Lisa Marie Presley is the latest celebrity to join the twin trend. I was desperate to have them, reducing my fat pregnant prison sentences by nine months, and now we’ve got people popping them out all over Hollywood. For Lisa Marie, the source of the twins is no mystery since they run on both sides of her family:

The singer’s mother, Priscilla Presley, has confirmed her daughter is expecting a double bundle of joy this autumn.

Priscilla reveals, “She wanted it really to be kept a secret for a long time, and I think women should, because they should be able to announce what they’re having and when it’s time to make the announcement.”

The new arrivals will follow a family tradition - Lisa Marie’s rock legend dad, Elvis, was a twin, and Priscilla has twin brothers.

San Francisco Chronicle

I wouldn’t call twins a ‘family tradition’ when it is really more genetics. With twins on both sides of the family I’m surprised that Lisa Marie hasn’t had twins during one of her previous pregnancies. She has a 19-year old daughter Dannielle and a 16-year-old son Benjamin from her first marriage. She is currently married to music producer Michael Lockwood.

I’m not sure how Lisa Marie feels about her mother blabbing all around town that she’s having twins, I have a family member who can’t keep his mouth shut, so now he’s always the last to know news. I want to tell people myself! Priscilla has in the past sort-of confirmed the twins to paparazzi. I think she’s just very excited - it must be nice to have new grandbabies when your others are getting all grown up.

I’m not sure when Lisa Marie is due to have her babies but it must be getting close as Pink threw her a baby shower last weekend, and it is six months since the news of her pregnancy was confirmed.

Other celebrity mothers to have twins or announce twin pregnancies include Jennifer Lopez, Rebecca Romijn, Marcia Cross, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie and Holly Hunter.

Lisa Marie Presley is shown on 4/7/08 outside Madeo restaurant with husband Michael Lockwood. Credit: WENN

Lisa Marie Presley won an apology from the U.K.’s Daily Mail, which implied that she was overweight and overeating. They published some very unflattering photos of Presley, which forced her to announce that she was actually pregnant – well before she planned on it. The Daily Mail didn’t just call Lisa Marie fat – they compared her to her father Elvis, who in his later years developed quite the voracious appetite.

Last month, Britain’s Daily Mail published a photo of Presley, dressed down and without makeup, eating with friends in Los Angeles, and the accompanying article said she was “growing just like her dad.”

Presley’s lawyers sued for libel, and on Friday the newspaper printed an apology. In fact, Presley, 40, felt forced to reveal her pregnancy secret two days after the article appeared. “I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant,” she wrote on her MySpace Celebrity blog.

“My client is deeply upset and offended by this article, especially as it was widely published just as she and her family were meant to be celebrating her happy news,” her legal rep, Simon Smith, said at the time.

[From People]

I searched for the offending article, and it appears that the Daily Mail has removed it. Their apology is that typical terse stuff that somehow reads, “We’re technically apologizing for calling you fat, but only because we have to.”

On March 4, we published a photograph of Lisa Marie Presley while she was dining with friends. We suggested she might have an unhealthy appetite similar to her late father. We now accept that the suggestion is untrue and apologise to Ms Presley for any distress caused.

[From the Daily Mail]

Lisa Marie is believed to be expecting twins, but mom Priscilla was sort of tricked by a TMZ photog into answering the question. He asked, “How do you feel about Lisa having twins?” and she said “It feels great!”

The Daily Mail can provide some good articles once in a while, and has decent coverage of Brittan’s bigger stars. But at least a few times a week they seem to run out of stories to cover, and instead of finding something useful they find a bunch of unflattering photographs and dissect people’s appearance. I’d love to say that this will stop them, but there were no financial penalties, so I doubt it. But at least Lisa won a moral victory.

Here’s Lisa Marie Presley leaving Madeo restaurant with her husband Michael Lockwood on April 7th. Images thanks to WENN.

Priscilla Presley may have been tricked by those questions the paparazzi throw at celebrities when they’re on their way somewhere. A clip shown on TMZ TV has a photographer asking the “Dancing with The Stars” contestant “How do you feel about Lisa having twins?” and she answers “It feels great!”

The rumor that Lisa Marie was having twins was first reported in Star Magazine and picked up by other outlets. It was never confirmed or acknowledged by Lisa.

Priscilla’s daughter Lisa Marie was upset after initial media reports called her fat when she was first photographed earlier in this month. She sued the Daily Mail for their nasty article comparing her to her bloated father before his death and called the media “like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight.” She has since blogged that she is happy with the support she received after that incident, saying “Your overwhelming support has not gone unnoticed. It has been heart warming to see. It has made me very happy.”

Priscilla Presley performed extremely well on her first week on “Dancing with The Stars.” She did a foxtrox with with her partner Louis that was fluid and elegant and drew praise from the judges. It’s got to be an exciting time for the 62 year-old Scientologist. She may have two more grandchildren arriving at once and it looks like she’s going to be on “Dancing With The Stars” for a few more weeks.

Here’s a clip of Priscilla on “Dancing With The Stars”

And the clip of Priscilla confirming her daughter’s pregnancy:

Lisa Marie Presley and Priscilla Presley are shown on at the William S. Paley TV Festival - Elvis 68 Comeback Special on the 40th Anniversary on 3/14/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Here’s a quick update on currently pregnant celebrities.

Halle Berry is due any second! I think she is going to have the cutest baby with her model boyfriend Gabriel Aubrey, but will she sell the pictures?

Jamie Lynn Spears – some sources are saying she is due very, very soon, but just doesn’t seem to have a big enough bump to be close to popping. Must be those 16 year old abs of steel.

Cate Blanchett is expecting her third with husband Andrew Upton, and I’m hoping for a girl because she already has two boys. Girls clothes are so much cuter.

Nicole Kidman is still pregnant, definitely not drinking alcohol, and is due around June where the baby will be born in Australia.

Are Brangelina having twins? What’s the due date? These two haven’t confirmed or denied reports, but it’s all too obvious they’re having a fifth and maybe a sixth.

Jessica Alba is still flying to promote her film, so she must have quite a few weeks to go. She has declined to confirm a due date.

Matthew McConaughey is expecting a boy with model Camila, and he wants him to like beer. Enough to name the boy after Budweiser. He probably won’t wear a shirt either.

Gwen Stefani is expecting her next child with hubby Gavin Rossdale, and had a great time practicing baby making.

These babies will start popping out (if only it was that easy) in September

Kimora Lee Simmons just announced her pregnancy. A little sibling for her older children from her previous relationship, Ming and Aoki.

Alessandra Ambrosio has also just announced on her official blog that she is expecting, saying “This is a dream come true.”

Matt Damon and his wife Luciana, who have nine year old Alexia from her previous relationship, and Isabella, 20 months, are expecting another.

Lisa-Marie Presley confirmed her pregnancy this week, but don’t you dare suggest she’s carrying some pregnancy weight, you pack of coyotes.

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I’m really looking forward to the future, when all these Hollywood babies grow up. Who is going to be a hell raiser? Will they inter-marry and create a species of celebrity offspring like never seen before? Who is going to inherit their parents good looks?

Hopefully the celebrity weeklies have their checkbooks ready, these new additions are going to cost a fortune.

Picture note by Celebitchy: stock photos from Morguefile users Prisonbreak and © P. Winberg. Header image thanks to PRPhotos.

When I read the Daily Mail article comparing pregnant Lisa Marie Presley to her late fat father I was pretty surprised. Even though the journalistic standards for the Daily Mail are lower than American tabloids, and involve making fun of skinny women’s knees regularly, I was amazed to see how rude they were to her. They included a side-by-side picture of pregnant Lisa next to fat Elvis. They did mention halfway down the article that she was rumored to be pregnant, but that didn’t get in the way of trashing her for moderate weight gain. The NY Daily News did the same thing.

The Daily Mail’s article has been removed, but I quoted the NY Daily News in an earlier article, and they were super nasty to her:

Wearing a grungy yellow hoody and sweatpants, greasy hair pulled back, and no makeup to conceal her splotchy skin as she shoveled food into her bloated face, it’s hard to imagine the former bombshell that looked so much like her mother.

The singer and philanthropist, whose ex-husbands famously include Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson, is rumored to be pregnant with fourth husband Michael Lockwood’s child, which might explain some of the dramatic weight gain.

[Article originally on NY Daily News’ website, which has since been re-worded]

That’s not very nice considering that the National Enquirer reported her pregnant a few days before those pictures came out, and you can see that she has a pregnant-looking tummy. The Daily News has since changed the wording on that article to be a lot more flattering to Presley, saying, “If it looks like Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, now 40, has had a few too many of those peanut-butter and deep-fried banana sandwiches her father famously enjoyed, it’s because she’s eating for two! Presley is pregnant with her third child, her rep confirmed to People Magazine.”

The misogynistic body critics over at the Daily Mail are getting their asses sued by Presley, though. If only every celebrity would sue the Daily Mail for every stupid article they write, maybe they would be put out of business.

Presley wrote a scathing response to the very cruel articles about her. She blogged on her myspace that it was personally upsetting, and called it “nothing short of irresponsible and disgusting”

After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant.
Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight. Starting with a London publication and then New York and Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about all of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight.

[From Lisa Marie Presley’s myspace blog]

Let’s hope she gets an apology and a hefty settlement from these assholes. Maybe they’ll think twice about running articles every day trashing people for not staying young, thin and perfect forever.

Lisa Marie Presley is shown at Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party on 2/10/07.

Lisa Marie Presley on 2/10/07
There are so many pregnant celebrities right now, I can’t even keep track of them all. Now, it looks like Lisa Marie Presley could be added to that list. The National Enquirer claims that the 40-year-old daughter of Elvis Presley is pregnant with her third child.

Lisa Marie Presley is pregnant at 40, say pals. Elvis’ “little girl” - married to husband No. 4- “knows the risks of a pregnancy at her age” but is determined to have this baby and make their new life complete, a close friend told the Enquirer.

“She’s two months pregnant. We’re praying Lisa makes it all the way.”

Lisa Marie was two months pregnant when she married musical director Michael Lockwood two years ago- but miscarried, according to a friend.

Lisa has two children. Michael has never been married before and has no children.

“He’s an only child and has always dreamed of becoming a father and making his parents grandparents,” said the friend.

The couple are thrilled and hopeful about the pregnancy, divulged the friend. “Lisa says another child with Michael will make their life complete.”

[From The National Enquirer print edition, March 10 2008]

The article also goes into the fact that Lisa’s ex husband Danny Keough, father of her daughter Riley and son Ben, lives with the couple and helps raise the kids. Danny and Lisa are both Scientologists and raise their kids as Scientologists. It’s likely that Lisa would want this baby to be raised as a Scientologist as well. That whole scenario sounds like a reality show waiting to happen.

If it’s true that she’s pregnant, I wish Lisa luck. I’m 38 and the idea of being pregnant again at this age, after two kids and two stepsons, makes me want to jump off a cliff. But more power to her.

Note by Celebitchy: TMZ, The Daily Mail, and The New York Daily News are among the esteemed online news sources which are calling Lisa Marie Presley fat and making comparisons to her late father’s bloat before his death. The Daily Mail and NY Daily News mention in passing that she is rumored to be pregnant, but they’re super rude to her anyway:

Wearing a grungy yellow hoody and sweatpants, greasy hair pulled back, and no makeup to conceal her splotchy skin as she shoveled food into her bloated face, it’s hard to imagine the former bombshell that looked so much like her mother.

The singer and philanthropist, whose ex-husbands famously include Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson, is rumored to be pregnant with fourth husband Michael Lockwood’s child, which might explain some of the dramatic weight gain.

[From The NY Daily News]