About a year ago, Carrie Underwood gave an interview in which she discussed her immediate baby plans with her husband, Mike Fisher. Carrie said at the time: “We just want to be together and keep it as simple as possible. And I think a baby would just make things so complicated right now.” CB and I both admired the directness and no-BS-ness of that answer – there was no, “I LOVE babies, I want a million of them but I’m not pregnant now WINK. Please continue to talk about this endlessly!” With that in mind, here’s a report from OK! Magazine about how she’s probably pregnant:

When Carrie Underwood co-hosted the Country Music Association Awards in her hometown of Nashville on Nov. 9, an onlooker at the scene couldn’t help but notice a starry-eyed look in the country superstar’s eyes as she picked out goodies in the backstage gift lounge.

“Everything she chose was loose on her,” the eyewitness tells OK!. “She was also friendlier than her usual self and had a glow about her!” And with good reason: It seems that all the pregnancy talk buzzing around Carrie is true — even though she and her NHL hockey player husband, Mike Fisher, have said publicly that they’re waiting to start a family.

“They really want to start now,” an insider tells OK!. “Of course, Carrie’s playing her cards very close to her chest, but it’s no secret among her close friends that she’s been actively trying to get pregnant.”

“Actually there’s even some speculation in her inner circle that she may already be expecting. She’s had that happy glow about her for weeks. The biggest sign for everyone is the fact that she’s completely stopped drinking. Carrie usually loves having a glass of champagne once in a while, but lately she’s been skipping it. She didn’t even have one sip after hosting the CMA Awards, which was really out of character.”

One other key indicator: the calendar. Carrie’s 28 years old, and though that certainly doesn’t suggest that her biological clock is ready to wind down, the onetime American Idol champion does have her own personal maternity schedule.

“Carrie has always wanted to be a young mother, and she’s nearing that 30th birthday,” the insider tells OK!. “And at this point, most of their close friends are expecting an announcement very soon. She and Mike are very, very excited.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I was going to go on and on about how Carrie is super-blunt about the state of her womb, and since she hasn’t said anything about this report, it was probably true. But then I checked it out, and Carrie’s rep denied the story to Gossip Cop: “Carrie is not pregnant.” Direct. To the point. So there you have it, people. Get out of Carrie’s womb! She’s not pregnant. She probably likes her life as-is, likes to work, likes to spend her free time with her husband and friends. It happens, people. Or, you know, her rep is lying. They do that sometimes.

Here are some pics of Carrie at the CMA Awards. I don’t see any pregnancy.

Photos courtesy PR Photos and WENN.

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My mom and I watched Carrie Fisher’s one woman special Wishful Drinking on HBO together. It was so much fun for us, and we could each relate to the Hollywood stories she told. Carrie was funny, self effacing and honest. She went into detail on her crazy family background and upbringing, and somehow she managed to make extreme dysfunction sound hilarious. She was also very honest about the fact that she’s an addict, that she has bipolar disorder and that she’s used electroconvulsive therapy to treat it.

The last we heard of Carrie she was triumphantly showing off her 50 pound weight loss as a new spokesperson for Jenny Craig. She was also sporting an entirely new face, something that she didn’t really mention but was incredibly obvious. She looks good and she hasn’t gone overboard with the Botox and fillers. Well Carrie was on The Today Show this morning promoting her latest memoir, Shockaholic. While smoking an e-cigarette, she extolled the benefits of electroconvulsive therapy, saying that it was a last ditch effort for her, that it’s not painful at this point since they put you to sleep before they do it, and that she highly recommends it. I find her awesome, but it was clear that Ann Curry didn’t get her sense of humor at all.

On if she sees it as her job to break the stigmas over ECT
I want to fracture them. Breaking is just going to far… The stigma on that one is so crazy, though. It’s a Hollywood one.

On why she did ECT
I did it because I’m bipolar. It took me 5 million years to do it. It is the last ditch treatment. They had tried everything else on me. Once I did it, it was like “I wish I’d dont this before.”

On if ECT hurts
They put you to sleep. It’s very different than it used to be. They put you to sleep, there’s no more convulsions. They should call it ET.

On if she recommends it
If they’re that far into it. I don’t recommend like if you have a free afternoon… If you’re depressed, absolutely. They put you to sleep, there’s a medication they give you so there’s no convulsions.

Remember in that movie “What Lies Beneath” when Michelle Pfiefer goes under and Harrison almost kills her? That’s the medication. I had Harrison inject it to me and almost kill me.

Ann: “Oh dear, dear dear. Alright let’s move on.”

Carrie was cracking jokes and all Ann Curry did was act all serious and go “oh,” and “mmm.” After a while, Carrie made more obvious jokes and then Curry gave a couple of forced laughs. It’s like Carrie realized that Ann was so dim she wasn’t going to get it. She’s such a lousy interviewer.

I love that Carrie is so open about what she went through and is talking about what worked for her. They should have had Al Roker interview her instead of Curry. Al would have laughed his ass off.

Here’s Carrie and her mom Debbie Reynolds at the Emmy Awards on 9/11/11. Credit: WENN.com

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Wacky Carrie Fisher looks totally different now that she’s lost 50 pounds in nine months and undoubtedly gotten some very good work done. This lady is 54 years old and while I wouldn’t put her at 10 years younger looking or anything she looks incredible. I’ve noticed that it’s harder to lose weight the older I get (I’m not 40 yet, but barely) and my mom tells me as much too. So Carrie deserves a lot of credit for losing all that weight. She also got a very good surgeon to freshen her up, although she had that facelift before she lost the weight. It’s easy to notice that she’s had a lot of work done when she talks and only her jaw moves, but in still photos she doesn’t look all plumped up and waxy. (Except for her lips, but they’ll hopefully settle.)

Carrie is a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, and she explained that she was able to stick to the diet with the help of her consultant, whom she compared to an AA sponsor:

She’s lost 50 lbs. in the past nine months – and is ready for her bikini, or, in her case, her Princess Leia metal two-piece.

The self-effacing author-actress and Jenny Craig spokesperson, 54, coyly unveiled her latest self on Wednesday’s Today” show, accepting a hug from host Ann Curry, who proclaimed Fisher “beeeeeeeeauuuuuutiful.”

“If I knew I don’t want to know, because then I’d have to go get it,” Fisher said when asked where was the rest of her.

Before the weight loss, she said, “I couldn’t leave the house [to go shopping], because they didn’t have sizes [large enough]. I exhausted the alphabet on bra sizes.” She also admitted she could no longer look at herself in the mirror.

Now, Fisher is proud to be able to buy clothes she hadn’t imagined wearing before, though being over age 50 she’ll shun going sleeveless.

Of the Jenny Craig weight-loss plan, Fisher admitted she’s addicted to the cereal, because “it tastes like contraband,” which appeals to her. Fisher also credited her consultant, who allowed the actress “to complain to, stamp my fat foot and say I didn’t want to do it.”

[From People]

Carrie said a couple of things that I found funny and could relate to. First she said she didn’t like to see pictures of herself before she lost the weight. “I saw pictures of myself where I didn’t look like [me]. I thought that was growing old, it turns out it was mostly getting fat.” I only gained 10 pounds in the past year or so and I hate to see photos of myself. I think my face looks so different. Also I could relate to what she said about how she asked her daughter “what do I do that embarasses you?” and she said “wear a bra.” I try to tell my mom that, subtly, all the time.

She also quipped that being Princess Leia was like being Minnie Mouse and added there’s “a marijuana called Princess Leia, not that I’ve seen it.” Carrie wants to get back in her Star Wars metal bikini and joked that she’s coming out with a line of metal bikinis for women over 40. That’s it, the next chance I get I’m watching her Wishful Drinking special on HBO. She’s funny as hell.

Here’s Carrie “Before,” in January, 2011 announcing that she’s going to be a Jenny Craig spokesperson.

And here she is in October, 2009, before whatever it is she had done. I have no idea what’s up with the sparkles around her eyes, but this photo was taken outside her performance of Wishful Drinking, so this must be stage makeup.

Ruh-roh. Carrie Fisher has a new interview in the latest issue of The Advocate, and the lady is trying to take down John Travolta. Oh, this is so rich. Apparently, Carrie has talked about Travolta being ALLEGEDLY gay before – in 2009, she said in an interview “We don’t really care that John Travolta is gay.” When asked about that old quote, Carrie had some interesting stuff to say about Travolta getting nailed in spas from here to Australia (not really). She also talks about being married to a gay man and having a gay ghost:

ADV: In the September 2009 issue of Out, you participated in their monthly “Can I Be Blunt?” column by sharing 10 things that gay men should know about straight women. One of those things was, “We don’t really care that John Travolta is gay.” I know you and Travolta go way back, so let’s get really blunt here: Does his legal team have any business demanding Gawker remove a recent post suggesting that he’s given blow jobs?
CF: Wow! I mean, my feeling about John has always been that we know and we don’t care. Look, I’m sorry that he’s uncomfortable with it, and that’s all I can say. It only draws more attention to it when you make that kind of legal fuss. Just leave it be.

ADV: When explaining that your ex-husband (CAA superagent Bryan Lourd) once blamed your codeine abuse on pushing him toward other men, you joke in Wishful Drinking that you have the power to turn men gay. These are funny quips, but they’ve also turned into headlines that some readers make take seriously. So just to clarify for those who believe that being gay is a choice, do you and Bryan know that he was always gay and that you had nothing to do with it?
CF: Well, we don’t talk about it much, but yes, I should think that he was always gay and probably always knew it. I can only really talk about my part of it, up to a point, but he’s been a very good father — and mother — to Billie.

ADV: I’ve read that you’ve felt haunted by [gay friend R. Gregory Stevens] ghost. I’d think a gay ghost would be pretty fabulous to have lurking around.
CF: No, it wasn’t a bad thing. It was amusing. Things started to go off in my house. You know those little boxes that you push the buttons and they go, “F-ck you,” “Eat sh-t,” “You’re an a–hole”? I had one of those, and it would start to go off, on its own, in the middle of the night. So if that wasn’t Greg… I mean, I don’t think it was [past resident of my Beverly Hills home] Edith Head, do you?

[From The Advocate]

The legal stuff The Advocate is referring to is Travolta’s legal team sending out a “blistering missive” to Gawker, after Gawker printed a salacious, hilarious and raunchy interview with Robert Randolph, author of You’ll Never Spa In This Town Again, about the closeted gay culture of Hollywood. Randolph specifically called out Travolta as being a spa “bottom” who prefers dark, swarthy men. Methinks this whole controversy isn’t Travolta’s first experience with “blistering missives”. And Carrie better watch her ass too, because a missive is coming her way.

Header photos courtesy of WENN.

Carrie Fisher has been promoting her one-woman Broadway show Wishful Drinking all over the place. I was just reading about her last night in the November Vanity Fair, and here she in the NYDN talking about her show again. It’s based on her bestselling book of the same name, and it looks like a buffet for gossips. The show is seems like a campy tell-all about Carrie’s life as the daughter of two Hollywood stars (Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds) and about her life as a movie star, writer, addict, wife, mother and girl-about-town. Carrie’s had a pretty cool, interesting life - she was Princess Leia, she married and divorced Paul Simon, and she had a daughter with a gay man (agent Bryan Lourd). Inevitably, though, the conversation comes back to her parents and what happened when they divorced.

For those unfamiliar with the original Hollywood Bermuda Triangle, it involved Carrie’s parents and a dame by the name of Elizabeth Taylor. After Taylor’s husband Mike Todd died tragically in a plane crash, Todd’s best friend Eddie Fisher began consoling Elizabeth. Soon, Eddie and Debbie’s marriage was in shambles, and Eddie left Debbie for Elizabeth. Within a few years, though, Elizabeth left Eddie for Richard Burton, so it’s all good. Though Debbie and Elizabeth’s friendship imploded at the time, they later reconnected and became friendly again. Debbie even went on record with the idea that Aniston and Jolie could be friends one day, bless her heart. Carrie relates the original Bermuda Triangle to the current one (Brangelina-Jennifer Aniston) in her show:

Carrie Fisher airs some serious dirty laundry in her new one-woman show, “Wishful Drinking” – and it isn’t just her own.

The artist formerly known as Princess Leia even sifts through Brad Pitt’s hamper, suggesting that his public love triangle with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie is the modern-day equivalent of her dad, Eddie Fisher, leaving mom Debbie Reynolds for raven-haired temptress Elizabeth Taylor.

But Fisher was careful not to talk trash behind Pitt’s muscled back – she ran the barb by him first. “This is exactly what your situation is like!” she told the hunky actor, who gave his okay to the line. Aniston, who caught the show in previews, didn’t seem to mind, either. “She’s a very nice girl. I didn’t speak to her, but I heard that she liked it,” Fisher told us. “At least, I hope she liked it.”

And although Fisher escaped the ire of Hollywood’s former power couple, other celebs may not take her sideswipes with such good humor. Fisher even gets in a dig at her own mother, although that’s fairly normal, given their notoriously tumultuous relationship.

“My mother is a movie star,” she said onstage. “She’s like an icon. A gay icon, but you take your iconic statuary where you can get it. It’s like being a pseudointellectual is better than not being an intellectual at all.”

Fisher also slams George W. Bush, claiming she would rather have spent more time in a mental hospital for alcoholism than hang with the former Prez. “It’s sort of like the last time I was invited to Bush’s White House, only I met a better class of people in the mental hospital,” she deadpanned.

Despite the barbs, the actress insists she didn’t write the play to offend and was more than happy to remove anything potentially harmful. The proof: She axed anecdotes about ex-husband Paul Simon and “Shampoo” co-star Warren Beatty at their requests. “Anything that had to do with anyone else, I made sure that I went to them and cleared it with them,” she said.

But for a 90-minute autobiographical show, you must take jabs at yourself, and Fisher does. She calls herself a dead ringer for Elton John and says she turned her second husband, Bryan Lourd, gay. She adds, “Yes, I’m a bitch.”

Clearly her friends don’t agree: Jane Fonda, Salman Rushdie, Harvey Keitel and Patti LuPone all turned up to fete their verbose pal at Amalia in midtown after Sunday’s show.

[From the NY Daily News]

Eh, I like Carried because she doesn’t seem to give a f-ck, so I’m a little disappointed that she went out of her way to get people’s permission. Other than that, it sounds like a good show. I kind of like this movement of Hollywood women spending their 50s and 60s writing tell-all books or funny essays. The only thing I’ve ever read of Carrie’s was Postcards From the Edge, but I read a lot of Nora Ephron’s writing, and it sounds similar. Oh, and I’d love to know the dirt on Paul Simon!

Carrie Fisher is shown on 9/3/09. Credit: WENN.com