There was a story earlier in the month that Naomi Watts is pregnant with her second child with longterm partner, Liev Schreiber. US Weekly reported that she was in her second trimester but didn’t cite a source and there was no confirmation from her reps. Watts looked a little pregnant in recent pictures but her top was blowing out and it was hard to tell. New photos have come out showing the 39 year-old Australian actress looking undeniably pregnant, so we can assume the news is true. She has also been wearing what looks like an engagement ring on her left hand.

Watts has a recent interview with UK Newspaper The Times in which she refused to comment on whether she was pregnant or not, but the article mentions as an aside that her publicist did confirm her pregnancy. As for whether she’s planning to get married, Watts said “I never say never, but I’m not desperate to get married. I’m not someone who has always dreamt of a wedding day. I’m more disbelieving.”

Congratulations to Naomi and Liev! They also have son Alexander Peter, who turned one last Friday.

I love Watt’s dress and she looks so casually chic in that outfit.

Photo credit: Tom Meinelt-Jackson Lee/Splash

Rebecca Romijn, 35, and Jerry O’Connell, 34, have been married for a year and look like they’re having a lot of fun together. There were tabloid stories in April that the couple was trying to get pregnant, with model Romijn supposedly eating more in an attempt to conceive. Just over a week ago O’Connell mentioned that they were working on a baby together. He likely already knew that they had two on the way at the point and wanted to wait a little while before making the official announcement. He said “It would be amazing if it happened… I hope it does happen.” O’Connell also cracked that he enjoyed the process of making a baby, saying they’re trying “at least a few days a month!” It turns out all their hard work was worth it - Romijn is said to be expecting twins, due this winter:

Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell will soon be on double diaper duty.

Us Weekly has learned that Romijn, 35, and O’Connell, 34, are expecting twins this winter.

A spokesman for the couple confirmed the news Monday morning.

The babies will be the first children for the pair.

Romijn and O’Connell met at a party in 2004; he proposed a year later. They got married in an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles in July 2007. See their wedding photo.

[From US Magazine]

Their rep has also confirmed the news to People Magazine. I really like these two together and that is great news for them! Twins are becoming more common in the general population and hence among celebrities population due to the infertility treatments available, but it really doesn’t matter how a baby or babies are conceived. What matters is that they’re born into a loving home. These two seem like they’ll make great parents.

O’Connell recently apologized if anyone was offended by a parody video he made of Tom Cruise’s Scientology video, in which Cruise ranted that the cult were “experts on the mind” and the only people who could help accident victims. O’Connell’s version for Funny or Die included references to the then-striking Writer’s Guild using similar phrases as Cruise and wearing the same black turtleneck, laughing uncontrollably. He said he never intended the video to become as popular as it did, and that it was intended as more of an inside joke in the industry. As for Tom Cruise or Katie Holmes responding to his joke, he said “There has been no contact, thank goodness,” but added that making the video was a lot of fun.

Here are Rebecca Romijn and Judith Light on the set of ‘Ugly Betty’ on 7/25/08. Is she trying to hide her stomach? Credit: WENN. Header is of Romijn and O’Connell on 9/8/07. Credit: Fame

Cara reported yesterday that Ben Affleck seemed to slip in an interview he gave in late May in which he said “we’re going to have another baby soon now that we’ve figured out how to do it.” It could be interpreted as either a confirmation that his wife Jennifer Garner is expecting or just Affleck letting us know that they’re trying for another baby. Either way, it looks like congratulations are in order. Garner’s close friend and the man who officiated her wedding with Affleck, Victor Garber, has confirmed that she’s expecting.

“Yes, she is,” Garber - who officiated the couple’s 2005 wedding - told Us when asked if recent speculation was true that the couple is expecting.

A source adds, “She is five months pregnant. They are very happy.”

Garner, 36, and Affleck, 35, are parents to two-year-old daughter Violet - one of Us’ Babies of the Year.

[From US Weekly]
She’s five months pregnant already? She looks three months if that. Ben and Jennifer have two and half year old Violet, and they come across as very hands-on parents and are often seen out with their daughter. There have been rumors that they’re having trouble, but those stories don’t seem to have much basis in fact. Both Ben and Jen have been outspoken about their wish to have another baby and this is great news for them. Maybe we’ll receive some confirmation from their camp, but I bet Garber spoke with their blessings and they’re just glad to stop the speculation.

Jennifer Garner is shown out in LA on 7/17/08. Credit: WENN

There have been rumors for months that Jennifer Garner is pregnant with her second child by husband Ben Affleck. Ben may have let the baby secret slip in late May during an interview with Marianne Gray. He was chatting with Gray about his movie Gone Baby Gone when the subject of working with Garner again came up. The couple first met when they worked together on the film Daredevil. While modestly putting her on a pedestal he may have admitted they were expecting another child.

He’d “love” to work with Garner “if she would work with me, but she might just want to work with a real director. And we’re going to have another baby soon now that we’ve figured out how to do it. We want lots of kids.”

[Times Online]

Ben and Jennifer were seen yesterday heading into Garner’s L.A. obstetrician’s office. Reps for both camps refuse to deny or confirm any baby news. Her recent preference for baggy tops and efforts to shield a possible baby bump by holding her two year old have tabloids theorizing that she is three months along.

These poor celebs. If pregnancy rumors started every time I was a bit bloated, I would be considered to be knocked up year round.

Jennifer Garner and Violet are shown out on 7/9/08 and 7/15/08. Credit: WENN

The hospital where Angelina Jolie is staying while she waits to give birth. Photos by WENN.
Last week some photos came out of a random pregnant woman lifting up her shirt for the paparazzi from the window of the gorgeous resort-like hospital on the French Riviera where Angelina Jolie is staying. I saw them on Just Jared, and although it was pretty obvious that it wasn’t Angelina they posted them anyway, which is what I would have easily done if we had a deal with that photo agency.

The guy posing with the smiling woman was a thin man in a white v-neck t-shirt whose face was covered. He could have easily passed for Brad Pitt if you squinted hard enough. The woman was a brunette and although the photos were faraway and very low resolution you could tell from her features and the size of her belly that it wasn’t Angelina. Angelina also has a big tattoo on her lower abdomen that would have been visible in the photos, as Just Jared mentions.

Even though not many people were convinced that was Angelina, the hospital where she is staying felt compelled to issue a statement that there’s no way you can see into her room from below. They say they put something on the window that makes it impossible to see in. It’s likely they’re trying to discourage some of the layabout photographers who are milling around the beach just waiting for a glimpse of the heavily pregnant star:

That wasn’t Angelina Jolie waving to fans from her hospital room last week.

Last Thursday, photos surfaced of a pregnant woman who resembled the actress, 33, at Lenval Hospital in Nice, France.

But a hospital rep tells the Associated Press: “It is impossible to see into Mr. Brad Pitt and Mrs. Angelina Jolie’s room. This is not Mr. Brad Pitt or Mrs. Angelina Jolie in them.”

The rep says that the windows of Jolie’s room have been covered with a special material to prevent any prying eyes.

On Tuesday, Pitt and son Pax, 4, visited Jolie, who has been resting and is being monitored by doctors in the seaside hospital.

[From US Weekly]

We published photos of the pigs on Brad and Angelina’s property on a slow news day, which gave me an excuse to talk about my harrowing experience with a family of wild boar, so of course a maybe-photo of Angie warrants discussion.

So far all that’s come out of Angelina in weeks is a very faraway picture of her outside. There are only a few photos of her kids and a mostly covered-up Brad Pitt dashing into the hospital visit her. I know right before my son was born my face was puffed up like a watermelon and I was huge. There’s like one photo of me at the time, and I would destroy it if the digital version were in my possession. Angelina’s arms are probably still skinnier than mine are now, so she’s not facing the same level of weight gain I had with just one baby, but who wants to get their photo taken right before they give birth? I would say that the paparazzi should pack it up and go home, but they probably assume that the minute they give up Angelina will emerge, and they’ll kick themselves for missing that money shot.

Though they haven’t even been born yet, the mayor of Nice, France is already bestowing quite a bit of praise on Brangelina’s upcoming double bundles of joy. He’s praised them quite a bit, and has announced that the children will be honorary citizens of Nice for the rest of their lives. They’ll also have the opportunity to apply for French citizenship when they turn 18.

They’ll always have Nice. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s soon-to-be-born twins will always be considered honorary citizens of Nice, regardless of whether they opt to obtain French citizenship, the mayor of Nice said Friday.

“That is for the citizens of Nice a very great honor and a great satisfaction,” mayor Christian Estrosi said. “We are very happy for this choice of Mrs. Angelina Jolie and Mr. Brad Pitt and I want to say to them that I wish a lot of joy to them and the babies, and great success for all of their lives.”

The mayor affectionately called the twins “two little Nicois.”

Being born in France is not enough to confer citizenship. But according to the French Foreign Ministry website, the twins will have the option of obtaining French citizenship when they turn 18 as long as France has been their primary residence for at least 5 years after age 11.

“All their lives they will be Nicois and all their life they will be able to come to Nice and we will receive them with great honor,” Estrosi said. He was waiting eagerly to extend his congratulations on behalf of all the city’s residents.

[From the Huffington Post]

That’s really sweet. Somehow the mayor sounds so into it, I imagine him giving his speech with little squeals of delight or something. Angelina is expected to give birth in the next couple of weeks, but no one can really narrow it down beyond that. With twins it’s very rare to go full term, but her doctor has said she has a ways to go.

Brad has been bringing their children to visit her – in batches, since there’s a lot of them. Between all of their traveling, it seems like the whole bunch of them would be better off getting some kind of all-encompassing citizenship. I realize that doesn’t exist, but – as with most things - I’m pretty sure everyone is willing to make an exception for the Brangelinas.

Here’s what I’m told is Brad Pitt looking through the window at Lenval hospital on July 2nd. Header of the couple at the Changeling premiere in Cannes on May 20th. Images thanks to WENN.

Nicole Kidman is one lucky woman. Not only did she somehow manage to gestate without ever having a belly that indicated anything more severe than a little bloating, but she’ll probably come out of the whole thing with nary a stretch mark. And if her labor is as seemingly low-key as tiny as her pregnancy, she’ll pop the kid out in under half an hour. And for all that, she’ll get quite the “Thanks for having my baby” present from husband Keith Urban: a $73,000 Cartier ring.

With Nicole Kidman due to give birth in early July, Keith Urban has purchased a surprise present to give to his wife in the delivery room — a $73,000 Cartier Trinity ring! “It’s three rings intertwined, so it’s very symbolic,” the insider says of the popular design, which is set with multi-colored pavé diamonds and is meant to represent the three stages of a relationship: yellow gold for friendship, rose gold for love and white gold for fidelity.

“It’s three turned into one and that’s how it will be with Keith, Nicole and the new baby,” notes the insider. Cameron Diaz owns the same ring, as does Katie Holmes, who received hers for Mother’s Day. The Trinity ring was created by Cartier in 1924 and is still one of its most recognized designs today.

[From In Touch]

It’s a slightly odd choice given that Nicole’s ex-husband’s new wife has the same ring – but I’m sure she’s not complaining. It really is a lovely piece of jewelry. I made the mistake of looking at it on Cartier’s website – that can really get distracting. I would definitely be willing to have just about anyone’s child for that. Joking. Mostly.

Nicole is expected to give birth anytime. She hasn’t been specific about a date, other than that it’s in early July. Though if I were her, I’d put a rush on it. Jewelry is totally worth it.

Here are Nicole and Keith at the Academy Of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 18th. These are the only photos I could find of Nicole where she actually looks pregnant. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man” who became famous after appearing on Oprah, has given birth to a daughter, according to several media outlets. TMZ reports that Beatie checked into a hospital in Bend, Oregon on Monday under a fake name. His room was “sealed off” from the pregnant women, and he gave birth late sometime on Monday. Beatie and his wife Nancy haven’t released any official statement, so we don’t yet know the name or other stats of the child.

It’s a girl for the “pregnant man.”

Thomas Beatie, who was impregnated after changing genders but keeping his female reproductive organs, delivered a healthy baby daughter Thursday, ABC News reported.

The 34-year-old transgendered man revealed his pregnancy in April, setting off an international furor. He underwent surgery for breast removal and began taking male hormones years ago. The man with the wispy beard also legally changed his gender from male to female, married a woman and led his life as a man.

But Beatie retained the female organs he was born with with the intention of one day getting pregnant. “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he told Oprah Winfrey. “It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”

He was reportedly scheduled for a Cesarean section, but details on the birth was not immediately released.

[From the Daily News]

Us Weekly reports that Thomas has written a memoir titled “Love Makes a Family: A Memoir of Hardship, Healing and an Extraordinary Pregnancy,” which will be released in September. Congratulations to Thomas and Nancy!

Gwen Stefani has talked many times about her weight, and how she really has to work at keeping thin. Which is my favorite celebrity statement to read. Nothing makes me more furious than reading that a celeb lost the baby weight running around after their new child, because I’ve discovered something – babies can’t move!

Gwen says the time has come to relax when it comes to her fitness regime.

She says, “At school, I remember thinking that I wished I could like a girl that was so skinny and got to eat whatever she wanted. I always had to exercise. My weight fluctuated and I got chubby again in 11th grade - at like 16 - and then I was like, ‘You know what? I’ve had enough of this up and down thing!’”

“So I got on the swim team and I was more determined not to be that chubby girl any more. Ever since then I’ve been able to control it, but it sucks. Nowadays I just try to realize how stupid it is, because nobody cares - except me!”

Hollyscoop

Gwen doesn’t care right now because she’s about 8.5 months pregnant. However, she’ll probably weaken in her vow as soon as the baby is born.

Gwen and husband Gavin Rossdale are expecting their second child any day.

Gwen and Gvain are shown out in London on 7/1/08, thanks to WENN.

We haven’t seen Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in so long that I was starting to believe the conspiracy theories that she gave birth to the twins, her assistant blabbed to the press, and then her camp tried to buy her some much-needed privacy by claiming someone was posing as her assistant and leaking fake stories. In Touch has some faraway photos of what looks like Angelina still looking pregnant that were taken four days ago. She could have just stuffed a basketball up there and walked out on the terrace between nursing sessions, it’s hard to tell.

It looks like one of the photographers camped out on the French Riviera waiting for something to happen got a coveted photo of Angelina and didn’t have to resort to taking pictures of pigs. You can see the photo at In Touch.

Here’s Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Fabio Volo at a Kung Fu Panda photocall in Rome yesterday without still-pregnant Angelina. You can tell Jack Black is the father of a newborn because he sure looks tired. Thanks to PRPhotos.