Yesterday we saw Drew Barrymore cook “clams Montecito” on French chef Eric Ripert’s cooking show, “On The Table.” Her hair was very dark and it looked a little fried and limp to me, but I didn’t say anything about it because we were too focused on the dumb things she said. (Plus I know that not everyone wants to talk hair all the time like I do.) Drew went on at length about herself and her career, and she said a couple of things which rubbed people the wrong way, particularly this: “I think I’m moody because I’m a woman. I can ask any man in this room, like women are just inherently like, moody or hormonal people. I don’t know how men deal with it. I praise them.” We deal with a lot of crap from men too, and we don’t chalk that up to hormones or say it’s some general male personality trait, but I gave Drew somewhat of a pass because she was swilling her overpriced wine at the time. Maybe she had a little buzz and was talking smack while trying to be funny. It happens.

Anyway Drew dyed her dark hair back to blonde yesterday. Photo agency FameFlynet was camped outside the salon and they report that it took five hours for Drew to achieve! It sounds like a long time, but I once spent over four hours at the salon years ago when I went from a dark redhead to a blonde. (I’ve since gone back to reddish blonde.) It took a couple of passes for my stylist to get the shade right and he was dedicated and took his time. (God I miss him.)

What do you think of Drew’s new look? I think it makes her look younger, but that could be because she had blonde hair like this for years and we associate it Drew’s younger self. Her hair does look kind of fried here though. From my rudimentary understanding of coloring science (based on what various stylists have told me) you have to “strip” color from the hair to achieve lighter, blonder colors and it can be damaging. Darker colors are gentler on the hair because it deposits the color. Maybe Drew’s hair just air dried here instead of getting blown out, which could explain why it’s looking beat, although I’m also thinking it looks like this because she went lighter.

You all know I love to talk hair and last week I found a great stylist whom two of my friends use and she gave me an excellent cut. I’ve also been experimenting with “demi-glaze” colors, which have really restored my formerly dry hair. (Thanks to those of you who suggested that!) It’s amazing how different it is in just a couple of weeks. But even though I would like to go blonder, I know it’s not an option if I want to keep my hair on this healthy track. It’s a trade off when you get older and have been processing your hair for years.

Doesn’t it seem like so many celebrities are going blonde lately? There’s Sofia Vergara, Minka Kelly, Jennifer Lawrence, and even Charlize Theron. It’s a real trend for summer.

Also, Emily Blunt was at the salon at the same time as Drew and it looks like they were having a good time. Emily went blonde late last year, I like her better as a brunette.

photo credit: FameFlynet

Drew Barrymore was a guest on French chef Eric Ripert’s cooking show, On The Table. She was there to shill her new wine, Barrymore Pinto Grigio, which has received mixed reviews. (Some of the positive reviews on wine.com seem fake to me in that the reviewers have only commented on that one wine.) She also cooked “clams Montecito” and went on at length about herself and her career while chef Eric laughed and asked her questions. To be fair, it was an interview and that’s what these celebrities are expected to do. Some of the things she said were unintentionally hilarious, though. As we’ve heard, Drew is a new mom and she’s over-the-top. She wants to do everything all at once, she wants to be perfect at it, and she’ll tell you about it. She seems fun, but she strikes me as someone who is best taken in small doses. Here’s some of what she said, and she was drinking and getting a little loose so you may want to take that into account. (If you want to see the main part of the interview, fast forward to about 8:30 into the video above.)

On her childhood
It was really hard, I wasn’t popular in school either. I was in and out of school all the time because I’d be on a set. I think it didn’t help me bond with anybody.

On any “bad influences”
But I had fun. I got to go to Studio 54 and like, see the death of disco. It’s not how I would ever raise my kid but I’ll never regret the experiences I had.

On how she’s like a stay at home mom
I’ve had 17 different lives, I’m like a cat who has had several lives, and now I’m like a stay at home mom and you know, kind of subdued. But you kind of find yourself along the way, and I’ve had these incredible crash courses on radically different lives. I now know as like a 38 year-old woman, which one I would choose.

Everyday I ask myself “what did I learn today?”

Her “religion”
I’m obsessed with the Abe Lincoln quote. ‘If I do good, I feel good. If I do bad, I feel bad.’ That is my religion. I keep writing it down lately. It’s so succinct and perfect.

She was asked “are you moody sometimes on the set?”
I think I’m moody because I’m a woman. I can ask any man in this room, like women are just inherently like, moody or hormonal people. I don’t know how men deal with it. I praise them.

On if she would do reality TV
I would prefer to stay off reality TV, because a lot of it is really sensational. I want to share my life with people… I’ve always been an open book, but think there’s always a boundary.

On the turning point in her career
When I was about 18 I started my own production company called Flower Film. I love filmmaking. I love all the decisions that go into a making a film. I love directing. It was always my goal… I can’t wait to do it again.

On how she became a producer.
I started to produce. I started learning how I could be a director… I think life really just sort of took off from there… I really went to school to be a producer. I trained myself. I studied everything. I created like my own college… I put together writer’s lists… I’m like Tracey Flick in election. I’m pulling the buttons at night, I’m ripping the posters off the wall. I’ve got crazy African music in my head. I like studying.

[From "On The Table" YouTube video]

Drew was asked about the moody thing, so it’s not like she came up with it out of thin air. It was somewhat over the top, like she could have demurred and said “sometimes I am, that’s the nature of the work” instead of making a general statement about all women being inherently moody. That was short-sighted.

After that they got into cooking the clams, with chef Eric giving her cooking tips and adding some fish to make it a main course. It looked tasty and made me hungry. I would hang out with chef Eric and eat his cooking, but Drew isn’t my preferred dinner companion. She’s a trip, but she would get on my nerves after a while. 20 minutes was about all I could take of that interview.

Also, Drew talked about her work with the World Hunger Program and said she’s currently building a school in Africa. You can learn more about her charity work in this video.

These photos are from 3-21 and 3-22-13. Credit: FameFlynet

Ever since Drew Barrymore gave birth six months ago to her first child, a daughter named Olive, she’s gone a little bit overboard in her enthusiasm like a lot of parents tend to do. Drew’s post-birth interviews with magazines were a little bit nauseating especially in her insistence that she’s a super hands-on mom and even tie-dyes yoga leggings while her kid naps in between her own granola-rolling sessions or something. I don’t know if Drew has a nanny — she must certainly have some help, but she’s putting it out there loud and clear that she is super involved in all aspects of parenting. Is that part of her future brand? Perhaps.

Now Drew is talking more about why she’s given up a chunk of her career to stay at home and raise Olive. This story spoke to me in a sharp contrast to last week’s story about Ivanka Trump and the 16-hour work day, which CB covered. I understand Ivanka’s point, which is that she feels more useful in the world if she’s working like crazy (and certainly, Ivanka is free to make her own parenting decisions), but I arrive at a different perspective. My own mother was a workaholic; she’d drop us off at school in the morning, and we’d be lucky if we saw her before going to bed every night. She rarely took a day off even on the weekends because work was her thing. My dad was (and still is) a teacher, so he was home with us after school and during the summers, but it sure would have been nice to see my mom sometimes too. I don’t say this to evoke pity, but kids really do need their moms to be around at least sometimes, and if one doesn’t have to work 16-hour days, I think cutting back to something more reasonable (10 or 12 even) is probably better for kids’ wellbeing. Anyway, here is Drew’s point of view on the topic:

On the great myth: “I was raised in that generation where it was all, ‘Women can have it all!’ and I don’t think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important. You have to choose your battles. I can’t direct movies right now; I would miss out on my daughter (Olive, 6 months). And I worked so hard to get to that point in my life, but it was a clear choice. I just had to make it.”

Will she become a “lifestyle guru” someday? “Whatever it is – it could be a beauty line, a movie, a cookbook (I’ll get there one day, but not yet. No one wants to eat my food, trust me) – maintain a sense of humor! It gets so serious out there. I love a good fart joke!”

[From USA Today]

I totally get what Drew is saying here about the semi-backlash of the “have it all” myth — perhaps even moreso because the “generation” that Drew speaks of is my own (she’s only a few days younger than I am). We were the first official generation of latchkey kids, and I’ve made perhaps too much of a big deal about not letting my daughter go through the same experience. I’m extremely lucky to be able to work at home, and that’s how I deal with the balancing act of work and parenting. So even though Drew is hippie-hipster-love-child-ish, I think we’d get along over a few drinks and fart jokes.

As for Drew’s self-recognition that she’s not the lifestyle-guru type, I just have to acknowledge my gratefulness in advance. Now if only we could stop the Goop from spreading any further.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Ah, jewelry p0rn. Where have you been all my life? Last night, BVLGARI hosted a “celebration of Elizabeth Taylor’s collection of BVLGARI jewelry” and many stars came out to party. Only a choice few got to actually wear some of Elizabeth’s famous jewels though, so I’m including some close-up beauty shots of some of my favorite pieces. I should note something else too – while Elizabeth Taylor had some beautiful pieces from Bulgari, she had a beautiful and varied collection of pieces from many jewelry designers and some exquisite vintage and historical pieces too. I think it’s bizarre for Bulgari to basically claim ownership of Elizabeth’s jewel-encrusted memory. Still, I never say no to jewelry p0rn.

The best of the evening was probably Julianne Moore in Alexander McQueen. The dress is meh, but Julianne got to wear Elizabeth’s exquisite emerald necklace, purchased by Richard Burton in the first years of their romance. God, isn’t it beautiful?!

Here’s Naomi Watts in a terrific black Roland Mouret dress with what I believe is one of Elizabeth’s vintage/historical pieces.

Drew Barrymore in Max Mara, with a multi-colored gem necklace. Love it!

I guess Kate Walsh is showing off a ring, earrings and a bracelet. I’m enchanted by that huge cocktail ring on her right hand.

And here’s Kiki Dunst, who is one of the faces of Bulgari (that’s why she’s there, I guess), but I don’t think she’s wearing any of Elizabeth’s jewels…?

Photos courtesy of FayesVision/WENN.com.

If your man asked you to do something incredibly painful for him, would you do it? Would it depend on how pressing an issue it was? I have a couple of tattoos I’m not that fond of, and my husband doesn’t particularly like them. There’s no way I’d get them lasered off for him though, as I’ve heard that’s even more painful, and takes longer, than getting the tattoos themselves – and that hurt like a bitch, let me tell you.

Drew Barrymore does not have this same attitude when it comes to getting her skin burned off to appease her man. Her new husband, Will Kopelmann, is Jewish, and Drew is converting for him. She’s also having her tattoos lasered off, because there’s a rule that you can’t be buried in a Jewish ceremony if you have tattoos. (More on that in a moment.)

Drew Barrymore is deciding to ditch her varied and plentiful body ink because of her husband’s religion, Star magazine is exclusively reporting.

The 38-year-old Charlie’s Angels star is converting to her other half, Will Kopelman’s Jewish faith, but in order for her to be buried in a traditional Jewish cemetery she has to be tattoo-free.

According to Star, Drew recently started undergoing painful laser surgery to erase the six tattoos she got during her wild child years.

They include a bouquet of flowers on her hip, a butterfly on her stomach, a crescent moon on her toe, a cross on her leg and two angels on her lower back.

“Drew also wants to be a Santa Barbara mom, and tattoos clash with that wardrobe,” her pal tells Star.

“She’s growing up and turning conservative.”

[From Radar]

Is this part of the “infinite percent” thing that Drew was going on about in Bazaar this month? She’ll convert to Judiasm, endure infinite pain to make her body a clean slate, take care of the baby on her own, develop a wine brand and mix up her own organic blush in the kitchen sink.

Many years ago I dated a heavily tattooed guy who was raised Jewish. The guy would take out his (visible) piercings and wear long sleeve t-shirts when he saw his dad, because his dad would have freaked out over his son’s body modification due to Jewish laws against tattoos. That’s my only experience with this issue, and I always assumed that it was true that you can’t be buried in a Jewish ceremony if you have tattoos. According to Chabad.org, it’s not universally forbidden for people with tattoos to be buried in Jewish cemeteries, it just depends on the cemetery and how strict they are about it. The Torah forbids tattooing, though, so it sounds like it’s really frowned upon in Judaism.

Getting back to the original question: would you get your tattoos lasered off for your beloved? I’m leaning toward “no,” probably because I’ve never really taken religion seriously. (Former Catholic here. I doubt I would convert for anyone either.)

These photos of Drew in the black and white dress are from Fashion Week last week in NY. Credit: Enrique RC, PacificCoastNews.com. She’s also shown with Will on 1-20-13 in NY. Credit: JD/FameFlynet

Has Drew Barrymore been annoying anyone else lately? I haven’t been writing about her because A) no one seems to care and B) it’s getting difficult to contain my annoyance with her. Like, I’m happy that she’s happy and that she’s doing well and she’s a mom now and YAY. But she’s been on a media blitz (she’s promoting her Walmart makeup line, not a movie) for the past few weeks, and it’s like she’s trying to become The New Jennifer Garner – the new “normal Hollywood mom” who you want to root for, only Drew is just going much, much too far. Maybe it’s just me. Ugh. Anyway, Drew covers the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar to promote said makeup line – the photo shoot is lovely, but the interview plucks my last nerve. You can read the full piece here and here are some highlights:

Drew’s favorite new hobby: tie-dyeing yoga leggings in her kitchen sink while her five-month-old daughter, Olive, is napping, something she is “real serious about.”

She’s super-involved with EVERYTHING: Eventually she’ll get to the fact that, yes, in addition to getting married, giving birth, and making leggings last year, she developed an enormous, affordable, prestige-quality makeup line for Walmart called Flower. “Everything I do, I do infinite percent,” Barrymore says, half of the cheeseburger in hand at a pub in Hollywood. She doesn’t just learn to cook; she starts with soups until she’s devising her own recipe for harissa-spiced pasta on Ellen DeGeneres’s show. She doesn’t just like to drink pinot grigio; she went and made a pinot grigio and put a Shepard Fairey—designed label bearing her family name on the bottle. And she doesn’t just love makeup; she loves it enough to throw her considerable star power behind a line of her own. “It’s my crusade to help women feel good about themselves,” she says.

She’s a stay-at-home mom: “When my daughter was born, I thought to myself, How do I go past infinity with my efforts and care?” Barrymore says. “I asked my mother-in-law questions. I psycho-stalked all of the nurses with so many questions. I asked every single question.” She laughs. “I’m a real stay-at-home mom. I’m really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.”

Giving birth to Olive: There was speculation that Barrymore had a home birth. She shakes her head no and says that Olive was born in a hospital, but she wants to keep the details to herself. “I definitely needed some time,” she recalls. “For a solid six weeks, I was hiding like the Unabomber. Because I live my life in the public eye, and I didn’t want that for her.” But ultimately she realized that “unless I move into a bunker underground, I don’t have a choice in this matter. It was something that took me weeks to cope with.”

She doesn’t want Olive to grow up in the public eye: “I know she didn’t sign up for that,” she says about Olive’s being born into the glare of attention that comes with her mother’s 30-plus years of fame. “I had such an exposed childhood… I appreciate my journey, but I don’t want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn’t the childhood that I’d provide.”

How she deals with fame and career nowadays: “We could literally live in a windowless room 10 feet underground. Or I could come to terms with the fact that it’s really hard. I went through every scenario in my head of how to make it work, and I just didn’t want to be one of those weirdos in a cabin in the woods in a hooded sweatshirt.” Instead, she and Kopelman have decided to remain in Los Angeles and do as much as they can to create a life for Olive on their terms. She’s effusive about the support of her in-laws and the peace she finds within Kopelman’s “quintessential best family.” (His father walked her down the aisle at their wedding.) When she first found out she was pregnant, Barrymore put her film roles on hold and searched for ways to work that didn’t involve being in a trailer, “living someone else’s life through a character. I didn’t feel I could do a lot with fashion because I wear sweatpants that I find on the floor,” she adds. She doesn’t wear fragrance other than patchouli oil. “I live for makeup and I like wine. These are my truths!”

Her Walmart makeup line: “I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It’s about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table. I didn’t want a cold campaign with severe messaging. I wanted warmth and acceptance and self-love.”

She’s Estee Lauder now: “It was very romantic for me to make this while she was growing inside me,” she says. “I like the multigenerational-family aspect, in the vein of a Lauder—if we’re so lucky that it stays around that long. She may want to be a food stylist, a mathematician, a scientist who will save us all. I just know that the family part really appeals to me.”

She’s full-on mom now: “By no means am I saying that I’m never going to act again,” she says. “It’s just that I’m having so much fun, dyeing crazy leggings in those weird pockets of time when I’m waiting for my daughter to wake up so I can be a mom.”

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

The piece goes into greater detail about the Walmart makeup line, Flower, and how Drew is very hands on with everything. It actually sounds like a great project for Drew, and I’m glad she’s concentrating on quality control and all of that… but that’s why she’s got a Bazaar cover. That’s why she’s been doing interviews with The View and other talk shows. It’s all for the makeup line. And I get that being a new mom is life-changing and everything, but hopefully she’ll figure out a way to be a working mom without talking about how she had an “exposed childhood,” all while giving that same kind of life to her daughter in a way. She sold her wedding photos, she sold Olive’s baby photos, she is the one turning her baby into part of her “celebrity brand”. You would think she would realize that she needs to keep her personal life more private if she wants to shield her daughter from fame.

Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar.

Ooooh, GIRL DRAMA! Except it’s Drew Barrymore, so it’s not like full-on girl-drama. It’s Drew’s version of girl drama, which it is pretty breezy and hippie and “Whatever… bitch.” Drew covers the January issue of Allure (I have no idea what she’s promoting other than her marriage and baby), and in between her “I’ve changed now, this is the new Drew” speechifying, Drew name-checks Kristen Wiig. Keep in mind… Kristen Wiig and Drew are FRIENDS. Or they were friends. Kristen used to do a dead-on Drew impression on Saturday Night Live. Drew dated Fabrizio Moretti for years, and now he’s with Kristen. First, Drew says “She’s got me down” about Kristen’s impression and then, in reference to Kristen dating her ex, Drew says, “It all seems so wacky and incestuous, but that’s kind of how life works. It seems fitting that they would find each other. I was like, ‘Right, of course, that makes perfect sense.’” “Wacky and incestuous” is pretty rough language in Drew-speak. Here’s more from Drew’s Allure interview:

Drew Barrymore has come a long way from her turbulent days as a Hollywood wild child, but there are times she still feels like she’s just playing the part of a responsible adult. Appearing on the cover of January’s Allure magazine (on sale Dec. 20), the 37-year-old multi-talented A-lister says she can’t shake the little girl inside her, despite the fact that she now has a little girl of her own — not to mention a husband, her own production company, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

When Barrymore posed naked for Playboy in 1995, Steven Spielberg sent her a copy of the magazine. “His art department put clothes on me,” she recalled. He also gave her a quilt with a note attached: “Cover up.” “I was like, ‘Yeah, I know, I’m sorry.’” She laughed wryly. “It’s embarrassing to go through any rebellious stage in front of people that you love and respect, and yet I’m glad I did. I’m glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family, because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.”

“The mistakes, the potholes, the journeys, the bad patterns ­- all of it is so much clearer to me now…but I still don’t totally feel like a grown-up,” the Golden Globe-winning actress tells the mag. “Maybe I never will.”

Which is not to say she won’t continue to try to evolve and better herself.

“I will always commit,” she says of her approach to both personal and professional relationships. “I want to be that kind of mother. I’m that kind of friend. I’m that kind of producer. I do everything in this life-or-death way…The only thing I’ve tried to get better at is starting to believe maybe it’s not life or death. But the [level of] commitment hasn’t changed or wavered.”

If anything, it’s gotten even stronger. In June, the Big Miracle star pledged her devotion to art consultant Will Kopelman — son of former Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman and father to her 11-week-old daughter, Olive — when the two tied the knot in a Jewish ceremony at the actress’ Montecito, Calif., estate.

“I’m a Kopelman now. I have stationery that says ‘Drew Barrymore Kopelman,’” she gushes to Allure of life with her new husband.

The marriage is Barrymore’s third — she was previously wed to Welsh bar owner Jeremy Thomas in 1994 and comic Tom Green in 2001 — but it’s clear that she and her love of more than two years have something special.

“We have opposite experiences, but we’re not opposites,” the Grey Gardens actress says of her spouse, with whom she was first linked in 2010. “We’re both very particular and detail-oriented. We love art and music and adventures, and we laugh our asses off together. It makes me almost want to cry. He’s the father of my child, and I’m the mother of his child. I’m finally a part of a family, and it’s a miracle.”

“My first goal is to show [daughter Olive] E.T.—I cannot wait until she’s old enough—and then Ever After, because I want her to see that you can rescue yourself,” Barrymore said.

Prior to meeting Kopelman, Barrymore was in long-term relationships with her Going the Distance co-star Justin Long and Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti — who has since started dating the actress’ Whip It pal Kristen Wiig.

“It all seems so wacky and incestuous, but that’s kind of how life works,” the director tells Allure of how she feels about the Bridesmaids star breaking the so-called “girl code” and stepping out with her ex. “It seems fitting that they would find each other. I was like, ‘Right, of course, that makes perfect sense.’”

Barrymore doesn’t begrudge her friend any happiness, especially since she’s so happy herself. “I’m so lucky. It’s amazing!” she told Ellen DeGeneres recently of life with her new family. “I never take it for granted.”

[From Us Weekly & Allure]

Drew also talks about her body image and dieting, saying: “I don’t think I’ve ever had or will ever have that kind of body where it’s like, ‘Watch me now! I’m in a bikini!’ I cannot live a life where I’m deprived. I’d much rather be five, ten pounds heavier. With my luck, I’ll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I’ll get hit by a bus. Then I’ll be like, Sh-t. I’ll be looking at myself from some afterlife, going, ‘You idiot. You could have had the agnolotti, dummy.’” And that’s Drew’s appeal, isn’t it? She’s “normal”. She seems like a girlfriend, someone you invite to the all-you-can-eat buffet. That is, until you start dating her ex?

Photos courtesy of Allure.

I think LaineyGossip called it – Drew Barrymore scored this week’s People Magazine cover with a big debut of baby Olive. These really are the first photos of Olive that I’ve seen – Drew has been keeping her nine-week-old baby under wraps. Drew memorably sold her wedding photos to People Magazine earlier this year too AND she gave them an official “engagement portrait” when Will Kopelman proposed. When did Drew become so… People Mag-friendly? She used to be much more of a hippie and anti-Establishment, but ever since she got with Koppelman, she’s been all about being all fancy and conservative and Establishment. Anyway…

Nine weeks after giving birth to her daughter Olive, Drew Barrymore is getting into the groove of being a new mom.

“I couldn’t eat or sleep for two weeks, I was just so nervous!” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story.

Starting a family with art consultant Will Kopelman, whom Barrymore married last June, has meant everything to the actress.

“I really wanted a wonderful traditional home for my kid,” she says. “Will comes from a strong family, he provides a strong family … For people who didn’t have the strongest families or traditional families, if you can create that, you can have a second chance. It just makes me so emotional because it’s like a miracle.”

Despite the overwhelming emotion of love, Barrymore, 37, says no one prepared her for the responsibility she’d feel after her daughter was born.

“You have the highest highs and yet you’re facing the biggest fear of, ‘How do I keep someone alive?’ ”

One of Barrymore and Kopelman’s favorite things? Singing “Good Morning” from Singin’ in the Rain to get little Olive to smile. Says the actress: “It’s like the biggest crush I’ve ever had in my life!”

The actress tells People she gained almost 40 pounds during her pregnancy — five of which came the week before she gave birth. Nearly two weeks overdue, her attitude was, “All bets are off! I’ll have two cheeseburgers.” Now working out again to shed the weight, her motto is “impossible expectations are impossible.” She adds, “I’m the last person anyone should look at for workout tips. I don’t have them. I don’t care [laughs].”

For exclusive photos of the whole family, plus more from Barrymore’s emotional interview, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

[From People & Yahoo]

I like a good set of baby photos as much as the next person, but all of these “new mother” interviews are all starting to blend together for me. There’s just… nowhere to go. What do you say after someone says “It’s like the biggest crush I’ve ever had in my life”? When people say stuff like that to me, I’m like: “Oh. Okay. Um. Did you see ‘Lincoln’ yet? It was really good!” But I’m a childfree bitch, obviously.

Photos courtesy of People Magazine. Additional pics by WENN.

Here are some new pics of Drew Barrymore at the Rodeo Drive Walk Of Style honoring BVLGARI and Mr. Nicola Bulgari in LA last night. I don’t have much to say about Drew these days, although I’ve wanted to cover her more since she had the baby in late September, but I get the feeling from most of you that you’re not interested in Drew news. The tabloids have had some interesting/mean stories about her recently, mostly about her baby weight. Like, I get the feeling that the tabloids are trying to make Drew into the next Jessica Simpson, and while Drew did gain a significant amount of weight during her pregnancy, the general feeling was that it was “off limits” to discuss because (unlike Jessica) Drew never made her weight front-and-center, you know?

So here she is at the Bulgari event… and I think she looks like she’s lost almost all of the baby weight. I think she looks really good, and she’s probably only like 10-15 pounds away from her pre-baby weight. That’s really good considering she only gave birth, like, two and a half months ago. I wonder if she was really trying to lose the weight or if it just came off with breastfeeding.

I also like that she’s finally committed to going darker with her hair. I was so tired of her damaged-looking ombre crap. She looks really good here! And do you realize that we still haven’t seen a closeup photo of Olive? Hunh.

Photos courtesy of Apega/WENN.com.

I was going to do some “breaking news” coverage of this yesterday, and then I remembered that for the past year or so, the interest in all things Drew Barrymore are significantly dropped off. Unless we’re making fun of her horrible Chanel wedding gown, I think most of us don’t really care…? Well, we all care about weddings and babies, right? So Drew finally gave birth. In my pregnancy betting pool, I actually had a bet (with myself) that Drew would give birth within one week of Reese Witherspoon. So I win! Drew gave birth to a baby girl BEFORE Reese!

Drew Barrymore is a mom! The actress and Will Kopelman welcomed their first child – a daughter — on Wednesday, PEOPLE confirms.

“We are proud to announce the birth of our daughter, Olive Barrymore Kopelman, born Sept. 26th, healthy, happy and welcomed by the whole family,” the couple tell PEOPLE in a statement.

“Thank you for respecting our privacy during this most special time in our lives.”

Although rumors of pregnancy began swirling in February, Barrymore, 37, never said a word, preferring to let her June wedding portrait speak for itself. In it, her husband — an art consultant — gently cradles his wife’s growing baby belly.

“I can’t wait until I have my children,” the actress recently told Haute Living, indirectly referring to her pregnancy. “I just want to build fun, great things for my family.”

In recent weeks, Barrymore had been spotted attending prenatal yoga classes and spending time with Kopelman’s parents, who were in town ahead of the birth.

“Drew is so motherly,” a source told PEOPLE in January. “Will would like to be a dad. Family is so important to him.”

[From People]

I’m really happy she had a girl – I think she’ll do well with a daughter, you know? As for the name… yeah, this is Drew Barrymore we’re talking about. She could have done a lot worse than “Olive”. The Drew of yesteryear would have gone balls-out with some flowery weirdness, so let’s just be thankful that she pared it down to “Olive”. And I like the use of the mother’s maiden name as a middle name. Sometimes I wish I had my mother’s maiden as a middle name – although it would sound really weird with my Indian name. Anyway, congrats to the happy family!

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