Janet Jackson and longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri have jumped on the Charlize Theron/Stuart Townsend “We don’t need to have a ceremony to be committed” bandwagon. Janet says that, after two failed marriages – one of which she kept secret until she filed for divorce – she’s not really into the idea of another. It’s hard to fault her for that.

“Though Janet Jackson and her boyfriend, producer Jermaine Dupri, have been together for almost six years, the pair have always skirted rumors that they eventually plan to make their coupling official by saying ‘I do.’ And now the 41-year-old singer is explaining just why.

“‘I don’t need a piece of paper to validate what we have,’ Janet told TV’s Extra at the premiere of her new film, ironically titled Why Did I Get Married?. ‘But that’s just me.’

“However, Janet does admit that she’d be traditional about things if they ever did swap vows, saying that she would definitely take Jermaine’s last name, joking that they’d both then have the same initials: ‘J.D.’

“That being said, Michael’s little sister, who has walked down the aisle twice before, says she’s not the one to ask for wedding advice from, joking, ‘You want to ask someone who’s been married twice and divorced twice?’”

[From OK! Magazine]

I like that people are more open to alternative definitions of committed relationships. It may not work in every circumstance, but every relationship is different.

In other Janet news, she’s supposedly writing a book about losing weight. The singer has famously gained and dropped weight in (what appears to be) 50+ pound increments for the last several years. She’s just very carefully avoided being out in public much when she’s “Fat Janet.” That can’t be good for the body, and is a great way to get diabetes. Janet’s never really talked about her weight issues in public, so it’ll be interesting to hear what she has to say, especially considering the extremity of the issue – and her incredible lengths to hide it.

“Michael Jackson’s sister Janet is writing a book on weight problems. The 41 year old singer is planning a book to tell the story of her battles with weight and diet and what she did to slim down. The as yet untitled tome is expected to describe how her weight has yo-yoed throughout her career in pop music.

“’I'm writing a book on my journey of weight loss and weight gain,’ Jackson was quoted as saying in People magazine. Last year, Janet stacked on almost 30 kilograms [66 pounds], which she said had a debilitating effect on her. ‘I could not believe how big I was, how heavy I really was. I would see myself in the mirror, but I wouldn’t look too often. I didn’t want to get used to that image,’ she said.’ However, she’s cautioned that her suggestions in the upcoming book would not have universal application. ‘It’s different for everyone,’ she said.”

[From Sky News]

Well at least she’s willing to talk about it. I think the reason Janet’s weight issues seem so weird is that when she does let herself be photographed, she’s SUPER fit with what looks to be a 12 pack of abs. It’s craziness. So I think it’s just the extremity of the highs and lows that make it so interesting. Hopefully she’ll have some good insight, or at least let us freakishly curious folks know what’s going on.

Janet Jackson is shown at the “Why Did I Get Married?” movie premiere on 10/4/07 thanks to PRPhotos.

Model and actress Milla Jovivich, 31, is seven months pregnant with her first child, which is thought to be a girl. Unlike women who manage to stay inexplicably svelte with just a baby bump, like Bridget Moynahan, Jovivich has gained weight all over. She blogged that she’s gained 70 pounds during her pregnancy and that it comes from eating a lot of carbs.

i am so huge you guys! i’ve gained almost 70 pounds in the last 4 months! It’s unbelievable how quickly it all happened, all i did was eat three bagels every morning with butter, peanut butter and jelly all over them, a few boxes of crispy cream donuts for lunch and boom! i’m tipping the scale at 195! man, that came out of nowhere! lol! well maybe not completely out of nowhere! so now i’m completely going in the opposite extreme and eating nothing but chicken, fish and veggies with the closest thing to bread taking the form of oatmeal in the morning with just the teensiest bit of maple sugar to make it bearable… sigh! all i want is another box of donuts! well, only 8 more weeks to go and then hopefully i’ll start to get back to normal.

[From MillaJ.com via USWeekly]

Jovovich is 5′8″ tall, so 195 pounds is big for a pregnant woman at that height, but not huge. I’m 5′7″ and I weighed about 195 right before my son was born. It was pretty uncomfortable for me and I was self conscious about it. My son was nearly 9 pounds when he was born, not that it’s an excuse for gaining that much weight. Eventually I lost it, but it took work and makes me realize I’ll have to be more careful not to balloon up if I have another one.

I didn’t know much about Jovovich up until now. She seems to have a great personality and comes across as funny and outspoken on her blog. Jovivich is currently starring in Resident Evil: Exinction, and the father of her baby is the director, Paul W.S. Anderson. Jovovich and Anderson are engaged and say they want to get married after the baby comes.

Jovivich is also a talented songwriter and singer, and offers free mp3s of her music on her website to download. She has a haunting voice and her songs are sparse and folksy. Wikipedia compares her style to Tori Amos and Kate Bush.

In related pregnancy and baby news, Helen is going to the hospital today to hopefully have her baby, which will be her third child. Best wishes to Helen for an easy delivery and a healthy baby!

Milla Jovovich is shown at the Resident Evil: Extinction premiere on 09/20/07 in Las Vegas. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pics.

Photoshop creation by the talented artist at PlanetHiltron

Obviously Posh Spice isn’t fat, but she’ll be appearing as a fat version of herself at a wedding on television’s Ugly Betty.

An insider at the ABC network said: “Everybody at the wedding will be expecting skinny beautiful Posh to show up.

“But they’ll be horrified to see she’s piled on the pounds because of major comfort eating and American junk food.”

The 33-year-old singer - who recently moved to Los Angeles with husband David and their three sons after he signed a multi-million dollar contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team - admitted she was not invited to appear on the show for her acting prowess.

She said: “I’ll be playing myself. And I’ll get to wear a fabulous outfit, so I won’t be acting.”

New Zealand Herald

I saw the Spice Girls movie, about 30 times when my little sis was crazy for them, and I believe Posh absolutely when she says she won’t be acting!!

Posh, it seems, can write, gushing on her blog about how much she loves her life in Los Angeles.

Hi everybody
Hope you are all well? Well we have finally unpacked our boxes and I am loving our new house - it is totally major! Just adding some of the finishing touches to it actually and then it really will feel like home. On top of that the weather here has been amazing too so we are all a happy bunch. The boys are really looking forward to starting their new school so we’ve got to make sure they are all kitted out with new schoolbags and pencil cases - you remember what it’s like going back to school, you’ve got to have a new EVERYTHING!
David and myself attended a launch last week in Bel Air (very swish) for the launch of our latest fragrance Intimately Beckham, we met lots of people there and I thought it went really well.
On top of that I have been busy having a good look around LA, checking out the restaurants and the beauty parlours - well you never know when you might need a facial!
I’m also just starting work on my new dVb denim collection - I’m really excited about starting the next project - it’s going to be totally major so keep your eyes open for that.
Catch up with you all again very soon
Love
Victoria
x

Only Victoria, I’m not sure that the term ‘swish’ is much in use in America. I could be wrong. Then again, the last thing I would want to hear is Victoria telling us how A-list a party is in a broad West Coast twang. It just wouldn’t be right.

Walking Pork Chop Leo Diddy Caps
is still moaning about being too popular after Titanic …

Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to give up acting for a time after the hit movie “Titanic.”

DiCaprio was back to being considered a “another piece of cute meat” after the 1997 film’s spectacular box office success, an image he had wanted to get away after his days on the cover of teen magazines, he told Newsweek for editions on newsstands Monday. “It was pretty disheartening to be objectified like that. I wanted to stop acting for a little bit,” he said at the magazine’s Oscar panel discussion with other actors. “It changed my life in a lot of ways, but at the same time, I can’t say that it didn’t give me opportunities. It made me, for the first time, in control of my career.”

After many successful movies and critical acclaim, DiCaprio said he loves acting.
“There’s no other art form in the world that affects me more. There’s nothing that I walk away from feeling transformed by the way I do with cinema,” he said.

Poor Leo … thrown back to his days as floppy haired teen idol by the success of Titanic and still whining about it ten years later. He really didn’t need to worry for long about his days as “cute meat” they were very short indeed — as all the press coverage shortly after was about how tubby he was … fatty meat got a lot of good PR around the Atkins diet, but I don’t think Tiger Beat was ever promoting chubby chasing as an adolescent pastime.

While he seems to have yo-yo-ed up and down since the Titanic days - I have to say the cute meat seems to have finally settled on his swollen looking face. He always looks like an angry baby with a sort of Christian Slater toupee whacked on top. I suppose having to wear a Christian Slater toupee would anger most babies – but you get my general point. There may even have been teen-idol cheekbones there once – now it’s a sort of angry ferret face under… I guess all that objectification can get a brother down.

Still fat and sassy as he is DiCaprio really does seems to have his career sorted. Scorcese has clearly adopted him as a combination muse and leading man. After The Departed they are now slated to do a fourth picture together … this time a Teddy Roosevelt bio-pic … maybe that fat face is just a swelled head from all the prestige pics he’s racking up on his Scorcese rich resume.

I find these pictures cruel for several reasons. First of all, most of these celebrities have great bodies and these little ripples are barely visible in person I bet. Case in point: Maria Sharapova, whose cellulite looks like a trick of the light. Sharapova is a world class athlete so her “cellulite” is like normal skin. Other women like Nicolette Sheridan, Paris Hilton, Mischa Barton, and Uma Thurman all have gorgeous bodies, and their supposed cellulite seems rather normal. If that’s what the skinny women have, how are normal-sized women supposed to feel? In fact the only really gross body in all these pictures is Star Jones. Mariah is looking paunchy, but that’s due to her choice of clothing, which is always for a much younger, skinnier woman.

Thanks to Sammie’s Effluvia for scanning the National Enquirer. I actually bought this issue and took pictures of it, but they had bright spots from the flash and the scanner was down so I said screw it. If you see these scans on another blog they’re probably from Sammie’s site.

There are tons of Lindsay Lohan bikini pictures from last summer, but she’s in the water in these latest candids in a poll in Miami and doesn’t seem too eager to get out and show off her body. Lohan is just a little heavier than usual, and although she still looks great she’s not as fit as she once was and can’t pull off wearing a shirt as a belted dress. (Although no one could pull off that look, so that’s not a fair assessment.)

England’s Mirror claims that Lohan was spotted down in Miami going for a jog with a cigarette in hand. At least she’s doing something healthy instead of just shopping and going out to clubs, even if she’s sabotaging her health at the same time.

HATS off to Lindsay Lohan whose New Year resolution is to take more exercise - though obviously not to quit smoking!

The actress was snapped in revealing sportswear, fag in paw, on a jog in Miami. Last year the wildchild actress was anything but healthy so it’s nice to see her back on track.

A pal said: “Lindsay is getting into shape after complaining that she’s been looking bloated after the festive season.” Not too bloated from here.

Yeah, all they did was see some pictures and make up that quote.

Lohan was spotted chatting with her ex, cad Wilmer Valderrama, on New Year’s Day, fueling speculation that they might get back together. Rumor has it that Wilmer is back with cutie Mandy Moore, though, and chances are he was just being friendly with Lindsay.

Pictures from Splash News

Update high res pictures replaced with watermarked versions from the photo agency.

Janet Charlton reports that newly-tub Tom Cruise needed a he-girdle to keep his tummy sucked in during his wedding to Katie Holmes. I don’t know if I believe this because it seems like something that could be easily made up, but it also sounds entirely plausible considering that he’s gained some weight recently.

Here’s a juicy little secret that Tom Cruise might kill us for telling you. Oh well, here we go- Tom was wearing a GIRDLE under his tuxedo at his wedding! In case you haven’t noticed, Tom packed on around twenty pounds in the past few months before the big event. He says he’s a “nervous eater.” And he’s had a lot to be nervous about - his exit from Paramount and his high octane marriage. When Tom arrived in Rome, we hear that Giorgio Armani was apoplectic because the wedding tux was too small. Armani personally tended to all the fittings while Tom’s pants were let out and various details were adjusted. Tom wanted to look svelte so he didn’t protest when Giorgio suggested girdling Tom’s midsection so the jacket would fall properly. The corset was sewn into Tom’s undergarment. Everyone was sworn to secrecy, but those Armani employees love to gossip, and are we grateful for THAT!

Tom saying that he’s a “nervous eater” makes him seem rather feminine, and coupled with that this girdle tale is priceless.

He also probably wore some kind of lifts to his wedding since he appeared to be the same height as Katie, making the girdle story seem more likely.

Tom and Katie are now on their honeymoon in the Maldives on a friend’s yacht, and have brought little Suri and the head of Scientology along.

Pictures from KatieHolmes.com

What happened to Tom Cruise? Did he gain those sympathy pounds when soon to be wife Katie Holmes was pregnant? It seems like he has really let himself go. He has a woman he clearly adores (who lost her baby weight) and a beautiful child, does that give him the right to get fat? TMZ reports that TomFat and Katie love to eat at steakhouses such as Mastro’s and Wolfgang Puck’s CUT. Is that the culprit? Who knows, what I do know is that Tom is fat and happy!

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Britney Spears has fired her publicisit, Leslie Sloan Zelnick, and has brokered a $2 million deal by herself with People Magazine for the rights to the first pictures of SPF2 (Name borrowed from DListed). Spears wasn’t accepting much-needed help from Zelnick anyway, and showed up for her interview with Matt Lauer looking even trashier than she eventually appeared.

Page Six is reporting that Britney has refused to confirm that her new baby is named Sutton Pierce, and that the world won’t know the truth until the People spread comes out:

It seems like the tot probably does have the same initials as his one year-older brother, though. Life and Style reports that Britney shelled out six figures to redecorate the room that Sean Preston shares with his new baby brother, and that she had giant “SPF” intials painted on the wall:

We’ll have to see what Britney named the little one, and it’s hopefully not as bad as the girl’s name she was said to have picked out, “Jailynn.”

Star Magazine has an article titled “Britney’s plan to drop the weight fast,” which you can access below. It basically has no insider information and is just general diet and exercise tips and the fact that Britney wants to lose weight.

Janet Jackson claims she gained 60 pounds to play in the movie “Tennesee,” and that when the role fell through all she was left with was the weight. She said the only time she was comfortable was when she was laying down, but that her boyfriend Jermaine Dupree made her feel good about herself and that their sex life never suffered.

It turns out that a love of fried food may be responsible for Janet’s weight gain, and not a movie role. Fox News claims that the part never required Jackson to gain weight:

[via Gossip Rocks]

Well, it was a good excuse and it doesn’t really matter now because Janet is back to her fit, half-dressed self on the cover of every magazine. It’s amazing how fast she shaped up, but it must not be good for her health to yo-yo like that.

In related news, Janet gives out sex toys to her backup dancers. Janet has admitted that she’s a fan of the “rabbit,” the multi-purpose vibrator made famous by “Sex and the City,” and now says that she makes sure to spread the joy to those closest to her:

Too much information, Janet.