Baby rituals of celebrity moms

Hollywood’s unconventional parenting techniques

Some mammas keep their child’s first tooth or a lock of baby hair, but Hilary Duff treasures something more personal: her baby boy’s belly button.

The 24-year-old new mom recently opened up to People about her 4-week-old son, Luca Cruz, and her secret stash of umbilical cord stump. Sharing too much information, Duff says her husband, retired hockey player Mike Comrie, was against keeping their son’s fallen off belly button, but she secretly saved it anyway, sealing it in a Ziploc bag and hiding it in the back of her makeup drawer. She told the magazine, “Luca’s going to think I’m a freak!” And we would have to agree with him.

Celebrities are weird at the best of times, but when they decide to multiply and become mothers, things only take a turn for the worse. Keep clicking to find out which stars practice unconventional parenting techniques and rituals.

The first Bollywood movie on Jesus Christ

Renowned Director Singeetham Srinivasa Rao is all set to launch the first Bollywood movie onJesus Christ. The film will be made in fourdifferent languages and will throw the light on Jesus’ life from birth to crucifixion. Telugu actorPawan Kalyan will lead the role of Jesus christ in Telugu and Malayalam versions 

March 2012 celebrity quotes

March 2012 celebrity quotes – Memorable March quotes, This month brought us Cinderella stories and solemn remembrances, personal triumphs and public humiliations. Keep reading to see the other headline-grabbing stories that made for a memorable March.

Barack Obama

“My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. I think they are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.”

President Barack Obama responded (watch video) to the shooting death in Florida of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

Worst Generals in British History

Arthur Percival

1887-1966

When Japan entered World War II, Britain was understandably preoccupied with Nazi Germany. The Japanese overran Hong Kong, Malay and Burma in lightning campaigns. The biggest prize, however, was Singapore, the heavily-fortified port considered “the Gibraltar of the East.” Fortunately for Japan, its opponent was the singularly inept Arthur Percival.

Percival apparently occupied a strong position. His 85,000 Commonwealth troops vastly outnumbered Yamashita’s 36,000 Japanese. But his men were badly overstretched, with few tanks or modern planes to oppose Yamashita. Percival’s myopic focus on a naval attack – he believed landward defenses would be

Peter Facinelli and Jennie Garth

Peter Facinelli Files for Divorce From Jennie Garth

Fifteen days after announcing his split with Jennie Garth, Twilight actor Peter Facinelli filed for divorce in L.A. County Superior Court Wednesday, TMZ reports.

Citing “irreconcilable differences” as the cause of their breakup, Facinelli, 38, asked for joint physical and legal custody of daughters Luca, 14, Lola, 9, and Fiona, 5. Both stars have agreed to pay legal fees.

About Hungary’s President

The president of Hungary had a little help writing his doctoral thesis. The president, Pal Schmitt, had his doctorate revoked Thursday after it was discovered he hijacked portions of his 1992 thesis on the Olympics straight from two other works. More than 200 pages of his 215-page thesis were either partial or direct copies. What does that leave for originality? The cover page and footnotes? He’s been mocked on the Internet with memes like Ph+D = (Ctrl+C) + (Ctrl+V), the Wall Street Journal says. Schmitt says he has no plans to resign over the scandal.

Karan Johar's 'We Are Family'

Karan Johars ‘We are family’ is basically an entertaining family drama with a blend of humour and emotion. The film revolves around six characters.

A agreeing divorced couple Aman (Arjun Rampal) a fashion designer and Maya (Kajol)having three children. The ex wife Maya (Kajol) a ideal mother lives with her three children named Aleya, Ankush and Anjali, while Aman having love with Shreya (Kareena Kapoor) fashion designer and wants to marry her. However Aman keeps relation with his children and used to meet them in the weekends. The story takes turn when Aman introduces his new fiancée Shreya to his children on Anjali’s Birthday and the kids are not ready to accept her.

Arrest Trayvon Martin's killer

Sanford city manager says police were barred from arresting Trayvon Martin’s killer

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The city manager of Sanford, Fla., says George Zimmerman wasn’t arrested despite his confession that he fatally shot Trayvon Martin because police were legally barred from doing so.
“Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self defense, which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony,” Sanford City Manager Norton Bonaparte Jr. wrote in a letter released publicly Wednesday evening. “By Florida Statute, law enforcement was PROHIBITED from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at the time.”
The Sanford Police Department has received widespread criticism for its handling of the investigation. Among other issues, it didn’t conduct a drug or alcohol test on Zimmerman, although that’s standard practice in homicide probes, and a witness has said a police officer “corrected” her claim that she heard Martin yelling for help.

Soundarya with Ashwin

Megastar Rajinikanth’s younger daughterSoundarya Rajinikanth tied the nuptial knot with Ashwin Ramkumar a 27 year oldStanford graduate at Rani Meyyammai Hall near Anna Salai in Chennai today.

Ashwin Ramkumar a Chennai business man who runs his construction company K.S.Venkatraman & Co while Soundarya is the CEO of Ochre Production and going to release ‘Sultan– The Warrior’ an animated film starring his father this year.

Many high profile guests from all spheres attended the biggest ever wedding ceremony. Some of the Prominent guests were like Home minister P.Chidambaram, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Aishwarya Rai  Bachchan, Sridevi, Abhishek Bachchan, Boney Kapoor etc.

Rajinikanth couldn’t invite his fans due to lack of space and logistic reasons. In a message for his fans Rajinikanth said “Hence, with a heavy heart, I took a decision not to invite you. But I request you all to bless the couple”.

Facts About Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes we’re so excited to have President’s Day off work that we forget what it’s really about. President’s Day honors George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays. What follows are some mind-blowing facts about Abraham Lincoln. Hold on to your stovepipe hats…

Lincoln under-utilized his pockets

Abraham Lincoln’s actual stovepipe hat

Speaking of top hats, Lincoln’s stovepipe top hat served as more than fashionable headwear. He used it to store and carry notes, letters, even bills. Why do they call it a stovepipe hat? Well, the rise is so tall and straight up and down with no flair that it resembles a length of pipe. They’re hard to come by nowadays, the traditional top hat being much more current, but still pretty “retro”. Best you go to a custom haberdashery to get one made just for you.

Supergirl movie photos

The Supergirl movie was last aired in 1984 with Helen Slater played the role of Linda Lee Danvers who is the cousin of Clark Kent. There are many stars dressed as supergirl. Lately, photos of Megan Fox become available on the net, which arise many questions of who will be the next actress playing in supergirl movie.

Russian Spy Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman was accused in June 2010 for sharing United States information to a Russian government official using electronic means. Anna is 28 years old Russian native girl which was running an online real estate business. Anna and the other defendants plead guilty to the charges were all deported back to Russia in swap that returned four accused spies back to the United States. Chapman was stripped of her British citizenship acquired by marriage to a British businessman in 2002 too. Except these information, most men talk about her as about beautiful spy girl, so make some opinion by yourself.
As a result of her popularity and look, Anna Chapman has recently posed for the Russian version of Maxim magazine.

Rishi Kapoor and son Ranbir Kapoor

Debutant director Habib Faizal’s is all set to launch the movie Do Dooni Char’ starring Rishi Kapoor,Neetu Singh and son Ranbir Kapoor. This has been confirmed by Rishi while celebrating his 58^thbirthday and said ““Why me and Ranbir together? It has to be Neetu as well.”

The veteran actor also said “My old colleague Juhi Chawla turned down the role because she didn’t want to play mother to a 15-year old boy. So, I told Neetu about the film.

Neetu said, ‘Are you mad? I haven’t acted for thirty years. Just because I agreed to do one shot in Love Aaj Kal, tum peeche pad gaye.’ I reasoned with her and convinced her finally.”

Pregnant Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson is about to pop — but not before she and her baby to be are feted with a proper soiree!

On Sunday, Simpson, 31, was joined by more than 50 of her close friends and family, including her Texas kin and stars like Ellen Pompeo, Simpson’s sister Ashlee Simpson and Jessica Alba.

“It was a kid friendly shower with many of her friends bringing babies,” a source tells Us Weekly about the bash that took place in Los Angeles. “Jessica [Alba] brought her baby Haven, 7 months, and Ashlee brought Bronx, 3.

Earlier this month, Simpson confirmed to ELLE magazine (where she posed nude for the cover) that she and her fiance are happily expecting a girl.

Coming as no surprise, pink and yellow was the surrounding color theme of the afternoon, with tube-shaped balloons and spring tulips placed throughout the venue.

“She received tons of gifts mostly wrapped in pink gift wrap and boxes,” adds the source. “There were several books, stuffed toys and clothes among other items.”

While baby showers are traditionally a surprise, Jessica was not interested in being left in the clouds — she arrived before any of her guests to check out the space, pre-party!

Beautiful Lucy Lawless

The times of Xena are many years behind us but Lucy Lawless is still fighting her fight on TV series sky. Lucy is married, lives in New Zealand and has two sons and one daughter from the first marriage, by the way. She has actively performed in many TV series, including Battlestar Galactica (as D’Anna Biers), Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (as Lucretia) and lately in No Ordinary Family (as Helen Burton). Lucy’s was born as Lucille Frances Ryan and except great acting she can great singing (album Come 2 Me, performances on Broadway). For the next year 2012 is rumored the role in the Spartacus: Vengeance. We are looking forward to the next great performances of this great actress.

Famous Lauryn Noelle Hill

Lauryn Noelle Hill is an American musician, previously part of The Fugees. Her first break-thought came with the song Killing Me Softly from the album The Score. Absolute success was her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill which got five Grammy Awards. The album presents many music styles including R&B, hip hop, reggae, soul and gospel. This album received a lot of critics at the beginning but it is deeply personal album pointing on many social and political issues.

Beautiful Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj’s wardrobe is always a bit extraordinary but this 28-years (2011) old lady is currently performing in many music clips on TV with a big success. Her name is Onika Tanya Maraj, born in Trinidad and Tobago but when she was 5 years old, she moved to the Queens, New York. The commercial success brought her the album Pink Friday released in the 2010. Her music style is something new on the music scene, I would describe it like rap with cool hip-hop style.

Lady Gaga’s best and worst outfits

The Lady’s Gaga clothes (see what we did there?) are already the stuff of legend. To celebrate her 26th birthday we pick her best and worst wardrobe choices

Gaga has so far lived up to her name
Lady Gaga has been actively involved in her weird and wonderful fashion looks over the years, even setting up her own Haus of Gaga – which sees a team of creative types doing what creative types do best – and all in the name of art and fashion.

Gaga says of the Haus: “I called all my coolest art friends and we sat in a room and I said that I wanted to make my face light up. Or that I wanted to make my cane light up. Or that I wanted to make a pair of dope sunglasses. Or that I want to make video glasses, or whatever it was that I wanted to do. It’s a whole amazing creative process”.

Art for life benefit

Russell Simmons, who is known for his charity work, celebrated his 12th annual Art For Life Benefit in East Hampton, New York this year (2011). Russell Simmons founded this Benefit with his brother Danny Simmons. Special guests included talented singers Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. Among other celebrities there were Jessica White, LaLa Vazquez, Kevin Liles, Taraji P. Henson or Edward Norton. This charity is specially tailored to support and reach youth people in New York City with art.

Britney Spears’ wedding

Just when you thought it might be safe to say Britney Spears was about to start leading a normal (well, as normal as it can be as a pop star) life — as wife to longtime love Jason Trawick, mama to her two adorable boys, hitmaker, perhaps X Factor judge — along comes a creepy reminder of her darkest days. Remember Sam Lufti, the guy who called himself her manager when she was at the lowest of her low? He refuses to go silently into the night and has been suing Britney for breach of contract and her folks, Jamie and Lynn Spears, for libel and defamation since 2009.

Beautiful Alexandra Stan

Alexandra Stan is a Romanian hit maker which became famous with her song Mr. Saxobeat. Alexandra was born in Romanian city Constanta in 1989. She come on light with her debut singleLollipop (Param Pam Pam) in 2009. But real success was her second song called Mr. Saxobeat in2010 which placed in top charts all over the world. This brought Alexandra Stan her commercial success with selling over 1 million copies in one year. There is currently single called 1,000,000 ft. German rap star Carlprit in the air.

Bizarre Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga, known for insisting she was born with facial prosthetics and hatching out of an egg at the Grammys, has announced she wants to have her own little monster, reports the Daily Star. She first broke the news to the family of her boyfriend Taylor Kinney, who plays a monster on “The Vampire Diaries.” There’s no talk of a wedding yet, only Gaga’s determination that hunky Taylor’s genes need replicating, and the family is supportive. Taylor’s aunt declared, “There’s no doubt he loves her and she loves him. Now everyone’s met her, we love her too!” Lady Gaga, 25, may hear that biological clock ticking, but considering her habit of slipping into alter egos (such as Jo Calderone), it could be just as likely that “expectant mother” is only another role to play

Famous Nick Cannon

Nick Cannon says he’s been diagnosed with a lupus-like autoimmune disease that contributed to his recent health scares.

The 31-year-old “America’s Got Talent” host tells People.com that the condition came to light after his hospitalization in January for kidney failure, as well as his treatment last month for two blood clots discovered in his lungs.

“The blood clot thing was probably the scariest because … I’ve known people who have passed away from that,” he told the magazine at a DJ gig Wednesday night in New York. “I thought I was getting better,” Cannon added, “and then that happened, so that kind of came out of nowhere.”

Cannon said that as far as he knows, no one else in his family suffers from the condition. “They kind of say [my] autoimmune [disease] is – like a lupus type of thing, but no one else in my family has it.”

For now, the husband of Mariah Carey and father of twins says he’s trying to take care of himself, put his health first and focus on recovery. “I feel blessed to be alive. If it wasn’t discovered, I don’t know [what would have happened].”

Justin Bieber's Birthday

Justin Bieber officially turned 18 on Thursday and made sure to celebrate his big milestone right at a bash with all of his closest A-list pals.

Surprised with a Friday night party at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel put on by his manager Scooter Braun, his mom Patti Mallette and publicist Melissa Victor, Bieber spent the night with celebs including girlfriend Selena Gomez (who flew in from filming Spring Breakers in Florida), Kim Kardashian, Kylie and Kendall Jenner, Mike Tyson and others.

“Everyone danced all night,” a partygoer told Us Weekly of the fete, also attended by Ashley Tisdale and Cody Simpson.

Dressed to the nines in a black and white suit, the man of the hour mingled with his grandparents and other friends who flew in from Canada for the occasion, but largely stuck by Gomez’s side.

“He was all over Selena the whole time, walking her around by the hand. He kept kissing her,” a source close to the pop star tells Us of his birthday PDA with Gomez, 19. “It’s clear she was the best part of the night for him. He is still so in love with her.”

In addition to his friends-and-family bash, Bieber also scored a one-of-a-kind Fisker Karma eco-friendly sportscar as a gift from Braun, with a reported pricetag of $102,000.

Bad plastic surgery on celebrities

Plastic Surgery Gone Bad : Celebrity Bad Plastic Surgery–Many people in the public eye have been rumored to have had some work done.  While surgeries like Michael Jackson plastic surgery or Janice Dickinson’s appear extreme, others are making us wonder.  See who made our list of people who may have gone a little too far under the knife.

Heidi Fleiss plastic surgery
Former “Hollywood madam” Heidi Fleiss, 46, gained fame after she was busted for running a prostitution ring in 1993 one of her reported clients charlie sheen.  While she has moved on since her ex tom sizemore, her new look she supposedly have done heidi fleiss lip job cheek implant has people talking about her again.

KIRK CAMERON FOR GAY COMMENTS

Celebs are speaking out following the comments by former “Growing Pains” heartthrob Kirk Cameron about homosexuality and gay marriage.

Cameron, who is an active advocate for conservative Christian values, said Friday on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” that his beliefs don’t allow him to support gay marriage. “Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don’t.”

Too famous Madonna

Madonna can do many things well: put on a Super Bowl half-time show, pump iron, give withering looks to hydrangeas. But marital success has so far eluded her.

So color us skeptical of a London Daily Mail report that
claims the Big M, 53, is mulling over a proposal from her 24-year-old squeeze, French dancer Brahim Zaibat, who supposedly popped the question three weeks ago at the New York Kabbalah Centre.

“Madonna hasn’t given him an answer yet. She doesn’t want to rush into anything,” says a source. “She is very happy with Brahim, although her friends are not sure she is ready for marriage again.”

Actually, these were Madonna’s exact words following her 2008 split from Guy Ritchie, who reportedly walked away with an estimated $80 million-plus: “I think I’d rather get run over by a train [than marry again],” she told David Letterman.

Plus, her newly released track “I Don’t Give a …” appears to dis her fizzled union to her filmmaker ex, with pointed lyrics such as, “I tried to be a good girl/I tried to be your wife/Diminished myself/And I swallowed my light/I tried to become all/That you expect of me/And if it was a failure/I don’t give a [bleep].”

Still, “Madonna has a real fear of being on her own,” continues the Mail’s insider. “It’s a major issue for her, and she loves having a man in her life who is young and makes her feel young.”

The pop icon, whose first marriage, to Sean Penn, spectacularly flamed out in 1987, began dating Zaibat in September 2010 following her split from 22-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz.

Her rep did not respond to our request for comment on the rumored proposal.

What do you think the odds are that Madonna will marry again? Tell us below, then click on for more pics of Madonna and Brahim

Beautiful Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift Shows Off Bikini Bod in AustraliaTaylor Swift looks good in a teeny bikini!

The 22-year-old country queen took a break from her Speak Now concert tour in Australia Thursday to splash around at Cottesloe beach in Perth showing off her curves in a retro black and white halter swimsuit.

Accessorizing her 50s-style suit with tortoiseshell sunglasses, The Lorax star wore her hair in a loose ponytail while going barefoot in the sand.

Currently hard at work on the road entertaining sold out crowds worldwide, Swift — who saw her most recent Dr. Seuss film project break box office records this weekend — says she wouldn’t mind settling into an acting career, given the right amount of spare time.

“Acting is something I’ve been fascinated by my entire life,” Swift — who recorded her role for The Lorax in a voiceover booth — told MTV. “I would want to have the time, the ability and the love for something, the love for a character to where I could really make that commitment to it.”