I hope everyone remembers the film Whale Rider. It was a small, independent film released in America in 2003. It was a critical success, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, the young actress in her first film performance, earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her work. It really is a lovely, wonderful little film, and I’ve been a fan of Keisha’s ever since, even though she’s only done five projects since. Part of the reason? Keisha got pregnant when she was sixteen, and gave birth to a daughter when she was 17 years old. While Keisha is in Toronto promoting The Vintner’s Luck, Keisha spoke to People about becoming a teenage mother, and how she has no regrets:

Since becoming a teenage parent, Whale Rider Oscar nominee Keisha Castle-Hughes is relishing the role of a lifetime – costarring her daughter.

“I absolutely love being a mother,” Castle-Hughes, 19, told PEOPLE at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of her new film The Vintner’s Luck. “It’s been a blessing. It’s fun and it’s hard, but it’s absolutely amazing.”

At the age of 17, Castle-Hughes gave birth to Felicity-Amore, now 2, with boyfriend Bradley Hull. Since then, she’s chosen to be out of the Hollywood spotlight to focus on taking care of her toddler, who is blossoming into a mini version of herself.

“Felicity’s just like me. All trapped into a little body,” says Castle-Hughes. “It’s quite full on. She’s got lots of energy and quite dramatic. She’s picked up quite a few dramatic tendencies from me, which is good and bad. But it’s very exciting to watch her personality develop.”

As for being a teenage mom, the youngest female star ever to be nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award – she was 13 – says, “It’s no different for me than any other mum in the world. I can be a little stressful and tiring, but it’s the most rewarding thing.”

While critics called her too young to become a mother, Castle-Hughes said she respectfully disagrees. “I was in a very different situation when I had her. I was in a loving and stable relationship with her father, who I’m still with. I had quite an established career and so the decision to have her was very easy,” she says.

“Once I found out I was pregnant there was no decision really. I was shocked but it was just like, ‘Okay, we are having a baby. That’s great.’ ”

She ads, “I’ve lived a fast-paced life, but I had the best childhood. I didn’t miss out on anything by having my daughter at a young age … If I would go back and change things, I would not. I can’t imagine living my life without her.”

Castle-Hughes is still in a happy and committed relationship – and revealed that she and Hull, 22, have “been engaged for 2½ years,” she said enthusiastically. “It’s a very long engagement but no immediate plans. Eventually it will happen. I love him and we will be together for the rest of our lives.”

As for Hull’s parenting skills, Castle-Hughes says Felicity-Amore could not have a better dad. “He’s very present in her life. He’s a fantastic father who absolutely loves her. He’s very gentle and very loving with her. He does every with her and is the perfect dad.”

The New Zealand native also says she “absolutely” wants little Felicity to have siblings. “I have no idea how many, but it changes every day. I come from a big family, so I’d like to have a big family.”

Castle-Hughes says she has a difficult time being away from her daughter. “When I’m away from her it’s torture. The minute I see a little kid on the street, I want to be with them. The [parents] go, ‘Excuse me, can you not touch my child?’ And I’m like, ‘I just wanted to hold them because I miss my own kid!’ ”

[From People]

That’s nice to know that she’s still with the father. And it’s great that she’s found the transition to motherhood so easy and joyful. That being said, I don’t think she should be held up as example of teenage motherhood, or any kind of spokesperson for it. I don’t think that’s what she’s saying either – she’s just trying to explain her personal experience with it. She seems to be a very responsible, focused young woman and a great, engaged mother, so God bless.

Keisha Castle-Hughes is shown on 2/21/09. Credit: WENN.com

Here’s something you should know about me – when I fall for a celebrity, really, totally and completely adore a celebrity, it takes me a while to see any faults, any cracks in their perfect (in my mind) persona. I’m at that utter devotion state with Gerard Butler – he’s been atop my “Favorite Guy To Fantasize About When I’m Going To Sleep” list for the better part of a year and a half. No movie star has had this kind of run since the “Golden Fantasy Era” of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, John Malkovich and Eddie Vedder. Gerard is special.

Even when Gerard occasionally grosses me out (like when he’s rubbing Jennifer Aniston’s thigh or whatever), I’m still quite fond of him. Truthfully, I know that the Gerry that exists in my head is probably nothing like the real man. I’d still like to think the real Gerry has some of the qualities I have attributed to him – I’d like to think he’s sweet, funny, flirtatious and dirty. But it’s gotten to the point where real life has intruded on my fantasy. I have to shamefully acknowledge that there’s probably something really wrong with him. “Wrong” as in “skeezy”. “Wrong” as is “the guy is probably a major douchenozzle.”

Such is the story that LaineyGossip put up Monday afternoon. Lainey described two different stories about Gerard and how he behaves around women. One I buy, one I don’t. The first was a story about how he was coming on to a journalist who told him something like “I’m a journalist so I’m off limits.” Allegedly, Gerard responded “No, you’re not off limits.” Okay… I buy that, but it doesn’t really turn me off. He’s confident, he’s flirty, and I probably would have been all over that. The other story wasn’t so pleasant. It involved Gerry propositioning a drunk girl, trying to get her to take off her clothes and dance. Ew… gross.

Gerry is just starting a new promotional tour, this one for Gamer, the movie where he plays some kind of flesh-and-blood video game “character” who spends most of the movie running around killing things. Needless to say, it’s a boy movie. Gerry gave an interview to the New York Daily News to promote Gamer. It’s a sort of boring interview, but I like the part where Gerry takes about how his mom won’t let him get away with stuff:

Filming the intense action sequences for “Gamer,” opening Friday — in which Gerard Butler, the 39-year-old Scottish actor, plays a wrongfully convicted soldier forced to join a human video game — took a physical toll.

There were stuntmen firing all kinds of guns and pyrotechnics all around him during the big action sequences. Despite the frigid winter temperatures in Albuquerque, where the movie was filmed, he was constantly being sprayed with freezing-cold water to make it look like he was drenched in sweat.

“You’d be doing some takes where there would be 15 to 20 explosions [that] were all around you, and you’d have to know where you were going or you were going to get blown up,” says Butler from the safety of a couch in a mid-Manhattan hotel room. “I’ve got to say, in this movie, there were many times I was hit by flying debris from explosions or from squibs that would bang against your face or your head,” he says. “You’d get little injuries, but you move on, it’s part of the adrenaline.”

“It all starts with the fact that Gerard Butler is a hell of a good actor and has a wonderful sense of humor,” said Richard Donner, Butler’s director on the 2003 action movie “Timeline,” via e-mail. “He’s ‘a man’s man’, the kind of a person you want to go have a couple of beers with.”

He won’t just take any old role. For “Gamer,” he signed on only when filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the brains behind the “Crank” movies, convinced him of the film’s deeper allegory about society’s increasing overdependence on technology — sandwiched between explosions and haymakers, of course.

Dealing with paparazzi, he says, is one of the toughest things to get used to. They materialize suddenly, one recently catching ­Butler sitting outdoors at a restaurant and telling the actor that he wanted to snap him in the act of eating.

‘It was almost like holding out a [stick] for a dog,” says Butler, laughing at the memory. “Every time I got my fork, he picked his camera up, so I put it down again and he put his camera down. Then I’d pick it up again. ” This went on for 15 minutes.

“The only time I could eat was when a bus went past or a truck. Then literally the truck would stop and I go boom, boom, boom and I’d shovel the food in,” he said demonstrating frenetically with an imaginary utensil.

As much as he loves New York — and Los Angeles, where he splits his time — his ­occasional return trips to visit his family in Glasgow keep Butler grounded. He says he comes from a passionate people that was fighting among itself long before the English arrived. That “fire” fuels his performances.

And no one is willing to mix it up with the 6-foot-2 actor like his mother, Margaret. “I go home and they’ll cook Christmas ­dinner, and she’s like, ‘C’mon, give a hand, come on, wash the dishes or put the dishes away.’ “And I’m like, ‘Mom, I am a major Hollywood movie star, I can’t be doing this. It’s embarrassing.’ ”

But when his mother isn’t impressed, “I end up on my hands and knees, wiping up the floor.”

[From the New York Daily News]

What’s the verdict? Is Gerard just a mama’s boy who refuses to grow up? Is he a douche who treats women like crap? Is he the guy in the blind item who hires hookers for the “fan experience” to feed his bottomless ego? Or is he just bidding his time, waiting for me to find him so we can settle down and have hot half-Scottish babies? Sigh. He’s a douche, isn’t he?

Screw you guys. I’m still going to fantasize about him.

Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston are shown on the set of The Bounty on 8/24/09. Credit: Steve Sands/Bauergriffinonline.com

It’s no secret that Shia LaBeouf thinks his mom is one hot, sexy bitch who he would marry if he could. Coincidentally, it’s no secret that Shia might be a bit screwed up. It all started when Shia told Playboy that his mother is “probably the sexiest woman I know… She’s an ethereal angel. Nobody looks like that woman. If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren’t my mother, as sick as that sounds.” A few weeks ago, Shia also told Parade that he was probably so screwed up because he saw his pothead parents having sexw hen he was a kid.

Someone must have told Shia that these are not the kinds of comments that add to the mystique of a young Hollywood heartthrob – although, to be fair to Shia, those comments kind of made me want to bring him home and feed him. But I digress. Shia is now trying to roll those mother-lover comments back in a new Extra interview (quotes via Huffington Post):

Shia LaBeouf defended comments he made about his mom and said he may be doing another ‘Indiana Jones’ movie in an interview with Extra’ that is airing Monday night. He also dished about the ‘Wall Street’ sequel in which he’ll costar with Michael Douglas.

In Playboy, LaBeouf says, “Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.” Now, he responds to the public’s reaction to this comments and says everyone misunderstood:
“It was Mother’s Day coming up and I don’t have any problems appearing crazy to make my mother smile, but she is the most beautiful woman on this planet and I love her. She’s fly as hell. I stand by that. My mom’s awesome….I think the sickness is also on the other end to be able to twist the words and make it as ridiculous as that. Clearly, I’m not having sex with my mother. It’s ridiculous.”

On another Indiana Jones film:
“I’m an actor for hire. I have no control in terms of that movie. Last I heard they’re making progress in terms of the story. I know Harrison [Ford] is fired up to get back in there as soon as possible and George [Lucas] and Steven [Spielberg] want to make another one…They’re making progress but nothing is definite about it. ”

On the Wall Street sequel:
“We’re deep in prep now. We start in August… It’s definitely going to be different. Just the financial landscape is very different. We’re talking about the crime of the century…It’s a crime. Blatant crime…In this financial climate, it’s very relevant.”

[From Extra via The Huffington Post]

Clearly he’s not having sex with his mother? Okay, I get that we were all joking about it because he was talking about how sexy his mom is. But the fact remains that he was talking about how sexy his mom is. I’ll give the kid a break and say that he simply got too effusive in his description of how much he loves his mom.

On an added Shia note, he sat down with The Telegraph for a long interview recently. Alas, he didn’t talk about how sexy his mom is (he does call her “very beautiful” though), but he did confirm something that I’ve been thinking for a while – that he financially supports both of his parents, and has for some time. Shia jokes during the interview that “It’s like having two 50-year-old children.” He did confirm that his hand should be fully functional by August, and that he’s still in physical therapy. Regarding his hand injury, he says “Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself. That’s out of my mom’s mouth and it makes it easier to deal with things are way above you and way beyond you and way bigger than you.” He also takes responsibility for the accident and everything else, saying “All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled… I can’t blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.” Wise words, Shia. I so want to believe that, at heart, he’s a good kid. Time will tell.

Shia LaBeouf is shown on 6/13/09 at the German premiere of Transformers. Credit: BULLS/Fame Pictures

Finally, Ralph Fiennes has started doing some interviews to promote his supporting role in The Reader. I say “finally” because Kate Winslet was doing the bulk of the promotional duties, which is no surprise for two reasons. First, this seems to be a film season where only actresses are doing promotion (like Reese Witherspoon in Four Christmases). Secondly, after finally reading an interview with Ralph Fiennes – who’s one of my favorite actors – I completely understand why The Reader’s producers might not want this profoundly talented and profoundly weird man opening his mouth any more.

Ralph Fiennes starts out the Times interview by reenacting a scene of Ben Gazarra in Tales of Ordinary Madness. The scene, in Ralph’s words, is “literally about trying to get inside her womb… this unhappy man [Gazzara] is with a woman, and he literally wants to climb back inside her”. This sets the tone for the rest of the interview.

On any other day this might have seemed like an odd skit to come from the 46-year-old star of The English Patient, Schindler’s List and two Harry Potter movies (where he played the boy wizard’s evil nemesis Voldemort). But today Fiennes is on fire. He’s more than halfway through a mesmerising run of Sophocles’ brutally unforgiving Oedipus at the National Theatre and is thus somehow fantastically engorged with life’s Big Ideas.

“For me the lines in the play that resonate continually are, ‘I want to know the secret of my birth’ and ‘I do not know who I am!’” he says, dropping his voice to a whisper and running a hand slowly over his shaven pate. The haircut was his idea, he explains, to make him feel more naked on stage, but it has a powerfully imposing effect that, together with today’s outfit of blazer and denims with turn-ups, creates the impression of a patrician bouncer. “And isn’t that the journey that most of us are on?” he continues, undaunted, transfixed by the tragic clarity of his words. “Who are we? What are we doing? And where did we come from?”

The play is agony, he says. The play might destroy him yet, he adds. And the play, as we all know, is about mothers. It’s all their fault. They are the site of the eternal return – that metaphorical place to which we, according to Sophocles, Freud and Fiennes, spend our life returning. We are trying, says Fiennes, to re-enter the womb (hence the skit). And that, he says, can sometimes get in the way of a decent romantic relationship.

“There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free,” he says, with impressive candour for a man who was, until they split in 2006, often described as being in a vaguely “maternal” relationship with the actress Francesca Annis (17 years his senior). “Because sometimes the woman’s attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, ‘Ahhhh!’”

[From TimesOnline]

The whole “mothers, it’s all their fault” comment is such a horrible way to sum up both Oedipus and the larger point Ralph was making. To be fair to the source material, for years Oedipus’s mother never knew she was sleeping with her son, and when she did find out, she killed herself. When Oedipus found out, all he did was claw out his eyes. Whoops, was that a spoiler? My point: mothers always get the blame.

Ralph seems to be working through some issues with women in general, not just his mother. The conversation that started with such gems as “he literally wants to climb back inside her” and “I want to know the secret of my birth” is taking the logical course to Ralph’s current film, The Reader. Fiennes plays a German lawyer reflecting on a love affair he had with a woman in her thirties (played by Kate Winslet), when his character was fifteen. Sometimes the actor finds the material, and sometimes the material finds them, eh?

We move on to The Reader, which has its own share of provocations and mother issues. These are in the erotic and Oedipalised relationship between Fiennes’s younger screen self (played by David Kross) and an older, mysterious and illiterate former Nazi, Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet). The provocations, says Fiennes, are in the plot, “and the idea that Hanna’s illiteracy could be an excuse for her joining the SS in the first place. I don’t accept that she couldn’t make a moral judgment about joining the SS just because she’s illiterate. And I think that’s a troubling area.”

Fiennes himself, you suspect, has little estimation of his own talents. His acting, it seems, is itself beyond acting, part of his own delicate process of individuation (remember, “I want to know the secret of my birth”?). All this, a Freudian might add, emerges in the dense undergrowth of childhood, and here it seems particularly poignant and indeed fitting that Fiennes can trace everything back to, yes, his mother, the writer Jennifer Lash.

The Fiennes family history is well-worn lore, and usually involves his farmer-turned-photographer father Mark and mother Jennifer dragging their seven-strong brood (including brother Joseph, sisters Martha and Sophie and foster brother Michael Emery) on a peripatetic childhood whirl through Dorset, Suffolk, West Cork and Salisbury.

In conversation the family tends to describe the period with quasi affection as a time of love without much material comfort. But today, focusing exclusively on Lash, Fiennes is a little more unsparing. He says that she had her own demons, and that, “in her own way, she could make you feel like you hadn’t hit the mark, or you simply weren’t good enough”.

[From TimesOnline]

When Ralph Fiennes appeared on an episode of “Inside the Actor’s Studio”, he wept when the conversation turned to his mother and her death. While I’m glad to see that Ralph has stepped outside of his grief and is talking openly about his mother and his issues, my guess is that The Reader’s publicity team might want this extraordinarily talented actor to tone it down a bit for this promotional tour.

Note by Celebitchy: I saw a special on Bravo many years ago called “The Family Fiennes” about Ralph’s family. He comes from a large family and has four brothers and two sisters, including an adopted foster brother. His mother was portrayed as a wonderful nurturing woman who tried to instill a love of art and literature in her children. If there were any issues between Ralph or any of the other children and their mom you couldn’t tell from the Bravo special and they all spoke very highly of her. Ralph’s mom published a few books under her maiden name, Jennifer Lash, including a travelogue and a work of fiction about an abandoned boy called Blood Ties. It was reminiscent of DH Lawrence and well written.

Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet are shown at the New York premiere of ‘The Reader’ on December 3rd. Images thanks to WENN.

I’ve pretty much decided that I want Jennifer Garner to be my mother. From what I can tell, it’s a pretty sweet gig. Your dad is Ben Affleck so you know you’re going to be set in the looks department. You won’t have to stress all that much when you hit those early teenage years and nothing goes together right; because you know that genetically you are set.

Your dad may go into politics one day, and he can probably get you into J-Lo concerts for free. And your mom occasionally works on shows where she kicks people’s asses, and then takes you to Color Me Mine and assorted play groups.

Except for the occasional mishap when Jen lets Violet lock her out of the car, she’s seems to be pretty much the perfect mom. Yet not so much that she’s annoying about it. But she truly seems incredibly happy all the time, and by all appearances she’s one of the most involved celebrity moms out there.

Here’s Jen and Violet yesterday leaving the Treehouse Social Club in Los Angeles. I just lost 20 minutes exploring their website – it’s pretty much a kid play heaven. And I am now definitely ready to be 3-years-old again. Images thanks to WENN.

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]

The former nanny to Katie Price (aka Jordan) and Peter Andre’s children, Becky Gauld, has a few things to say about the reality show couple. If you watch their dreadful show, you know that in the season finale last year, Becky was fired from her job as caretaker to Katie and Peter’s two sons because she took a holiday against Katie’s wishes. Since then, Becky has taken the pair to court for wrongful termination and won. Now, she’s going to the tabloids and telling them that Jordan isn’t the devoted mom she appears to be on TV.

Becky, 25, stormed: “Their life is very different to the one on TV. The reality is she’s selfish and self-centred – and NOT the perfect mum.

“If viewers had seen what I saw off-camera they’d be astounded. The only thing they do as a family is photoshoots.”

In the revealing interview she tells how Jordan:

ALLOWED overweight thyroid disorder sufferer Harvey to eat TWENTY chicken nuggets at once – even though she’d been told by doctors he could DIE if he didn’t diet.

WAS QUIZZED by SOCIAL SERVICES after the blind autistic youngster scalded himself in a bath of hot water.

TAUGHT Harvey to say “f*** off just so she and Andre could raise a laugh from their friends at a barbecue.

ASTONISHINGLY sent Becky a TEXT from her bed summoning her nanny from her cottage in the grounds of the £2.5 million mansion at 4AM… because the star couldn’t be bothered to get up and cope with Junior crying in a nearby room.

Becky told the paper: “When she was named Celebrity Mum Of The Year by Grattan last year I laughed.

[From The Sun]

Becky goes on to say that the ‘devoted parents’ routine is just that–a routine. The pair only cuddle and play with the children when the cameras are on, but when there’s no one around to impress, they were all too eager to dump the kids on the nanny. Apparently, Peter likes to hang out in his recording studio, while Jordan is more worried about her beauty treatments than changing diapers. The nanny expressed particular concern for Jordan’s oldest son, Harvey, who is autistic, blind, and suffers from a thyroid disorder.

Jordan has blamed her son’s weight problems on him hating vegetables, saying: “The doctors told me, ‘If he doesn’t go on a diet he could die’. I said, ‘I’m telling you now, he will not eat vegetables. He only wants to eat chicken nuggets or anything with potato’.”

But Becky – whose interview can be seen in full at notw.co.uk – says: “That is total rubbish, he WOULD eat vegetables – you just had to have patience and you had to hide them.

“I used to give him Bernard Matthews mini kievs and hide green beans inside. She’d seen me doing it but she knew it took PATIENCE to get him to eat them.

“Harvey’s weight problems were due to his condition but she also fed him the wrong things. They would sometimes give him up to 20 packets of raisins a day.”

On a holiday to Cyprus the nanny watched in horror as the couple fed him a mountain of fast food.

“In a McDonalds Peter bought him 20 chicken nuggets and chips and brought them back to the car,” she said. “Then he and Katie went shopping while Harvey bolted them down.

“I didn’t want him to eat them but I was not his mum. They went on holiday in America for ten days and he lost nearly a stone when I looked after him. I just gave him healthy food and exercise.”

Is it true– or is it sour grapes? While Jordan has not officially responded to the story, sources say she is very upset and plans to refute these claims. Becky certainly has a motive to paint Jordan as a bad mother. It can’t be easy to be fired from your job on national television– I would probably want some revenge on my employers if that’s how they chose to sack me. It wouldn’t be the first time a disgruntled former employee told tall tales about their boss to get even. However, Becky did win a court case against the pair, which adds a certain air of credibility to the story. And she has since found employment with another family. However, she did go running to The Sun, which means she was probably paid to tell her story.

I think Jordan’s a tacky, no-talent attention-whore, but I’ve always given her credit as a caring mother who seems to cope well with raising a child with so many disabilities. If the nanny is telling the truth, I hope there is some kind of investigation into what’s going on in that house. But with so many cameras pointed at Jordan and her kids on a daily basis, it’s hard to believe that someone other than the nanny wouldn’t have noticed all these things.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Thanks to DListed for these image from the January, 2006 issue of OK! Magazine.

It really isn’t possible to write a tasteful story about Marilyn Manson. It isn’t really possible to write anything about Marilyn Manson that most sane individuals wouldn’t find pretty offensive. So here we go, adding to the pile. A logical person – with nothing better to do – would likely spend a good deal of time wondering exactly how Marilyn Manson got to be the way he is. I have one word for you: genetics. Or to get all Freudian: Mother. Although considering Marilyn Manson’s mother raised him, I guess you could also say nurturing was the problem. So basically, nature, nurture, and his mom are the reasons Marilyn Manson is eight kinds of f-ed up. Would you like a specific example? Well it seems that Barb Warner – aka Mrs. Manson – kept young Marilyn’s (he was known by the slightly-less-creepy Brian then) foreskin after he was circumcised. In a jar. I know some parents save baby teeth, some save locks of hair, I get that parents like to save parts of their children’s bodies. But there is a line between a molar and a foreskin. That’s the 5th weirdest sentence I’ve ever written.

Marilyn Manson is hoping to one day make a fortune from a childhood souvenir – his foreskin. The shock rocker’s mother, Barb Warner, has long been rumored to have kept the foreskin from his circumcision in a small jar – and Manson admits it is all true, even joking about the potential value of such an item.

He says, “It’s in more of a contact lens case, kind of like a shriveled up Lifesaver . If she ever came here, she would wave it around. We’re hoping Sotheby’s one day.”

[From Starpulse]

Well I guess we know where he gets his sense of humor/sense of perversity from. Though I did chuckle at the Sotheby’s line. I’ve heard of a serial killer who kept their fingernail clippings in a jar. I’m pretty sure that this is much, much worse. I’d instruct Barb Warner’s local police department to keep a very close eye on her. I’d also fake a warrant and insist on digging up her whole yard – just to be on the safe side. Next time I criticize Marilyn Manson for his collection of Chinese skeletons and shriveled baby heads, I’m going to remind myself that it’s not 100% his fault. Somehow keeping the bones of a complete stranger seems less upsetting than the foreskin of your own son.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood are shown trying to hide beneath a green velvet blanket outside the Led Zeppelin concert on 12/10/07. It also looks like Manson throws water on the photographer. He must be pissed because he’s not wearing makeup. Thanks to PRPhotos.