I totally forgot about this. I forgot that Peaches Geldof was pregnant again and I forgot that she hadn’t already given birth. You’ll have to excuse my confusion – Peaches announced she was three months pregnant with her second child just six months after giving birth to her first child, so it’s been a wall-to-wall pregnancy situation. Anyway, Peaches gave birth on Wednesday, April 24th, by C-section. She chose that date because it was her late mother’s birthday. I was just thinking about Paula Yates the other day. So sad. Anyway, Peaches gave birth to another boy. She and Thomas Cohen have named the kid… Phaedra. OMG.

PEACHES Geldof was overjoyed last night after giving birth to a son — on what would have been her late mum Paula Yates’s 54th birthday. The model and telly star, 24, chose to have a Caesarean on April 24. She named her son Phaedra — after an album by her favourite group Tangerine Dream.

Peaches, daughter of late Big Breakfast presenter Paula and musician Sir Bob Geldof, 61, wanted to have her first baby, a boy called Astala, on that date last year — but missed it.

Rocker husband Tom Cohen, singer in the band S.C.U.M., was present at the birth and sisters Fifi, 30, Pixie, 22, and half-sister Tiger Lily, 16, have been at her hospital bedside.

A source close to Peaches and Tom said last night: “They are absolutely over the moon about their new arrival. It all went smoothly and Peaches will be in hospital for a while to recuperate. Bob is absolutely over the moon — the whole family are.”

And the source added: “They are particularly pleased about the significance of the date as it makes Peaches feel she is keeping her mum’s memory alive.”

In September 2000 — when Peaches was just 11 — TV star Paula, 41, died of a heroin overdose at her London home.

Former wild child-turned-devoted mum Peaches and hubby Tom were married last year at the church in Kent where her parents were married in 1986 — and where Paula’s funeral took place in 2000.

PHAEDRA is the name of an album and song by German electronic band Tangerine Dream, both released in 1974. The group inspired German innovators Kraftwerk and the 1990s trance music boom.

[From The Sun]

So, this is twice in a row now that Peaches has not only gone with an “unconventional” name for a son, but it’s twice in a row that she chose more girly-sounding names for her sons. I have my issues with Astala and Phaedra in general, but if you just heard “These are my children, Astala and Phaedra,” wouldn’t you think you were meeting two little girls? But I guess the family has a history with weird names and given that Paula Yates only had daughters, maybe they just don’t know how to name little boys. I give up!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Peaches Geldof is the new Tori Spelling! Peaches has just announced her second pregnancy, just six months after Peaches welcomed son Astala. Peaches is already 3-and-a-half months pregnant. Meaning she got pregnant when Astala was like 2-and-a-half months old. Meaning Peaches and her husband Tom Cohen need a hobby other than boning. Still, it happens and it’s happy news for the couple. Apparently, they already have a name picked out – Phaedra. Because why not?

Peaches Geldof is expecting her second child with husband Tom Cohen. The 23-year-old star is three-and-a-half months pregnant with a baby boy, and the couple have already picked out a name for their little bundle of joy, Phaedra, which is inspired by an ancient Greek play and one of the pair’s favourite songs.

But with the couple only having welcomed their first son, Astala, into the world six months ago, Peaches admitted finding out she was pregnant again so quickly came as ‘quite a shock’.

She told Hello! magazine: ‘I did have a momentary panic and go, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to have a one-year-old and a one-month-old! How will we cope?’

However, the television presenter explained her rocker beau immediately alleviated her doubts.

She added: ‘Tom was so supportive and relaxed, it banished my doubts and I started imagining the two boys growing up together as the best of friends. There are massive benefits to having two children so close together.’

Peaches admitted she only took a test when she noticed she had been craving sour sweets as she had been throughout her first pregnancy, and she had already begun to develop a baby bump. The former wild child also explained while she ‘couldn’t be happier’ with her family life, she doesn’t plan on adding to her brood any time soon.

She told Hello!: ‘I don’t think I’ll be adding to our little brood until later on in my life when I’m older and don’t have two toddlers running around demanding all of Tom’s and my attention. I may be only 23 and the only one of our friends who’s married, got a baby on the way and is on the verge of moving to Surrey, but it’s a life I always dreamed of and I couldn’t be happier.’

Despite her happy news, Peaches, the daughter of Sir Bob Geldof, recently revealed that prior to falling pregnant, she was told she would never be able to have children.

The doting mother-of-one knew conceiving would be difficult as she suffered from polycystic ovaries, and then experienced further problems three years ago when she was rushed to hospital after an ectopic pregnancy.

She told Elle magazine: ‘I was really upset because I always knew I wanted kids and then I was told I would need major intervention if that was to happen.’

Of her ectopic pregnancy, she added: ‘I woke up in the night in the worst pain. It was like something was ripping me apart. I had no idea I was pregnant. I was taken to hospital and they discovered what it was. I was told if I had left it even three more days I would have died. But I had to have an operation and the doctor told me he’d have to remove my fallopian tube. I was crying and begging him not to. I woke up, he told me he’d saved the tube but it was badly damaged and my chances of having kids had gone from slim to almost non-existent.’

[From The Mail]

Agent Bedhead thinks that this ectopic pregnancy happened when Peaches was with Eli Roth, which would probably fit the timeline and go a long way to explaining why suddenly Peaches and Eli were done and Peaches was immediately with Tom Cohen. Eli bolted when things got too real, and Peaches probably thought that there was little chance she was going to get knocked up. Two surprise babies within less than 2 years? Epic.

Photos courtesy of Peaches’ Twitter and WENN.

Peaches Geldof is profiled in the December issue of Elle UK, and I’ve included the magazine’s sole photo of her below, but I also wanted to include some pictures of Peaches at the Agent Provocateur fashion show in London on 10/24. She looks pretty good here, right? And she’s also fairly classy looking considering that she’s flanked by bunch of bra-and-panty clad models while they all sashay down the runway. Peaches has a history with the company and previously modelled for them in their Season of the Witch campaign, and she probably made some nice change for this runway gig too.

For whatever reason (her name, obviously), the London fashion scene has always embraced Peaches, and she is most often photographed these days at fashion events when she’s not posing with baby Astala on her Twitter page. Her Elle UK interview makes it rather obvious that, at least as far as appearances are concerned, she’s cleaned up her act for good. It’s easy to forget that Peaches lost her mother, Paula Yates at age 11, but I think becoming a mother herself has helped her heal a bit. Here are some excerpts:

Her parents divorced when she was 7: “My parents had gone through a very public, bitter divorce and I was very much old enough to see what was going on. People talked about us and I knew it was horrendously bad. I was completely aware of the whole situation, the transition of my mother who was amazing, who wrote books on parenting, who gave us this idyllic childhood in Kent’ and who then turned into this heartbroken shell of a woman who was just medicating to get through the day. On top of that, there was my father who was very embittered and depressed about it and for us children, an environment that was impossible, veering between a week with my mother that was complete chaos, and then with my father, which was almost Dickensian — homework, dinner, bed — because he was trying in his own way to combat what was going on at my mother’s. It was like living on a permanent see-saw and very scary and sad. Those feelings have always stayed with me, they just never went away.”

On Paula Yates’ death: “I remember the day my mother died, and it’s still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father’s mentality was ‘keep calm and carry on.’ So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn’t grieve. I didn’t cry at her funeral. I couldn’t express anything because I was just numb to it all. I didn’t start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.”

On Paula’s memory “I don’t blame her, I’m not angry with her, I understand her… I honestly understand what she was going through.”

About that party girl image: “I did experiment with drugs, I did get drunk and go to parties, but I was never that wild. I could have been, I could have let myself spiral but all the time I remembered what happened to my mum.”

On Astala: “His birth was like a rebirth for me, and I honestly never thought anything in my life would ever be good. I’m obsessed with getting it right. The second I held him it was like this missing piece of my life being put into place; everything started to heal. The very worst thing that happened to me started with my parents’’divorce, it really affected the rest of my life. Even if it’s an archaic idea I want Astala to have a mummy and daddy together for ever. It’s a commitment. I want to be a good wife, a good mother, a good person.”

[From Elle UK]

I think Peaches takes being a mother very seriously, and the situation with her mother is simply tragic. However — and if you don’t mind me being superficial — can I just say that she looks so much better these days than when she was living in Los Angeles and dating Eli Roth? No more fake orange tan and no more trashy nip slips on the red carpet. Peaches looks lovely and healthy here. Let’s hope the trend continues.

Photos courtesy of Elle UK and WENN

Here’s some photos of Peaches Geldof at the Lingerie London event last evening. It’s safe to say that she’s dropped all of her baby weight in short order, right? Peaches only gave birth to Astala Cohen about six months ago, but she and started losing weight very quickly (which was quite noticeable only a month afterward). She’s either very disciplined, or the breastfeeding weight loss method is working wonders for her.

She looks pretty good here aside from the dress itself, which I’ll get to in a moment. Peaches seemed fairly healthy throughout her pregnancy, and I actually don’t think this weight loss has occurred as a result of Peaches possibly going back to her old druggy habits because her hair and skin look rather luminous. A year ago, I would have never guessed that Peaches would look healthy because now she got super skinny in July 2011 after she and Eli Roth broke up. During that relationship, she certainly wasn’t heavy but did look a bit pregnant at one point. But I really think she’s (mostly) clean now. Peaches does seem to be a devoted mother despite the whole collapsing-baby-carriage debacle which left little Astala on the pavement while Peaches scooped him up quickly but failed to ever set down her cell phone a few months ago. But that’s a whole different mess.

Now onto the outfit, which I am guessing is one of Peaches’ typical vintage selections. This dress is a little trashy looking but that’s mostly because of the “zipper” detailing in the back. However, I guess it’s appropriate for a lingerie-type event. Mostly, I am eternally grateful that we’re not seeing any Peaches butt crack in these photos. Small mercies, folks.

Here’s Peaches out and about in Chelsea about a week ago. I actually really like this red coat.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Congratulations are in order, for Peaches Geldof, 23, and Thomas Cohen, 21, have made it official, and they are now a married couple just months after Peaches gave birth to their son, Astala, in April. We don’t have any photos of Peaches and Thomas at the ceremony because she’s probably already contracted to give an exclusive to Hello! just like she did with her pregnancy photos last year.

Hilariously, Peaches also give Hello! some exclusives about her first quickie marriage (at age 19) in Vegas to indie rocker Max Drummey with Peaches gushing during an interview about how Max was “the one” because they could sit and his van in talk. That marriage only lasted six months although it took Max until April 2011 to file for divorce. I’m rather curious to see how Peaches fared with a more traditional ceremony and particularly about her wedding dress, which was undoubtedly vintage; but until Hello! provides their inevitable cover story, we’ll have to make do with some pictures of the Davington church (in Kent) and guests at the ceremony where Peaches and Thomas said their vows:

It was goodbye Boomtown brat, hello Mrs Peaches Cohen as Bob Geldof’s daughter tied the knot for the second time.

The former Miss Geldof married rocker Tom Cohen yesterday in an intimate ceremony at St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence Church in the village of Davington in Kent.

It was a reflective day for the bride as it was the place where the wedding of her late mum Paula Yates and Bob Geldof was blessed in 1986, after their Las Vegas ceremony. It was also the church where Paula’s funeral was held in 2000.

Peaches and Tom exchanged vows in front of a small congregation at the 12th Century church, before moving on to the reception in the grounds of her idyllic childhood home, Davington-Priory, where dad Bob still lives.

[From The Mirror]

By now, I’ve accepted that Peaches may very well have changed her ways in a very short amount of time. Stranger things have happened, and becoming a mother may very well be the best thing to happen to her. These days, she’s abandoned her former habit of getting naked and lounging on top of cars in broad daylight in favor of posting photos of herself cuddling with Astala. Maybe she really is done with shoplifting and Xenu, lemon, and heroin scandals. I still worry about her rapidly shrinking figure and wonder if she really does subscribe to a “braindead” juicing diet, but I’m going to cut her some slack for now. Astala looks healthy and happy, so Peaches must be living cleaner than she did in her former lives.

A few days ago, Peaches gave an inkling that this weekend was to see the end of her life as a single lady via her Twitter page. Hopefully, this one will stick. Congrats to Peaches, Thomas, and (of course) baby Astala.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Twitter

I can’t decide exactly how to feel about Peaches Geldof these days. Obviously, she loves being a new mummy, and the near universal hope is that her new responsibilities will lead her to settle down at least somewhat and stop being such a party girl. Of course, all of the cute baby photos in the world won’t stop the nagging feeling that Peaches is growing skinnier by the day and looked super thin a month after giving birth, which leads to suspicions that she could have fallen prey to some of her former demons such as another braindead juicing diet or even worse.

For the moment however, Peaches has convinced me that she’s got little Astala’s best interests at heart, but that’s only because she’s tweeted some cute photos of her loving up on her baby. These are actually cuter than the last batch, I think. Also, a few of these photos might indicate that Peaches has dyed her hair red, but it could just be one of those wacky Instagram filters at work.

One of the photos that Peaches posted features Astala with Peaches’ baby daddy, Thomas Cohen. He’s actually a pretty handsome guy in this photo (because the rampant skinniess isn’t showing through), but he still looks like a young Bob Geldof. I just can’t get over that undeniable fact.

More Peaches and Astala pics below! She does make a pretty cute mummy.

Photos courtesy of Twitter

I always find it strange that Peaches Geldof gets invited to the big London movie debuts, but regardless of the reason, she showed up to the Prometheus premiere with her baby daddy Thomas Cohen in tow. Poor Thomas always dresses like an old man, but he’s really only a 20-year-old, baby-faced dude who looks (as many of you have pointed out) like a young Bob Geldof. Speaking of Bob, I like to imagine that he’s been doing quite a bit of babysitting these days (while refusing to say Astala’s name) as his daughter begins to hit the town again, which is probably quite the frustrating experience for the old curmudgeon.

Anyway, Peaches is still looking spookily skinny after a mere month of postpartum existence. I’ve been unable to find a designer ID on this silvery, shimmering dress, but that’s not surprising since Peaches attends all the fashion shows but rarely wears the goods. She’s more of a vintage shop type of girl, and this dress is kind of pretty, but Peaches herself looks like a corpse. While I’d hope that her look is merely the result of sleepless nights with a new baby, it’s hard to tell with Peaches, who has a history of … bad habits. Her hair is appropriately mussed for the dress, but the powdery makeup is a total disaster. Also, this isn’t really the rack of a breastfeeding mother, right?

Minnie Driver walked the red carpet in a Temperly gown that was a full-length, long-sleeve, French-lace number with a green lining peeking through from underneath. Her look is very glamourous with pulled-back hair and bold lipstick to match. While Minnie does look good here, she’s also very “tight” and shiny in the forehead area. She’s definitely hitting the ‘tox.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN

Peaches Geldof her baby daddy, Thomas Cohen, have made their first couples-only (in a post-birth sense) outing at the Tunnel of Love event in London. Peaches is looking rather thin, isn’t she? It seems like just yesterday — in fact, it was only just in late April — that Peaches gave birth to baby boy Astala, which means that Peaches has lost this weight in just over a month. Kaiser and I both think that Peaches is looking far too thin for only giving birth a month ago, and she’s actually looking pretty close to her weight last summer before she got pregnant. Of course, that particular dramatic weight loss reportedly occurred thanks to a braindead juicing diet. So what’s her secret weight loss weapon this time?

While it’s completely possible (although not entirely probable) that Peaches has burned a significant amount of weight from breastfeeding, perhaps it’s just her loose dress at this event that’s leading me to believe that she might be up to a few old habits. I’ll just leave it at that. Also, it must be pretty difficult for Peaches to be in a relationship with a very skinny guy like Thomas without worrying about her own weight. Naturally skinny dudes are difficult like that.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Here’s a photo of a heavily pregnant Peaches Geldof in late March in a London park with her dog, Parpy. This image appeals to me very much and almost endears one to Peaches herself. It’s probably just the effect of the dog though because I’m crazy about puppies. Anyway, it’s been about a month since Peaches gave birth to her son, Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen, and we’ve already discussed how Bob Geldof has hilariously declared that he hates his grandson’s name (because it’s not masculine enough) and has begged Peaches to change it. Now Bob is still yammering on about this perceived (LOL) injustice, and he’s taken to an ITV interview to declare that he can’t even bear to pronounce the name Astala. He even joked that naming the child “Leonard Cohen” would be preferable. Bob needs to STFU on that issue because he’ll never win.

Anyway, Peaches seems to be wisely ignoring her dad’s grumblings, and ever since she gave birth to Astala, she’s been virtually glowing through her Twitter page and has posted some amazingly adorable photos of Astala. This is one adorable little grin:

In addition to posting these really cute baby photos of Astala, Peaches has also given an exclusive interview to Hello! magazine. We don’t have access to the interior photos, but The Mail has one of them, and I’ve posted the cover shot below as well. Here are some excerpts from Peaches’ Hello! interview, in which she asserts that Bob adores his new grandson even though he still can’t stomach the poor kid’s name.

Peaches on Bob meeting his grandson: “He was incredibly gentle with Astala; he took him aside and was so quiet, which isn’t something my dad’s renowned for. He’s besotted with Astala because he’s his first grandchild but especially, I think, because he’s the first boy in the family.”

On Astala’s initial breathing difficulties: “It was the most terrifying experience, to have our tiny baby whisked away like that. I was yearning for that skin-to-skin contact I’d waited so long for and to not be able to hold him and nurse him and comfort him was so upsetting. He had a lack of something called surfactant, which made it a struggle for him to breathe. He was in intensive care for a few days. To be able to finally hold him and take in all his little features was wonderful.”

[From Hello!]

Maybe crotchety old Bob will eventually come to accept his grandson’s name and realize that it’s a whole heap better than anything he could’ve come up with himself. Or maybe he’ll just call the kid by one of his middle names — Dylan — which isn’t so bad of a name at all. Although I have to admit that Bob’s “Leonard Cohen” joke is rather amusing in its own way.

Here are more photos of Peaches and baby daddy Thomas Cohen at the park in March before Astala’s birth. They seem like a frisky litle pair, right?

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, Twitter, and Hello!

While Bob Geldof has essentially looked the same for the past couple of decades, I feel the need to clarify that this is a very recent photo of Bob from 4/13 in Dublin. Not that it truly matters because I view photos of Bob Geldof in the same way that I see pictures of Rosie O’Donnell — if you’ve seen one photo, you’ve essentially seen them all.

Anyway, Bob is coming out of one of his quieter phases to raise hell again. As Kaiser reported about a week ago, Bob recently became a first-time grandfather after his middle daughter, Peaches, gave birth to a baby boy, which she and boyfriend Thomas Cohen named Astala Dylan Willow Cohen-Geldof. However, it’s not all sunshine and hippie roses for Bob, who has actually spoken out about how much he vehemently dislikes his grandson’s name, and he wants Peaches to come to her senses and change Astala’s name to something more masculine. This is pretty rich coming from the King of Bad Baby Names, right? While it seems strange for me to be defending Peaches in any way (other than to congratulate her on a healthy baby boy), I think it’s time for Bob to STFU:

He’s hardly one to talk about unusual baby names, having gone against the grain for all of his own three daughters. But Sir Bob Geldof has certainly been left less than impressed about his daughter Peaches’ taste in names. The Boomtown Rats legend hates his grandson’s title so much, he’s even been begging her to change it.

Peaches gave birth to her first child last week and named the little boy Astala Dylan Willow Cohen-Geldof – a name both herself and her fiance Thomas Cohen had picked out before he was even born.

But she clearly doesn’t have her father’s agreement, as he pokes fun at the bizarre name and reveals he has asked the couple to think again. He told The Sun: “Yuck! What’s he going to be called in school? Ass? Stella? It’s a girl’s name, let’s face it.”

Sir Bob could even be blamed for starting the trend of having unusual names in his family. He has a daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, 29, who they named Fifi after his aunt’s name and Trixibelle because his late ex-wife Paula Yates wanted a belle in the family. They then also had 23-year-old Peaches, who has the middle name Honeyblossom, as well as youngest daughter, Little Pixie, 21.

But Geldof has defended his own odd name choices because they all mean something and have special reasons for them. And although he is not a fan of the tot’s given name, Bob is ecstatic that he finally has a boy in the family, branding it “great.” He added to The Sun: “I’ve swam in oestrogen my entire life, and now finally a little chap comes along.”

Peaches announced the happy news she had given birth last week on her Twitter page. She wrote: “yes, it’s true – I’M A MUMMY!” And added: “My little boy is the most beautiful thing in this world. When he holds @tomfromscum’s finger with his hand its the sweetest thing ever.”

A few weeks before the birth, Peaches told Hello! magazine they had chosen out Astala’s name. She said: “We found Astala in a baby name book – quite an obscure one. This is going to be a very stylish baby. I wanted a Jewish name because my fiance is a Jew and the name is the male version of Esther.”

[From Daily Mail]

The way I see it, Bob had three shots at naming children, and he failed miserably on all occasions. While it could be argued that it may have been Paula Yates who came up with all these awful names (after all, she did name her subsequent daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence with Michael Hutchence), Bob has always been a bit of a stubborn old man and would certainly never let someone else name his children without considerable input from himself. So what I’m saying is this — Bob totally named his kids Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches Honeyblossom, and Pixie. In comparison, Astala is not that bad at all. It’s not great, but it could be much worse.

Here’s a photo (from Peaches’ Twitter) of the customized cake at her baby shower. Yeah, the kid might get a little bit of hell for his name but nothing in comparison to what Peaches and her sisters have lived with for their entire lives.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Twitter