Great gobs of Gucci. Naomi Campbell wants offspring. That is a scary thought. The glamazon is ready to reproduce and has undergone a procedure to enable her to become a mother.

She says, “Now I can have a child I would like one. I’m even willing to have one without a father. I know that I am ready. I know that with a baby I would change, I’d calm down. With a child you cannot accept compromises. You have to give your full self.”

[Starpulse]

Exactly what type of surgery she had done to give her the opportunity to have children is a secret. All that is known is that she had a “condition” which prevented her from being able to have a baby. She is also considering artificial insemination. A friend of Campbell states that she is ready to take on the impregnation process and child rearing alone if she cannot find a suitable mate.

“She sees one solution is to have artificial insemination. Naomi is a strong woman and thinks she can give the child everything he or she needs without a man. She has lots of close friends who she could rely on for help and she is financially secure. Naomi is aware that her biological clock is ticking.”

[Fametastic UK]

I pity the male she chooses to impregnate her. Should she go that route. I am not sure how it will work out, but I am guessing it is going to end with the eating of her mate circa “Species.” Let us pray she has a turkey baster baby.

Naomi Campbell is shown at the CFDA Fashion Awards on 6/2/08. She is wearing a vintage Yves Saint Laurent pantsuit in honor of the recently departed designer. Thanks to WENN.

There’s been a lot of press in the last year or so talking about various celebrities and their struggles to get pregnant. I know that it’s an incredibly common problem, and several of the commentors on here have talked about their struggles with fertility. It’s good to know there’s support in numbers, and that celebrities aren’t immune to the struggles of everyday people. Helena Bonham Carter and her husband Tim Burton struggled with infertility after having their first child, four-year-old Billy Ray. Yeah the name surprised me a little too. Bonham Carter, 41, assumed that she wasn’t ovulating, so she began a course of treatment with Clomid, which is designed to stimulate egg production. It turns out she was still ovulating, and had a bad reaction to the Clomid, which is apparently not that uncommon.

“‘It stressed me out beyond belief. Hormonally, I was all over the shop and I got really low emotionally. Lots of people don’t have that reaction, but on the internet I found a Clomid Club, with people who react to the stuff discussing it online,’ she said. After going to a North London acupuncturist who supplied a variety of teas to ‘build my strength up,’ Bonham Carter, also tried Tui Na (literally ‘push and grasp’), an acupuncture-related Chinese massage for patients who prefer to avoid needles.

“But with her biological clock ticking loudly in her ear, she realized Oriental medicine wasn’t the solution she’d hoped for – and the next viable option was In vitro fertilization. ‘We might have gone for a round of IVF,’ Bonham Carter said. ‘There was an argument for just having one child, because we thought if that’s the way it’s meant to be, so be it.’ But the pregnancy came naturally, under the intense pressure of making a movie musical.

“While being directed by Burton alongside Johnny Depp in the title role of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd, Bonham Carter discovered she was pregnant . ‘I was working so hard at the time,’ she recalled. ‘The first three months being pregnant while filming, I felt totally spaced out. You do need to multi-task with acting. You’ve got to remember your marks, your lines, singing, everything, and actually – you have no brain! Suddenly your own brain is growing another person’s brain, so yours goes defunct,’ said Bonham Carter who is due in December. ‘It wasn’t ideal, but then I was so happy to be pregnant.’”

[From People]

Helena Bonham Carter is super lucky to have gotten pregnant naturally. Though I don’t know a ton about fertility issues, I can’t help but wonder if it was just a lucky fluke, or if the Clomid and alternative therapies might have worked in conjunction and helped her out. I can’t imagine how stressful and exhausting it would be to film a movie while pregnant… though one would hope that if your husband is the director, he’d cut you some extra slack. And massage your feet from his director’s chair.

Bonham Carter also has been craving Marmite during the last few months of her pregnancy. I was pretty sure that was some kind of animal, probably related to sloths or lemurs, but it turns out it’s a “British and New Zealand spread made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. The British version is sticky, dark brown paste with a distinctive, powerful taste. This distinctive taste is reflected in the British company’s marketing slogan: ‘Love it or hate it.’” Thanks, Wikipedia. I’m glad to know Helena Bonham Carter isn’t eating sloths. Although that could be a kind of alternative therapy too. Probably for insomnia though.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Helena and Tim at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition on June 6th. Header image at the “Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix” London Premiere on July 3rd. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Martha Stewart’s daughter Alexis has been spending over $28,000 a month of fertility treatments in an attempt to get pregnant. Alexis is 42, and says she was so busy with her life and her career that she never stopped to think about how much time is passing. Celebrities get pregnant all the time at what seems like any old age, and we don’t really hear as much about the people that can’t have babies. Alexis says she’ll do whatever it takes to have a child, and has gone as far as giving herself her shots on the street if necessary.

“Even though her eggs are ‘dry and crusty,’ Alexis Stewart is determined to get pregnant – so determined, she spends $28,000 a month on fertility treatments. Stewart, 42, started the difficult process last year, and opened up to People in July about how lucky she is to be able to afford the high-tech procedures and special treatments. On Tuesday, she talks to Oprah Winfrey about the emotionally and financially draining process.

“Having a baby wasn’t always a priority for Stewart, and now that she’s ready to be a mom, she tells Winfrey it’s almost too late. ‘[We] get distracted because now we have jobs, and now we have other things to do. Medicine seems miraculous – you can do anything you want,’ she says. ‘Movie stars have babies late. It seems all possible, but you don’t hear the stories of the people who can’t have a baby.’”

[From People]

As a feminist, I kind of have a problem with the whole notion that women better get to the baby having or we’ll dry up. But biology doesn’t really agree with my feminist principles, and it is what it is. Alexis was married to one of the lawyers that unsuccessfully defended her mother from 1997 – 2004, and has been using a sperm donor to get pregnant.

“Over the summer, Stewart told People she’ll do whatever it takes to make Martha Stewart, her mom, a grandmother. ‘Twice, I’ve given myself shots on the street. I’m much more interested in taking my medication than in what anyone might think about me,’ she said. Stewart has since had three failed egg implantations. ‘Last month, I had no eggs that were viable, so I’m sort of back to square one at the moment,’ she tells Winfrey, adding that she tries not to get too emotional about it.

“‘When I have to think about my other options, then I will do that,’ she says. ‘But at the moment, I can only think about this option.’ Stewart also says financial and emotional backing from her mom helps. ‘She’s very supportive. She tells me it will happen all the time,’ she says. ‘Because she wants grandchildren?’ Winfrey asks. Stewart’s response: ‘Desperately.’”

[From People]

I don’t know, but I would guess Martha’s footing a good portion of the bill herself. But maybe that’s because Oprah kept billing the show “This woman is spending $28,000 a month to make Martha Stewart a grandmother,” which made it sound like it was all about Martha. I’m not really a huge Martha fan – she seems pretty cold to me – but I’m guessing any baby that’s lucky enough to be born into that family will be pretty well taken care of for the rest of their lives. And have access to Martha’s scrapbooking wing in her house. I’d try to be her grandkid just for that.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Martha Stewart and Alexis are shown on 4/28/06 at the Daytime Emmy Awards. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Some things are just really, really good ideas. Like the classics: peanut butter and chocolate, or peanut butter and jelly, or peanut butter and bananas. Man I want peanut butter. Or in Paula Abdul’s case, Vicodin and alcohol. You know what doesn’t go together well? Paula Abdul and babies. Why? Because of all the Vicodin and alcohol. Is that stopping the insatiable train wreck that is Ms. Abdul? Nope. Paula tells “USA Today” that having a baby in the next two years is her biggest goal. At 45, I’m guessing she’s going to need a little assistance, though you never know. Paula’s boyfriend of only five months is also on board. I’m guessing that has a little more to do with a percentage of her “American Idol” paycheck than it does with any particular love for Paula.

“Paul Abdul’s hormones aren’t running on idle – the American Idol judge wants a baby. ‘That’s the next step in my life,’ the 45-year-old tells USA Today. ‘Definitely within the next two years. I thought by now I’d have three grown children.’ Age is not a factor, either, given fertility options. ‘With modern medicine, people are having kids in their 40s and even up until their late 40s. In their 50s, they’re having their second child,’ she says. ‘If it doesn’t happen naturally like that, I would always consider adopting.’

“Restaurateur J.T. Torregiani, 32, Abdul’s boyfriend of five months, would likely be the proud papa. ‘He’s a sweetie pie,’ Abdul says of the Sicilian, whom she met when he introduced himself to her after a taping of her show in April. ‘He’s a positive force that has come into my life right now. Where it leads, who knows?’ As for her fellow judge, Simon Cowell, assessing the new man in her life, Abdul quotes the sharp-tongued one as saying: ‘He’s a great, normal guy – why does he like you?’

“Others approve of Torregiani, too. ‘My chunky dog, Tulip, is in love with him. He pays so much attention to her that she thinks she’s the queen,’ says Abdul, who’s already been with her beau to London and plans to go with him to Italy. When it came to her Idol costars, however, ‘I was so adamant about not letting Simon or Randy [Jackson] or Ryan [Seacrest] know – and that was a good thing,’ she says.

“Asked if she were in love, Abdul (who had two brief marriages in the 1990s, to Emilio Estevez and Brad Beckerman) responds with a smile: ‘I’m in a good place in my heart. He’s like my best friend.’”

[From People]

Oh man, that melts my cold, pessimistic heart. Actually it does, which bothers me. It sounds like she’s genuinely happy, but not pinning all her hopes on one guy. Well, all her hopes for marriage at least, it seems pretty clear that she’s pinning all her hopes for sperm on the one guy. But that’s alright, I forgive you Paula. Speaking of fertility, Paula has some major medical issues to grapple with. I’m not sure if they could affect her ability to conceive, but they could affect her ability to parent well. She suffers from reflex sympathetic dystrophy, which is a type of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. It sounds really miserable, defined by “chronic progressive disease characterized by severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin.” Supposedly this accounts for a good deal of Paula’s often erratic, bizarre behavior – she’s a bit loopy from the pain, and/or loopy from the medicine she must take for the pain. Which definitely means we (I) shouldn’t make fun of her. Though a lot of people have alleged that the real problem lays in the belief that Paula is combining some pretty serious painkillers with alcohol, and that’s what’s actually making her loopy. Before the issues with her appearing so out of it, Paula came off as pretty sweet, kind, and nurturing – all things that would make a great parent. Hopefully she can get her medical and/or other issues under control, and have a baby when she wants to.