These are some new photos of Rachel Zoe doing a book signing at Macy’s for Fashion’s Night Out. Is it weird that I think her hair looks healthier? Not her face, but her hair actually looks like it’s had some nutrients recently. Usually it looks like a bleached rat’s nest.
The new season of The Rachel Zoe Project has started – this is the season where we get to see Rachel pregnant, and starting her ready-to-wear line and all of that good stuff. I watched about ten minutes of the new season while I was working out yesterday – which, by the way, working out while watching Rachel Zoe is an interesting, although not aspirational, experience. I’m so thankful that I eat, I’ll just say that. Anyway, Rachel opened up about her pregnancy in a recent episode, and I thought it was interesting:
Celebrity fashion stylist Rachel Zoe has revealed she ‘cried for a week’ after discovering she was having a boy. The 40-year-old made the confession during the premiere episode of her hit Bravo reality show last night.
In the episode, which was filmed several several months ago, Rachel was still pregnant with her son Skyler at the time. And she admitted that she was desperately hoping to have a girl.
‘I always had this plan in my mind that I was gonna have this little baby girl,’ Rachel said during an interview on the show. ‘I found out I was having a boy, and I did cry for a week. Or two. Maybe even three.’
However she appeared to have a change of heart after exploring all of the outfit possibilities for a baby boy – even suggesting that she could dress her son, just like her husband, Rodger.
‘He’s not a doll,’ Rodger told her, attempting to protect their son.
‘He’s totally a doll,’ Rachel retorted.
Rodger then got his own opinion about the situation across saying: ‘The only living thing we’ve ever had was a dog, and Rachel’s parents had to take the dog away because we were unfit parents.’
Rachel gave birth to the couple’s first child in March, and he already has a designer wardrobe.
Earlier this week, Rachel proudly showed off her husband and six month old son, Skylar Morrison Berman, during an appearance on Live With Regis And Kelly.
‘There’s my big guy and my little guy,’ she said on the programme, before revealing how she felt was not ready to have a baby until the very last moment.
Her husband held the couple’s son while the slim blonde – who lost her baby weight just weeks after the birth – opened up about her new role as a working mother.
‘I think as a lot of working mums say it’s very hard to wake up one morning and say “Ok I’m ready.” But all of a sudden you wake up and say “I need to be ready” and I wasn’t even ready until he was born and then the second he was born I was so blind, I was like how did I survive, what is life without this child?’
[From The Mail]
The only reason I don’t worry about little Skylar’s health and well-being is because of Rodger. Rodger is the mother and the father, I’m sure. Which is just as well – I think Rodge was the one who really wanted a baby, and Rachel just thought “pregnancy” would be a good storyline for the show. Maybe Rachel would be more involved as a mom if she did have a daughter? It would have been interesting to see.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Is she a smoker? The wrinklyness around her mouth throws me off so much… she can’t possibly be that old?
Leatherface lives. I didn’t know they were making another sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Hormones are a weird thing. My whole life I wanted a son. I always pictured myself with a little boy. And yet, when I did get pregnant and I found out I was in fact having a boy, I was depressed for about 1/2 a day. Silly. The only thing is, MY SON will never know that I was ever upset by “what I was having”, unlike Rachel’s son. Dummy.
Nice
who is this cretin? she cried for three weeks because she wasn’t having a girl to dress in designer clothes? she had better expunge this article and all such articles before her son can read. can you imagine? at least his father seems normal. from under what rock do these people crawl???
She’s only 40??
Let’s all remember one thing here: the sun is not our friend.
What, she’s stopped claiming to be 39? That’s a start, but I’ll believe she’s only 40 when hell freezes over.
She’s such a disgusting human being. She behaves as though the only reason she’s having a baby and wanted a girl is so she can dress it up, like a doll. And crying for a week once she learned she’s having a boy??? That alien bitch should be grateful she’s giving birth to a healthy human, which obviously she is not! Narcissistic women like Zoe should not be allowed to procreate!!! UGH.
Dumb to put that where her son can see years from now and need to see a therapist over it. Her hair probably looks good because of all the prenatal vitamins she needs to take. My hair always looks amazing with that plus the hormones.
Donatella Versace looks young next to her.
Lady is awful…do people ever care about what they say and how it might haunt their children one day?
She should be happy she can have children. Plenty of people out there would kill for a boy. Or a girl. Or anything.
Vile woman. I don’t believe in demons, but if I did, this vapid leatherfaced harpy would be top of my list of suspects.
I work out to Zoe too.
I also think Rodger wanted the baby and Rachel was afraid if she didn’t have one he would leave her. He basically said as much last season. I’m sure she must have seen his interviews saying ‘this marriage will be over if we don’t have a kid’ and she freaked. I mean despite Zoe’s superficial world, those two seem to genuinely care about each other (I think they’re cute together). And besides who would put up with all of her crap? Her only hope would be to find a gay man because no straight man is going to deal with “dresses”, fashion week and the Oscars. She’s lucky she has Rodger. Plenty of women in fashion don’t have that, they usually only have their gays.
I just look at her and think “succubus”
I agree with The Original Ashley. They seem like they really do love eachother.
Also: I wouldn’t be offended if my mother said that about me. I think it makes sense, what does she know about the world of boys? Of course she’d cry, it’s like this child is a martian to her. I think she’ll be a good mom, but I think Roger will be an excellent father.
Wow this chick looks good for 60.
Beyotch. Disgusting thing to vocalize thoughts like that “I cried for a week””. I hope the kid never sees that, but he probably will.
Fashion people…. gah.
Crying because you didn’t get what you wanted? Totally immature. I don’t like her. I also don’t like that she wears so much black eyeliner. It’s like she thinks it’s going to make her look younger, but it really has the opposite effect.
Somethings you should just keep to yourself
Man, her face is MANGLED!
Rachel made some comment on a Dateline special called “Mommywood,” about how she wont hold the baby while wearing her 5 inch heels. Then, for the entire interview, Rodger held the baby (so she could prance around in her heels) and the nanny carted around the diaper bag, unloaded the stroller etc. In Rachel speak, she “LITERALLY” did nothing.
Poor Skylar is merely an accessory; as evidenced by the fact that she barely seems to interact with unless it’s time to dress him up “like a doll.”
Thank god she didn’t have a daughter. Can you imagine the body issues that poor girl would have had? I find her amusing-and I agree that she & her husband seem to adore each other.
She is looking very Olsenesque here. Also, she looks like she doesn’t have a compassionate bone in her body.
Didn’t Nicole Ritchie use to call her “Raisin Face” after they had their falling out? This was back before Nicole straightened out and stopped the drugorexia nonsense which apparently Rachel was pushing on her clients.
I am glad she had a boy ! Can you imagine what kind of hell a little girl would go through with Rachel Zoe as a mom ? She will probably have major issues : anorexic, and wondering why her mom loves a Gucci vintage jacket more than her…
That being said, they seem to be doing just fine as parents, and I find it quite refreshing that they are not type A parents. They are a bit crazy, and weirdly, that fits their parenthood !
Happymom – The exact same kind Posh’s daughter is going to have. Poor little Harper.
don’t feed into Rachels norocees and she might go away. admitting this will hurt her son when he’s old enough to understand
She has beautiful eyes, that’s it! Girls are too bitchy and dramatic, I prefer boys.
I will admit that when I was pregnant, I was desperate for a girl. Had I been told I was pregnant with a boy, I would have cried too. I would have loved that boy, but I would have been very, very disappointed. Turns out I had a girl, but at every ultrasound, I’d ask “is the baby still a girl??” 🙂 Pregnancy and hormones are a strange thing. I think it was odd of her to admit – had I had a boy, I never would have admitted it to him – but I think it’s a reaction more women have than they’d admit when they learn the sex of their baby. Some are desperate for boys, some for girls. It all works out, they take our hearts just the same, but it’s harder to feel that when you’re pregnant and raging with hormones.
Years of hardcore yo yo dieting do that to a face.
Now this is a woman that treats her baby like an accessory from the time Skylar was born she brings him to every event she goes to have their picture taken.
I think she had the baby 1. Because Rodger wanted a child 2. Because she needs something to keep people watching her show after Brad left and 3. Because she wants the attention, she getting more now than she ever did from just being a stlyist.
What a wonderful thing for her son to someday read.
okay i missed the very last sentence which is slightly redemptive….as far as victoria beckham is concerned..she appears to be an excellent mother to her boys and there is no reason to believe she will parent her daughter any differently. as a matter of fact, i was going to use her as an example fashionista with boys this yutz can look to for “how to “.. it’s the most important job in the world…second to none
She had a boy = proof God is just.
Pathetic. It took me 4 years to adopt my son. I would’ve given my right arm for any baby – any gender, any race, any anything. “Cried for a week.” She should be ashamed of herself.
The kid will love to read that when he learns to read.
I’m so happy for Rodger. He’s obviously wanted to become a father for so long. Rachel was initially ambivalent about having a baby but she seems very happy with her little boy now. She was gushing about him on Regis and Kelly,
I’ve enjoyed watching a woman be unsure about motherhood on tv. Usually any woman who might not want kids is portrayed as cold and selfish like Christina on Grey’s Anatomy. Rachel expressed many of the fears working women face about having children. I felt bad for her because it seemed everyone was pressuring to have a child. And making her feel as if her life was meaningless if she didn’t have one.
I don’t think Rachel’s Dina Lohan in the making. Who knows if she’ll be a good mom or not? But, that comment about crying about having a son was real. Many women do cry about the sex of their children. My grandfather wanted me to be a boy. He told everyone I was going to be a boy. He was disappointed when his fourth granddaughter was born instead of a grandson. But, he loved me to death and I wasn’t permantly scarred. Rachel was just being honest. Which more mothers should be allowed to do.
It’s ok, baby Skyler, your mom is just a bitch. She didn’t mean to say that in public to feed her needy ego.
What an unbelievably dumb bitch.
Don’t get pregnant if the gender of the child turns you into such a mess.
wow, that’s disturbing. And in other news, girlfriend needs to start drinking some green juices and actually eating cause her skin is the total shits.
Well, she’s not alone in feeling temporarily disappointed when she found out her baby’s gender. I remember feeling shocked myself, and wondering how in the world I was going to relate to this boy I was carrying, because boys were just completely alien to me. The differences between me (and my mom friends) and Zoe are: we only felt mildly let-down for a little while- no weeks and weeks of crying, and we had the decency to feel abashed by our brief disappointment. We were having a healthy baby, that’s all that matters.
Zoe is just a little more dramatic and over-the-top than most of us. I don’t doubt that she adores her little boy.
gender depression is not that uncommon
I don’t have any problem with her initially being upset about the sex of her child – you can’t help your feelings. You can, however, control your actions, and she never should have voiced her disappointment in an interview that her son could read when he gets older – that’s terrible.
I do like the fact that she admits to being unsure of becoming a parent. My husband and I were on the fence for quite a while and finally decided to go for it. I definitely had thoughts of “what the hell am I doing”? the whole pregnancy. Thankfully, I have no regrets and went on to have another one!
Crying for three weeks over having a boy?! Ridiculous. I have friends who are desperate to get pregnant and can’t. Wench should have been grateful
I love this show! I miss Brad though! He was funny and fun to look at! I just love the banter between her and her hubby. It’s cute. And just watching her
working her business and of course seeing her hot oufits!
Yeah well imagine how he felt when he saw your CHUPACABRA face staring down at him you dumb BYOTCH! I bet he’s still crying.
Sheesh u people are harsh. She did say:
..and I wasn’t even ready until he was born and then the second he was born I was so blind, I was like how did I survive, what is life without this child?’
Calm down.
NOOOO if she had a girl, she would not be more involved as a ‘healthy, present parent’; she would be involved in creating a rachel jr. who would likely have an eating disored and/or body image issues. Seriously, I think it is a blessing that she had a boy. [The first blessing is that she had a healthy pregnancy and baby].
This has happened with a few of my girlfriends and i told them all – you just wait and now they all say same thing as Rachel. She adores her son and thats all that matters.
I also have male friends who have been bummed to find out having a girl but now say they love them so much they cant imagine not having had a girl.
This is common and doesnt mean they dont want the child. I think alot of people lean towards wanting 1 sex or another and there is nothing wrong with that as long as you love the child after birth regardless of the sex.
the “d” in “rodger” really bugs me for some reason.
I saw her baby and husband on Regis and her baby boy is beautiful. You could tell that she is elated about her son. She said she couldn’t imagine how she ever survived before without her baby. Read the last sentence of the interview because it says “I was like how did I survive, what is life without this child?”
How she managed to get herself impregnated is beyond me.
Disgusting. My sister’s son is severely handicapped and my cousin just found out that her baby daughter has a condition that is incompatible with life. She’s upset she’s having a boy? UUGGHH. Some things you can think but how disrespectful to say.
I’m giving her a pass. I don’t think it’s unusual for a pg woman to have her heart set on a particular gender, especially for a first child. However, she shouldn’t have admitted it on TV. Reality stars tend to do things like that, though. It’s good for ratings.
This woman is vile and does not deserve children! I have about a 1% chance of having a child (and only thanks to IVF) and so far have had 3 miscarriages. You cried for a week because you weren’t having a girl; well trying crying for 5 years at the deaths of your much wanted (whatever sex) children!!! What an evil, vicious cow you really are.
Dam this was the funniest post I’ve ever read.
I agree with you all “leatherface”, “succubus”, “harpy” yeah that about sums her up.
I really get tired of seeing her “obsession” with fashion to the point of ignoring her spouse and now her child.
I will not believe this woman actually gave birth until I see DETAILED video of her delivering. I think the whole thing was a hoax and she had a surrogate. She did not even look REMOTELY pregnant in the 1st episode and in every scene she was either carrying a huge bag, or had on huge clothes hiding her shape. Plus that, she is one of the most selfish, weird, and self centered people I have ever watched the life of on Reality TV. And probably in real life too!
Well you probably should have watched more than 10 mins of the show. Rachel was very maternal on the show and consistently thinking of the baby. I don’t think Rachel at all thought it would be a good storyline for the show, Rachel loves her husband. Thats pretty apparent, I think Rachel had her baby for him more so than for herself because Rachel is a workaholic, however she wanted to make Rodge happy. However I didn’t any see sign that Rachel wouldn’t be a good mommy.
I thought it was cute when she said she cried for a week when she found out she was having a boy. This woman lives and breathes fashion she loves to dress people up. Its gonna be hard for to not be able to do that with her son but she can always have another baby and it might be girl.
@Gizmerelda, so sorry for your losses. Keep trying! It took my mom 11 years (6 miscarriages and 1 stillbirth) to have me. I also struggled with infertility and went on to have two healthy little boys (now 5 months old and three years old). I sincerely hope you will, one day, have a healthy little boy or girl. Best wishes 🙂
This bitch looks so old, so frozen, so overdone, that I bet she puts herself in a plastic box and lives in the freezer when she goes home. However, it clearly is not working.
I’m glad she didn’t have a daughter. Can you imagine how fucked up that poor girl would become, especially if she didn’t fit RZs standards for appearance exactly? Eating disorders like you wouldn’t believe
man, i don’t know whats worse…what RZ said or the backlash! she was preggo, hormonal, and come on…its RACHEL ZOE…she exaggerates everything. i doubt she really cried for three straight weeks about a boy!
i like her and rodger…he brings her back down to earth. so does this baby.
That’s sick, she looks like a miserable feminist, I’ll bet she’ll have contempt for the poor kid his entire life and may even be subject to minor neglect as a result of her resentment.
You’re supposed to love your kids for fuck sakes, stop being so selfish.
I’d like to slap this bitch. I got pregnant once (with help), had a miscarriage the day we found out and had no luck thereafter. I’m okay with things now (we are happy cat parents), but what I would have given for a child of either gender. Spoiled, entitled brat.
It’s definitely not so much the fact she felt that way but the fact she said it out loud the way she did.
She strikes me as the type who only cares about her kid when the cameras are rolling. She probably can’t be bothered with him any other time. I think we should at least all be grateful that he has Rodger in his life. I agree with Kaiser that Rodger does seem like both mother and father and the only one genuinely concerned for his well-being.
What an insensitive comment! I can understand some people having a gender preference and maybe feeling a little disappointed but you keep that to yourself. Making comments like that in public shows how self-centered she is. Does she not realize that many people can’t get pregnant? Or that many have children with major health problems or disabilities? Plus, there’s the whole issue of her son finding out that she really wanted a girl. I’m sure she loves her child but she needs to grow up.
Apparently most of us never got to the part of the article where she talks about “what is life without this child?” because she can’t believe how much she could love this baby. Seems like a mom pretty in love with her kid.
Isn’t she too old for kids? She looks 55.
WOW, imagine being that pathetic.
On another note, at least she isn’t being arrogant about motherhood and implying everyone who hasn’t got kids doesn’t live a fulfilled life.
“He’s totally a doll,’ Rachel retorted.”
Totally? What are you 16?
Also what’s with her left eye?
Wow there is a lot of bitchiness here. I thought Rodger had pressures Rachel into getting pregnant, honestly. He is so passive-aggressive manipulative, it is disgusting. And she obviously adores her little boy.
I watched an episode tonight that was shot prior to her unveiling her fashion line. It showed various stages of the pregnancy, if I recall correctly. My jaw dropped when I saw her having hair and makeup done. Her face looks so much older than her years. She has some major marionette lines, which usually happen in the late fifties and sixties. Very attractive woman, but she appears to be closer to fifty five than forty. Which proves the maxim “after forty, face or body, you cannot have both”. If she got over her idea that a thin, thin body is important and put on some pounds the cheeks will fill out and the plumpness would look wonderful. She is a pretty woman.
Wow. Frankly, I am surprised by the extent of the nasty cmments.
Seems to me, no celebrity can say anything honest about children unless they are talkng them up like they are just the best thing ever.
Like with all things in life, being pregnant can come with it’s fair share of unmet expectations and disappointments. Throw a huge hormonal shift in with the sudden news that your family will not actually be exactly as you imagined it for years…. Well, I can’t hate the woman for reeling from the shock (could she do with a dose of perspective? Sure, but so could whoever said that If demons exist she would definitely be one).
At least she loves the child with all her heart now and I’m glad she gets pleasure from dressing her son. Why do you think baby clothes are so darn cute? Because it’s great dressing your kid in cute clothes – it’s a nice payoff after a sleepless night.
Some folks really need to get a grip.
I love his comment: ‘The only living thing we’ve ever had was a dog, and Rachel’s parents had to take the dog away because we were unfit parents.’
That’s a good sign for the future…
SHE IS JUST BEING HONEST!!!! Wow, I guess it really is true that people like to be lied to so that they can feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
She vocalised what a lot of women feel but never have the guts to say about pregnancy, child birth, and life with a new baby. She deserves credit for that.
Some people have abortions based on the sex of the child!! All she did was shed a few tears, whilst being in a VERY hormonal state. Lighten up people!!
You only see what they put on tv- its made to be entertaining. It’s normal for many women to hope for a certain sex, that doesnt mean they’ll love what they have less. Her comments seemed flippant, she jokes. I’m sure she loves her baby, and she said how excited she was for a boy after she got used to the idea.
You know in the back of her mind shes saying,I can just turn him gay
Whoa the judgement on her is really uncalled for.
Let’s not forget she was pregnant at the time which makes you hormonal and cry at the drop of a hat.
Also, it’s ok and normal to want a certain sex and be disappointed you don’t get that sex. When I found out I was going to have another girl, I was disappointed for couple of weeks. But the moment I saw her. I knew it was meant to be and don’t love her any less because she’s not the gender I wanted.
Wow, throwing stones at her because she is being honest about her preference and disappointment is just so harsh. I am sure she loves her son regardless of the fact that he turned out to be a boy.
She looks rough for 40.
I CANNOT believe she is 40. I am 40 next April, and there’s no freakin way I look that old (I hope, or maybe I’m in denial). She has to have fried herself in the sun for many years. I thought I was having a boy for some reason, and at 19 week scan I found out I was having a girl. I was ecstatic, but would have been whatever the sex, as I was so happy to be having a baby at 36 after 12 years of marriage.I have never treated her as a dress up doll though. I feel a little sorry for the child, as I do for the Beckham’s new daughter.
If you search “gender disappointment” you’ll come across message boards with many women that feel the same way. Some women still feel depressed even after they meet their child, which I find very sad. Some people chose to abort over a certain sex which I find even more sad.
If Rachel plans on her son being her only child it can also add onto her disappointment.
With my first, I wanted a boy so very badly. Girls scared me. I found out I was haivng a girl and I was okay with it, but I wasn’t overjoyed. My husband was very quiet (he also wanted a boy.)
After she was born my husband told me, “You know, I just thought I wanted a boy. What I really wanted was her.” She is the light of our lives. And Rachel did say, “what is life without this child?” or something to that extent.
I think it’s normal to have wants and desires. People typically want the sex they relate the most to and feel the most comfortable around.
Should she feel lucky she has a healthy child? Yes. Does everyone sit around and compare their lives to others that have it worse everytime they have negative thoughts about their situation?
Hormones & hyperbole… Her comment doesn’t seem like a big deal to me.
However, with the boy’s extraterrestrial DNA, he’ll no doubt be extremely precocious, read an archive of the interview by the time he’s 18 months old, and then throw it in her face. “I AM NOT A DOLL!” Then she’ll appease him by giving him a live guinea pig, which he’ll swallow whole–just like she taught him.
BTW the “miserable feminist” comment in post 66 has me totally nonplussed.
I always say that boys are the best kept secret. For some reason lots of women want girls, then, they have a son and whooooaaa you GET it. So when a mother tells me she REALLY wants a girl and she is upset because she is having a son I just let her know that the wonderfulness of boys more than compensates for a more limited colour palette at J Crew junior….so lucky Rachel for having a beautiful son. (I have both by the way)
@ 66< what has feminism got to do with it?
what really bothers me, is that sometimes people don’t want children – but their partners do – and so they will agree to have a baby to maintain their relationship.
that is a BIG deal, this is a child we’re talking about.
I think that it was very selfless of Rachel to give Rodger the child he always wanted. Good for her.
She looks evil in that first photo.
@loveyourwork
No, that’s a bad deal all around. And there’s nothing selfless about it. I’ve had to listen to so many stories of women abandoning their children lately because they had children to “maintain” or “save” their relationship. After a couple of years as the child grows the mother loses interest and their relationship is still falling apart or it’s going downhill quickly because these women are not interested in their children. That cute little baby has to grow up and a lot of times women who have babies to fix problems are extremely short sighted and can’t see those kids past the baby stage and lose interest in them as they grow older. These kids can end up emotionally damaged because they were abandoned by the woman who loved them the most and the children can see when they have a parent who doesn’t really care about them.
A child needs to be brought into the world where they are wanted by both parents. Children WILL NOT fix any problems in a relationship.
Fashion is her entire life, so I could see why she would be a little bummed out that she didn’t have a girl to play dress up with. His first words will probably be OMG, Die, and Banannas!
@Leelou: People “lose interest” in their children? Who are these f’ing losers?
*Losers of interest that is.
Ugh this bitch!