Angelina Jolie’s personal obstetrician has been flown to The Burning Shore resort where the famous family is staying in Namibia. The couple is said to have converted a suite in the hotel where Angelina will give birth. If Angelina doesn’t have the baby by June 3rd, she’ll be induced. Everyone agrees that the birth should be uneventful since she’s super fit:

Jolie is said to be doing yoga in preparation for the birth, and should be well prepared when her time comes.

Meanwhile there’s a good reason why so few pictures of Angelina and Brad have come out lately. Photographers and journalists are really intimidated by the Namibian government and the thuggish Jolie-Pitt security team. Many are threatened with deportation, and one photographer spent a few days in jail before being released without charge:

Someone managed to snap Brad riding his bike with Zahara dangerously strapped on his back without a helmet, so there’s at least one paparazzo around.

The first picture of the baby-to-be has commanded nearly $5 million from an American magazine. You can hardly blame photographers for hoping to secure their retirement with an unlikely shot of the newborn.

Update: Angelina’s brother, James Haven, has been flown to Namibia. Jamie accompanied Angelina to the 2000 Oscars for her best supporting actress win, where Angelina sparked controversy by kissing him on the lips. She is now said to want Jamie by her side for the birth of her first biological child.

Violet Affleck is nearly six months old, and she’s a little cutie. Matt Damon’s wife, Luciana, is expecting is baby girl in mid-June. Once Damon’s daughter is old enough, she can have playdates with little Violet Affleck!

That’s so cute and those little girls are going to be adorable.

Here is the Affleck family out for breakfast in Cambridge. Look at how Jennifer Garner thanks the man who opens the door for her!

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Brad Pitt has been criticized for riding his bike with a helpless baby Zahara in a child carrier on his back and without a helmet. Maddox was wearing a helmet, though. Maybe child safety devices are hard to come by in Africa

I have a safety seat for my kid on the back of my bike and he always wears a helmet. The thing is, he hates shoes and sometimes I let him ride barefoot. Maybe if I was famous someone more qualified than my nosy neighbor would point out my mistake.

Celebrities know more about the vaguaries of what’s popular in expensive jeans and giant leather handbags than common things like childcare. Rear-facing child seats, helmets and properly installed seats on bikes - all this seems like common sense to us laypeople.

Maybe celebrities will start hiring baby experts for advice on how to keep their children safe and avoid public relations disasters. This reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons where Homer started a “Wee Care” baby proofing business. There seems to be quite a market for that type of service in Hollywood.

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Katie Holmes has left Hollywood for the sanity and security of her parent’s home in Ohio. She brought baby Suri with her, and left controlling Tom at home. Sources say she had a huge blowout with Tom and is relieved to be rid of him:

We do not like Tom and are not defending him - but it was nice of him to fly Katie to see her parents even if he’s too stubborn to go too. Hopefully Katie’s family will talk some sense into her and help her escape controlling Tom and the Scientologist handlers. Yesterday’s report that Tom won’t marry Katie until she’s fully brainwashed by Scientologists may simply mean that Katie has real misgivings about the relationship and isn’t ready to hand over her life and will to a crazy cult.

As an aside - wouldn’t it be great if the first pictures published of Suri are paparrazi photos taken in Ohio? That would really rock.

We know we’re always saying people look pregnant. That’s half the fun of looking at celebrity pictures so you can’t blame us. Sarah Michelle Gellar wore three different loose empire waist dresses while promoting her film “Southland Tales” at Cannes. In some of the HQ pictures from Cannes, shown in the first row below, it really looks like she’s trying to hide something. She also put her hand over her stomach while on the red carpet - a telltale sign!

Gellar is 29 and has been married to Freddie Prinze Jr., 30, since September, 2002.

She stars in “Southland Tales,” “an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster” with The Rock.

Gellar describes her character:

It sounds pretty interesting. We’ll have to wait and see how the film is, and if Gellar is actually pregnant.

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Angelina was supposedly in labor on Friday, and this story may explain that rumor, or it could be total b.s. like a lot of the stories about the Jolie-Pitts. Life and Style is reporting that Angelina is having early contractions:

A friend of mine also had early contractions in her pregnancy, and everything turned out fine, so if it’s true it’s probably not much to worry about.

The couple’s 16 month-old adopted baby, Zahara, is said to be suffering from a mystery illness that also has Brad and Angelina worried. Zahara has rickets, a bone disorder caused by a vitamin D deficiency, but this sounds like something else:

Zahara’s symptoms incredibly worrying and we hope the baby gets well soon! Hopefully she will get proper treatment and they will figure out what’s wrong with her.

The Namibian government has been giving baby gifts as a thank you to Angelina, and has sent a representative to teach her about local birth customs. They seem to be going out of their way for Angelina and Brad, and it seems like Angelina picked a country with a very accommodating government.

Our thoughts go out to baby Zahara. Hopefully she will be fine and Angelina will have an uneventful labor and birth.

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We’ve been trying to figure out if Avril Lavigne is pregnant, or if she just has a little tummy and loves wearing stripes. In the pictures of her at the showing of “Over the Hedge” at Cannes, she looks somewhat pregnant in a striped dress. In a photocall for the film, she wears a slightly loose striped blouse and it’s hard to tell. What do you think? Here are our other posts about Avril’s upcoming wedding to Deryck Whibley and supposed pregnancy.

- Who’s got a bump? 4/05
- Avril Lavigne to Marry Deryck Whibley this summer 4/06
- Avril Lavigne tries to distract from her baby bump 4/13
- Avril Lavigne looks more pregnant 4/28
- Candids of Avril out with Deryck 5/17

Avril is the voice of possum “Heather” in “Over The Hedge,” which is getting positive reviews and is doing well at the box office. It is at number two in the US behind “DaVinci Code.”

In a press conference for the film yesterday, she talked about the difficulties of voicing an animated character:

Here is Avril with Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte at Cannes. Thanks to ALavigne.com.br for the high-res pictures.

Britney almost dropped baby Sean Preston this week, and you’ve probably already seen the pictures and video, below. She had a terrible week in the press, and ABC News discusses how she needs to revamp her image by laying low and staying out of the spoltlight for a while. (It also wouldn’t hurt if she would wear clothing that doesn’t reveal both her bra and underwear at the same time.)

Britney should take a lesson from Kobe Bryant, who was accused of much worse than stupid parenting, in order to revamp her public image:

Britney’s latest foibles aren’t as damning as driving with SP in her lap. It just seems like she’s tired and fed up and it’s reflected in her parenting skills. From the video below, you can see how she could get frustrated and stumble with all those people swarming around her. Of course she should have put down the glass, but she doesn’t even know which way to walk and looks pretty dazed.

I’m not defending Britney, but I have a husband who’s around and loves to spend time with his son and I have some Britney moments. My son, 20 months, sometimes refuses to get dressed or wear shoes. He throws a huge fit and it can be impossible to get him out of the house. The other day I said screw it and let him go out in his bare feet. The nosy neighbor came out on her porch and made fun of him and I thought “If that bitch only knew what I went through to get him outside.” Maybe Britney feels that way too. If you read her new “song” to K-Fed, you can tell how exasperated she is. Even mothers with loving husbands can relate to baby burnout.

Right after the incident, Britney says “This is why I need a gun.” She must want to clear away some of the paparrazi who she probably blames for the stumble. She doesn’t need to kill anyone, she just needs to get away from photographers. Judging from Angelina Jolie’s success in changing public policy of an entire African nation, it’s possible but not easily done.

Reader Millie needs to start writing for the site, because she said a while ago that Angelina was farther along than she admitted, and it looks like she was right!

The latest news from Africa is that Angelina is in labor with the world’s most anticipated baby.

No wonder they secured a picture deal for the first photographs so “early.”

At this point Angelina could have already had the baby!

Congratulations to the couple and we can’t wait to see the pictures.

Update: That report seems premature and follow-up news has the baby arriving in the next 48 hours, which means that Angelina is probably due in two days. My son arrived nearly two weeks after his due date, and first babies are usually late, so it could be a while.

Yesterday was a big day for Britney Spears. She posted a new “song” on her official website briefly that was an obvious condemnation of her lazy hick husband, and then she was videotaped and photographed nearly dropping her eight month-old baby, Sean Preston, while walking in NYC.

TMZ had a video of the incident up on their site, but just like the new song on Britney’s site it is curiously missing now. You can get the gist from the pictures, below:

Moms have to multi-task and I could see carrying a plastic water bottle that is easily discarded, but a highball glass? Those are the type of glasses in limos from our limited experience, but leave the damn thing in the car if you have to carry your baby! Plus Britney is wearing wedges, too long pants, and is pregnant. Man that is a bad combination.

The guy with the ’70s porn ’stash (we came up with this on our own, and noticed that IDLYITW said the same thing about him. Great minds.) who catches SP is on her staff because he’s seen in pictures of her elsewhere in NY. If she was alone she would have dropped the poor thing, but she probably wouldn’t have been carrying a highball glass while walking down the street, either. Oh Britney.

Thanks to In Case U Didn’t Know and Millie for pointing this out to us.

Britney’s website entrance was replaced for a little while with a sassy girlpower image of the singer and some friends flipping off the camera. There was also a new “song” on the site, with some obvious digs at K-Fed:

Maybe removing the image and song was a calculated move to have the blogs pick it up and carry the “Britney’s fed up” story, or maybe she really wanted this to remain on her site, and was advised against it. Regardless we all know how she feels now, and hope the news of a divorce is forthcoming.

Britney is shown arriving at a children’s Presbyterian hospital In NY yesterday.

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