These are some new photos of LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian and Eddie’s two sons in Aspen, Colorado yesterday. As you may remember, Eddie and LeAnn spent some time before Christmas in Mexico, where they pap’d themselves daily in various beachwear ensembles, LeAnn’s bolt-ons glistening in the hot Mexican sun. Did that just make you nauseous? I made myself nauseous. After that holiday, LeAnn presumably gave Eddie and her “bonus boys” all of the inappropriate Christmas gifts she could afford, and then everybody headed off to Aspen on Monday.

Apparently, LeAnn has already been bitching about how there’s not “enough” snow in Aspen, and she’s on Twitter 24-7 talking to people, so I have no idea when she finds the time to actually ski or out-mother Brandi Glanville. Speaking of, this Aspen trip was already a controversy a month ago, when it seemed like Eddie and LeAnn were leaking info to the tabloids, claiming that Brandi was being unreasonable about the holiday plans for the kids. Brandi gave us her side of the story in mid-December - go here to review.

By the way, as I was looking through the latest LeAnn news, I found this interesting story about a columnist/blogger who felt the “wrath” of LeAnn Rimes’ cray-cray BFF, Darrell Brown. Go here to read Ilana Angel’s hilarious post on how LeAnn is “totally a skank” and how her BFF Darrell is an idiot.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are currently in Mexico, where they have been pap’ing themselves non-stop. Usually, I just blame LeAnn for calling the photographers, but I have to say… Eddie is posing his ass off too. Go here to The Superficial to see the photos – LeAnn in bikinis, her bolt-ons immobile.

Anyway, In Touch had a hilarious/sad story about LeAnn’s Christmas gifts and I sort of believe it. I believe it because LeAnn just seems like the kind of person who spends way too much money on gifts as a way of buying love. Cupboard love, squint style.

Every day is Christmas with LeAnn Rimes around! According to an insider, LeAnn spoils Eddie Cibrian’s sons, Mason, 8, and Jake, 4, by giving them absolutely anything their little hearts desire, including electric cars and even a $15,000 tree house at their Hidden Hills, California home. Now the step mom-turned-Santa is upping the holiday ante: Mason’s allowance will increase from $5 to $100 a week. As for Eddie? LeAnn, 29, bought the 38-year-old a $150,000 turbo Porsche Panamera, but that pales in comparison to her biggest gift yet: “LeAnn’s told Eddie she intends on tearing up their prenup agreement!” reveals the insider.

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Oh dear God, if LeAnn tears up the prenup, the situation will get epic. I’ve often wondered if Eddie is playing at a long con with LeAnn, but I’ve always come back to the idea that while he probably didn’t care about her when things started, he’s grown to love her over time. But if she rips up the prenup… oh, girl. Is she that dumb? Don’t answer that.

As for raising Mason’s allowance – of course she would be that inappropriate. OF COURSE. Not only that, but LeAnn also recently tweeted a photo of her step-sons, with the name of their school visible in the photo. Brandi Glanville gave an interview to Babble about that and much more:

Just last week LeAnn accompanied her husband Eddie to his kids’ elementary school where the stepmom apparently did a special performance for the school children. While Mason and Jake opened their Elf On A Shelf gifts along with their classmates in their classroom, LeAnn posted a picture of the action on her Twitter page, exposing the name of the boys’ school to millions of Twitter users.

Many of LeAnn’s critics are calling out the country crooner for potentially putting her two stepsons’ safety in danger (as well as their classmates) by having the name of their school leaked out for paparazzi photographers to hound during school hours for photos.
Oh, but it doesn’t stop there.

If that wasn’t enough, the new Mrs. Cibrian allegedly signals the paparazzi to show up wherever she goes with her stepsons, giving them even more unnecessary exposure to the limelight. This, according to Brandi Glanville.

Speaking about the paparazzi and her children’s safety in an exclusive interview with Babble, Brandi says, “Luckily for me I know the places to go with the kids where we generally do not get bothered, like I rarely take them to the Malibu Country Mart, for instance.”

“I do feel like the paparazzi of today are a lot friendlier, less aggressive and more respectful then that of some years back that I have heard about. Our reality is that being photographed is going to happen. This is our new life and if I don’t seem to mind it and on my time we don’t make a big deal of it,” she adds.

And in a very obvious swipe at LeAnn, Brandi says, “I do think however it is inappropriate to schedule photo-ops including my children to promote yourself or draw attention to an already tense situation.”

There’s also rumors going around (as well as evidence) of LeAnn and her associates allegedly cyber bulling Brandi on Twitter. LeAnn, who posed for the NOH8 Campaign in an effort to stop nationwide bullying, seems to be one herself as she is encouraging her followers and Twitter friends to send the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star taunting messages.

If that wasn’t enough, LeAnn also allegedly meets her “friends” on Twitter and invites these strangers to her home while Brandi’s kids are present.

[From Babble]

It really does seem to me that Eddie Cibrian ended up marrying his stalker, and once LeAnn “got” him, she turned her crazy attentions to his ex-wife. I really do think LeAnn is mentally imbalanced, and it scares me that very few people call her out on some of her more ridiculous antics.

Photos courtesy of Fame, WENN.

Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes at an event at the House of Blues in LA to celebrate “NOH8 Day”. It’s a human rights cause, which fits because for better or for worse, LeAnn’s commitment to human/gay rights is solid. Shall we just talk about her outfit? The first thing that struck me was “Are those leather capris? Why are they bunching up like that in the crotch?” And then I saw the buttons. OMG. They’re not even functional buttons, I don’t think. They’re just ornamental buttons on a crazy vest and they are EVERYWHERE. WTF?

But… minus the Button Problem and looking at the outfit as a whole, I have to admit that LeAnn kind of pulls it off. The jacket is cute, the combination of leather capris with a tuxedo jacket is kind of awesome, and LeAnn’s hair has really improved so much. I’ll just say it – she looks almost cute here.

Meanwhile, LeAnn is going back into the studio to work on yet another country album. How did Lady and Gentlemen do? Poorly? Anyway, LeAnn wants to focus on “classic country” now, saying, “If this kind of country music was still played, this is all I would do. I find myself wanting to write this kind of music and maybe making a record that’s similar to the style, but my own material. Maybe we’re bringing it back! There’s a huge misconception about me, because of the crossover hits that I’ve had . . . but this is where my heart lies and always has.” She needs to make some money, I guess. She has to keep Eddie ensconced in the luxuries he’s grown accustomed to.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Brandi Glanville e-mailed us over the weekend to let us know her side of the “holiday custody battle” story. We heard a few days ago that Brandi threatened to have her ex, Eddie Cibrian, jailed if he took their two boys out of state for Christmas. Sources told Radar that Brandi is unreasonable, that Eddie has the right to take the boys out of state, and that he’s planning to go to Aspen with the boys and his new wife, LeAnn Rimes. Under the terms of their custody agreement, Brandi gets the boys on Christmas eve and Eddie gets them on Christmas Day. Brandi is frustrated because she was hoping to take her sons to visit her family, but has had to stay in Los Angeles for the past two years to hand the boys off to Eddie on Christmas Day.

Instead of e-mailing or speaking directly with her, Eddie still forces Brandi to go through his assistant to communicate with him. Brandi forwarded us some messages from late November between herself and the assistant. When Brandi brought up the issue of potentially bringing the boys to visit her family on Christmas, the assistant sent her a threatening message directly from Eddie saying that she would be held in contempt of court if she didn’t comply with the custody arrangement. The message was pretty harsh and said that there was no way that the judge would rule in her favor, and that Eddie wasn’t budging on the issue, essentially. At that point, Brandi fired off a text message directly to Eddie saying that he couldn’t take the kids out of state and that she would do the same thing to him – take him in front of a judge – if that happened. So Brandi was just responding to a threat that Eddie originally sent her, through his assistant. Only that one message from Brandi somehow got sent to the news outlets and then Brandi was being unreasonable and threatening Eddie with jail. It was more of a direct response to a threat that he first sent her.

Meanwhile LeAnn and Eddie were pawing all over each other over the weekend at a soccer game for Eddie’s son Mason, 8. You can see the pics here, and they’re ridiculous. Brandi was there too, and she was trying hard to just mind her own business while LeAnn was all “look at me” as usual. Brandi tweeted a response to someone asking a question about the game. She wrote “They are my children, I wouldn’t miss the last soccer game if I could help it.” And LeAnn made sure that the paps didn’t miss it while she played demonstrative “bonus mom” either.

Brandi is shown on 8/13 and 5/21. Credit: WENN and Fame

These are photos of LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian and Eddie’s sons Jake and Mason yesterday. They all went to a “Cookies 4 Kids” events which benefited a cancer charity, and then they went to the Malibu Country Mart or something. Throughout the whole outing, LeAnn, Eddie and the kids got pap’d. It’s been happening more and more when LeAnn is around the kids, but I suspect this photo shoot was a set-up specifically because Brandi Glanville and Eddie are in the midst of custody disagreement regarding the kids’ Christmas plans. Brandi contacted CB yesterday to tell us her side of the story – you can read CB’s exclusive here. It’s pretty clear that Eddie (and LeAnn) are leaking certain pieces of information about Brandi and their ongoing custody drama.

So what’s the point of this photo op? Happy, happy family! Look, “Bonus Mom” LeAnn is so comfortable with the kids! Look, Mason and Jake seem to adore her! Look, Eddie is a great father! Et cetera. Blah. The photos would be more interesting if LeAnn wasn’t so obviously squinting and posing for the cameras.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

These are new photos of LeAnn Rimes last night at the American Giving Awards, where celebrities give awards to “community heroes”. Anyhoodle, LeAnn wore this Alaia dress that… I don’t hate. I don’t hate it ON HER. It would look silly on a more mature woman, what with the little vagina dust ruffle, but for whatever reason, it kind of works on LeAnn. It covers up her bolt-ons and actually makes her look like she’s gained a pound or two back. After all of that talk about how much she eats, I think LeAnn accidentally ate some solids. Her arms look improved too. As for the styling – her hair looks great. This is a great length and color for her. The makeup is too much, though. Too much eye stuff, which makes her eyelids even heavier and more squinty.

Meanwhile, LeAnn has a new interview in The Tennessean which you can read in all of its delusional glory here. An example: her BFF Darrell Brown says that LeAnn’s 3-year-long rampage of insanity is really a “rebirth”. For real. Here are some highlights from the piece:

LeAnn says it’s often hard to “bite my tongue”: “I don’t want to talk negatively about anyone at all. It’s not in my nature. And I don’t want the boys to see me ever speaking badly about anyone in their family. It’s hard not to go, ‘Here’s the truth,’ but then it’s someone’s word against my word and people will be split, it will be a big drama, and I don’t want that.”

On getting with Eddie: Rimes is the first to admit that the way she and Cibrian began their relationship wasn’t “the most proper,” but she doesn’t regret the outcome and says she really thinks everyone is in each other’s lives for a reason. “It’s changed me,” she says. “You have no idea how much it’s changed me, but in a good way.”

Being a step-mom: “It’s not like we just have them on the weekends. I do homework and I make lunches and I do normal things you would do as a mom and I enjoy it, that normal life that I’ve never had as a wife or as a mom. I never really knew if I wanted kids or not, because I was so business-focused and … now I have two that aren’t my blood, but really at the end of the day, I love watching them grow and learn, and I love to be a part of teaching them that.”

Wanting to talk about her experiences as a step-parent: “It’s really hard. I’m not going to lie. But I feel the need to actually talk about it sometimes, my happiness with his children, because I do love his kids and because I don’t feel like I could love Eddie and (not love his children). I don’t believe that a marriage and family will work without a stepmother walking into that role and fully giving themselves of time and love. And it’s really a fine line when I have to talk about … when I say ‘my kids,’ but that’s honestly (how I feel). I say that very politely and tread lightly on that because I don’t want to hurt anyone. When I say that and anything I share on Twitter, it’s all out of happiness and just my life. This is my life and our life now.”

Answering Mason & Jake’s questions about their dad’s relationship: “I know Eddie’s kids will have many questions we will be more than happy to answer, and hopefully they will learn from our mistakes and not make them. But, it’s really not anyone’s business.”

[From The Tennessean]

Does LeAnn really not see that there is a line between being a good step-mother and publicly referring to her step-sons as her own kids? And publicly taunting their mother?

Speaking of, remember how LeAnn had a Twitter hissy fit over a Babble report on Brandi Glanville’s claim that Eddie was sending her (Brandi) threatening emails? Well, there’s a custody war brewing over the kids’ Christmas plans, which was the crux of that previous Twitter hissy. Radar/Star reports that Brandi has threatened Eddie, claiming that if he takes Mason and Jake out of the state for Christmas (he plans on taking them to Aspen), then he’ll be in violation of their custody agreement. But! Radar claims that the custody arrangement just forbids either parent from taking the kids out of the country, not out of the state. A source says, “Eddie feels she can’t be reasoned with.” I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about this.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are a few new and newish photos from LeAnn Rimes’s Twitter feed. I think she got a better, higher-quality camera to take all of Twit-pics, because some of these photos are actually quite pretty (technically speaking) and why not make the investment in something LeAnn uses on an hourly basis? The header photo is the one LeAnn published on Thanksgiving – I guess she and Eddie had the kids for the holiday? Sure. Mason and Jake are so, so cute, but what’s up with Eddie’s sketchy mustache? Yikes. I kind of wish we had the photos of LeAnn after Thanksgiving – you can see them here at The Mail. She went shopping braless, her bolt-ons looking really immobile in a sheer tank dress. The photos are gross/hilarious.

In other LeAnn news, I was looking through her Twitter to find some inspiration. What I found instead a Babble report that LeAnn was tweet-freaking about. Allegedly, Brandi Glanville was tweeting about some “threatening email” from her ex, Eddie Cibrian, all about the holiday arrangements of Mason and Jake. Brandi claimed that Eddie “blames” her for the cancellation of The Playboy Club and Eddie’s going to “punish her” by taking the kids for Christmas. The exact tweet: “Any divorce lawyers wanna give me some advice on a threatening email? It’s like he is punishing me cuz he lost his job! It’s always nice to be threated [sic] with jail time and loss of custody for wanting me kids to be with their only three cousins for Christmas. Bully!” LeAnn went on her Twitter to scream “LIES AS USUAL” and “First I’ve seen about emails I never sent. It’s amusing, that’s all.” When asked by Babble about who actually has the kids for Christmas, LeAnn wrote this:

Until private, family matters can stay that way we cannot communicate properly and through a public forum is not the way. I have fallen short myself out of anger, but for the kids sake only try to share happiness. It’s no one’s business, our family business and since you will not hear both sides of the story no one should judge nor jump to conclusions. I do not know what has been said except for what I just read, but it’s far from the truth, I will say that.

[From LeAnn’s Twitter]

Is that a non-denial denial? Brandi didn’t say that LeAnn emailed, she said that Eddie emailed. This shouldn’t be LeAnn’s fight, and she’s gotten on her high horse to pontificate on a public forum about how Brandi shouldn’t communicate on a public forum. LeAnn Rimes: A Clusterf–k of Crazy Since 2008. Oh, and I just saw that right after LeAnn got on her high horse (operative word: HORSE), she went on to tweet specifically about Eddie and Brandi’s holiday custody arrangement. On a public forum.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Twitter.

OH GOD. Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes last night at the CMAs. She was wearing Badgley Mischka, a once great label that now just sticks random ruffles everywhere and uses Rumer Willis as their “face”. So… no, I won’t go there with a rude joke. Let’s just say that LeAnn looked like hell. And it wasn’t just the fashion either! Look at her makeup:

Is she taking style tips from Christina Aguilera? I know I’m a prude about ladies and their makeup (especially considering I rarely wear makeup), but this is a massive “Makeup Don’t”. Don’t do child-like berry-pink lips for formal red carpets. Don’t do frosted blue-silver eyeshadow, ever. Don’t slather the eye-shadow on so thick it looks like it was applied in layers over the course of an hour. Also: Her hair is a complete mess. Stringy and busted. Those are the best descriptors for her whole look, actually. She looks like a Dairy Queen girl at the prom, no offense to the DQ. At least her bolt-ons are contained.

Also, this happened and LeAnn tweeted it, of course.

By the way, LeAnn participated in Us Weekly’s “What’s in my bag?” feature - go here to see. It’s basically just a big advertisement for all of the products LeAnn uses, but it’s interesting, I guess.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn Rimes’s Twitter & PR Photos.

Did I miss this story? Did CB already cover this? I don’t think we did. Last week, Brandi Glanville appeared on The Wendy Williams Show. Wendy asked Brandi what LeAnn Rimes is like as a stepmother to Brandi and Eddie Cibrian’s two sons, and Brandi hedged and then replied, “Overbearing.” LeAnn had a Twitter hissy fit, of course, and tweeted: “I am his WIFE & their ‘bonus mom’ and it’s out of line after 3 years to continually discuss. Negativity does not help kids. Go promote your show if that’s what you’re really there to do.” And then LeAnn followed up with, “I however will not be lied about. Obviously we are not in a good place like has been claimed and it’s not good for the kids. I’d like to see some resolve, but that doesn’t look like its happening anytime soon. #hopeforthebest.”

Brandi then tweeted back (because this is high school, apparently): “Let’s b clear just as u get asked about me, I get asked about u. It is my story & life also. I will answer honestly, don’t b a hater.” So, that was what happened in public, on their respective social media. Now what happened behind the scenes? In Touch Weekly has the story:

LeAnn Rimes was already livid that her husband Eddie Cibrian’s ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, called her an “overbearing” step-mother on The Wendy Williams Show. But then LeAnn directed her anger at Eddie.

While on the phone with him in NYC on October 24, LeAnn flew into a terrifying rage after a misguided Eddie – trying to play peacemaker – suggested that she call Brandi.

Although LeAnn’s rep denies the story, the insider says LeAnn cursed at Eddie for proposing she talk to “that whore Brandi” on the phone.

“She was screaming and crying,” an insider tells In Touch. “She just flipped out.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

“That whore Brandi” - whatcha talkin’ ‘bout, homewrecker? Seriously, though, I believe this. If anything, I think In Touch Weekly is probably underselling what really went down. I see LeAnn in complete hysterics, collapsing under the weight of her own “overbearing” martyrdom, screaming “BONUS MOM!!! SCREEEEEEEE!!!!”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian in their Halloween costumes (via LeAnn’s Twitter, of course). I guess they went as good ol’ fashioned rednecks? And don’t even start with me that “redneck” is hate-speech or something. I live in Virginia. I grew up with rednecks. Rednecks who are true rednecks are proud to call themselves rednecks. You can’t swing a dick around here without running into dozens of dudes who look exactly like Eddie. Now, LeAnn’s pregnant, smoking, white trash bride… you’d have to look a bit harder to find her, but I’m sure you probably could.

It’s funny that both of them look completely natural in these costumes, right? Eddie looks totally at home. I can totally see him driving a pickup truck and giving me an estimate on a new roof. LeAnn looks slightly unconvincing, only because she probably knows, somewhere deep in her heart, that this is her natural state. I mean, I remember what her hair used to look like. I remember what a low-class little thing she used to be (and arguably still is). But she should have tried to find a more convincing baby bump – she probably went with a smaller one because she’s terrified of looking “fat” even for a Halloween costume. Also, does she have a black eye, or is that just bad makeup/shadowing?

One more thing – LeAnn covers the new (digital?) issue of Country Stars Central, below. Ten bucks says she’s super-pissed that her thighs look like that.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn Rimes’s Twitter.