It's true… I'm expecting my 5th! Get the details here: https://t.co/95i8IkIzGR @people pic.twitter.com/QoGaGdymaj
— Tori Spelling (@Tori_Spelling) October 5, 2016
Yesterday we heard that Tori Spelling, 43, deep in debt and with four children under ten at home, was pregnant with her fifth child. From the way she described it in People’s online interview, Tori thought this situation was perfect while her husband of ten years, Dean McDermott, was rather surprised. Some of you mentioned in the comments that Dean intended to get a vasectomy several years ago but Tori cried poor and claimed that they couldn’t afford the less than $1,000 procedure. They blow more than that a month on storage costs for the crap Tori can’t bear to part with, but sure. This was Tori’s plan to get more interest in her life and it looks like it’s working somewhat because she’s earned a sidebar on People Magazine. In the full print article, Tori and Dean talk about raising their kids, the prospect of having another, and the fact that Tori had the life-threatening condition placenta previa with her last baby. I just looked that up and found that Tori said, back in 2013, “I’m not going to be going through another pregnancy. I don’t plan on it.” It looks like her plans just changed. Here’s some of People’s article. It’s evident that Tori and Dean are not on the same page when it comes to having another kid, and Dean looks shellshocked in the photos while Tori is haughty and triumphant.
Tori, you were first pregnant a decade ago, how does it feel to be doing it again at 43?
Tori: I know I should feel like “Oh I’m old.” But I have more energy now. It’s not an option not to. And I’m so crazed running around with four little ones under 10 that I don’ thave time to worry about the things I did the first time. I used to have a fear of standing in front of the microwave. Now I stand to the side, but I still have to get things done.Yours was truly a whirlwind romance. You met in 2005, married in 2006 and got pregnant with Liam just two months later. Do you feel ilke everything has happened so fast?
Tori: Our relationship hit the ground running. We never stopped for a second. We fell madly in love and made these four little beings out of so much love. But we never had that time [together]. When we’re in retirement, we’ll travel the world together.
Dean: I’m going to be too old! Maybe I’ll get senior citizen discounts.How do your parenting styles differ?
Tori: Dean is old school. I’m the fun mom. I’m like, “Hurry and do it before your dad gets home!”
Dean: I’m fun too – I’m just strict. The kids ruffle my feathers, and I try my best not to lose my mind. But it’s a challenge. Four kids is a lot.
Tori, since you were diagnosed with placenta previa while pregnant with Finn, did you fear it would happen again?
Tori: Once we found out I was pregnant, we didn’t get excited until we knew I didn’t have placenta previa again. With Finn, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. And we knew my life could potentially be in danger again. The thought of my four children not having a mother was not something we were okay with.It’s been nearly three years since the infidelity. How has your marriage changed?
Tori: We had to start from scratch, and we made the conscious decision to tough it out and get through it. I found my voice, and Dean lessened his anger. I wouldn’t change what happened because if we hadn’t opened up those lines of communication, maybe we wouldn’t be here today.
[From People Magazine, print edition]
Did you read the end of Tori’s answer to that first question? “I used to have a fear of standing in front of the microwave. Now I stand to the side, but I still have to get things done.” When she opened with not worrying as much about this pregnancy, the thing that came to mind was whether the baby was healthy and moving around, especially considering she is of “advanced maternal age.” Instead she’s worried about microwaves hurting her baby, which is not a thing, microwaves are safe. Does she avoid standing near the router too?
In terms of Dean’s cheating, they stayed together because Tori needed him to help her with her career. He’s a storyline as well as a husband and father. I think that if she had a jump off she would have dumped Dean like she did her first husband (and like Dean did to his wife) the minute she met Dean.
Dean also said something nice at the end of the article. He said “This baby is truly a testament to how much we love each other, and it’s a testament to Tori for staying with me. It’s amazing. Love does conquer all.” They’re angling for a reality show again. How long until they get one and exploit all the cracks in their marriage all over again?
Their relationship was bred in infidelity, karma always comes back even if it takes awhile. He cheated multiple times, yet you keep having kids with him. Amazes me.
They fell “madly in love” while he was adopting a baby with his wife.
I wonder how she would feel about getting another opportunity to “open the lines of communication” while she’s pregnant with their fifth.
This is the perfect time for Dean to get that vasectomy.
Ugh, they are both so gross. I used to root for her because I felt bad how nasty everyone was about her looks but now I just wished they would go away and do what’s best for their children, not their egos. His face is just so Ick and smug every time I see him and she looks nothing like herself in those People Mag pics.
I look at him and then the guy Tori was married to before… Tori made a huge mistake. Huge.
And dean was a fairly good looking guy back when he was with MJ. He looks like he just gave up.
Well, they are in their forties and have four children they’re trying to support with a mountain of debt. That kind of stress takes its toll on a person. It’s the perfect karma for his dumb ass, though.
But do they really have stress? Grandma Spelling is a multi-millionaire, and they know they will never really end up on the street or not have food on the table. She is not going to let anything remotely impoverishing happen to those grandchildren. That is why Tori feels free to keep running up and defaulting on tens of thousands of credit card debt.
And maybe Aaron Spelling disinherited Tori, but will her mom? I doubt it. At some point she is going to inherit part of those hundreds of millions, even if it is tied up into some kind of trust that only doles her out portions at a time, and that must take a lot of the edge off the stress of an unexpected fifth child. The prospect of the eventual money is also probably why Dean sticks around, not because of any communication leaps he and Tori have made.
I doubt they’re suffering that much financially. Surely Grandma’s slipping them some cash but we just don’t hear about it.
@Sabrine It’s known what the arrangement is — grandma doesn’t want to give Tori or Dean even one thin dime (she’s still mad at Dean being part of the family at all, and she considers Tori a spendthrift, although that’s the pot criticizing the kettle), but she does pay bills that relate to the grandkids.
So grandma will keep the kids from suffering, but she’s happy to leave Tori and Dean scrabbling. Maybe Tori is pregnant to keep that kid-derived income coming?
He literally looks like how Canadians are drawn on South park. Straight mouth and flip-top head!
I’ll testify that when I had my kids the literature the practice and hospital sent home in their welcome pack said not to stand in front of a microwave while it was in operation. Especially in the later stages of the pregnancy. I don’t remember why. So I didn’t. I don’t know if the medical powers that be have changed their mind about the whole thing or if that’s been proven bunk. But she’s not making that up. It was in a couple of OB/GYN and maternity pamphlets and this would have been around 10-15 years ago range for me.
I concur, although my experience was further back.
I have no clue who these people are but this woman has one of the most unfortunate faces I’ve ever seen in my life.
I try to leave the kitchen when the microwave is on.
I don’t care how long it’s been, it’s still so insensitive and bubble-worldly to talk about falling madly in love when he was suppose to be in a committed relationship with a long-time partner and they were adopting a child. I can’t handle couples where one cheated and now the other talks about how it “opened lines of communication”. That is such bullshit! You stayed because you wanted to stay. I don’t believe it’s any better now than it was before. He never treated her like crap to her face – he was simply a sneaky cowardly cheater. So, he isn’t cheating now…but probably more because she and his MIL are his income. I don’t believe they now have this amazing relationship – because why? Because he cheated?! Pfffffttt….. Reminds me of Real Housewives of Orange County – Shannon Baedor – all this talk of how in love they are now and he’s doing all these wonderful things because he’s realized how much he loves her blah blah blah. No, dear, he cheated and got caught. He doesn’t want a divorce because it would mean shaking up his kids, losing your home, down sizing, losing money, splitting assets, and looking like heel to the world. So, he’s doing what he knows you want him to do to make it work out. That’s not love. That’s not even sincerity. It’s actually manipulation and Shannon and Tori are both weak suckers.
A baby accomplishes multiple things for her and her brand: first it proves that her husband still sleeps with her, as crass as that sounds, it offers her at least several months of mommy blogging, pregnancy blogging and any complications will be a boon to her news-wise, an unusually large family makes her more “attractive” in a circus kind of way to any spin-offing she might wrangle from her reality show past, and any deal she has with her mom to support her children means this baby shouldn’t want for the same things her current children enjoy. No way she’d let Candy NOT pay for the same (the arguments, imagine, screaming “it’s not fair to the baby!!) This is her schtick, love it or hate it. And Dean, like a deer in headlights has no where to run. He couldn’t leave now even if her vagina grew teeth, he’d be so locked into paying for 5 kids, what meagre earnings he could scrape together on his own wouldn’t pay his rent after support is subtracted.
I don’t think for one second that all this wasn’t discussed before the pregnancy test turned blue. I bet whatever time they don’t spend wrangling their kids, they spend it both arguing and scheming about money and careers. It must be exhausting for them to be in a constant state of anxiety. Both still probably have sizeable egos that need stroking. And both need the spotlight, no matter how glaring and unflattering it might be. Envy them not, for the uncomfortable bed they have made will never offer them a good nights sleep.
How does she afford all the work on her face if she’s so broke? When I’m broke I can afford face creme let alone a facial or whatever these people do to look like wax figures or characatures of themselves…