Cindy Adams wrote on Tuesday in two lines at the beginning of her column that “Boozing backstage during the Oscarcast is a no-no. But if you’re pregnant Nicole Kidman it’s a yes- yes. She wanted white wine. She got it….” and that was all she wrote about it before jumping into a story about Jack Nicholson.

I read this story yesterday morning but didn’t publish it because this tidbit was given without much evidence, along with the subject being controversial. Some doctors say that it’s ok to have one or two glasses of wine a week after you’re past the first trimester, but this is understandably a heated issue and many experts and groups recommend abstaining entirely during pregnancy.

Gwyneth Paltrow was eight months pregnant in March of 2006 when she drank a beer while out at a sushi restaurant, and then had two or three glasses of wine another night at dinner, according to a witness. Her rep confirmed that she drank the beer, but was careful to say she didn’t have any sushi. This led to a lot of criticism of how she was possibly endangering her baby.

Rachel Weisz made a controversial statement later that year by answering a reporter’s question about whether she thought it was ok to drink while pregnant by saying “Personally I do. They say not in the first three months though, but I think that after that it’s fine. I mean in Europe they drink it.”

When I was pregnant I gave up all alcohol, coffee, my favorite food sushi, and did just about everything I was told to do. I was super careful like that, but it doesn’t give me the right to judge anyone else for something that is a minor transgression at worst. If Kidman only had one glass of wine and she was really nervous, at least she wasn’t popping pills or anything. A lot of people were saying “with her history of miscarriage, she should be careful,” etc., but we don’t know if she had a sip, a full glass, if it was for someone else, or if her doctor told her it was ok.

According to Nicole Kidman’s rep, it’s not even true that asked for white wine backstage at the Oscars. Given the way this is so harshly worded, I tend to believe her:

“I try to ignore your [Perez’s] column, unlike most of the rest of the world, because it is so nasty. But I have to tell you that Nicole Kidman most certainly did NOT drink white wine or any other alcoholic beverage backstage. She had water and lemon zinger tea. That’s it. I know, I was there with her I cannot remember that last time that Cindy Adams got anything right. She’s an idiot, and you can quote me.”

[From PerezHilton.com]

Maybe Kidman drank her water out of a goblet or something, because they’re probably fancy like that at the Oscars.

The thread for this story on Oh No They Didn’t mentioned the infamous picture of a very pregnant and topless Catherine Zeta Jones puffing away on a cigarette. The photos were taken in 2003, and Zeta-Jones and her husband Michael Douglas sued to make sure that the photo was pulled from websites where it was posted.

Sinead O’Connor similarly sent cease and desists to websites that posted photos of her supposedly smoking while pregnant, with her lawyer saying she wasn’t pregnant at the time the photos were taken.

Commentor JoiGirl on our article about Rachel Weisz semi-advocating drinking while pregnant said “I think we have a huge problem in our society right now with people viewing expectant moms as public property, and feeling entitled not only to grope their bellies but also to tell them how to be good pregnant women.”

And when we do this to the celebrities, most of them make sure to let us know that they weren’t doing anything wrong in the first place.