Usher’s much-talked about wish for a son will come true – he told People magazine that he and new wife/possible man Tameka Foster are expecting a son. Earlier this month, Usher told Ellen Degeneres that he’s hoping for a boy and said, ““I think every man wants a son. He’s own little own doll. If it’s a boy, I’m going to name him Usher. I’m hoping to name him that. I’ve been playing with a few names. I’m the fourth. Usher Raymond the fourth. I just want to pass the name on. Maybe I’ll change the middle name.” All right… I wasn’t quite so aware that every man wanted his own little doll, but whatever. Apparently Usher will get just that. Usher Jr Jr Jr is going to have some serious roman numerals after his name.

“Newlyweds Usher and Tameka Foster are going to have a boy, he revealed to PEOPLE Tuesday.

“When asked what he is looking forward to most about being a new dad, Usher, 28, said his desires are pretty basic.

“‘I just want my son to fully be coherent and to be healthy, first and foremost,’ he told PEOPLE at the USHER for Men and USHER for Women fragrance launch party at Cipriani in Manhattan.

“‘I’ve found that it is a step-by-step process. You can wish for a million and one things. But I hope that my son has the same energy I had as a child,’ Usher said. ‘Hopefully, he won’t be as bad as me. I hope that he’s just a healthy son.’

[From People]

Usher wants his baby to be fully coherent? Like he’s hoping to have a discussion with the kid from the get go, or just that the kid’s eyes move? I think it was just an odd choice of words, but it leaves me wondering what he’s expecting from the kid nonetheless.

And for those of you wondering about wife Maneka Foster, and how she’s going to push a kid out of her penis, here’s some info on her pregnancy so far.

“‘Mom-to-be, Foster, 37, told PEOPLE she’s feeling “beautiful” but having odd cravings.

“‘I eat ice all day,’ she said. ‘It’s a weird thing. I love it. Now I’m thinking about ice. I want to find some ice.’

“Foster also admits that while she’s aiming for a natural birth, it might not happen.

“‘I don’t want drugs,’ she said. ‘I’ll try. I say that now. You call me about ten hours into labor. I’ll be asking for everything. Vicodin and everything.’”

[From People]

Tameka Foster wants some Vicodin? Look at the shock on my face. Damn girl, I know you mean that as a joke, but with your crazy-ass history of dating drug dealers, chilling in jail, and threatening to kill you sister-in-law, popping a few Vicodin before you pop the kid out doesn’t seem so far fetched.

Note by Jaybird: Here’s Usher & Tameka at the launch for his new fragrance yesterday in New York. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony made an appearance at a public school in the Bronx yesterday to help kick off their upcoming joint concert tour. Lopez had everyone speculating that despite her husband’s rep saying she’s not pregnant, she’s just delaying an announcement until it’s absolutely necessary. She wore a lose billowy gray short dress (not exactly a muumuu, but I took some license) and a black hat.

Her face also looked curiously puffy, which some say could be an indication of pregnancy hormones or weight gain. To me it looks like she had some minor work done recently and is trying to hide the swelling by wearing a hat.

Lopez grew up near the school she visited with Anthony, and she got a little choked up around the kids. Marc Anthony is from Spanish Harlem and noted that one of his old teachers is now the principal at the school:

But Lopez clearly was touched by the hundreds of fans who swarmed the sidewalks and the school’s choir, which sang for the couple.

“We look at you and we see ourselves,” Lopez said. “I can remember doing little songs at school and being onstage and dreaming of great things. And seeing all of you so full of beauty and life and energy, and knowing that - how far you can go - it still touches my heart.”

Anthony recognized P.S. 36 Principal Nilda Rivera as a teacher of his when he was growing up in Spanish Harlem.

“She was a huge part of my youth,” Anthony said.

[From NY Daily News]

The News notes that Anthony and Lopez will donate $1 from each concert ticket sold to the ING Run for Something Better Program, an exercise program for children that aims to help prevent and treat child obesity. The school Anthony and Lopez visited participates in the program.

If Lopez isn’t pregnant she could be undergoing fertility treatments that are making her a bit bloated. Even if she’s self conscious of that, she’s probably loving the speculation. I doubt that it would make her face all swollen like that though.

There’s a rumor that young Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus is pregnant, as supposedly confirmed to a teen magazine I know I’ve never heard of, J-14 Magazine. When you see the supposed clipping of the article, though, you can tell that it’s a story Photoshopped on top of another one, as there are two different fonts used for the title.

“Yes, sadly it’s true. Miley herself confirmed the pregnancy rumors during a J-14 interview. ‘I’m going to take good care of my baby. I’ve already gained 7 pounds. I was in real shock when it happened accidentally. I went a little too far. I’m sorry to all of my fans’,” the magazine photo reports Miley as saying.

“While Miley is still planning on going on tour for her new solo cd, she’s currently filming the series finale of ‘Hannah Montana’. Even though she’s keeping hush about who’s the father. Miley’s parents are very disappointed in her: ‘Whatever’s meant to happen will happen. I guess it was meant to be this way.”

[Supposed article from J-14 via GaySocialites]

In case you’re not familiar with Miley Cyrus, she’s the daughter of country star Billy Ray Cyrus and currently stars in the Disney Channel original musical series Hannah Montana. The show centers around a 14 year-old girl who leads a double life as average student by day and a teen pop sensation by night. The show is quite popular, with a movie version in the works.

There are two soundtracks out for the Hannah Montana show, and young Miley will perform a 54-date tour of North America to begin on October 18, 2007 on St. Louis, Missouri and conclude on January 9, 2008 in Albany, NY. Many dates are sold out.

Someone had the idea to add another scandal to the roster of troubled Disney teens after the Vanessa Anne Hudgens nude pics and make up a rumor that the clean cut teen star was pregnant. While it doesn’t seem to be true, it’s not out of the question. Young Oscar-nominated New Zealand star Keisha Castle Hughes became pregnant at the age of 16 and had a healthy baby girl, Felicity-Amore, on April 25, 2007 when she was just 17.

Miley Cyrus and Keisha Castle Hughes biography details from Wikipedia. Fake magazine article inset image found at GaySocialites via ONTD. Miley Cyrus is shown at 2007 Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party on 9/20 thanks to PRPhotos.

By moving to NY and making their routine well known, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are trying to reduce the public’s interest by flooding the market with pictures. At least that’s how I’m interpreting their strategy. They probably figure they couldn’t escape to the remotest region of Africa and keep the paparazzi at bay without brute force so they may as well go to a place where there are tons of people and it’s easy to find them. It’s supply and demand, and when there’s a lot of Brad and Angelina to go around people get placated and a little bored with them. That seems to be the way they handle interviews too. Just give too much information and there’s not much left to speculate about.

Everyone is watching Angelina closely to see if she’s sprouting that baby bump that showed up in a picture published over the weekend and but has otherwise proved elusive. People are divided, with some saying she’s just gaining some much-needed weight and others concluding she’s got to be pregnant considering how many hints Brad has been dropping.

Pitt will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow, Friday, and ABC has an advance look at his interview on their website. He tells Diane Sawyer that he has had some problems with depression in his life but that being a dad has helped lift his spirits. He gushes about how much he loves his children and says his kids say and do the cutest things. He says fatherhood is his greatest achievement and he calls Angelina “amazing”:

Also like Jesse, Pitt said he also understands the melancholy of those children of the prairie. Both Pitt and Jesse came from the plains of Missouri.

“He’s from the same area that, that I’m from,” Pitt said. “I was surprised how much that meant to me in the end, to do something that had a connection with home.”

Sawyer asked Pitt about a time he said that he had grown up on those plains with some unexplained sadness.

“I called it a congenital sadness. It’s something that I, that I feel in my grandparents, in my … in the people I’ve met, in a Southern way of life. It’s something pervasive, is an undercurrent that, that I think Christianity answers.”

When Sawyer suggested that this sadness was something of a “genetic background music,” Pitt agreed.

“Well put, I like that,” he said.

Pitt has said that he once thought fame or success would be a cure for the sadness, but he has since learned the secret may be children.

“It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever taken on. It’s the most difficult, the most rewarding and the most fun,” he said. “But I think this is the, the greatest thing I’ve, I could possibly achieve and hats off to all the parents out there.”

He said that a good deal of parenting comes from instinct, but all of it is rewarding.

“They say the funniest things I’ve ever heard. They’re the funniest people I’ve ever met. … One of the things I’m most happy about for my kids is that they, they have a mother I think, because she is, she’s amazing,” he said.

[From ABCNews.com]

I like how Brad and Angelina are opening up so much and you can tell that the press is starting to like them again. I think the gossip is influenced a lot by how they’re acting toward each other in public. They seem a lot happier lately and I think that might have to do with a little surprise that will be more evident in the near future.

Thanks to Splash News for these pictures of Angelina with the kids yesterday and today. You can see how much she’s mobbed in NY. Splash News is currently blurring the faces of children in pictures that we’re downloading. I have requested unblurred versions, but have not received them yet. I will replaced the blurred photos when I get them.

So, the Jennifer Lopez pregnancy rumours are circulating again – the poor woman probably just had a big glass of champagne before walking down the catwalk. That’s what the baby bump was. Or at least, that’s what it seems to be according to husband Marc Anthony.

“Everyone calls about this every month with the hopes that they’ll hit the mark — but no,” Anthony’s publicist said.

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So, he didn’t mention the champagne theory. But I like the fact he mentions that people call every month with the rumour wanting it confirmed or denied. Is Marc Anthony suggesting we’re following his wife’s ovulation cycle?

Some reports have had Jennifer pregnant with twins, even offering detailed stories of ultrasound results and fertility treatments, but I personally like her attitude about not having a baby until God is ready for her to. Particularly since we all seem to forget she’s that other special kind of mommy – a stepmommy to Marc Anthony’s three children.

Jennifer is very busy right now, promoting her new album, but is also keen to perform with the Spice Girls.

According to the Sunday People, the singer said: “I’d love to get back out there on tour and I’d really like to perform on the same stage as the Spice Girls.”

Speaking about Victoria Beckham, Lopez said: “Even before we were friends, Posh was always my favourite.”

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She might not be preggers right now, but if she hangs out with that fertile bunch of mummies it won’t be long. It’s contagious, right?

Thanks to PopSugar for the header image.

People are saying Angelina Jolie is pregnant after photographs came out of her this weekend looking like she was sporting a growing baby bump. At last night’s Assassination of Jesse James premiere in NY there wasn’t as pronounced a bump, but she no longer looks scary skinny and had a thicker middle than you would expect for someone so thin. Brad has been dropping hints all over the place, and said in a recent interview that they have to get a bigger bed so their growing brood can fit into it, so I would bet she is pregnant:

“We’re not done,” Pitt, 43, quipped, acknowledging public interest in the family’s growth. “They say, ‘Any plans for a fifth?’ And I say, ‘And a sixth, and a seventh, and an eighth, and a ninth.’ That’s my answer.”

“We also made a 9-foot-wide bed” that fits him, Jolie, 32, and all four children, Pitt who is starring in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, told the Associated Press. “Just big enough. One more and we’ll have to go to 11 feet.”

[From People.com]

Pitt also spoke about the downside of fame, saying there have been unbalanced people around them and some scary episodes that make him concerned for the safety of his family. He said that they can’t really go anywhere due to the hoards of paparazzi that surround them like flies:

“We just take turns and make sure we keep the family together,” Pitt said, adding in an interview with USA Today, “It’s impossible for us. We’re run out of every major city. There’s just too many paparazzi. There’s always cameras in the kids’ faces, yelling their names.”

Although he doesn’t pack a six-shooter like his latest screen character Jesse James, Pitt admits he’s concerned about “how to survive and how to maintain a family life.”

“I understand the essence of paranoia. I understand being hunted, to some degree. It’s rare, but there are imbalanced people out there. I’ve had break-ins in the house,” Pitt said. “I’ve had some of these abnormal incidents that can be a bit frightening.

“It’s something that I want to be aware of and be cautious about, especially with the family, that everybody’s protected,” he told the AP.

[From People.com]

With Angelina maybe-pregnant, it’s not going to get any better for them. She looks quite happy, and it’s a change from her frosty look at some premieres in the recent past. I would guess that she’s expecting. Star Magazine is calling her pregnant on the latest cover, saying she had a “secret visit to [a] baby doc,” but I would bet they’re just speculating like we are.

I have a three year old, and although I have good help that allows me to work, it’s still a huge responsibility and I’m not ready for another one yet. One of my friends has five kids and she manages with schedules and chore sheets. It’s much more than a full time job for her, and I don’t know how she does it, but all of her kids are in school now so at least she has some time off.

Brad and Angelina certainly have the resources to have good help for their children, and they’re very hands-on parents. It must be crazy at their house with all those little ones despite all the space, although it sounds like that’s just the way they like it.

Brad has recently praised his co-star Mary Louise Parker’s adoption of an infant girl from Africa. He said she brought her little boy on the set of The Assassination of Jesse James and called her “a really lovely mother.” He said he thought it was a great idea that she adopted.

Joel Madden has pledged to marry Nicole Richie, his girlfriend who is five months pregnant with the couple’s baby. He told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show that they would get married, and that he was committed to Nicole:

“Obviously, marriage is in our future,” Madden told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday. “I don’t know when or where or how, but right now our priority is our family and is the baby.”

The singer added: “That’s all we’ve been thinking about. We are in love and are really happy.”

[From People.com]

A story last week had Nicole postponing the wedding until after the baby was born as she wanted to avoid the unnecessary stress. Nicole is said to be planning an all natural medication-free birth and seems to be acting in the best interest of her child. If only she could get an attitude adjustment.

It is possible that Madden was making such a public statement about his plans with Nicole due to the sensational new cover of Star this week. The cover features an old picture of Madden’s ex, Hilary Duff, on his lap. A forlorn-looking pregnant Nicole simpers on the cover and the headline reads “Joel CHEATING on pregnant Nicole… with Hilary?”

I thought Hilary Duff was dating a hot young hockey player and if there is some insider information about a potential meeting with Madden I bet they just ran into each other out somewhere and made awkward ex conversation. A paparazzo might have seen it at one of the clubs these young stars frequent and given the non-salacious details to the tabloids.

Meanwhile there’s a cute story in this week’s Enquirer about Joel busting his ass to get Nicole some ice cream when they were in NY:

In Madhattan [sic] spending a quiet evening in, pregnant Nicole Richie and Joel Madden vegged and watched TV - until Mommy-to-be suddenly moaned she had a powerful craving for caramel ice cream from fave La Maison du Chocholat in Rockefeller Plaza. After 20 minutes of resistance, Daddy-to-be surrendered and raced several blocks to the store - but it had just closed! Knowing Hell hath no fury like a pregnant dame jonse-ing for whatever, Joel banged on the door until an annoyed salewoman yelled through the glass: “We’re Closed!” Panic-stricken, Joel shouted back: “She’s pregnant - she’s craving caramel!” Suddenly softening, as members of The Sisterhood do when they hear baby talk, the woman took pity. Moments later - after telling her: “I will now have a little peace and quiet, thanks to you!” - Joel hotfooted back through the Big Apple streets.. just another lovestruck sap, a la “Guys and Dolls,” clutching his doll’s precious ice cream!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, September 24, 2007]

Joel is not leaving Nicole anytime soon. The guy is making desperate ice cream runs for her and talking about getting married.

Last week’s Star Magazine had Joel and Nicole fighting over whether to live on the west or the east coast, with Joel wanting to live in NY while Nicole wanted to stay put in LA. Star must have it out for them, not that I wouldn’t mind seeing them flame out while Nicole ends up a single mom with all the help in the world.

Thanks to popbytes for the header image.

Living your life under the Brangelina microscope has got to a challenge, especially if you ever want to keep anything private. Brad and Angie have both been pretty vocal about their desire to have more kids in the near future – which means the rest of us will be on permanent baby bump watch until Angelina pops another one out. Yeah they could mean adoption, but that’s a bit harder to detect while looking at a woman, so we’re going to assume they mean biological child. So with that in mind – I think we might have our first baby bump spotting! We here at Celebitchy pride ourselves on our too-skinny-lady-baby-spotting abilities. We have mad skilz in that department, as Celebitchy was the first to spot Nicole Richie’s bump. We might not be the first to call Angelina pregnant, but we can lend our expertise in the field to the debate: we’re calling her pregnant too. Unless we’re wrong, then we’re calling her bloated.

“As Angelina Jolie enjoys an afternoon boat ride with children Zahara and Maddox in Venice, these pictures reveal the actress could soon be expecting another addition to the ‘Brangelina’ brood. The 32-year-old star has been under recent scrutiny following images revealing an ultra-thin, skeletal figure as she is reported to weigh less than seven stone.

“Jolie attributes the dramatic weight loss to trauma suffered after the death of her mother to ovarian cancer and the birth of baby Shiloh. But from the look of the substantial bump under her figure-hugging dress, Angelina could well be pregnant.”

“‘Brad and I would like to have more kids’ she told the Times in an interview to promote her latest film, A Mighty Heart, in which she plays a pregnant woman, whose journalist husband is kidnapped by Islamic terrorists.

“Use of a Pashmina shawl could be Jolie’s attempt at covering the bump in a bid to keep the news quiet. It wasn’t until the fourth month of her pregnancy with Shiloh that Jolie confirmed the rumours before giving birth in May last year.”

[From the Daily Mail]

The pictures of Angelina wearing the Pashmina were taken in New York City in the last few days, and it hasn’t been very cool – certainly not enough to need a large wrap during the day. I know women don’t generally announce their pregnancies until they’re at least three months along (unless you’re Christina Aguilera and want to keep it a secret until the baby’s 21st birthday for some reason) but with Angelina and Brad constantly mouthing off about wanting more kids, it’s kind of surprising she’d try to hide it if she were pregnant. As the Daily Mail’s article mentions, Angelina didn’t announce her first pregnancy until the fourth month, so we know that, for whatever reason, she likes to keep it private for a while. As we noted two weeks ago, Brad was recently asked by Italian state TV if he and Angelina are ready for another child, and he responded “Yeah we’re ready.” Angelina’s so thing that it’s hard to hid her own bones, let alone a baby. I’m guessing we’ll get an official confirmation in… 4 months. Unless she pulls a Christina Aguilera.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Angelina and Brad with son Maddox at his school, Lycee Francais De New York. Header image of Angelina with Zahara in Venice recently, with what looks to be a baby bump. Images thanks to the Daily Mail.

So I was sitting around, feeling all badly for poor, knocked-up, jailed Foxy Brown. Images of that lady who gave birth on the prison floor a few months ago kept creepy into my mind. Remember that one? She was in the Lackawanna County Prison, and the guards refused to take her to the hospital. She kept pleading with them, telling them she was in labor, and all they did was put her into a cell with a camera and ignore her. She gave birth on the prison floor, and one of the female guards had to cut the baby’s umbilical cord with her fingernails! True story. I kept imagining Foxy Brown in that kind of distress. Which sorta amused me. I mean no! That’s horrible, not even Foxy Brown should be subjected to such atrocities. But if anyone should, it’d be her. Oops. Well it turns out that won’t be happening anytime soon, unless Foxy manages to get knocked up by a sexually ambiguous cellmate.

“It turns out that the only thing Foxy Brown is expecting to do in jail is promote a record. Contrary to the buzz set off by the Chyna Doll rapper’s own attorneys, Brown is not three months pregnant, according to her manager, Chaz Williams.

“‘And to the pregnancy rumors, this is the official statement: She is not pregnant,’ Williams said Wednesday. Brown is currently behind bars at Rikers Island on New York’s East River, her home for the next year for violating her probation in connection with her 2004 throw-down in a Manhattan nail salon.

“‘This is just a temporary situation,’ Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, said in a statement. ‘I made my bed and have no problem lying in it. My will is steady. What doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger.’

Brown has not formally addressed the pregnancy talk, but she was quoted by the New York Post’s Page Six on Aug. 20, two days before she was locked up, saying, ‘I’m getting married in September. I’m pregnant.’ And even one of her lawyers said that she was expecting.

“‘She’s getting married, she’s three months pregnant, she signed a record deal two weeks ago and she is in contract for a reality TV show’ New York State Senator John Sampson told Jackson on Aug. 22 to stir sympathy for the jail-bound entertainer.”

[From E! News]

Oops! What are the odds the Foxy was misquoted at such a convenient time? Or that her lawyer was too? Pretty slim I bet. I guess there’s a chance that she was pregnant and had a miscarriage due to the stress of all the court stuff, but don’t you think she’d be blabbing about that, too? There’s really nothing Foxy won’t say or do to get her way. The rules apply to everyone else. Wanna make up a pregnancy so you don’t have to do time for your multiple crimes? That’s fine, you’re special. Really though, how did she think she’d get away with that? At some point there won’t be a baby, and I’m guessing people are going to put two and two together and start to get suspicious. She’s obviously allowed to lie to the press, but she could get in trouble for lying to the court. That would make me really, really happy. Especially if, someday when she does get pregnant, they make her give birth in a jail cell, as a retroactive punishment.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Foxy Brown is shown on 6/07/07 at the Urban Music Awards with Spragga Benz. Thanks to WENN for this photo.

People are buzzing that Jennifer Lopez, 38, is finally pregnant after she showed a slight bump under her loose dress at the NY fashion show for her god-awful new clothing line, Just Sweet. Lopez has been rumored to be seeking fertility treatment and has made no secret of the fact that she would like a child with her husband of an unexpected three years, Marc Anthony. She could be in the early stages of pregnancy or she could have a little bloat and wearing an unflattering dress of her own design.

Of the new fashion line, which features clothing so unattractive and ill-fitting that even Sienna Miller would be hard pressed to wear some of the outfits, Lopez seems to think it’s made for just about anyone who has the nerve to wear it:

Girls who are young who are going to wear it are going to feel sophisticated in it because it does have a chic kind of feeling to it… But people who are older who wear it are going to feel young, flirty and fun. It really has a nice mix.

[From PopSugar]

If she is expecting, that poor kid is in for a lifetime of bad fashion.

There is one picture in particular that you can view over at PopSugar that makes her look extra bumpy.

Thanks to SplashNews for these pictures.

Update: Here are some more pics of the show, thanks to PRPhotos.