On Friday, INF Daily sent us the link to their exclusive photos of Beyonce still pregnant (or still “wearing the pillow”), which were taken Thursday night. It was a photo op designed to show us that Beyonce is still preggo, and to keep us on our guard that the birth could go down at any moment. Well, it did. It happened last night, and the news was first reported by E! News. It was a girl! They named her… Blue Ivy Carter. Blue Carter. Baby Blue.

We were so ready for this belly, and now we’re so psyched to meet this baby!

Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed a daughter Saturday night in New York, the little one’s arrival coming via scheduled C-section, mutliple sources confirm to E! News
And the pop ‘n’ hip-hop princess’ name? Drumroll, please…

Blue Ivy Carter! (At least that’s what Jay-Z is telling pals at this point—the couple’s reps have not immediately responded to calls seeking comment.)

Friend and music mogul Russell Simmons was among the first to celebrate the arrival, tweeting the new parents: “congrats to my good friends Beyonce and Jay-Z.”

Rihanna gave baby Blue a warm welcome, tweeting: “Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih.”

Hey, we’re happy to find out this much, considering Blue’s parents didn’t even confirm to the world that they were married until…Wait? Did they ever really confirm it? (Public records ultimately told the tale.)

Anyway, the “Crazy in Love” duo tied the knot in April 2008 after roughly six years of dating. Considering they waited another three years to have a baby, you can tell this is one couple that thinks things through!

Beyoncé memorably revealed that she was pregnant onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in August.

And her hubby certainly seems to be in the right head space, telling E! News in November that he hoped to be the kind of father whose children could talk to him about anything.

“Your child could come to you and have any type of conversation. I always hope for that kind of open relationship,” he said.

Just imagine the rap sessions father and daughter will be having a few years from now!

[From E! News]

I was kind of meh on this report’s accuracy, but People Magazine is reporting it too, so I think the “scheduled C-section” actually did go down last night. People also reports that Beyonce gave birth at Lenox Hill, and she had checked into the NYC hospital on Friday. Just this past week, the rumors were surrounding Bey giving birth at St. Luke’s, so I don’t know what to make of the hospital switch-up. I wonder if Beyonce was wearing her special birthin’ weave? I wonder if the surrogate is happy and healthy too?

UPDATE: Some media outlets are reporting the name as “Ivy Blue Carter”. I honestly don’t know which one is right.

Photos of Beyonce from November 2011, courtesy of PCN & WENN.

Have you seen some of the latest blind items having to do with Beyonce and her Deflating Bump of Conspiracies? Go here to Dlisted to read some of them – I mean, they are “allegedly” about Beyonce, but… they certainly fit, right? Still, Beyonce is on track to give birth… soon. Like, within the next month, apparently, considering she claims she was six months pregnant on September 23rd. Meaning she’s past the eight-month mark right now. Which means that surrogate is probably ready to bust. One of the blind items claims that Beyonce is making all kinds of deals behind the scenes to profit from her pillowy pregnancy, including a Jessica Simpson-style “How I Lost the Baby Weight” magazine spread shortly after “giving birth”. Allegedly, Bey is still going to be selling this pillow until we’re all sick of it. So… here’s a preview. Us Weekly has a story about how Bey has gone on a “partially vegan” diet (???) and Jay-Z has joined her in pillow solidarity or something.

Jay-Z is eating like a pregnant woman! The 42-year-old dad-to-be is supporting Beyonce by dieting with her. A source tells the new Us Weekly — on stands Friday — that the duo are maintaining a “partially vegan diet.” (Think stir-fried vegetables and tofu, made to order by a private chef.)

“Jay’s trying to be disciplined, and he needs the energy to support her,” a source adds.
Beyonce, 30, isn’t going to let herself go just because she’s expecting! “I’ve been really conscious [about food],” she told 20/20. “I’ve been trying my best not to lose control!”

Meanwhile, Beyonce has been resisting temptation, including favorites like fried chicken and doughnuts.

Jay and Bey’s commitment to healthy living seems to be paying off. A source tells Us that Monday night the duo were “dancing up a storm” at Hollywood’s Spare Room club.

“They were loved up and sweet together [and] partied until 4 a.m.!”

The next night, Beyonce and Jay-Z partied once again! This time, the couple hung out with Serena Williams, Kanye West and friends at Watch The Throne’s after party.

[From Us Weekly]

WTF is a “partially vegan” diet? Is that “eating your vegetables as part of a balanced diet that includes ham and chicken and steak”? So we’re not just supposed to buy the pillowy pregnancy, we’re also supposed to buy that Bey is maintaining a partially vegan diet, and that Jay-Z is dieting with her? Here’s an honest to God question: Is Beyonce just making this up as she goes along? Did she have an actual plan to fool people, and is this the plan? Because if this is the plan, Bey can afford to be getting much better advice.

Photos courtesy of Fame, PCN and WENN.

Jay-Z covers the new issue of GQ Magazine, the annual “Men of the Year” issue. Jay is this year’s “Man of the Year”… which is fine with me. I prefer to see someone like Jay, who is at the top of his game in his career, his fame and his personal life, rather than someone who just has a really great publicist and not much else. Like, Ryan Reynolds or something. But would you like to know the best part about this issue? They’re featuring Michael Fassbender as “Breakout of the Year”. YEEEEeeeesssSSS (said with a sexy hiss). Fassie deserves all the awards and accolades, at all times. The nice GQ rep even sent us a hi-res photo of Fassie (below). Also featured? Mila Kunis as “Knockout of the Year” and Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallow as “Showmen of the Year” – you can see the slideshow here, and the only interview that’s been released thus far is the Jay-Z one – the full piece is here. Here are some highlights:

Jay-Z on Kanye’s obsessing over microdetails during the recording of the album: “I think he just can’t help himself,” Jay says. “He puts so much into everything, and he’s like, ‘You have to treat it like I treat it.’ It drives you crazy sometimes—like when you’ve put seventy-five versions of a snare on one song and he’s like, ‘No!’ and you’re like, ‘Come on, man.’ ”

Jay on his father leaving and how that affected him: “If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts—but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real,” Jay says. “Not to say it’s any better—but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero. [I talked about] what it did to me, what it meant, asked him why. There was no real answer. There was nothing he could say, because there’s no excuse for that. There really isn’t. So there was nothing he could say to satisfy me, except to hear me out. And it was up to me to forgive and let it go.”

Jay on their (he and wife Beyonce) decision to announce their baby at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards: “It was actually Bey who wanted to [announce] it,” Jay says. “You want to be in control of your life.”

Jay-Z, when asked if he’ll be putting a car seat in the Maybach: “Yeah,” Jay smiles. “Wouldn’t that be great? That would be a great picture.”

[From GQ]

Jay’s been wanting to be an official father for a while, and I know, I know, you’re just going to yell at me and tell me he has babies all over the place and God knows, maybe Beyonce isn’t really knocked up fo’ real and blah et cetera. But it will be interesting/nice to see Jay and Bey turn into doting parents publicly, right? And if they really are expecting a girl, will that change Jay? Hold that thought and just stare at the Fassbender for a while.

Photos courtesy of Nathaniel Goldberg/GQ.

As we know there’s this big conspiracy that maybe Beyonce isn’t pregnant since her bump collapsed on TV and she seems to be either be busting out or looking non-pregnant from day to day. Well this latest story in Star Magazine is only going to fuel those “Beyonce is faking it” rumors – a lot. It’s Star Magazine, yes, but they got the known mother of Beyonce’s dad’s illegitimate baby to speak on the record. Alexsandra Wright had Mathew Knowles’ baby in February, 2010. She’s proven it with a paternity test and Mathew has been ordered to pay her for her child support and medical expenses. Well Wright told Star that Beyonce’s dad Mathew asked her to give up their baby to Beyonce and Jay-Z, who would raise it as their own. While Alexsandra never directly states that Beyonce and Jay-Z were going to pass off the baby as their own, Star says that was the plan. Alexsandra rejected that offer and vehemently insisted that she was going to raise the baby and wouldn’t accept any sum of money to hand him over. She thinks this whole plan was cooked up by Mathew alone to try and hide the baby, though, and that Beyonce and Jay-Z didn’t know about it.

Alexsandra Wright is speaking exclusively to Star about [Mathew Wright's] bizarre plan to have [Beyonce], 30, raise their love child as her own.

“My first thought when he asked me if I would give up our child to Beyonce and Jay-Z was, ‘Are you out of your mind?’” says Alex, who delivered son Nixon Alexander Knowles Wright on Feb. 4, 2010, well after the 18-month affair had ended. “Nothing in the world, no amount of money, would make me give up my child. You can’t buy my child from me!

“Maybe Mathew thought money could buy anything,” adds Alex, who says she recorded her conversation with Mathew. “I don’t know why he suggested it…

“When he realized that it wasn’t going to happen, he offered me money to leave the Knowles name off the birth certificate…

“Which was a hands-down, absolutely no deal here. Ever…”

Alex says she is still struggling to make sense of Mathew’s scheme to pass off their son as Beyonce and Jay-Z’s child. “I don’t believe that Beyonce or anything else has a clue what was flying out of Mathew’s mouth… I don’t think it was anybody but Mathew.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 31, 2011]

Is it possible that this really happened, that Mathew asked Alex to give her baby to his famous daughter and her husband to raise as their own. It’s possible that this happened and that Beyonce is legitimately pregnant but is padding her stomach for effect and attention. (Or maybe she’s just wearing really loose clothing to accentuate it.) It’s also possible that there is some trickery happening here and that Beyonce is going to have a “home birth” (as Wendy Williams has suggested) and emerge with someone else’s baby. This is all too weird, and now that the mistress is coming out with this it’s seeming more likely to me that all is not as it seems.

Beyonce is shown yesterday in NY (Love potion shirt) and the day before (black outfit). Credit: Fame

I know we’ve covered the Beyonce Baby Bump Conspiracy story quite a bit, but I thought Wendy Williams’ take on it was funny and I wanted to mention it. Yesterday Kaiser laid out her theories as to what was going on with Beyonce’s collapsible bump. She basically thinks Beyonce is actually pregnant, but that she’s padding her stomach for attention. I’m not sure whether Beyonce is pregnant or not, even taking into account the bikini photos. I’ve never seen a pregnant woman’s stomach fold over like that, and it didn’t look like fabric bunching to me, it looked like a pillow folding. Wendy Williams agreed, and on her show she had two pregnant staffers, one that was due in February like Beyonce, sit down to show that what happened to Beyonce’s stomach was not natural at all. She claimed on one hand that Beyonce was probably actually pregnant, but then seemed to suggest that she was faking it.

Wendy: When she sat down the baby bump squashed, crumpled and folded… she’s either giving birth to a frisbee or Stewie from Family Guy… What is that? Is that a baby bump? [When I was pregnant] I wouldn’t be able to sit like that.

[Shows Beyonce's bikini photo] Then I’m pregnant too… Girls come on, we all get this. I’m not saying that she’s not pregnant there… that proves absolutely nothing to me.

I would like to believe that Beyonce is really pregnant. I don’t like to believe that people play around with pregnancy. I’ve had so many miscarriages…

Here are some alleged conspiracy theories:
- The baby is helping Beyonce’s sagging recording career.
- Beyonce’s pregnancy is a way of keeping Jay-Z’s alleged mistress away
- The alleged woman over in Trinidad with [Jay's] alleged 10 year-old son, Beyonce is trying to keep up with her.
- How about this? This is the most disgusting one. Beyonce is going to use a surrogate so she can maintain her body.
- Here’s that is even more disgusting. They’re adopting, but they’re going to play it off like they gave birth.

Watch, it’s going to be an at home water birth there’s going to be three people there. Beyonce, Jay-Z and her mother…

Beyonce come on you’re not like that are you? You know how some of these celebrities can be though. Anything for attention.

I love how Wendy called those theories “disgusting” but then kind of cosigned them toward the end.

The Daily Beast has an article written by three female doctors who declare that by viewing the video in question, in their opinion as doctors not treating Beyonce, she “looks appropriately pregnant at this point.” They float the theory that a lot of you have mentioned that “Perhaps when she bent over, her dress simply became looser, giving the appearance that her belly was shifting.” That was a lot of loose fabric that didn’t seem to be in the dress when she was walking.

Beyonce on 9/22. (Credit: WENN.com)

Story via ONTD

Over the years, I’ve heard reports that Jay-Z has a “secret son”. Sometimes the stories involve a woman in France, and there’s something about Jay secretly visiting his son, and that’s why he and Beyonce make so many trips to Paris. I’ve also heard stories about how Jay allegedly knocked up a Trinidadian model, and that he’s paying her hush money. Honestly, I don’t know if the theories join up and multiply, like maybe the Trinidadian model is the same baby-mama living in Paris, or whatever. It’s not that I completely and totally cannot imagine that Jay-Z might have one or more kids around the globe – he very well might, and probably does. I just wish that when I Google “Jay-Z son” I didn’t get twenty-nine million articles saying completely different things.

Anyway, Star Mag/Radar has an interview with someone who claims that FOR SURE Jay-Z has a secret son with that rumored Trinidadian model. The guy giving the interview… well, it’s complicated. The model’s name is Shenelle Scott. Shenelle claimed that her baby-daddy was her boyfriend, Malik Sayeed. This interview is with Malik’s father, who details the process of finding out that his grandson isn’t really is grandson because Malik is NOT THE FATHER.

Jay-Z is not about to become a father for the first time, it turns out, as the Girls Girls Girls singer has a secret son with a Trinidadian model, according to the father of the man originally identified as the love child’s father, who sat down for an exclusive interview with this week’s edition of Star.

The world gasped last month when the Big Pimpin’ singer’s wife, Beyonce Knowles, showed off her baby bump at the MTV Video Music Awards, but Andrews exclusively told Star the Empire State Of Mind rapper gave Trinidadian model Shenelle Scott a baby bump some nine years before.

Andrews, the father of Shenelle’s ex-boyfriend Malik Sayeed, told Star exclusively that “at the time [he] was born, my son Malik thought he was his child, but they did DNA tests.

“It’s been determined that [the child is] Jay-Z’s baby.”

A source told Star that while Beyonce was initially livid about the secret son, she’s stood by her husband. The boy closely resembles the 99 Problems singer, who’s reportedly paying Shenelle child support.

Malik, whose name was originally listed on the boy’s birth certificate, came to find out about the child’s real paternity, a source told Star.

“Malik threw [Shenelle] a baby shower and bought all this stuff to prepare for the arrival,” the source said. “However, after the baby was born, friends and family told him he needed to get a DNA test. Everyone knew she was sleeping around and sleeping with Jay,” the source said. “There was a good chance it was his.”

Andrews filled in Star on the rest of the details.

“Maybe two weeks later, he called me and said, ‘Daddy, I got some bad news. [He’s] not my son,’” Andrews told Star. “I said, ‘How do you know, Malik?’ He said, ‘He doesn’t look anything like me!’”

After undergoing a DNA test that showed Jay-Z is the father, Malik kicked Shenelle out of his house, while Jay-Z made arrangements for mother and son to go back to Trinidad, where they now live comfortably on the rapper’s dime.

“Shenelle told me that Jay-Z gave her $1 million to keep her mouth shut,” Jerald tells Star. “My understanding is that he’s paying her child support. Shenelle took the money and bought herself a really nice house in Trinidad that the whole family lives in now.”

Jerald told Star that Shenelle has told him her current relationship with the rapper “is amicable. She says he’s a good father and he has a lot of interest in [the boy],” he told Star. “It was a big old mess at one time, but I think once they resolved the issue of fatherhood, of paternity, I think things started to level off.”

[From Radar]

Eh. Sure. Why not? I guess I should throw in the word “alleged” more. Allegedly Jay-Z has a kid. Allegedly he pays child support and takes an interest in his son. Allegedly Beyonce is kind of pissed, but she sticks with Jay. Allegedly, etc. Sure, this is believable. So do you think we’ll ever get some kind of confirmation? Probably not – because I bet that $1 million payoff and child support comes with a gag order for Shenelle.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame.

I. Was. Wrong. I just want to get that out there, right at the start. Beyonce has been talking about babies for so many years, I just thought she would be one of those celebrities who would be forever “all talk, no action”. But I was wrong – Beyonce is pregnant! She announced it in an interesting way – by rubbing her belly/womb area on stage at the VMAs. It was actually… kind of cute. Beyonce was introduced by Britney and Gaga (still in her drag king Jo Calderone costume), and when Bey was singing “Love On Top”, I thought the highlight would be the cutaways – Adele singing and dancing along with Bey, and then Gaga hanging with Kanye and Jay-Z (and having a drink, it looked like). When Bey finished the song, she looked down at Jay, smiled and rubbed her bump. Kanye and Jay both went a little bit crazy, and it was seriously very sweet. Oh… I guess Bey announced it on the black carpet before her performance too…? I missed most of the preshow. I was watching The Tillman Story (it was more interesting than Selena Gomez, let me tell you).

Leave it to Beyoncé to steal the spotlight at Sunday’s Video Music Awards.

But it wasn’t one of the pop diva’s signature show-stopping performances that had people talking. Instead, it was Beyoncé’s burgeoning belly bump, swathed in an orange gown.

Beyoncé, 29, posed for photos with her hands cradling her belly, teasing, “I have a surprise!”

“I’m happy to say it’s true,” her rep confirms to PEOPLE.

This will be the first child for Beyoncé and her husband of three years, 41-year-old Jay-Z, who performed “Otis” at the VMAs with Kanye West.

Just in June, Knowles, who turns 30 on Sept. 4, and told Piers Morgan, “I always said I would have a baby at 30.”

Looks like the talented singer is true to her word!

[From People]

Congratulations to Beyonce and Jay. Jay already looks all puffed up and thrilled, and I am very happy for Beyonce too. Is it a second trimester bump?

I guess Bey isn’t heading out on tour to support her new album? Which is fine. I don’t know about you, but I don’t need to see her sing these singles live.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I can’t imagine paying $250,000 for anything, let alone blowing that amount in one night… on beverages. But I’m not Jay-Z. I can’t imagine spending 250 grand on beverages, and then adding a 20% gratuity on top of it. But I’m not Jay-Z. At first I was like, “Damn, the wait staff got $50,000!” But when you actually do the math, a 20% gratuity is pretty standard for moderate-to-good service, in my opinion. If I get excellent service, I tip 30% or higher. I guess Jay-Z was just content, not overwhelmed, with the service he got in Miami:

Jay-Z is big pimpin’ and spendin’ his G’s!

The rapper and hip hop mogul partied at a Miami nightclub on Sunday night in celebration of his new album with Kanye West, Watch The Throne, and RadarOnline.com has confirmed he dropped a whopping $250,000 on champagne.

“Jay knew that Mark Cuban spent over $100,000 after the Mavs won the championship a few months ago, and he wasn’t about to be upstaged,” a source close to Jay-Z told RadarOnline.com.

“He bought bottle after bottle of Ace of Spades and then went all out with the 15-liter bottle that cost $100,000 on its own!”

According to a source close to the Liv nightclub in the Fontainebleau Hotel, Beyonce’s 41-year-old husband tipped a generous $50,000 to the waitstaff at the end of the night.

Jay-Z and Kanye’s new album has already garnered criticism for lyrics bragging about their wealth — so do you think spending a quarter million dollars on one night out was a good idea?

[From Radar]

On one level, I think “Meh, it’s their money, and this is probably better trickle-down economics than some of the crap rich people blow their money on.” On another level, yeah, it’s kind of offensive. Not really just at Jay, though. I can’t believe that there’s a bottle of champagne that goes for $100,000, and that people order it often enough that the Miami nightclub has it on hand. Like, it’s not a special order. Jay snapped his fingers and a bottle worth $100,000 appeared. What would you do with $100,000? What would you do if you were a waiter and you were tipped 50 grand? The mind boggles.

Also: since there’s no mention of Beyonce, I’m assuming she wasn’t in Miami for this incident. Yet another evening that Jay spent partying with randoms…? Hm.

UPDATE: Page Six has more – Beyonce wasn’t there, neither was Kanye, so it was just Jay and lots of liquored up girls.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

At this point, I think Jay-Z and Beyonce do love each other a great deal, and beyond their true love match, I think they are both corporations which have merged. If they ever split, it will get tricky. But for now, I think they’re doing their thing and they’re committed to being together… just maybe not committed to being faithful to each other? Ever since CDAN did those “Blind Items Revealed” on the Fourth of July, I’ve been wondering about Jay and Bey. Here’s the blind I’m speaking of:

This married A list singer/rapper extraordinaire may want to be very careful right now. There is a French model he has been with for the past ten years and as they approach that first decade mark, she wants much much more out of their partnership. If our singer says no, the fireworks will be loud and spectacular. Reveal: Jay-Z.

[From CDAN]

Is it for real? I have no idea. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Jay has someone on the side, or multiple side-pieces. Speaking of, In Touch Weekly has an interesting piece about Jay’s activities while Beyonce is in Europe:

On July 20, Jay-Z was partying with model Selita Ebanks at the Qream Liqueur by Diageo launch at the New York Public Library, and he didn’t seem overly concerned about his wife, Beyonce.

“He and Selita were hugging and giggling,” an onlooker tells In Touch. It wasn’t the first time the 41-year-old rapper was seen living it up without Beyonce this summer. On July 8, at NYC club 1Oak, “Jay-Z walked in around 1 a.m. with several really pretty girls that looked like backup dancers,” an eyewitness reveals to In Touch. “They bought a ton of bottles and Jay was very flirty – dancing with them while they passed his phone back and forth. He even let one of them sit on his lap.”

According to the eyewitness, “Jay-Z seemed really carefree and single, like Beynce wasn’t on his mind.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

ITW goes on to note how Beyonce is spending the summer in Europe, on tour, and how she’s going through a hard time because critics don’t like her new album and because her father maybe/probably stole money from her when he was her manager. Then ITW brings up BABIES and how they’ve both talked about how much they want the babies but how they’ve never found the time, and somehow that ends up all on Jay, when really I think it’s Beyonce who doesn’t want to have babies right now and Jay is the one who does.

So, do I believe that Jay is out at the clubs with Selita and randoms? Sure! Why not? I think this marriage has two courses right now: either they will stay together, through thick and thin, no matter what random, model, or mistress comes up; OR, they will end up splitting very soon, and it will be epic.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Beyonce brought along Jay-Z for last night’s Met Gala, and as it turns out, Beyonce needed all the support she could get. This too-tight, nipple-grazing (I don’t even know how to describe it) Emilio Pucci dress was not a fashion “win” for Beyonce, considering that she couldn’t even get up the stairs (according to sources). Also, according to The Cut (via ONTD), Beyonce and Jay were BOOED because they didn’t pose for photos for long enough, although that story seems apocryphal considering every photo agency got decent shots of them. Apparently, they only posed for a few seconds and then trotted away from photographers, only to be waylaid by her mortal enemy, stairs.

As for the Pucci dress… meh. I think it’s tacky-looking. I’m not a gold-on-black (vinyl?) hater in general, but put all of the elements of this dress together, and it’s a catastrophe. The nipple-grazing, the too-tight bodice, the mermaid skirt… all of it just ridic.

Jay looks alright though. But I like a man in a white dinner jacket.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.