX News correspondent Adam Housely, who she got engaged to in January.

Tia executive produces the Style series along with her manager, Adam Griffin.

She also currently stars in BET’s hit comedy, The Game, which was recently renewed for Season 5 and begins shooting again in late August in Atlanta. In addition, she’s in negotiations with book publishers, the Penguin Group, for her first book, Oh, Baby!, in which she shares the experiences of her first pregnancy and the tips she’s learned.
BELLYITCH WILL BE WATCHING!!!

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Bump Watch: Tia Mowry and Game Cast during press tour

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Lost bump watch photo of Actress Tia Mowry onstage during the ‘The Game’ panel at the BET Networks portion of the 2011 Winter TCA press tour held at the Langham Hotel last January 6, 2011



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Bump Watch: Tia Mowry & “The Game” Cast

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A pregnant Tia Mowry-Hardrict poses with castmembers (L to R)  Hosea Chanchez, Terrence J., Wendy Raquel Robinson, and Pooch Hall  at  BET’s “The Game” launch event at Butter on January 11, 2011 in New York City.
“The Game” castmembers Coby Bell, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Pooch Hall, Tia Mowry, and Hosea Chanchez attend BET’s “The Game” cast meet & greet at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on January 10, 2011 in New York City.

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