Here are some photos of Halle Berry in Rio de Janeiro, walking the red carpet for the Brazilian premiere of The Call. Just to give you some idea of how much Halle’s pregnant belly has “popped”, THIS is what she looked like just four days ago and THIS is what she looked like two weeks ago in Hawaii. Like, Halle literally “popped” overnight. It’s making me wonder if she’s further along than we suspected? One week ago, wasn’t everyone claiming that she’s about three months along? I wonder if it’s closer to four.

As for the dress, it’s Monique Lhuillier. CB called it a “crazy 90s dress” and it does look kind of dated, but I think that’s just what Halle does to clothes. Some women make couture look budget, some women make thrift store finds look expensive and some women (like Halle) make everything look like it’s 1998. Which is fine, I guess, because Halle still looks the same as she did in 1998. Personally, I kind of like the idea of the dress (I especially like the lace back and the quality of the lace) but the execution is kind of meh.

Also, can I just say how weird it is that Halle is spending so much time promoting The Call in South America? If she was in Asia and Europe, I would understand it, because Halle actually does have global fame and she’s popular in Europe and Asia. But I never think of South America as a hotbed of Halle Berry fandom. Perhaps I’m underestimating how much love Halle gets everywhere she goes. Or perhaps I’m underestimating how badly Halle needs The Call to make some money so she can justify her paycheck.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

I just spent way too long staring at Halle Berry’s chest in these photos. These pics are from April 8 – Halle was in Buenos Aires, Argentina for the South American premiere of The Call. The dress is Roberto Cavalli… is it lined? Or are we seeing Halle Nip? I really can’t tell if it’s a trick of the lighting or what.

Anyway, as everybody knows now, Halle is pregnant. I wouldn’t have been able to determine that from these photos at all – she has a tiny little bump, barely noticeable. In her first interview since her pregnancy announcement, Halle said that her second pregnancy was “the biggest surprise of my life… Thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it’s been a big surprise and the most wonderful.” I nit-picked that statement a few days ago, trying to figure out if Halle was actually surprised by the pregnancy or surprised that she got pregnant with fertility treatments. In this week’s Us Weekly, “sources” claim that Halle was “definitely trying” for a baby but at first she didn’t realize she was pregnant, she thought she was going through menopause.

Us Weekly also claims that Halle has made Olivier sign a “baby prenup” which basically says that Olivier will always provide financial support for the baby even if they break up. I was already doubting that, mostly because I don’t think Halle is self-aware enough to admit that she and Olivier will ever split. But Halle has already gone to TMZ to deny that the “baby prenup” exists. So… yeah, I was right. She’s not that self-aware. It’s also strange to me because I was under the impression that Halle is wealthy one in that relationship, and while Olivier probably has saved his money, Halle is flat-out rich. Interestingly enough, Halle spoke about money and her career with E! News in a new interview:

Here’s one thing we can expect from expectant mom Halle Berry once she’s done expecting: She won’t go MIA. The actress famously went on a four-year hiatus after the birth of her daughter Nahla in 2008, choosing to withdraw from the Hollywood spotlight in order to savor the joys of being a first-time parent.

Flash-forward five years later, and the 46-year-old actress once again has on the baby way, as she an fiancé Olivier Martinez await the arrival of their first child together, a son. But this time around, don’t expect the Oscar winner to pull a disappearing act once the baby is born.

Berry exclusively tells E! News that she vows to continue taking on movie roles postbaby.

“Well, one thing is for sure: I better keep working!” she quipped during a stopover in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to promote her new movie The Call. “With another baby on the way, Mama cannot take time off!”

In other words, Mama’s gotta pay the bills! Kidding aside, the star explains that she’s approaching Baby No. 2 with a workaholic vigor.

“I think that when I had my first child, my daughter, I took off a good four years because it was something new to me,” she says. “It was my first time, it was something I tried really hard to do…This time, when I have the baby, I’ll keep walking!”

As for the kinds of projects she plans to accept?

“I don’t think being a mother now should affect my choices as an artist,” she tells us. “There are a certain things I do that my kids should not see.”

That said, Berry looks forward to continue pursuing a range of rich and meaningful roles, spinning performances that her children can appreciate in due time.

“I don’t think being a mom now makes me only wanna do Disney movies and not do great R-rated films,” she notes. “Those are things they are gonna see in a proper time in life”

[From E! News]

Halle is also due to film a supporting role (or it could be a cameo) in X-Men: Days of Future Past at some point in the coming months, so I guess she’s letting Bryan Singer know that this baby won’t affect that. Considering she still looks like she’s in her early 30s, I’m assuming she’ll be able to work in her standard “beautiful woman” roles for several more years. And then maybe she’ll move on to meaty character work? Sure. Why not.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

As CB reported last Friday, Halle Berry is pregnant with her second child at the age of 46. The father is Halle’s French fiancé of some-odd two years (it feels like longer, right?), Olivier Martinez, who last made headlines for beating the crap out of Gabriel Aubry last Thanksgiving. Following Friday’s announcement/confirmation, Halle stepped out in NYC over the weekend, making an appearance at a UN event with Michael Kors. It seems that Halle and Michael are working together on a new initiative for the United Nations World Food Program, which is why Halle has given a new interview to CNN:

Halle Berry is just as shocked as everyone else, apparently, about her big baby news. In her first interview since confirming her second pregnancy at age 46, the Oscar-winning actress told CNN’s Alina Cho, “I feel fantastic!”

The baby-to-be is her second child (joining big sister Nahla, 5), and her first with fiance Olivier Martinez. Berry confided in Cho that the pregnancy caught her unawares. “This has been the biggest surprise of my life, to tell you the truth. Thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me. So it’s been a big surprise and the most wonderful.”

Berry demurred when Cho asked if she’s expecting a boy, as sources have revealed to Us Weekly, TMZ and other outlets. “I don’t know, I don’t know. But [the baby is] healthy!”

At Berry’s side for the CNN chat with fashion designer and Project Runway judge Michael Kors, who both work with the United Nations World Food Program to fight hunger. (Berry was the guest of honor at the Four Seasons in NYC on Saturday for her work with the program.)

Berry explained that her pregnancy reminded her that many expectant women across the world struggle to feed themselves and their unborn children. “Especially now, being a pregnant woman and already having a child … it’s so important what happens to the baby while they’re in utero. And the first 1,000 days is fundamental,” said Berry, revealing her baby bump in sexy black dress by Kors. “Good nutrition during that time period is fundamental for your baby to develop properly and normally,” she added.

“I’m a mom, and that’s first and foremost, but it gives me another reason to exist, another purpose,” she said of her work with the charity. “And if I know that I’m helping one person every day in some way, that really makes me feel good, and that’s a legacy that I can leave to my children.”
The interview airs on CNN on Tuesday, April 8 at 12pm EST.

[From Us Weekly]

I’m including the video below – I’m a little bit confused when Halle says that this pregnancy was a “the biggest surprise”. Even Alina Cho threw some momentary shade with a quick “Really?” So I guess this means that Halle didn’t undergo fertility treatments? Or is she just playing coy, like: “I did the fertility treatments but I was totally surprised that they worked!”? I think Halle is really saying that this pregnancy happened naturally. I mean, it happens. It’s not outside of the realm of possibilities or probabilities. Hm… don’t mind me, I’ll just quietly sit here giving Halle a side-eye though.

(PS… Now I know why Halle’s boobs looked so amazing in Hawaii, right? Pregnancy boobs.)

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

It’s official, Halle Berry is knocked up at 46 with her second child. TMZ broke the news that Halle is expecting with her fiance, Olivier Martinez, and that she’s three months pregnant with a boy. Halle’s rep confirmed that her client is expecting a baby so it’s on. US also has the detail that Halle’s daughter Nahla, with her ex Gabriel Aubry, has been asking her for a sibling.

Yes, yet another A-lister is having a baby in 2013: Halle Berry! The Oscar-winning actress, 46, is pregnant with her second child — a baby boy! — and her first with fiance Olivier Martinez, a source confirms to Us Weekly, adding that she’s “elated.” According to TMZ, which first broke the news, the Call star is three months along. UPDATE: Berry’s rep tells Us: “We can confirm that Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez are expecting a child.”

The baby-to-be will join big sister Nahla, Berry’s 5-year-old child with ex Gabriel Aubry. Us Weekly was first to break news of Berry’s engagement to her hunky Dark Tide costar, 47, back in January 2011. Berry and the Frenchman confirmed their happy news a few months later, but have yet to set a wedding date.
Appearing on The Wendy Williams Show last fall, the Cloud Atlas star admitted that little Nahla was pining for a sibling — but a sister.

“That’s the thing. [My daughter is] asking me,” Berry admitted. “Every night we pray to God, and she’s so sweet. She says, ‘God, please bring me a bunk bed and a baby sister.’ And I say, ‘I can do one of those things, I know for sure! The other one we have to keep praying on.’ What do you say to her when she wants that and can’t understand why God’s taking so long, you know?”

[From US Weekly]

That’s pretty surprising. I would have guessed that Halle and Olivier were on the outs before I would think that she was trying to get pregnant. (If she was trying.) Maybe this is why Halle and Olivier just took that Hawaiian vacation, to celebrate. I wonder if Halle went to see a fertility specialist, which seems likely given her age (although it happens), or if it just happened naturally for her. Congratulations to Halle and Olivier on their happy news! Hopefully they can avoid the drama that seems to follow Halle and her exes.

Halle is shown on 4-1, 3-13 and 3-27. Credit: FameFlynet. Red carpet pic from 3-5-13. Credit: WENN.com

This ^ is a photo of Olivier Martinez and Nahla Aubry in Maui yesterday, enjoying the last moments of their Hawaiian holiday. Olivier, Nahla and Halle Berry flew back to LA yesterday, and I’m including some of the photos of their departure from Hawaii at the end of the post. Apparently, upon their arrival at LAX after their relaxing holiday, Olivier turned violent and he attacked a paparazzo. Just FYI: after doing this job for years and spending a lot of time looking through paparazzi photos, I know that there are many paparazzi who simply hang out at LAX, waiting for flights to come in because they’ve gotten tips that certain celebrities will be arriving. I think the paparazzi have to stay in one area (the main entrance) to photograph celebrities. My point is that if you’re a celebrity and you’re arriving at LAX, you know for sure that you will be photographed. Even Meryl Streep gets pap’d at LAX. So, with that in mind, this is what happened:

It was a rough landing in Los Angeles for Olivier Martinez. Halle Berry’s fiancé got into a physical altercation with a paparazzo after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport Monday night from Hawaii with Berry and her daughter, Nahla, E! News has confirmed.

According to eyewitnesses, the trio were making their way out of the terminal when they were swarmed by photographers as they came down an escalator. During the ensuing mayhem, Martinez allegedly assaulted the shutterbug by kicking him in the leg and wrist.

Reportedly, the photographer later grabbed Martinez by the arm to ask to why the 47-year-old actor kicked him, a move that seemed to incense Martinez further. After the actor put Nahla in a waiting SUV, he purportedly stormed back to the photographer and kicked him again.

Berry, who had earlier told the barrage of paparazzi, “Get away, there’s a child,” then grabbed her fiancé and asked him to get in the vehicle.

Airport police and an ambulance subsequently arrived at the scene. E! News has reached out to LAX police for comment.

The incident is a double-take of sorts for Martinez: Last Thanksgiving, he got into fisticuffs with Berry’s estranged baby daddy, Gabriel Aubry, who claimed that Martinez threatened to kill him if Aubry didn’t consent to allowing Berry move to France with Nahla.

Aubry eventually secured a restraining order against Martinez, but not before the dustup left him with a gnarly black eye and a broken rib.

[From E! News]

One argument to make is that Olivier was simply defending his girlfriend and his girlfriend’s daughter from a swarm of paparazzi, that Nahla might have been frightened by the flashes and the men yelling her name, and that it’s gross to think of grown men swarming Halle and her daughter. That argument is totally legit, and it IS gross. There is another argument to make, though – that Olivier is violent, that he has a short fuse, that there were lots of other ways to handle this situation, that LAX is no stranger to high-profile celebrities and they could have easily gotten a security escort. Ugh.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some more photos of Halle Berry and Nahla on vacation in Maui on Easter. Last week, we covered some photos of Halle, Nahla and Olivier on the beach too. Fame/Flynet says that Halle took Nahla to an Easter Egg hunt and that Nahla was super-excited about it, and then the two ladies spent the rest of the day with Olivier at the hotel pool. Personally, I would LOVE to have Halle’s purse (OMG) and I would take her cover-up in a blue, green or black. If anyone has the designer IDs on the purse or the cover-up, please tell me!

Of course, I always feel a bit queasy about publishing photos of Halle and Nahla. Even though both Halle and Gabriel Aubry used candid paparazzi photo shoots to get their respective “good parent” images out during their custody dispute (and BOTH had a hand in it), Halle has been vocal for a while about her discomfort with paparazzi taking photos of Nahla. I’m actually surprised that Halle isn’t completely freaking out on the paparazzo taking these photos. But there’s a little hint that something more might be coming. Page Six says Halle wants to go another legal route:

Halle Berry is reaching out to her famous friends, including Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, to help her block photographers who take unauthorized pictures of celebrity children, says a source. We’re told Berry, who lost a court battle to ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry to move her daughter Nahla to France where they have strong anti-paparazzi laws, wants to lobby for a legal ban on pictures of young children of celebs here in the US. Berry’s rep didn’t get back to us.

[From Page Six]

If photo agencies were required to blur out the faces of children, I wouldn’t be too peeved about it. But the problem is… no matter what celebrities say, their children are now a part of the Celebrity Ecosystem, and “Celebrity Parenting” has become a HUGE business. Think about the celebrities who sell photos of their babies. Think about the celebrity moms who make a second career out of motherhood, and how “happy family” photo-ops are part of the business. And I can only imagine what someone like Jennifer Garner said when and if Halle reached out to her. Garner’s “happy-family” photo ops are some of the best and most consistent in the industry. Those photo-ops were such a big part of getting her husband the Oscar this year. So… while it would definitely be an interesting debate to have, if Halle is really going to pursue these paparazzi laws, Halle should know that she’s shutting down a HUGE business.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I am not jealous of Halle Berry’s custody drama. I am not jealous of her relationship with Olivier Martinez. I am not jealous of her sketchy romantic past. I am not jealous of her childhood. I am not jealous of the fact that she’s been in therapy since she was 10 years old. But I am extremely jealous of her body and her beauty. These are photos of Halle, Olivier and Nahla in Hawaii yesterday – I’m assuming this week is Nahla’s Spring Break, and so Halle thought she’d take her little family unit to Hawaii. It looks fun.

I’m assuming these photos were taken on a public beach – I see lots of other people milling around. Halle doesn’t even look upset that they’re being photographed, which is good, I guess. Nahla wore an absolutely adorable Hello Kitty one-piece, while Halle wore a righteous (but dated?) black bikini and a sheer black coverup. You can see her crazy body though, and OMG HER BUTT. I really don’t think Halle has ANY “problem areas”. Every single part of her body is amazing. I wish my boobs were that perky and perfectly formed. I wish my butt looked like that. I wish I had her proportions. She’s 46 years old and I swear, her body is 20 million times better than most 26 year old girls.

PS… Why did Olivier roll up the legs of his mom jeans? Did he not pack any shorts? Dude, you’re in Hawaii!! Pack some shorts.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

It’s been months and months since there was any kind of douche-eruption from Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry. Surprised? I am. I guess their last controversy/mess was the fist-fight on Thanksgiving, which took a few months to sort out, and which I personally think Gabriel came out looking better because once again his custodial rights were maintained and strengthened. The Thanksgiving fight came just a week after a judge ruled that Halle and her lover Olivier Martinez could not move to France with Nahla Aubry, because that move would effectively end Gabriel’s joint custody of Nahla. For months I’ve been waiting for Halle’s next legal salvo, some new argument for why she should be able to take Nahla to France. But as this new Halle interview seems to indicate… Halle is no longer in a rush to move to France. Shocking!

Halle Berry will move to France when her daughter turns 18. The Cloud Atlas actress is keen to start a new life in Europe with her fiancé Olivier Martinez but her former partner, Gabriel Aubry, has bitterly contested her plans to take their little girl, Nahla, now five, with them.

Halle is ready to delay her dream until the youngster is old enough to make her own decision on where she wants to live. The Oscar winner said: ‘It probably won’t be until my daughter is 18 and off to college. When Nahla turns 18, she’ll be legally able to make her own decisions about where she wants to be and I think that then, when she’s off on her own, we’ll move there. It’s where I want to end my days, that’s for sure.’

As for motherhood, Halle says: ‘It’s something I’m learning about every day. I’m not perfect by any means – there’s no such thing as a perfect mother and I’m not striving to be one. I just strive to be the best I can be on any day in any given situation.’

While Halle loves France, she won’t be learning to speak French until she lives there as Olivier thinks it will be too much for her to take on at the moment.

In an interview with HELLO! magazine, she said: ‘I was told very lovingly by him not to work on it too hard now but to wait until we get to live there. Because for me, at my age and with all that I already have on my plate, trying to learn French is probably one of the hardest things I could possibly do. He thinks I’ll have an easier time when we’re living there and immersed in the culture – if we ever get to go that is.’

[From The Mail]

That is the weirdest explanation for not learning French. Obviously, I understand the whole “immersion technique makes it easier to learn a language” thing, but to not even try to learn any French? When your fiancé is French and you want to move to France? That’s weird, right? And who else rolled their eyes at the thought of Halle and Olivier still being together 13 years from now? HA!! As for Halle letting go of the dream to move Nahla to Paris… sure. We’ll see.

In the same interview (I think), Halle also discusses therapy. Did you know that she’s been in therapy since she was 10 years old? I didn’t know that, but it didn’t surprise me. Halle said:

“I’ve done therapy on an as-needed basis since I was probably ten years old… My father was an alcoholic and a very abusive one, and my mother knew the value of providing me with the outlet of an unbiased person to talk to, so I’ve done that all my life when times get stressful. It really helps me deal with stuff… I try really hard not to take my problems out on others and, in order to do that, I tend to mask the bad stuff or deal with it internally – you know, keep my chin up, put on a brave face and just keep going. If I do have a problem, I handle it so well that most other people don’t even know about it.”

[Via Metro]

Um, who is she kidding? When she has a problem, everybody knows about it!! Because she tells media outlets. I think she probably considers that part of her therapy too. That’s not a knock on talk therapy – talk therapy is an invaluable tool for many, many people. I just think Halle is particularly full of it.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

In case you needed a reminder, Halle Berry is still incredibly beautiful and ageless. These are photos from last night’s LA premiere of The Call, in which Halle plays a 911 operator who seems like the only one trying to save young women from a crazy serial killer. The film costars Morris Chestnut and Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin. Halle wore this leathery ensemble which… again, seems very dated. Halle has been wearing a lot of stuff lately which seems straight from the 1990s (her heyday). With that body and that face, she could wear almost anything, but it seems like she prefers clothes that remind her of her Swordfish days. I also think she might want to try a less flesh-y shade of lipstick?

Incidentally, CB covered a new Halle interview yesterday, in which Halle referenced her continuing problems with the paparazzi, especially when they’re taking photos of her daughter. It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve had a bunch of drama from Halle. I wonder what she’s planning next? Maybe a breakup with Olivier Martinez? It would be so much fun to hear about how Olivier is a racist now. Where IS Olivier? Why didn’t he come to the premiere? Hunh. Several weeks ago, the Chicago Sun-Times had a source who claimed, “Olivier really does not like L.A. He wants to just be in France — except when work takes him elsewhere. Halle wants to be with him full-time too, but this whole situation has made life difficult, and has begun to add a lot of pressure on them. … I get the sense things may not be going so well.” It’s about to get good, y’all. Stay tuned.

Abigail wore an Alice + Olivia ensemble. Doesn’t she look so grown-up? She has grown into a lovely young woman, but just to nitpick about one thing: I don’t think this shade of blonde suits her. It’s too light. She needs a darker shade of blonde, or perhaps she should just return to her natural brunette shade?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This is just a brief interview with Halle Berry following the Oscars. Apparently Extra named her one of the best dressed (she actually was) and was asked for her thoughts on the show, the paparazzi and her upcoming roles. Halle is also promoting that B-movie thriller she’s starring in that I keep seeing commercials for, The Call. It’s out next week and looks pretty bad. When Mario Lopez asked Halle if she was offended by the “we saw your boobs” opening skit at the Academy Awards she said she wasn’t, because people always say bad things about her basically and she’s developed thick skin. Here’s more:

“Extra’s” Mario Lopez sat down with Halle Berry and the superstar opened up about the Oscars, about life with daughter Nahla, and her new movie, “The Call.”

Mario, did not have a chance to interview Halle Berry on the red carpet of the Academy Awards, but told the star she made “Extra’s” best dressed list and asked her how she thought host Seth Macfarlane did. Mario, “What did you make of his performance?” Halle, “I think hosting that is one of the scariest things a comedian can.” She went on to say, “He did what he wanted to do. That’s his brand of comedy and people will love it and they will hate it, I thoroughly enjoyed the show…It takes so much to offend me these days after all the things that have been said about me, to me, so I didn’t feel offended by that boob song.”

What does offend, Halle, paparazzi and the pursuit of her and her daughter Nahla. Mario, “Does she ever think like it’s normal when photographers take pictures of you?” Halle, “No, it’s totally abnormal, it’s weird for her and she’s at that age where she’s questioning why and she wants to be left alone and it’s bothersome it’s scary for her.”

Halle’s new movie “The Call”, also scary, Halle plays a 911 operator desperately trying to save a kidnapped victim played by Abigail Breslin. Halle said she trained with 911 operators and listened to live calls to prepare, she also shot her own stunts. Shooting some of the movie scenes so intense that Halle ended up in the emergency room. Halle, “I get hurt almost every movie, I always want to do my own stunts, I got a little hurt, but that’s ok.”

One of the next possible roles up for Halle, reprising her role as Storm in the upcoming “X-Men: Days of Future Past, Halle, “It looks like that’s gonna happen. I love that character and people love Storm too so it will be good to be back.”

[From Extra TV]

I like what Halle said about how that’s MacFarlane’s brand of humor and what we should expect, that’s pretty much what I said about it too. Note that she then turned it around to how she’s a victim and people are always talking smack about her. She was just one actress mentioned in that skit, but it’s all about her and how she feels, not the larger context.

One actress included in that bit who was offended, and whose opinion I respect a great deal more, was Jamie Lee Curtis. She wrote a whole editorial on it for The Huffington Post if you’re interested. It wasn’t just about Jamie Lee, she thought the Oscars should be classier and that they shouldn’t be reduced to “roast” type adolescent humor. I won’t get into all that, we covered it last week, but her opinion is interesting to me in contrast to Halle’s “they always talk about me” sentiment.

In terms of the rest of Halle’s interview, it’s typical from her. She definitely hates the paparazzi and she’ll tell you about it. She used it as a premise for her bid to move to France, which has either stalled or been shot down at this point. But she’s not above calling some friendly paps when she wants us to see her on the beach with her fiance and daughter. Or at least she plays nice for them occasionally, it’s hard to tell.

Last week Kaiser mentioned that Halle’s man Olivier didn’t accompany her to the premiere of The Call in Chicago, which was strange. It’s possible they’re having trouble, especially considering who we’re talking about. There was a photo of Halle and Olivier at a My Little Pony event together with Halle’s daughter Nahla on February 9. (That’s the last photo I can find of them together.) Olivier looked pissed off, but he was a grown man at a My Little Pony show, so that may not mean much. We haven’t seen them together in a while though and they’ve been traveling separately recently.

Halle Berry is shown at the premiere of The Call on 2-28-13 and at the Oscars on 2-24-13. Credit: FameFlynet