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E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic went back to work last Tuesday just two weeks after undergoing a double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. It wasn’t easy for her at all. The reality star told The Today Show in an interview on Friday that she feels great now, but that the immediate post-op recovery period was “hell” and that it was “horrible.”

“I knew this was going to be a tough surgery, but I in no way want to minimize it,” Giuliana told Matt Lauer during an interview on NBC’s the “Today” show on Friday. “Yes, I’m two and a half weeks out, but up until a week and a half ago it was hell. It was horrible.”

The 37-year-old E! TV host also revealed she suffered from an unforeseen complication that made the recovery process even more difficult – she was unable to tolerate morphine, the pain medication used to manage her post-surgery pain.

“I went into surgery at 4 PM and got out around 9:30 PM,” she told Matt. “By 4 AM I had to get off the morphine because I was so sick and I thought to myself, ‘[If you throw up] you have to engage all of your chest muscles,’ and I just had my chest operated on.”

Though she’s “feeling great” now, Giuliana still relies on husband Bill Rancic to help her accomplish everyday tasks while she continues to recover.

“I can’t really turn much to put my seatbelt on,” she said. “He has to help me get in and out of bed, get dressed…it’s a lot of limited mobility and pain.”

[From omg.yahoo.com]

Toward the end of that interview, Matt asked Giuliana’s husband Bill if he was afraid that she was pushing herself too hard after having surgery. He said “We don’t do anything without the doctor’s approval. This is something that she was intent on doing. She wanted to turn the negative into a positive. The response and the number of people who said ‘I went in and got my first mammogram…’ it’s worth it if you can save one life during this process.” As I mentioned in an earlier story, I did get an appointment with an OB/GYN to look at my tatas. She did a sonogram of my breast tissue and said that everything looks fine and that it wasn’t necessary for me to get a mammogram at this point. I honestly would not have made that appointment if it wasn’t for Giuliana’s story.

In a way I don’t think Giuliana is painting a realistic picture of this process at all. Even if she’s saying that the post op recovery was “horrible,” we’re seeing her looking perfect on TV two weeks later. I would like to see her take more time before going back to work. If she wasn’t such a motivated go-getter, she might not be as open with the press about her cancer battle, though. She’s definitely helped raise awareness of a disease that affects so many women.

Giuliana is shown interviewing Angelina Jolie on 12-5-11 and with Bill on 9-8-11. Credit: WENN.com

I will admit that I’m torn on what to think about E! correspondent Giuliana Rancic’s latest announcement that she has breast cancer and is undergoing a double mastectomy. It makes me feel like a bad person to admit that. On one side she’s going through an incredibly difficult health battle and is raising awareness of a disease that affects one in 8 women in the U.S. On the other she’s engaged in some obvious self promotion, which is understandable given her job. This is a woman with a reality show and a lifestyle website. I feel for her that she has cancer and I do think it’s brave of her to go public with this, but I still can’t help but see her as a mix of Gwyneth Paltrow and The Kardashians.

So anyway Giuliana went on The Today Show earlier this week to announce that the lumpectomy she had for early stage breast cancer (which she announced in October) wasn’t effective and that she would be having a double mastectomy and reconstruction. Then she went on Wendy Williams and The Ryan Seacrest show (he’s her boss at E! after all) and now she’s on the cover of People. I would rather see People highlight this important health issue than try and make us care why the latest bachelorette dumped her boyfriend.

Giuliana Rancic knows she’ll have scars from her upcoming double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. And she plans to embrace them.

“I think scars tell such an incredible story,” the E! News anchor, 37, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “I’ll always look at them and think, ‘Wow, I made it through that.’ ”

Still, she admits that there are moments as she lays in bed next to her husband Bill, 40, when impact of her shocking cancer diagnosis hits her.

“Usually it’s 2 in the morning, and I’ll turn around from Bill so I don’t wake him up, and I just cry,” she says. “I sob and think, ‘How did this happen?’ ”

Mostly, though, the “tough Italian woman,” as Bill calls his wife of four years, is determined to eradicate the disease that has turned her world upside down since being diagnosed three months ago.

“My breasts have never defined me – and now they never will,” says Giuliana, whose surgery is scheduled for Dec. 13.

[From People]

I hope she recovers fully, I hope she and Bill have that child they were hoping for all along, and I hope her story inspires others to get mammograms. For people with cancer, I hope they are inspired by Giuliana’s story to power through their treatment and stay positive. I think that I can listen to what she’s going through and feel for her, but still not be a huge fan, you know?

Here’s a clip of Giuliana and Bill on The Wendy Williams show. I do like Bill a lot.

Giuliana is shown interviewing Angelina Jolie on the red carpet on Monday. Credit: WENN.com

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Damn, this story keeps reminding me that I need to get my first mammogram. I’m not putting it off I swear, I just need to get a new Gyn and the one I called under my insurance had a super bitchy receptionist that I talked to for a while and got the worst impression of. I know that shouldn’t deter me, but it made me put it off and not bother to make an appointment, so maybe I’m looking for excuses. Anyway E! host Guiliana Rancic was diagnosed with breast cancer this summer after she had a mammogram at the insistence of her fertility doctor. The beginning stages of cancer were found in both of her breasts, and Giuliana underwent a lumpectomy and radiation as well as had some lymph nodes removed. Now Giuliana has announced that she’ll be getting a double mastectomy, because the lumpectomy wasn’t able to clear all the cancer from one of her breasts. Giuliana explained that it was the best course of treatment and that she and her husband weighed the options carefully.

If I had chosen to just do another lumpectomy and then do radiation, and then do estrogen therapy, which is two to five years of medication, that basically puts me into early menopause and then I would have to put off having a baby for several years. That was actually something we took into account. But to be honest, at the end all it came down to was just choosing to live and not looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life.

It could have come back more aggressively next time. For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. Basically with the double mastectomy I have less than a 1% chance of getting it back. With another lumpectomy, radiation and medication, I could have seen a 20-40% chance in my lifetime. [of the cancer returning]. To me it just wasn’t worth it.

Bill said that if Giuliana opted for another lumpectomy as treatment she would have to get mammograms every six months for the rest of her life. I actually started tearing up when Giuliana recalled what Bill told her about getting a mastectomy. He said “I just need you around for the next fifty years. I don’t care what you look like… I just need you around for the next fifty years so let’s just get you healthy.” What a great guy Bill is.

In a later segment they had a breast cancer doctor on and she said that women usually have reconstruction almost immediately after the mastectomy surgery. As opposed to 20 years ago, the reconstruction options are much more advanced and natural looking. Plus I don’t mean to sound callous, but so many women have fake boobs. It’s not like Giuliana will be out of place in Hollywood.

I hope that Giuliana has a swift recovery and that she and Bill are able to realize their dream of having children. It could happen for them. Christina Applegate had a double mastectomy in 2008 and she welcomed a daughter in 2011.

These photos are from 11/19/11 and 11/5/11. Credit: WENN and Fame

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m not a fan of E! correspondent Giuliana Rancic. She’s superficial, she can be somewhat petty, and she has serious issues around eating and gaining weight, in that she refused to gain any even when her doctor told her it was medically necessary to realize her dream of becoming a mother.

Giuliana went public with her breast cancer diagnosis last month. Her cancer was discovered early when her doctor insisted she get a mammogram prior to her third round of IVF treatment. She underwent a double lumpectomy and was back to work at E! in about a week. In a new interview with Parade, Giuliana says that she’s happy to continue filming her reality show with her husband, and that she’s also really grateful for her job at E!. I prefaced all this with the fact that I don’t really like her, because after reading this interview I’m coming around. It sounds like this major health scare has changed her outlook:

On the feedback she received after revealing her breast cancer diagnosis.
“When I went public, I thought, ‘OK, I guess a couple of people are going to talk about this,’ but I couldn’t believe it. The outpouring and the love and support was just beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I really relied on a lot of those messages I was receiving through Twitter and email and through blogs right before the surgery and the week I was recovering. I know it sounds so cliché, but I think it helped me recover quicker and it got me in better spirits. The word I kept seeing over and over again was ‘strong.’ ‘Be strong, you’re strong.’ That word has never meant so much to me as it has this past month. I owe that all to the people behind me.”

On how she’s doing post-surgery.
“I’m good. I’m hanging in there. I have good days and bad days, but so far so good. I’m very optimistic and I’m just happy to have caught it early. I think that’s really the most important thing. Early detection means so much. I want women to make sure they’re taking care of their health and being proactive.”

She also received a lot of support from E! News co-anchor Ryan Seacrest.
“He’s great. I describe our relationships as like a brother-sister relationship. We pick on each other, he probably picks on me much more than I pick on him, but it’s like a brother would. We have a great time. He’s been great to work with all these years. I love working with him.”

On showcasing her life with husband Bill Rancic (an entrepreneur who won the first season of The Apprentice) on their reality show, Giuliana and Bill.
“I guess it all started on our wedding day. The Style Network made a TV special out of the wedding and we actually got used to having the cameras around pretty quickly. People loved that special so much that the network wanted to do a reality series with us.”

She has no regrets about showing the ups and downs of their life together.
“We just felt like with every trial and tribulation we’ve put on this show, people have told us how much they learned from it and how it made them feel less alone. We thought that was a pretty incredible opportunity. The fact that we can help people through our show is an honor. We’re happy to do it and it’s something that we continue to do. We really are like open books. It’s worth it to kind of sacrifice some of my personal life to help others.”

On balancing her busy schedule.
“I think it’s just about appreciating it. Yesterday, I did nine interviews with the London Olympic athletes for E! News and then I had a two-hour meeting after work on a project I’m doing, after that I went to have a drink with my husband and spent a little quality romantic time with him, and then I went to the George Clooney premiere for The Descendants and had some romantic time with him — just kidding! And then I cruised home and spent some time with my mom, who is in town. It seems crazy and it’s a long day and it’s exhausting, but whenever I feel it’s too much, I take a step back and think this is such a great job. I’m so fortunate to have it. I have never taken it for granted. Whenever things get a little too hectic or I feel like I’m going to break down, I just think about how lucky I am. I’m not digging ditches, this is not brain surgery, this is fun and I’m very lucky to have this job.”

[From Parade]

I really like what she said at the end, when she started bitching about her schedule and then checked herself by saying she’s not digging ditches or performing brain surgery. She gained some humility and it sounds like she’s not taking her life for granted now. Of course she went on prior to that about how her reality show, for which she’s being well paid and is even taking paid product endorsements, is some kind of noble endeavor to help couples who also struggle with infertility. Giuliana and Bill even did a commercial for Merck’s “fertility lifelines,” which I’m sure she’d say she did for humanitarian purposes. Still, baby steps. I’m hoping these two realize their dream of getting pregnant soon. They’ve been through a lot together, and Bill consistently comes across as a caring, committed guy.

Giuliana and Bill are shown on 11/19/11 at “The Cotton’s 24-Hour Runway Show,” credit: Fame. They’re also shown on 11/5/11 at a book signing and lighting the Macy’s tree in Chicago. Credit: WENN.com

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Giuliana Rancic underwent surgery for breast cancer Tuesday, having made the announcement that she had cancer on Monday on the Today show. A lot of people were wondering why Giuliana waited until now to have her breast cancer treated when it was discovered back in August. It’s unclear why she decided to take the time to both make the announcement and treat her cancer, but it’s possible she was waiting until she either had a break in her schedule or was thoroughly off the hormones she was taking for her third round of IVF treatment. She explained on the Today show that she was in the midst of treatment and was taking hormones when the cancer was discovered. Luckily her cancer was discovered early, due to her doctor’s insistence that she get a mammogram before another round of IVF.

As an aside, many of you have mentioned a possible connection between IVF hormones and cancer, particularly breast cancer. The Today Show had a doctor on earlier this week who addressed this issue. She said there is no known link between IVF and cancer and chalked it up to a correlation between older women getting IVF and having higher cancer rates. Other doctors note that more research into the long term effects of IVF is needed.

Giuliana’s husband Bill Rancic was on The Today Show to talk about his wife’s recovery. He was very positive about how well she did during her operation, and was also very sweet and supportive. He said that he wishes he could take on some of the pain and the burden for her. He is doing that, just by being there for her.

As Giuliana Rancic recovers from surgery following her recent revelation that she is battling breast cancer, the E! News anchor’s supportive husband, Bill Rancic, gave an update on the Today show this morning.

“She’s a trouper, she pulled through it and was kind of relieved to get it over with and get the cancer out and is doing well at home,” Bill said while talking about the double lumpectomy that his wife had just undergone. “It was kind of a long day. There’s many steps in the process when you go through this because it was on both breasts.”

However, he and Giuliana remain positive.

“We’re viewing this as a gift,” insisted Bill. “It was caught very, very early and we’re going back to the doctor tomorrow. They had to remove a couple of lymph nodes and we’re hoping we get a report tomorrow.”

While the next step for Giuliana will be radiation treatment, the Fashion Police cohost is planning to get back to work next week.

“She’s excited,” Bill said. “But she’s really viewing life a little bit differently. It’s funny, when you go through a situation like this, it really turns the volume down on the things that really aren’t that important.”

[From E! Online]

At the end of the interview, Bill said they’ve received a lot of tweets from people saying they’ve scheduled mammograms and “that was the goal” of going public with their story.

I didn’t realize that Giuliana had cancer in both breasts! That’s rough, and thank goodness they caught it early. I hope that these two are able to realize their dream of having children soon.

These photos are from 9/8/11 and 5/7/11. Credit: WENN.com

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I was just considering whether I should get my first mammogram. We’re hearing so much about this very prevalent cancer during this month of breast cancer awareness, and it makes me wonder if it’s something I should look into. Now that I’ve heard that E! correspondent Giuliana Rancic was diagnosed with breast cancer at 37 (she’s a year younger than me), I’m definitely considering it. Rancic revealed her diagnosis, which was made in August, this morning on The Today Show. She explained that she had a mammogram prior to her third round of IVF treatment after her doctor insisted on it. Luckily her cancer was caught it very early, but it sounds like she’s gone through so much in the past few months. She’s set to have surgery and radiation over the next few weeks.

Giuliana Rancic had an announcement to make during a Monday morning appearance on The Today Show — but it wasn’t the one she or anyone wanted or expected.

Instead of a happy pregnancy announcement, Rancic, 37, told Ann Curry: “I have early stage breast cancer.” The E! News host and Giuliana and Bill star made the frightening discovery back in August, as she was preparing for her third attempt to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization.

Rancic explained that her doctor sternly insisted that she get a mammogram before going through with the third IVF treatment. (The pregnancy hormones could “accelerate the cancer,” Rancic recalled her doctor as saying.)

The star, who said she has no family history of breast cancer, “wasn’t prepared to get a mammogram until i was 40 years old,” she admitted. “I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.”

When the hospital called a few days later to tell her the shocking news, Rancic admits she was immediately “sobbing…It was like the world just crashed around me.”

But a visibly emotional Rancic assured fans, “I will be okay, because I found it early. I’m doing surgery this coming week, and then I go to radiation for six and a half weeks.”

At her side throughout the ordeal is husband Bill Rancic, 40. “Bill is unbelievable,” Rancic gushed. “He lets me cry when I want to cry. He just lets me feel what I want to feel.”

And the spouses of four years are determined to continue in their attempts to conceive once Giuliana’s medical isseus are resolved. “I’m not gonna give up,” she said. When she does get pregnant, “That baby will have saved my life,” she mused. “There’s some master plan. Now I know that [God] was looking out for me.”

She urged all women to get tested for breast cancer. “I think a lot of us think we’re invincible,” she said. “We have to start putting ourselves on the to do list.”

[From US Weekly]

That’s pretty shocking. Giuliana explained on The Today Show she was initially against getting a mammogram and tried to argue against it to her doctor. She does have an aunt who is a breast cancer survivor, but explained that she went through prior testing for the breast cancer gene and she’s not a carrier. For as much as I don’t like Giuliana, she’s doing a incredibly good thing here by reminding us to get checked. All the pink ribbons and very helpful reminders I’ve been seeing these past month were not as convincing to me as hearing Giuliana tell her story.

Giuliana and her husband Bill are shown on 10/14/11. Credit: Fame

The final episode of the fourth season of Giuliana Rancic and her hapless husband Bill’s reality show aired last night. Now that I’m staying in the US I feel guilty for not watching every stupid show that’s out there, but I guess in this case I can skip it, having seen the show enough to get a decent read on their personalities. Giuliana is superficial and self obsessed while Bill is supportive and trying to do his best in his marriage. Admittedly I didn’t get as strong an impression of Bill, but he comes across as a decent guy. (You can watch clips on MyStyle.com)

The Daily Mail has details of the season closer, where Giuliana and Bill undergo a third round of IVF treatments, the first two being unsuccessful. They’ve been filmed during previous IVF treatments on their show, and have been open about the pain and disappointment they experienced from one unsuccessful treatment and an another that resulted in a miscarriage at eight weeks. After that they decided to take a year off from trying to conceive, having started the process in early 2009. Giuliana has been very defensive about the fact that she refused to follow her doctor’s orders to gain weight in order to increase her chances of conception. On this episode, she discussed her fear of undergoing another round of IVF after her time off, and recorded a video with Bill to their potential future child. It sounds kind of cheesy to me, especially when they call him/her a “beautiful embryo,” but I get the sentiment.

Ahead of the procedure Giuliana, 36, is seen clearly anxious and nearly backs out at the last minute, while the couple chat anxiously in the car park.

‘I’m nervous as hell,’ she tells Bill. ‘Is it too late to turn around?’

Giuliana, who once underwent a whopping 63 IVF shots a month, certainly has cause for concern.

The last time she underwent IVF she suffered extreme sickness.

But as she reveals her fears to her husband, Bill encourages his wife, reminding her that back then she was in bad shape, and this time around things are a lot better.

‘The last time we did this, at this stage, you were a lot more uncomfortable You couldn’t even walk and were in a lot of pain,’ he said.

‘Now you could run laps. We did it the right way.’

Confident that their third time will be a charm, the pair record a video message for their future child.

‘Future baby boy or girl: Today is the day we go in to conceive you,’ Giuliana says.

‘You are a follicle right now, and hopefully all will go well and you will become a beautiful embryo and then a baby.’
The couple’s second visit to the medical center comes after they were seen meeting with Dr Schoolcraft for the first time in last week’s episode.

There, they discussed the last failed round of IVF after Guiliana sadly suffered a miscarriage last year.

‘They told us they were A + eggs so we thought it was a no brainer,’ Bill tells the doctor.

However, the couple are offered renewed hope by Schoolcraft for another round of treatment.

‘Dr Schoolcraft is very optimistic about our chances which I think is a breath of fresh air,’ Bill said in the clip.

‘We haven’t had this much hope in a long time, so this is very, very nice,’ added Giulliana.

Bill even started to think about what could happen if the couple conceive.

‘I’d love to have twins,’ he told the doctor, who agrees that two babies is a definite possibility.

However Giuliana was keen to have even more babies.

‘Even if we have twins, we’re having more kids,’ she laughed. ‘We’re going to need a frequent IVF-er card.’

Back in July, Bill told Us Weekly magazine how they would be looking at ‘all options when it comes to children, whether it’s surrogacy or adoption.’

‘We’re going to keep trying ourselves, but if it doesn’t work out, there are so many other great alternatives. We’re open to everything,’ added Giuliana.

[From The Daily Mail]

You know that Giuliana was nervous about IVF because of the weight gain, not because of how it would make her feel. That may sound harsh, but read what this woman has said about her weight in the past. She’s obsessed with her body image to an unhealthy degree. She doesn’t seem to mind feeling hungry constantly, she’s just concerned with looking anything more than skeletal. I do hope that she’s able to get pregnant and carry a healthy baby to term, like her idols Rachel Zoe and Posh. Then we’ll be treated to baby photos and baby anecdotes and “how I lost the baby weight fast!” articles on her website. She’ll be one of those know-it-all moms who tells everyone else how to raise their kids, just wait.

Photo credit: WENN.com

E! correspondent Giuliana Rancic and her husband, Bill Rancic, were on The View a couple of weeks ago as part of an episode focused on fertility. Giuliana, 35, and Bill, 38, have been trying to get pregnant and have chronicled their battle with infertility on their Style Network reality show, Giuliana & Bill. I’ve been watching The View when I can tolerate Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s grating know-it-all personality (as long as Barbara isn’t there they usually keep her in check) and I saw this episode. Giuliana generally strikes me as a very superficial person and I didn’t change my opinion of her after seeing this.

Very thin Giuliana said that the fertility doctor told her that she needed to gain weight in order to up her chances of conceiving. She explained that she’s in a business where appearance matters and that she’d gained a whole five pounds and nothing was happening yet. The girl still looks tiny and would easily look fit with another ten pounds on her frame. Whoopi Goldberg called Giuliana on this the next day on The View, and basically said that if Giuliana wanted a baby she would gain enough weight as the doctor advised. Well, Giuliana didn’t take kindly to those remarks and called what Whoopi said “the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard on that show in a very long time.”

The svelte E! News host says despite putting on five pounds per doctor’s orders, she’s not expecting at the moment.

“I can tell you that I’m definitely not pregnant,” she told me from New York City, where she swore she was snacking on a 3 Musketeers Truffle Crisp bar. “It hasn’t happened yet. Bill and I are in the midst of it all, and we’re trying very hard and hope that we get good news very soon!”

The Giuliana & Bill star also responded to Whoopi Goldberg’s criticism after her appearance on The View (Whoopi had some strong words for Giuliana after she and Bill shared their decision to undergo IVF)…

“When she brought it up the day [I was there], fine, I get it, she’s entitled to her own opinion,” Giuliana said of their heated on-set sit-down.

“But that offended a lot of women because they emailed saying ‘Whoopi made it sound like it was easy to have a kid, like gain five pounds and you’ll be fertile,’ ” she explained. “I did gain weight, and I still didn’t have a kid.”

What really bothered her was the fact that The View host brought it up again the next day, when Giuliana wasn’t a guest.

“I wasn’t there, and she was at the roundtable with all the women, and she was like, ‘It’s not like she’s an actress; she’s on the red carpet, so she should gain the weight,’ ” G explained. “Because I’m a reporter, I’m held to a different standard than an actress? It’s almost like she puts actresses on a pedestal.

“I thought that was the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard on that show in a very long time,” Giuliana continued. “I lost a lot of respect for her.”

That doesn’t mean she’d never return to The View. “Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] is my favorite on the show!” Giuliana told me. “Maybe I’ll go on again once I’m pregnant.”

While Giuliana probably won’t be having lunch with Whoopi any time soon, 3 Musketeers is sponsoring a contest where you can win a trip to L.A. to have lunch with the E! News anchor.

[From E! Online]

I get both sides of this non-controversy. I’ve been on a diet and fitness kick the past few months and am finally at a place where I feel confident about my body. (I’m not even close to Giuliana’s level of slenderness as that’s too little for me. Also I would like to put in a free plug for Weight Watchers because I truly believe it can work for everyone at all levels and ages.) Given how hard I’ve worked to get here, I would be reluctant to gain weight. Once you keep track of everything you’re eating and are aware of how it affects your body, it’s hard to deliberately gain weight on someone else’s orders. My family is telling me it’s time to stop and I’m in the “five more pounds” mindset, which can be hard to break out of. Plus, as many of you have pointed out there is a real bias toward very thin people that can be just as discriminatory as a bias against heavy people. We’re all on our own journeys in life and we shouldn’t judge other people on their bodies. /soapbox

On the other hand, I saw Whoopi make these comments and I agreed with her at the time. She was basically calling Giuliana on her bullsh*t. The girl explained that she gained a whole five pounds and basically said that was all she was willing to gain in order to conceive. Whoopi later said that if Giuliana needed to gain more weight to get pregnant she should do that and not be so hung up on appearances. All that crap that Giuliana is claiming Whoopi implied – that it’s easy to get pregnant if you gain a little weight – is not the case at all. Also, I’ve caught segments of Giuliana’s reality show and she’s incredibly image-focused. In one episode where she threw a surprise party for her husband’s birthday, the first thing she told him during their heart to heart chat was that he was just as good looking now as when she first met him. It wasn’t about what a great, thoughtful guy he was but about how he looked. Does that mean if he gains weight or gets inevitably older she’s going to love him less? Whoopi made a valid point.

Giuliana & Bill in Las Vegas on Feb. 19, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Several celebrity couples got married on this long holiday weekend, including a pair that were already married and just wanted everyone to know how happy, normal and rich they are.

Usher and Tameka’s Do-Over
Usher, 28, and his pregnant man-faced bride, Tameka Foster, 38 had their “dream wedding” in Atlanta yesterday. They were already married, though, after a civil ceremony on August 3rd following their previous canceled wedding. Their first lavish ceremony, set to be held at at L.A. Reid’s estate in the Hamptons, was canned at the last minute. They claimed it was due to Tameka’s pregnancy complications, but everyone speculated that it was more likely to do with the negative story that came out in the Enquirer that week claiming she was an ex-con who once dated a drug-dealer who was shot-down execution style.

Tameka also is said not to get along with Usher’s mom, who she was rumored to have arranged to have fired as his manager, and that was complicating matters. Usher’s mom was noticeably absent from this latest wedding at the Chateau Elan Winery & Resort outside of Atlanta. 200 other guests were there, though, and enjoyed dinner in the ballroom following the exchange of vows.

Kate Walsh’s Whirlwind Wedding
Kate Walsh, 39, from Grey’s Anatomy, married the guy she’s been gushing about to the press, movie executive Alex Young, 36, in Ojal, California on Saturday.

Kate’s Grey’s co-stars were in attendance, including Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson, Sara Ramirez, Justin Chambers, and Shonda Rhimes. The reception was held at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa’s Casa Elar, a “Spanish-style estate.”

The pair just met in February and are getting hitched less than seven months later. I know a lot of people make it work when they get married before even dating a year, but to me that’s not enough time to come to a sane decision over whether you want to spend the rest of your life with someone. Your brain is still addled from all those love endorphins.

Bill Rancic and Guiliana DePandi’s Interminable Ceremony
I’ve been to several full Catholic ceremonies. They’re wicked long. I remember my uncle grinding his jaw throughout my cousin’s nearly hour-long ceremony, and that’s really all I can remember because I had to focus on something it went on so long. The bride was beautiful and it was touching and all, but really you can get the same feeling in 20 minutes instead of dragging it out and adding lots of scripture and ceremony in there. Everyone is just waiting for the party afterwards anyway.

So if a regular Catholic wedding is hard to sit through, imagine a full Catholic ceremony held in two languages. It doesn’t matter how pretty the church is decorated or how gorgeous the bride looks, that has got to be boring. (I’m really sorry if I’m offending Catholic people, I was raised Catholic, but there’s only so much church I can take.)

The first Apprentice Bill Rancic married E! News’s Guiliana DePandi in Italy on the island of Capri yesterday, and they had a full ceremony in both English and Italian. Their church was decorated with white roses and candles, and Rancic says they “wanted a very old school, full Catholic mass.” DePandi was born in Napoli and is a devout Catholic. Rancic and DePandi go to church together every Sunday.

The guests were bussed to the center of Capri and were entertained by Neopolitan singers and dancers. From there they walked to a reception at the Gran Hotel Quisisana.

They will not have a honeymoon for now as they both have work commitments. At least they’ll have tomorrow off.

Congratulations to all the new celebrity couples and may your marriages last longer than most.

Have a great Labor Day everyone. We’ll be around.

Thanks to People.com for these wedding details.