I have no idea what I want for Christmas. I usually want a few books and I’m always happy when I get gift certificates, but I never really want some big-ticket item at this current phase of my life. If I want something expensive, I just buy it for myself. Over the holiday weekend, I found a perfume I really liked, so I bought it for myself and gave it to my mom to give to me for Christmas. Is that weird? Or is it just the way you get what you want for Christmas? Well, it seems like LeAnn Rimes is in the same position. Even though she doesn’t come right out and say it, she’s probably going to be buying her own gifts and then giving them to Eddie to wrap and present to her on Christmas Day. How do you spin that though?
With the holiday season in full swing, LeAnn Rimes tells PEOPLE husband Eddie Cibrian is already scoping out the perfect Christmas gift.
“He just asked me, ‘What do you want? Don’t you have an idea?’ ” the singer, 31, told PEOPLE on Wednesday. “He’s such a guy, but I really don’t have an idea … I’m more into the giving than I am in the getting.”
Although she’s admittedly tough to shop for, it sounds like Cibrian, 40, hasn’t managed to disappoint yet in their four years together.
“I used to not at all like surprises, but now I kind of enjoy it, especially because he seems to always get it right,” says Rimes, who’s performing at the 82nd Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade on Sunday (airing nationally on Dec. 20). “He’s definitely a guy’s guy but he’s got something else in there in him that definitely can choose a gift.” Aside from gift-giving, it turns out the The Best Man Holiday actor has a couple other talents hidden up his sleeve. “He’s really good at decorating, too, which is crazy. He’s going to kill me for saying that, but he really is.”
This year, the couple plan to spend Christmas at home with Cibrian’s two sons (with ex-wife Brandi Glanville) – Mason, 10, and Jake, 6, – and just enjoy some downtime before heading to Aspen for the new year.
“It’s so nice to be at home in pajamas for most of the day,” she says. “Christmas Eve we usually open one gift and … this year we’ll have [the boys] Christmas afternoon. It’s complete chaos in our house. I end up finding paper and ribbons for weeks [because] they get pretty excited.”
While the entertainer is passing along some holiday traditions she grew up with to her stepsons (“My godmother and godfather … were big into decorating and gifts,” she says), she’s also creating some new ones with her family.
“I love the song ‘I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.’ Gayla Peevey is the original singer. She sounds like she’s 5 and it’s so cute,” she says. “Jake knows every word to the whole song, so that seems to be our family song!”
So I take it that Brandi has the boys on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, and then the boys go to Eddie and LeAnn’s house, then on to Aspen? I think that’s what they’ve done in past years, which… I can’t believe I know that. I know their movements because LeAnn documents them constantly, that’s my explanation. As for Eddie being “good at decorating”… I really don’t have much snark for that one. Some men just love decorating for Christmas. I think putting up lights is such a guy thing.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Twitter.
It really seems like Brandi gets the short end of the stick in terms of holidays with the boys.
I don’t know about that. I can’t stand Leann and Eddie, so not defending them (at all!), but she has the kids Christmas Eve and Christmas morning and then they go to their house in the afternoon. Sounds like Brandi gets the better deal to me. Christmas Eve and morning were always the best part when I was a kid, and now with my kids, I love to see them before they go to bed and when they wake in the morning. Can’t beat the Christmas morning excitement! 🙂
You’re not going to defend Leann and Eddie here but you surely do quite alot on ROL. OK.
Like most other divorced parents who share their children, they probably alternate holidays.
@byte me, I certainly hope you’re not talking to me? I have never responded to anything on ROL, and the only time I ever look at anything they have to say is when it is printed here. Can’t stand that site. Trust me, if I wanted to defend someone, I wouldn’t hide and say I don’t. :O
Maybe some user name confusion? Because someone with your username does contribute significantly to Leann/Brandi articles on ROL
Then I’m changing my name cuz that isn’t me! If I am going to defend someone it won’t be them and I won’t hide it. Lol I 😉
I moreso meant that getting them for a full vacation starting Xmas afternoon has got to suck for Brandi as that is probably a significant portion if the boys school break.
Forgive my naivety – what does ROL stand for?
Here you go, Sea Dragon!
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Oooh goodie, goodie! Thank you!
The name of the poster at ROL that people are confusing you with is ilovegossip. She is a Brandi hater who always defends LeAnn. So, it’s up to you if you want to change your name.
Eddie is a guy’s guy who loves to buy gifts for himself is more like it.
……. with her money
What kind of man asks his wife what she wants for Christmas a month ahead? LeAnn makes up all these conversations & makes Eddie sound like such a girl. I guess with LeAnn speaking for him, he kinda is. It also shows how much of their relationship is purely based on monetary things.
People Magazine…..enough said.
the aptly named kneepads…
@respect–
Right On!!
It’s hard to believe someone is happy when they are so desperate to seem so.
‘oh tell us more Leann’ ~said no one ever
Ha!
barrel clown may say it…kiki was paid to. eddie says it when discussing money, i am sure…
hahahahahaha so true !
LOL! Spot on
Ha! exactly
I wonder if Eddie uses LeAnn’s money to buy his side pieces gifts.
you wonder…i assume;-)
🙂
Umm, does the sun rise every day??? 😉
Not to defend Ediot at all, but…My husband is AWESOME at decorating the tree. If I do it, it looks like a drunk four year old threw ornaments at it. He makes it look like a pro decorated our tree. It’s crazy.
my jusband is too…i just cannot picture ediot being that kind of husband. he seems mor like bong rips and tequilla with dave in the poolhouse until its pic time…and only the poolhouse because the surv device will beep if he leaves the property.
I can’t picture it either. It’s more likely they had a big argument over the fact that he could care less about decorating and gifting so she turned to her audience to report the opposite just to be affirmed. As we all know, she can’t handle rejection so she has to find some way to feel good about herself and she usually does so by exposing an issue then lying through her teeth.
My dad, who isn’t the LEAST bit artistic (I can’t even *read* his handwriting) was always such a perfectionist when it came to things like the tree. Which… probably wasn’t a great thing, seeing as he frustrates himself. xD But he always put a lot of effort into it for us, which was an awesome gift in itself. I think it’s very sweet when boyfriends/husbands/ect use something like that to show they care. =)
Which is why I could*only* see Ediot doing it for the *boy’s* benefit, if he does. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but at the *very least*, I haven’t heard anything bad about him as a Father to the boys (aside from letting Leann run roughshod against their mother all this time, & get away with all the forced inappropriate PDA in front of them, & coming to *every* soccer game purely so she can call the paps… to EVERY game… Okay, I guess I just made an effective argument against myself re: bad fathers xD)
But when he’s *not* with Leann, he seems to do well with the boys.
He sure is a guy’s guy … He was buying his mistress SMJ diamond earnings while married to Brandi. Open your eyes Leann!
Eddie is the US version of Shane Warne. An attractive purse holder.
I’m sorry, what? Did you just call Shane Warne attractive?
I spat out water when I read that, too. DreamyK – are you feeling okay??? 🙂
DreamyK, we know you really meant to say Shane uhhh,…wwww…WEST, an American actor who starred in the little known film A Walk to Remember. Um yeah, YEAH, that’s the ticket! 😀
@ncmagnolia – Oh, wasn’t that the one with Mandy Moore? Man, haven’t seen that guy in ages. I think he started out on one of those sitcoms?
“Over the holiday weekend, I found a perfume I really liked, so I bought it for myself and gave it to my mom to give to me for Christmas. Is that weird?”
Yes.
NO, it’s not wierd at all. I get myself gifts and give them to my husband to give me. He loves it, I swear he breathes a sigh of relief. He still gets me some surprises but honestly, how would he pick out a sweater dress that fits me just right or know exactly which bath salts soothe instead of irritate my sensitive skin? This way we are both happy! Plus he works full time and supports us, if I am lucky enough to have free time to wander around the mall the least I can do is grab a few things that will make his holiday shopping easier!
It is weird. A gift certificate to your favorite store would be better, or at the very least write down what you want and he goes out and buys it, wraps it etc.
Maybe Kaiser’s Mom has a little trouble getting around, so she doesn’t want her mother to miss out on the holiday gift giving.
Ima get hate for this, but yes- it IS weird. I stopped buying gifts (and expecting) for adults a few years back. Working retail during Christmas is an eye opener. But the straw the broke the camel’s back was when some of my relatives (a surgeon and investment banker that makes 3X’s what I do) gave us a list of VERY specific items to buy. I told everyone to shove it. I don’t even draw names anymore. If you got a job (besides kids in school) you get a hand crafted gift or I bake you something. End of.
This gift giving has gotten away from the true spirit. I only ask for peace, warmth and happiness from my family during the holidays. No store bought present is worth more than that to me. I buy for the kids though. As an adult, I am fortunate and able to buy for myself all year long.
Buying something for YOURSELF for someone to wrap and give back to you is the epitome of crazy. Sorry. I’d rather just get a hug.
I completely understand what you’re saying, and agree with a lot of it, but if Kaiser’s mother is anything like mine, she is going to get her a present even if told not to. She wouldn’t feel right if she didn’t, so why not make it easier for her?
Different scenario altogether. If I see something I really want, sometimes I’ll buy it, and give it to my mom who then will give me money for it, and wrap it as part of my gift. I’m hard to buy for, and it makes it easy on my mother who refuses to not give me anything.
Zbornak….YES! Feel exactly the same way.
I’m forced to buy for the impossible to please MIL and the kids, but that’s more than enough for me. I’ve tried to promote the “let’s make the kids presents” and get shot down every time by hubs (and the dismay on kid’s faces), but they all darned sure know the meaning of Christmas and that it has nothing to do with holiday lights going up at the shopping centers.
I cannot believe the narcissism of a relative who requests expensive gifts from family members. Seems like a sensitivity chip is missing there :/
Bake me brownies with chocolate-peppermint frosting, and I’ll be a slave! Forget about the diamonds!
We clear out our things before Christmas, making sure to get the good-but-unused things and donate them to charity stores. I buy my kids presents from charity stores too. Most of the time, I find exactly what I want in good condition at a fraction of the price. My kids don’t feel funny about getting something second(third, fourth) hand, because it’s what they’ve always known.
I get nearly all my own things at charity stores too. I love them. There isn’t the stigma about them that there used to be, at least not where I live and with the people I’m friends with. We’re not on the bones of our butt, but I’d rather spend my money buying clean and ethical produce for my family to eat. And I always find great quality and attractive clothing and shoes. Win win.
Totally agree! You rock!
@Zbornak Syndrome – O/T, but I gotta say, I just LOVE the name! It really does sound like a medical term, doesn’t it? xD <3
I also thought it sounded really weird, when I first read it, but the comments some others have made regarding maybe not being able to get around well, or not really having much to spend (even though you know they'll want to), I can completely understand that there are reasons why someone would do it. =)
My (step)Dad was always so worried about making sure my brother & I both got the same amount, because he didn't want me to feel like he was making a difference (because my brother is his son, & technically, I'm not). He even had that rule with his parents if they gave us gifts. I *never* cared about that, ever. I knew he wasn't making a difference. & he (& his parents) always loved me like their own, so I never thought that.
I think he still thinks about it when he gives my brother & I something, but (while I obviously appreciate it, & of course enjoy it), they know neither my brother or I value the material gifts more than the feelings that prompt them. =)
She really does talk SO MUCH about those boys. Really, doesn’t she have anything else she can talk about? To be fair, the interviewer probably asked her, but still… “my family” is just so grating for us all to hear. Many of us come from or are part of blended families, and know what a respectful stepparent looks like. This is the opposite. She gets more random hate than she deserves, but someone has to explain to her how to chill on this Bonus Mom junk.
“Really, doesn’t she have anything else she can talk about?”
I don’t think so. Not only does she feel like she has a lot to prove, she’s not exactly the brightest bulb. Does she read? Can she hold a decent discussion about something beyond herself, her family and her career-Imeanherself? I don’t know that she’s ever said anything interesting or insightful. Ever.
I forget sometimes how long Leann has been in those boys’ lives. They were two and six when they met her. I know it shouldn’t matter but remembering that detail, I cut her more slack on the constant ‘my family’ thing. I have no doubt that those boys know who their mom is and who their stepmom is. The lines between who is ‘real’ family and who is second tier are a lot vaguer and I don’t blame them at all for just eschewing them entirely whenever possible. Even Brandi has said the boys love Leann and I doubt Jake remembers a time when she wasn’t around. How would you explain to him why she shouldn’t call them her family or her boys in the press when I’m sure he hears it regularly in private (and likely not just from Leann)? So in conclusion, whatever hate Leann has coming (like for that tongue kiss at the top- seriously girl), mine is pretty much gone on that point.
The actual subject of this post- I frequently call bullshit on all these perfect gift giving husbands. While they are out there, every man doesn’t hit it out of the park and even fewer do every time. My norm is what do you want for the big gift, then a little surprise gift and I provide most of my stocking stuffers. And about a third of the time I love my surprise gift, another third hit that fondly amused spot and the other third I say my thanks while leaving the tags on for an exchange. So while I get why Leann was skirting actually saying I haven’t decided what I want him to get me yet, I wish more celebs would. Especially with a guy like Edie it would be SO much more believable.
Regardless of parental issues, I think LeAnn takes her stepmom role quite seriously. Plus, isn’t it great that those boys are well loved by the three of them?
I agree. I tend to focus on the negatives about Brandi, Leann & Eddie because, well, they’re idiots. The three of them do seem to love the boys very much, though. All in all, those boys have a pretty good life.
At this point, Leann proves she wants to portray she loves/adores them. She hasn’t proved she loves them though because if she did she would stop bringing national attention to them and their comings/goings and she would stop antagonizing their mother.
a small sample of the reason Le gets so much hate
http://www.celebdirtylaundry.com/2013/leann-rimes-brandi-glanville-eddie-cibrian-twitter-war-blended-family-thanksgiving-1201/
Oh.my.word. Just, mouth agape.
This isn’t about Ed anymore, for Leann. It’s about the kids since she won’t be having any of her own.
He can choose gifts for women well because he is used to juggling lots of mistress’s and side pieces. Duh
I thought it was gross that she had to include the reference to a “family christmas song”.
I am a stepmom, and just wouldn’t do that in a format that would be seen by the world. I have respect for the kids’ mother.
We get along just fine, and I am very involved, but I don’t run around claiming them at every turn. I don’t have to prove something to strangers.
Shut up, Leann. We get it.
Yeah but you are a normal decent human being. She on the other hand is off her rocker so..
Women like Leann feel insecure because they have no kids so she tries to overcompensate with Brandi’s.kids. Most of the things Leann states are her version of their” family life” not the actual. Her problem is trying to compete with their mother, and tries to give the impression she is as equal to them as their mother. A woman that has never had kids of her own doesn’t know about the special bond kids have for their mom that no others will have. Mom will always be #1. The beautiful family that she likes to boast about belongs to another woman. She can only share.them with Eddie.and Brandi.
Enough LeAnn. Enough. The continued declarations of love, togetherness, etc… are becoming tiresome. As a step mom, a wife and a woman I get it, it’s tough. However, your constant tweets regarding your husband and step kids only add to peoples irritation. It doesn’t endear them, it doesn’t convince them. It reeks of desperation, instability, immaturity and loneliness on your part. Go away, enjoy the holidays and stop with the incessant tweets.
Exactly. A person truly happy and content with their marriage/life doesn’t feel the need to blast it out to strangers on the internet. She’s more desperate than ever. Also, was the picture above really made Thanksgiving Day? I wonder. She sure looks a lot thinner than she did week before last. Face is much thinner for sure.
Gah ! The tongue picture!
She looks so old in that group shot. Like, late 40’s old. (not a slam to those in their 4th decade)
How is this woman still getting gigs? She couldn’t fill a picnic tent at a petting zoo over the summer and now she’s singing in some parade. I assume she’s doing it pro bono just for the publicity, but with her history of dipping out of concerts for a “head cold” -hangover- or splinter how would she she even grab an invite.
Or just why would anyone hire her?
Did you see who else was doing that parade? It was all has-beens and D-listers. She was right in her element.
Exactly. Everyone there belongs to the “former star” category. Seriously, Billy Ray Cyrus?!?!?! And he’s more relevant than LeAnn cause he’s Miley’s daddy.
I read somewhere that thanksgiving “family photo” was actually taken back in September when doing Christmas cards photos.
I totally believe the picture of the family was not made on Thanksgiving Day, and I do remember now her tweeting a couple months back they were having their Christmas pictures made. In the picture she is smaller than she is now. This woman stages everything she does. No one truly happy feels the need to do this. Dead give away things are what they seem.
She dropped 30 pounds in a week or that photo was taken awhile ago.
I noticed that too.
Maybe I’m just being over-sensitive but I thought it was rude of LeAnn to post the happppeeeee family picture on Thanksgiving. I don’t think Brandi saw her kids that day — but there’s LeAnn, posting a pic of the kids on Twitter for the world to see. Why did she have to post that pic vs. a pic of just her and Eddie together? I just can’t help but think she does stuff like that just to spite Brandi.
You’re completely right- many of us have seen it for years. But since Brandi stopped giving a crap about Eddie, Leann goes to what she knows will cause pain: Brandi’s sons. I think Brandi tries to act casual to defuse Leann’s psychotic power trip and attempts to control her.
Seems like they get the kids every holiday. Although, I still think she didn’t spend more than a hour with Eddie and the children on TG, or as others have mentioned, possibly was not with Eddie on TG to begin with. Some people might be on to something. She may have took those pictures a few weeks ago along with the families in order to post on TG. Normally I would think this is too absurd to even consider, but nothing about his woman is normal in my opinion.
It looked like she spent half of the day on Twitter. 70+ tweets trying to prove to the haters how happy and thankful she was. Look at me, so happy with my blended family. What a sorry state of affairs. She tries so hard to convince people all is well and her attempts are proving more, that all is definitely not well. People that are happy and secure have nothing to prove to anybody. Pity she continually fails to understand this.
Meh.
She really tries sooo hard, doesn’t she?
So Eddie gives the best gifts…right after he asks her what she wants??
Her stories/lies always go in circles.
I would imagine it hurt brandi to see the happeeee family photo on T-day. Would it kill leann to show a little respect and compassion for the mother?
Leann Leann, Leann, want any more salt to pour into Brandi’s wounds? Dear God. You just don’t stop, do you?
I guess we should just let her enjoy these last few times in the news as Ediot’s wife….let the wheels come off and run off into the ditch properly.
Oh, yes! Her last holiday season with EC and Brandi’s boys!!!
The tradition in my family is that presents are only for children. If an adult is on hard financial times, we help each other out, but we don’t just buy gifts for adults. Instead, we splurge on expensive dinners out together for the holidays. We’re not a rich family, but we all have decent jobs. At any rate, this tradition certainly spares us a lot of “hinting” about what we want and being disappointed/angry at relatives who aren’t mind readers.
Point being, Kaiser, it is *awesome* that you buy a gift for your mom to give to you.
Leann began posting “happy family” pictures when she and Eddie were dating and he wasn’t even divorced. She will never see any issue with what she does or is doing, no matter how many people hold up that filthy mirror to her face. I think Brandi is at peace with the divorce, but struggles with Leann’s access to her kids. Who wouldn’t? I think Eddie enjoys the power and control he feels over Brandi, knowing she has to deal with Leann’s attempts to co-opt the kids and I think he enjoys the power he has over Leann: “I’m really leaving this time! I mean it!!” Legs McNeil wrote a piece about how sociopaths are always attracted to empathic people. Any mother empathizes with Brandi and wishes Leann would step off, and so Leann looks for the support of stepmothers- she’s pathetic.
Well, obviously she doesnt give a hoot that one day she will run out of money, the well will run dry and she couldnt sell an album for a penny. She will still be tweeting away from her LA cottage like Norma Desmond or something. She is in deep, deep denial of how much shes alienated her fans and how unmarketable shes made herself. I dont understand how this darrall Brown is not pulling his hair out instead of yessing her? Doesnt he get the corrolation to his own job??
This woman is sick, sick, sick. Something very seriously wrong with her.
Its like watching a crash in slow motion. Shes really horrifying. Tweet away freak show.
“I dont understand how this darrall Brown is not pulling his hair out instead of yessing her? Doesnt he get the corrolation to his own job??”
I have never understood Barall Clown’s motives either. The more successful she is, the more money he stands to make. And here he is, acting like a ten-year-old, who bashed Brandi and encouraged the LeAnn trolls to bash her. He as much responsible for ruining her career as she is because he’s encouraging her to do things that make people despise her. How much money can he be making off her $5.00 concert tickets? If he was smart, he’d tell her to get off Twitter and at least ACT like a nice person so she could revive her career as a singer.
I think he is as crazy as LR is! Weird!! You know that old saying “Birds of a feather”…
I can completely see the Norma Desmond scene in her later years. Baby Jane also comes to mind in terms of forever being fixated on a childhood brush with stardom.
I think its wrong that she talks about his kids to national magazines more than he or brandi do to the press. Shes adding undo attention to them and for a middle schooler, thats not fair.
Splitting up christmas day is wrong too. its too much moving around and not enough relaxing for those kids who just want to open up all their presents and play with them all day. Why dont they alternate christmas eve/ christmas day and thanksgiving day every year like most divorced families?
Poor Brandi must have had the worst divorce lawyer.
She also had the worst husband!
Yeah, he’s great at giving gifts. Didn’t he get her photo frames for their anniversary? Heartfelt. Also hate that I know that.
I believe all this crap she spews about Eddie being “the perfect thoughtful husband” is simply meant for Brandi and the world to think that while he was a horrible, thoughtless husband to Brandi that he is now the most loving, thoughtful husband to Leann. I call hogwash! The man isn’t going to change who he really is at the core of his being for Leann. All you have to do is watch her manic tweeting and being papped out alone to know that the marriage she has with Eddie is identical to the one that Brandi had with him. Why is it so important to this woman that people think he treats her better than he did Brandi? I bet the head games they play with each other never stop. He simply agrees to let her pap the kids and him to portray the happy, happy family and then he goes out to have a good time but always comes home before daylight to crawl in their happy, happy bed!!!! LOL