It was all about LeAnn Rimes this weekend, as it is every weekend. Even more so this weekend because she got to help Eddie Cibrian celebrate his birthday and Father’s Day and of course it was all about HER. I’m including the photos LeAnn posted on Twitter this weekend – two of the pics involve Eddie’s sons. I know I’m a broken record on this, but it still makes me uncomfortable when LeAnn the Bonus Mom tweets photos of her step-sons. If Eddie was doing it, fine. He’s their father. But LeAnn always goes overboard and it’s just uncomfortable. Here are some selected tweets from LeAnn’s Twitter:

Happy Father’s Day to all the great dads and bonus dads!!!!! Love to you all

Happy 40th birthday to my incredible husband and the best father his boys could ever ask for. We all love you baby @EddieCibrian

Even though our plans changed, we are having the best day! It’s all about THE MAN today! ❤

Love this pic and these boys are the light of my husband’s life. He lives and loves to be a dad. #luckyboysluckydad

I love this man….. He’s the big 40, he’s amazing, he’s my everything and more

[Via LeAnn’s Twitter]

So, Eddie is 40 years old now? Wouldn’t it be awesome if suddenly LeAnn decided he was too old and she traded him in for a younger model? Because really, what does Eddie bring to the table? Not much. And LeAnn is desperately trying to “keep” him and keep track of his wandering dong, and who needs that stress? Better to just throw him over and get someone younger. But of course that won’t happen. LeAnn is a bitter-ender – if this relationship ends, it will be because Eddie has had enough.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Twitter.

Many of you called this, so you’re probably feeling pretty good right now. Despite some decent reviews and a wall-to-wall press tour to promote the album, LeAnn Rimes’ Spitfire is being declared a “bomb”. All of that hustling for nothing! Honestly, though, I don’t know much about how these things are calculated and all of the charts and ranking systems that make up the current music industry standards. But I do know that selling less than 11,000 copies in the first week is no bueno.

Spitfire or misfire? LeAnn Rimes’ latest album earned critical acclaim (Us Weekly’s Ian Drew gave it 3/4 stars, while USA Today’s Brian Mansfield gave it 4/4 stars) but the disc failed to make an impression on the Billboard charts. Released in the U.S. June 4, the singer’s 12th CD debuted at No. 36, selling a disappointing 10,798 copies. By comparison, Queens of the Stone Age’s sixth studio album, …Like Clockwork, debuted at No. 1 with 91,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan data.

After a tumultuous few years — the singer’s image was tarnished after Us exposed her affair with Eddie Cibrian’ in 2009 while both stars were married to other people — Rimes had been hoping for a hit. Instead of staying quiet, Rimes decided to share her side of the story through music.

“I felt I had nothing to lose by telling the truth,” Rimes said in Us Weekly’s June 10 issue. “I’d been so quiet about everything, it was like ripping a piece of tape off my mouth.”

The stepmom to Cibrian and Brandi Glanville’s sons Mason, 10, and Jake, 6, discussed her affair in the song “Borrowed.” According to Rimes, writing and releasing the song was cathartic. “It was the elephant in the room; I had to to talk about it,” the two-time Grammy winner explained.

“There’s no glamorizing the situation. I was disgusted with myself and thought I was pathetic. But now that I’m on the other side, I’m proud of who I am.”

[From Us Weekly]

If you’ve been on LeAnn’s Twitter this week, you know that she’s trying to put a good spin on the numbers. LeAnn tweeted a bunch of chart images and she claims that Spitfire was the “sole Top 10 country debut.” Eh. As I said, there are a bunch of different ways to analyze the data. We need to get Nate Silver to crunch the numbers! But I think if Us Weekly is calling her out, it’s probably a “bomb”. It could be that her asinine press tour really turned people off. Ha.

Here are some new Vine videos to haunt your nightmares:

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and LeAnn’s Twitter.

Kaiser passed this LeAnn Rimes story over to me because I think she’s tired of covering it. There is only so much you can take of LeAnn’s hypocrisy. Plus the girl just talks so damn much. She’s been promoting her new album, which just seems like an excuse for her to keep playing the victim and covering the same old ground. It’s exhausting.

The latest in this never-ending saga has LeAnn appearing on The View yesterday. She was of course asked about the personal nature of her latest songs, and she acted like it was the first time she had addressed the whole situation, like ever, when it’s all she’s talked about in interviews for years.

On how open she was about the affair in her lyrics
It was incredibly hard to write. It was kind of like the elephant in the room that I had to address. If I would have gone out and sung songs about everything being happy and fine everyone would have gone like ‘that’s so not true.’

So I mean I really sat through a lot of tears, through a lot of honesty. I didn’t realize I was experiencing these things until I wrote it.

Everything I’ve gone through, this emotional roller coaster ride over the past four and a half years is in song in this record.

On being in the tabloids and being a musician
They’ve had a great time with me. That’s what I love to do [sing]. I’m glad the conversation is changing. Yes I’m approaching these topics through my music, but at the same time… these are real human emotions. I’ve been in this business for 20 years and for the first time I’m approaching this from a human perspective. People always know me for my voice… they’ve never really gotten to know me.

On if the criticism is unjustified
I definitely take my responsibility for the side of things. I definitely think that it’s been a very skewed version of this story and it’s gone on far too long. This album was written two and a half years ago and I am approaching real emotions, it’s not just the situation.

On the lyrics to Borrowed and if she still feels the same
Yeah, that was a moment in time captured through music and of course I know it was wrong. Life is so complicated. Life sucks sometimes. When you grow up in the public eye you kind of – like I said no one really knew who I was. I think that was also half my responsibility to figure out who I was and it was hard. It was incredibly complicated. I think finally, through my music and through my life, first time I’m kind of settled a little bit more. It was nice.

On her rehab stint
I wasn’t going in for anything other than anxiety and stress. I lived this life I had a lot of emotions I hadn’t dealt with growing up in the public eye. Writing this record I opened up a can of worms I didn’t even know was there. There was a lot of really deep things I wanted to go take care of myself. I’d taken care of everyone else, I wanted to pause.

On if she has found peace
It depends on the day.. acceptance is an amazing thing.

On being a stepmom to Eddie’s kids
For us, it’s fantastic. We’ve been able to build this life that we’re very happy with, this family that we’re happy with. Those kids are so amazing and they’ve always been so respectful and accepting. I’m lucky, I really enjoy them. We have them half the time. It’s not easy at all.

On getting along with Brandi
As any stepmom would understand, it depends on the day.

[From The View video]

I watched it, you can watch it at about 25 minutes into this video on Hulu if you’re in the US. All I heard was “me me me, my struggles, my problems, my life is hard and you don’t know me.” Plus she focused so much on getting her side out, as if she hasn’t done that pretty much nonstop on Twitter and interviews. It is tiring! It’s ridiculous. If cheating was an elephant in the room, it was one she dressed up and trained to act in her own personal circus. She thinks we don’t “know” her, but we’ve watched her beg for attention for years, and we’ve heard her say the same things over and over. We know her, she just tries too hard to be something she’s not.

LeAnn is shown yesterday in NY. Credit: Pacific Coast News and FameFlynet

LeAnn Rimes appeared on Good Morning America yesterday. She was full of it. I couldn’t even get through the whole interview because if I rolled my eyes one more time, it was going to give me a seizure. Obviously, LeAnn was promoting Spitfire, which is still getting okay-to-positive reviews, which is absolutely a mystery to me. I’ve heard parts of “Spitfire” and “What Have I Done” (which LeAnn sang for GMA) and they’re both terrible songs. Should we have different standards for country music? I don’t think so – while I’m not a big country music listener, I can listen to Carrie Underwood or Miranda Lambert and I understand why their hit songs are so popular. I don’t understand it with LeAnn’s current songs. At all.

As for the interview, LeAnn told Robin Roberts, “I went through every emotion you can imagine in the last four and a half years and that’s what comes through. It was a roller coaster ride, as you can imagine…. It finally felt like I ripped that tape off my mouth and had something to say. But at no one else’s expense but mine. This is just the truth.” O RLY? “No one’s expense but mine”? “Just the truth”? LeAnn really does live in her own little world. LeAnn also hilariously defended her Twitter addiction, saying it’s “just life. I’ve approached everything I’m a human being. I have the right to share my happiness and my failures like everybody else.” Here’s the interview:

Here’s her performance of “What Have I Done” – this song is about Dean, I guess? It’s awful.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

I really think these photos – of LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian doing a joint interview on Extra – are going to become my new go-to photos for LeAnn. She was just making the weirdest expressions throughout the appearance. Good times. As for that Chelsea Handler interview which I partially covered yesterday – as it turns out, LeAnn wasn’t wearing underwear. She basically said that to Chelsea. Chelsea asked LeAnn about tweeting Brandi and LeAnn said, “She tweets a lot to herself. And I just kind of sometimes reply when there’s a ton of lies always spread about me. I just have to spurt it out.” LeAnn also said that she and Brandi “don’t speak” and “When everything you do or don’t do becomes a tabloid story how can you actually co parent? How do you speak to someone?” And of course there’s more:

How times have changed! Unlike in years past, LeAnn Rimes rarely responds to husband Eddie Cibrian’s ex-wife Brandi Glanville via Twitter. Speaking to Us Weekly while promoting her new album Spitfire, the 30-year-old country music superstar explains how she’s learned to ignore the 40-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star’s online antics.

“The thing is, Eddie and I are very proud of the home and family that we have. We don’t like drama, and we don’t want to be part of it,” says the two-time Grammy winner. “We can’t control the people around us, but we can control we handle drama, and we’ve made a very peaceful life for ourselves and I’m very happy with that. There’s a lot of drama on the outside and we’ve finally learned how to not let it in.”

Rimes, who recently moved into a new house with the Hot in Cleveland guest star, adds that they “love to just stay in and be away from it all.” Though Glanville often criticizes her sons’ “bonus mom” in interviews, Rimes has grown tired of letting their family drama play out in the press.

“I definitely have to bite my tongue a lot of the time,” the Mississippi-born, Texas-raised star admits. “There’s a fine line because I don’t want to be run over and I do stand up for myself. But I also don’t want to feed into the drama. I did say, ‘I do music, not drama.” I don’t need drama to have a career. And so I plan on, as much as possible, to not feed into it. Like I said, there will be moments I don’t hold back from standing up for myself.”

Glanville has often complained about co-parenting sons Jake, 10, and Mason, 6, with Cibrian and Rimes, a problem that’s been exacerbated by publicly bashing her ex and his new wife. “It’s really hard to communicate when you’re afraid that someone is going to take something, twist it and use it in the press,” Rimes tells Us. “There’s a reason why I don’t — we don’t — speak right now. And I hope that things like someone tweeting about not being able to get ahold of their kids will subside at some point and not be used as drama.”

“I think if our lives were not played out so publicly that way, then we would be able to communicate better,” Rimes adds. “But, at this moment, that’s not [the case].”

The “Borrowed” singer tells Us she would rather focus on her music than on feuding with the Drinking and Tweeting author. “It’s time for the conversation to change,” Rimes says. “I do music. I don’t blow up drama for the sake of a career.”

[From Us Weekly]

For the love of God. Does she know how ridiculous she sounds? I will admit that I think Brandi Glanville “starts” some of this stuff, but I really believe that – let’s say – 75% of the time it’s just LeAnn being a drama queen, starting her own “war” and being really ridiculous. I mean, let’s take an example from this past weekend – Brandi tweeted a few cute photos of the birthday party she threw for one of her sons. She didn’t direct the tweets to anyone, there was no shade, it was just “hey, this is my son’s birthday cake” etc. LeAnn then went completely overboard trying to “one-up” Brandi by tweeting about the cake she got for Mason and going on and on (complete with photos and Vine videos) about the birthday celebrations SHE hosted. What’s so funny to me is that Brandi has to expend so little energy to get under LeAnn’s skin, and it feels like LeAnn spends 24 hours a day, 7 days a week trying to figure out how to “respond”. LeAnn is a vortex of narcissism and self-perpetuating drama.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian at The Grove yesterday, filming an interview with Extra. I can’t find the interview! So I guess Extra hasn’t released anything online yet. I can tell from the photos that Eddie and LeAn did the interview together and then she sang something, probably a new song from her album. LeAnn looks… different, right? Ever since Brandi Glanville accused her of downing laxatives like candy, LeAnn has been gaining some much-needed weight back. Some of the weight has gone to her face, I think. Either that, or this is just an awful hairstyle that makes her face look chubby. Also: how unflattering is this dress? Ruching on the side? Gross. So, obviously, I’m now wondering if she’s pregnant.

Some more LeAnn stuff – she’s going back to acting! She’s going to make a guest appearance on Anger Management, and she’ll be playing Charlie Sheen’s love interest/girlfriend. There’s also a rumor going around – that I can only find on this one outlet – that LeAnn’s lawsuit against the Smileys was thrown out of court, and that LeAnn has 20 days to either re-file or let it go. We’ll see.

LeAnn also appeared on Chelsea Lately last night. It was a boring interview, LeAnn just said that she’s not ready to be pregnant yet but she is a step-mom, blah. So I guess she’s not pregnant.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes from her Twitter, of course. Note that she got Eddie to pose for some photos too. Anything in service of Spitfire! LeAnn performed on last night’s Tonight Show, because Spitfire is already out (?) and she’s got to promote that junk. Surprisingly, the reviews of Spitfire aren’t all bad. The Hollywood Reporter calls it “the best country record of the year” and THR also did a sit-down with LeAnn where she explains the background on many of the album’s songs – she sounds really self-absorbed in the piece, but whatever. Here’s LeAnn’s performance of “Spitfire” – skip over to the last block of time, because the Tonight Show hasn’t released the performance as a clip yet. I’m sorry! You’ll have to watch the ads, which sucks.

Eh. It was a decent performance of a really annoying song. I don’t get why critics are claiming that this is some kind of quality country music – yes, LeAnn’s voice is still decent, but her songwriting abilities are questionable. LeAnn claims that “This album is at no one else’s expense but mine. I didn’t go out and lash out at anyone, or put names in my songs.” Yeah. I don’t know if you’ve heard or read the lyrics to many of the songs, but LeAnn is definitely taking aim at Brandi too.

Here are some more creepy Vine videos, because I know you love them:

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Twitter, WENN.

Here are some new photos of Brandi Glanville leaving Mr. Chow on Saturday night. She was out and about because she didn’t have her sons that night. And I know that because LeAnn Rimes was tweeting constantly about the boys. But before I get into that, Brandi wants you to know that she really hasn’t had that much done, plastic surgery-wise. She tweeted on Saturday, “OMG for the love of GOD! I havent had any new plastic surgery!!! Boobs and VJJ that is it! I dont count facials botox and fillers as surgery”. Okay. We got that out of the way.

So, on Friday night, Brandi threw Mason a birthday party. She tweeted this:

And another photo too. After that, I guess Mason and Jake went to their dad’s house where their Bonus Mom couldn’t shut up about it. First LeAnn tweeted, “Just had a great time at Mason’s 10th birthday party. Such cute kids.” Then, “Night! Trying to get several little boys to go to bed after a big party. LOTS of pizza and sugar!!”

Then on Saturday, LeAnn bragged, “Just spent two hrs hitting up two grocery stores because birthday bot wants fruit pie! I actually enjoyed it. Going home to cook!!” And then, “Full tummies, a house full of happy boys! Happy Saturday night! On the couch watching TV and doing nothing. It’s a RARE Saturday for me.” So now you know that LeAnn Rimes, The Bonus Mom, had Mason and Jake all weekend and that they wanted a fruit pie after their mom gave them sugar, etc. LeAnn really doesn’t understand, does she? No, she really doesn’t. Here’s the latest excerpt from LeAnn’s People Mag interview:

LeAnn Rimes settles into a chair and exhales. “I’ve been doing a lot of deep breathing lately,” she says. “I just feel like I held my breath for so long.”

Sitting on the sunny patio of the Los Angeles home she shares with husband Eddie Cibrian, the country singer reflects on the hard-fought happiness she’s finally learning to enjoy. “I’ve grown up a lot these last five years,” she says. “I thought my life was falling apart, but now everything is good.”

Rimes admits that the recent tumult in her life was often self-inflicted. In 2009 she and Cibrian, 39, engaged in a highly publicized affair, which ended their respective marriages. “I made some really bad choices,” she says. “I caused hurt.”

The songs on her new album Spitfire, out June 4, chronicle the drama and include an apology to her ex-husband Dean Sheremet. “I broke the sweetest heart of the only man that’s ever loved me,” she laments in “What Have I Done.” She shares the experience of being a mistress in “Borrowed” and offers an olive branch to a woman scorned in “Just a Girl Like You”, which many will assume is aimed at Cibrian’s ex Brandi Glanville.

[From People]

God, just hearing the names of LeAnn’s new songs makes me bash my head in. And of course LeAnn thinks she’s “grown up a lot” because she’s had all of this time “away” from the spotlight except that she’s never shut up. She’s never gone away. She’s never not been pushing her drama and narcissism into our faces. The fact that these “exclusive interviews” are coming out during the same weekend that LeAnn gets on Twitter and tries to one-up and “out-mother” Brandi Glanville says it all.

Oh, and LeAnn has yet another new interview in The New York Times. I rolled my eyes about a dozen times – you should really read the whole thing because OMG. It’s all LeAnn talking about LeAnn and how fearless LeAnn is and how amazing and misunderstood LeAnn is because LeAnn LeAnn LeAnn. My favorite quote? “As a parent now, I want these kids to be kids as long as they can. I really enjoy my stepsons. I go out on the trampoline and jump around with them, and it’s awesome! They give me an excuse to have a childhood that I never got to have.” Dear God.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I finally understand why LeAnn Rimes has been posting so many creepy Vine videos to her Twitter! They were previews for her long-gestating reality show. We’ve been hearing rumors about this “reality show” for months now – apparently, Eddie and LeAnn were meeting with networks and producers, pitching a Curb Your Enthusiasm-type reality show. Like, it will be based on their real lives but it will be “scripted” and “they will be playing versions of themselves”. At least that’s how it was billed a few months ago. Well, LeAnn confirmed the project to People Magazine in her “exclusive” interview:

LeAnn Rimes and her husband Eddie Cibrian are headed back to the small screen – and ready to face their critics head on.

“We’re doing a TV show based on our reality,” Rimes, 30, tells PEOPLE. “We’ll take things out of our lives and elaborate them and make them funny. People have been laughing at us – we want them to laugh with us!”

The couple, married since 2011, met on the set of Lifetime’s Northern Lights in 2008, and gained public notoriety when they fell for each other and ended their respective marriages the following year.

“For some reason, everyone is so interested in our lives but they don’t actually know about them,” Rimes says. “What they read is what they see. We want to be able to take control of our lives again so we want to do a show about us, about our lives, but scripted.”

The show has yet to secure a title or network, but the singer, whose new album, Spitfire, will be out June 4, is looking forward to working with her hubby again.

“That’s why we explored the idea of doing the show, to be able to be together.”

And what about the rumors that Rimes is joining the cast of next season’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, currently starring Cibrian’s ex, Brandi Glanville?

“That would never cross my mind,” she says with a laugh. “Never in a million years!”

[From People]

“We’re doing a TV show based on our reality”…? You know who talks like that? Karl Rove. He’s always talking about “the reality-based reality” versus “the reality that can be created” through sheer force of will. Which is a good way to think about this LeAnn project: think of the LOLs it will bring. Because people will still be laughing AT them and not with them. This is going to be such a disaster.

A preview of coming attractions:

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I told you yesterday that LeAnn Rimes had given “exclusive” interviews to both Us Weekly and People Magazine, and I imagine both pieces include the same BS quotes about “feeling pathetic” and “being strong now” and “not knowing how to process everything.” As it turns out, LeAnn also talked about motherhood and fertility and such too. Fascinating…

She’s got a full house already: a husband, two kids and four dogs, but LeAnn Rimes is ready to expand, when the time is right.

“We have a lot on our plates,” says the singer of home life with Eddie Cibrian, 39, and his children Mason, 9, and Jake, 6, who live with the couple part-time. “But whenever I talk about kids, I’m like, ‘Let’s have one!’ I have a lot of work to do now but I’m totally ready if it happens.”

Timing aside, Rimes, 30, whose new album Spitfire is out June 4, is realistic about her dreams of being a mother.

“It took my mom 12 years to have me. I hope I don’t have that [issue] but if I do, then a surrogate is something I’ve thought about,” she says. “Eddie and I have also talked about adopting. My capacity to love a child doesn’t stop at my own eggs, obviously!”

Rimes and Cibrian married in 2011, two years after separating from their respective spouses following an explosive, and highly publicized, affair.

“I felt like my life was falling apart,” she says. “But now I feel settled. I’m proud of our great family. Eddie is an amazing father and I love my stepsons.”

Still, Rimes says with a laugh, it would be nice to mix things up a bit when it comes time for a new arrival. “Testosterone is all around here so I need a little girl!”

[From People]

LeAnn with a daughter… OMG. I don’t know whether that would be a cosmic joke or whether we should just call CPS right now. I actually don’t think LeAnn could deal with having to “compete” with a daughter for attention. It would not bring out the best in her. As for the fertility issue, Us Weekly released more of their interview:

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian have their hands full with Mason and Jake, the actor’s sons with ex-wife and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville. Even so, the spouses of two years are excited about the prospect of starting a family of their very own.

“We talk about having kids all the time and I would love to, but it’s gonna be a second,” Rimes tells Us Weekly. “I’m still young and fertile — it’s all good!”

The “Borrowed” singer predicts that Mason, 9, and Jake, 6, will be “a little older” before she and Cibrian give them a half-sibling. “I was just with the kids for the last two days taking care of them on my own, and trust me . . . I have a newfound respect for working moms who do it all by themselves,” Rimes admits. “It was my birth control for a little bit — so overwhelming!”

The tight-knit brothers are “really active,” Rimes explains, so most afternoons are spent hanging out in the backyard playing “whatever they’re dreaming up at that moment.”

“The little one has a vivid imagination, so we’re usually playing swords and shooting people with imaginary guns. Mason is turning 10 and he’s definitely got that kind of pre-teen thing going on, which is so crazy because I’ve known him since he was 6,” the Grammy winner tells Us. “They ride dirt bikes now and quads. I grew up in Mississippi, so I’ve ridden quads my whole life, since I was like 2-years-old. So that’s kind of like our family thing to do now. Everybody has either a dirt bike or a little quad and we go riding around the neighborhood.”

Rimes, 30, doesn’t mind being outnumbered 3-to-1 when Cibrian has custody of the kids. “It’s fun to be around boys,” explains the singer, whose new album Spitfire is out June 4. “You get to do things that I didn’t necessarily get to do and haven’t gotten to do in a long time. With two boys around, I usually don’t get out of shorts and a T-shirt because we’re rolling around most of the time and jumping on a trampoline. I love it!”

[From Us Weekly]

Again, how is this appropriate? How is it appropriate to pitch a fit about your ex-wife showing your sons (in the background) of a reality show but it’s completely okay for your children’s stepmother to whore out details of her stepsons’ lives to Us Weekly. Oh, and I live in the South too and it’s common to let young children ride/drive ATVs and dirtbikes, but that should be a discussion between Eddie and Brandi and it shouldn’t involve LeAnn discussing it with Us Weekly!!! Also: LeAnn is still posting creepy Vine videos too, and check out this one which includes Mason and Jake! How shocking.

Here’s another one which includes Eddie giving the camera a “FML” look.

Photos courtesy of WENN.