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(L-R) Victoria's Secret models Stephanie Seymour, Daniela Pestova, Karen Mulder, Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum. Location: New York, NY, US Date taken: July 27, 1998 (L-R) Model Daniela Pestova and actressJennifer Esposito, covering her face with her hand. Location: New York, NY, US Date taken: May 20, 2000 Models Heidi Klum (L) and Daniela Pestova ® w. professional boxer Evander Holyfield ©. Location: New York, NY, US Date taken: February 22, 2000 (L-R) Victoria's Secret models Karen Mulder, Stephanie Seymour, Daniela Pestova and Ines Rivero, all wearing bikini bathing suits. Location: US Date taken: May 07, 1998 (L-R) Models Heidi Klum and Daniela Pestova on the Concorde en route to Cannes Film festival. Date taken: 2000

Stepping Out With Our Babies Stepping out for some retail therapy, Gwen Stefani, hubby Gavin Rossdale and their two boys, Kingston and Zuma, hit up Fred Segal on Melrose Ave in Hollywood on Saturday afternoon in search of some designer goodies. It appears that 2 1/2-year-old Kingston didn’t get everything he wanted as he was snapped shedding a few tears upon the family’s departure. Meanwhile, it’s going to be a big year for Gwen, whose otherwise kept a rather low profile over the last year. Her band No Doubt are expected to tour in 2009 while finishing their upcoming album, which is set for release near the end of the year. The band will be headlining the Bamboozle 2009 festival in May, along with Fall Out Boy. January 17, 2009

Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale and their sons on a shopping trip to Fred Seagal's in West Hollywood. January 17, 2009

TMZ posted this: Halle's rep says it's "a poly cotton blend of faux shearling." Oh.

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Super Kingston!!! http://x17online.com/celebrities/gavin_ros...162009.php#more

Niki Taylor: ‘I Never Thought I’d Get Pregnant Again’ It was 2 a.m. as Niki Taylor squinted under the dim light in her bathroom, hoping yet again for the two pink lines indicating “positive” on her latest pregnancy test. For almost 18 months, the 33-year-old model and her new husband, race car driver Burney Lamar, 28, had been trying to conceive, only to be met with brutal disappointment. “Every month it wasn’t happening,” she recalls. “I was feeling more frantic. I needed to stop thinking about it — everybody was telling me this, including my doctor. I was so frustrated and worried.” She and Burney each underwent testing — including having dye shot through her fallopian tubes to ensure that they were clear. Niki’s ob/gyn assured the couple that both were fine, and asked them to continue to try for another year. “I just decided, ‘Whatever,’” the model says. “Clomid was going to be the next thing we tried, in a year. I talked about it with [my manager] and she said, ‘Women were made to have babies. You are still producing eggs. You need to relax. Everything has checked out.’” Taking her advice, Niki tried her best to re-focus. She began eating and sleeping better, working out and lowering her stress level. Then, she realized “something just felt different” and the model reached for that early morning pregnancy test. Against all odds, Niki and Burney are now readying themselves for their first baby, a daughter due the first week of March. It’s only the latest example of Niki — who found fame at 17 as a Cover Girl model and last year hosted the Bravo reality show Make Me a Supermodel — defying medical expectations: In 2001, she spent six weeks in a coma after a near-fatal car accident that required more than 50 surgeries and procedures to rebuild her shattered body. “It is truly a miracle that pregnancy is possible for a woman who has been through so much,” says her Nashville-based ob/gyn, Roseann Maikis. A baby is something Niki — who had identical twin sons Jake and Hunter, 14, with her ex-husband, Arena football player Matt Martinez — has longed for since marrying Burney in December 2006. By the end of the first date, “we knew we wanted to be together forever,” Niki says; a few days later they tattooed the date (8-15-06) on their ankles. Even that wasn’t permanent enough. “I wanted to put a ring on that finger,” Burney says with a laugh. Adds Niki: “I wanted to be pregnant on my honeymoon!” Yet Niki knew that given her complicated health background, conceiving a child might be difficult. Having delivered her twins vaginally in December 1994 after being induced, Niki received the prescription painkiller Percocet to aid in her recovery. “I was 19. I was like, ‘I am woman, hear me roar. I can pop them out.’ I went past my due date, and it took a long time. I was in labor until the next day. They did not want to come out,” she recalls. Although her body healed, Niki was still struggling emotionally. “I tried to breastfeed, but that was a whole other obstacle. I was trying to feed two. They didn’t have electric pumps back then, and I was pumping manually. My biceps got really strong,” she jokes. More seriously, “I [nursed] for two or three months and then I couldn’t anymore.” With the help of her parents and a nanny, teenage Niki attempted to balance parenting with a return to modeling. “You are supposed to support the family, pay the bills. It was a lot of work,” Niki remembers. “It was emotionally draining, it was physically draining.” Following the 1995 death of her beloved younger sister Krissy, then 17, from an undiagnosed heart condition and the subsequent break up of her marriage after only two years, Niki began abusing Percocet, first given to her after her boys’ birth. “Everything had started to hit me,” she explains, “and I found someone who would give me Percocet whenever I wanted. I couldn’t do anything without it.” A two-month stint in rehab left Niki feeling “good and clean” for the next two years or so. Then, in 2001, she was a passenger in a car that collided with a utility pole on a rainy Atlanta street. The accident left Niki in a coma, with a lacerated liver and massive internal bleeding; doctors had to rebuild her back by implanting two steel rods to hold her spine together. But Niki says the years of physical trauma had a silver lining: “Now when something difficult comes my way, I can handle it.” She will need that confidence in the delivery room: Because multiple surgeries left layers of scar tissue across her abdomen, if it becomes necessary to deliver via c-section, doctors may have trouble getting the baby out. (Dr. Maikis has been running tests to evaluate how best to perform such a procedure, including if a vertical or horizontal incision would be best.) “If the baby is breech and I have to have a c-section, I will need to be completely under,” Niki explains. In addition, because her spine’s steel rods “are right in the area you would go in for an epidural,” Niki will have to deliver her daughter totally naturally — something she didn’t do the first time around. Still, she remains optimistic. “You know what? I had the worst pain I could imagine after the accident and surgeries,” she says. “I can do natural childbirth! So many people have been encouraging me … and I’m feeling really strong and optimistic about it. “ Besides, Niki prefers to focus on the more fun aspects of expecting, like turning an office in her and Burney’s four-bedroom French colonial home in Brentwood, Tenn., into a nursery. And every night, Niki attaches a little drum-beat machine around her waist, then sits back and giggles as her daughter kicks. “I am just really enjoying getting ready for the baby we have wanted so much,” she says. “I am a very blessed girl.” Source: http://celebrity-babies.com/2009/01/16/nik...ain/#more-26455

Nancy O'Dell at Consumer Electronics Show Las Vegas, NV January 9, 2009

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie: BAFTA Beautiful The nominees for the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) have just been announced (Britain’s version of the Oscars). Brad Pitt has nominated for Leading Actor in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button while Angelina Jolie received a nod for Best Lead Actress for her role in director Clint Eastwood’s Changeling. Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button both led with 11 nominations each. The awards ceremony will take at London’s Royal Opera House on Sunday, February 8. Source: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2009/01/15/br...na-jolie-bafta/

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Boom Boom Room a Success! The celebrities — and their bellies and babies! — showed up in force at the annual Boom Boom Room event, held Friday and Saturday at the Century Plaza Hotel. The event, held for two days before the 66th annual Golden Globes, shows off the hottest new items for babies, big kids and families. Model and actress Ali Landry brought along her little princess, 18-month-old Estela Ines, who is always dressed to the nines! January 9, 2009

Ali Landry and Estela Crack Up Actress Ali Landry can’t help but laugh at 17-month-old daughter Estela Ines‘ antics while out Christmas shopping on Robertson Blvd. on Saturday afternoon. Ali recently spoke about her love for dressing up her daughter on an everyday basis. Estela is the first child for Ali, 35, and husband Alejandro Monteverde. December 13, 2008

I am so excited she is having a girl!!!!

Niki Taylor: 'I'm Ready for a Baby' Model Niki Taylor and her new husband, NASCAR racer Burney Lamar, are truly blessed: Seven years after Niki was in a near-fatal car crash, she's pregnant with their first child together! "I'm ready for a baby already; I want to meet my baby," Niki tells ET. "It took us awhile," adds Burney. "Once we stopped worrying about it, we were blessed with a baby." The couple invited us to their ranch in Brentwood, TN, to show us how they're getting ready for their new addition. The baby is due this spring, and they revealed the sex of the child to ET before anyone else: "We have a baby girl coming," says Burney. "Yeah, we're so excited," says Niki. Niki married Burney in December 2006. The 33-year-old host of "Make Me a Supermodel," who has two sons from a previous marriage, defied the odds by getting pregnant after her body was ravaged by the 2001 accident in which she was a passenger in a car that collided with a utility pole on a rain-slicked Atlanta street. She was left in a coma with massive internal bleeding and a lacerated liver, requiring more than 50 surgeries to reconstruct her back and related injuries. Having been through her own extreme trauma and losing her 17-year-old sister Krissy in 1995 from an undiagnosed heart condition, Niki also shares her thoughts for John Travolta and Kelly Preston, who tragically lost their 16-year-old son Jett earlier this month. "They seem like a very strong family and very spiritual people as well," she observes. "You never are going to get over having a death in your family. It's going to take time. I'm still healing from the death of my sister." "[The death of a loved one] definitely makes you appreciate life a whole lot more," she continues, "and [appreciate] how life is so precious and can be taken away from you so fast." Niki's story -- and pregnant frame -- is also featured in the new issue of People magazine, on stands now. Source: http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/01/69662/index.html

Gwen Stefani strolling with Zuma in a park in Beverly Hills January 12, 2009

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards Beverly Hills, CA January 11, 2009

Zahara's Post B-Day Day Out With Brad and Angelina Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie spent some quality time with their newly 4-year-old daughter Zahara in LA today. As usual, she is too cute in Brad's arms. While mom and dad didn't bring home a Critics' Choice award on her birthday, the Jolie-Pitts have a built-in party already with their six kids. Mom and dad will be on the red carpet again come Sunday, but until then it looks like the Jolie-Pitts are making their presence known in their temporary home base of LA. January 9, 2009

Angelina Jolie at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals, Beverly Hills, CA January 11, 2009

Nancy O'Dell at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals, Beverly Hills, CA January 11, 2009

Heidi Klum Is A Model Mom Heidi Klum and her husband, musician Seal, took their daughter Leni, 4 1/2, and their sons Henry, 3, and Johan, 2, out to a park in Hollywood, California today. Heidi swung on the swings with Johan and supervised Henry as he climbed a tall tree. January 10, 2009