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Best and worst celebrity baby names of 2010
When a celebrity names a baby it's huge news in the media--especially if the moniker is something unusual.
Jamie Oliver named his child Buddy Bear in 2010.
Remember when Gwyneth Paltrow named her daughter Apple? Even if you don't read People magazine, you probably know about this. And then there was Sparrow, the son of Nicole Richie.
Last year, was marked by even more ridiculous interesting celebrity baby names, and BabyCenter.com has done a great job of highlighting the cream of the crop with its top-10 best and worst lists.
Best celebrity baby names of 2010
- Grace Margaret (Mark Wahlberg & Rhea Durham)
- Harper Grace (Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka)
- Aviana Olea (Amy Adams & Darren Legallo)
- Olivia Marie (Lance Armstrong & Anna Hansen)
- Bryn (Bethenny Frankel & Jason Hoppy)
- Eli (Rachel Dratch & John Wahl)
- Stella Zavala (Matt Damon & Luciana Bozán Barroso)
- Gia Francesca (Mario Lopez & Courtney Laine Mazza)
- Levi James (Sheryl Crow)
- Easton (Jenna and Bodhi Elfman)
Worst celebrity baby names of 2010
- Buddy Bear Maurice (Jamie Oliver & Juliette Norton)
- Egypt Daoud (Alicia Keys & Kaseem Dean)
- Cosima Violet (Claudia Schiffer & Matthew Vaughn)
- Axel (Will Ferrell & Viveca Paulin)
- Krishna Thea (Padma Lakshmi)
- Gideon Scott (Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka)
- Billie Beatrice (Eric Dane & Rebecca Gayheart)
- Abel James (Amy Poehler & Will Arnett)
- Vida (Matthew McConaughey & Camila Alves)
- Nelson (Céline Dion & René Angélil)
| January 01 2011 at 07:33 AM
Miley Cyrus snubbed for drinking a beer
America's favorite teenage celebrity is growing up.
mileycyrus.com
Miley Cyrus was partying it up in Spain.
Last month Miley Cyrus wore her underwear in a music video.
This month the almost-18-year-old drank a Corona at a nightclub in Spain.
Ms. Cyrus was living la vida loca in Madrid for the MTV Europe Music Awards, and People magazine reports, "The star, who turns 18 Nov. 23, was snapped having a good time -- holding what appears to be a lime-garnished beer and hanging with a bevy of young men in the famous dance club Kapital in Spain's capital city."
Now this guy named James E. Copple of the International Institute for Alcohol Awareness is up in arms over this.
He told TMZ: "The young people that see her as a role model could mimic the same behavior and as a consequence will go out and become intoxicated, putting their safety at risk."According to Copple's organization, "85% of young people who drink, drink to get intoxicated."
Did Cyrus really commit a horrible crime? The drinking age in Spain is 18 but anyone who has visited this country knows that underage drinkers aren't thrown into jail. In fact, Spanish authorities told TMZ Cyrus wasn't breaking any laws.
It seems time we face reality: Cyrus is no longer a little girl.
| November 07 2010 at 03:16 PM
Jenny McCarthy says: "I'd pose again...for autism"
Will Hugh Hefner be donating money to autism?
Jenny McCarthy: From Playboy model to autism activist
Jenny McCarthy launched her career in the 90s by posing nude for Playboy magazine. Now, the Hollywood celeb may return to her past profession, but this time she'll be doing it for a cause.
"I would [pose again], for like, $2 million towards autism," the 37-year-old told Access Holllywood. "Yeah, I might do something like that again."
And then McCarthy looked down at her boobs and said, "But I feel, you know, the puppies have gone south and left and run! I'd have to, like, scoop them up."
McCarthy has become the face of families with autistic children. Her 8-year-old year old son, Evan, is autistic and she is a spokesperson for Generation Rescue, a foundation dedicated to researching the causes and treatments for autism. She has written three New York Times-bestselling books on autism and she's known for her outspoken crusade to link autism and vaccinations.
| October 26 2010 at 04:33 PM
Sesame Street dumps Katy Perry
Katy Perry's skimpy outfits are appropriate when she's trotting around a concert stage singing about kissing girls and wearing Daisy Dukes, but not when she's appearing on a children's TV show--at least according to Sesame Street.
Katy Perry: Kicked off Sesame Street.
Yes, the iconic children's show who released a You Tube video of Perry singing a remix of "Hot N Cold" with Elmo earlier this week has officially given the pop star the boot.
The video was scheduled to air on the season premiere this Monday, September 27, but show producers decided to pull the plug after receiving negative feedback from fans who viewed the YouTube clip. Based on reader comments buzzing around the Internet, many people felt Perry's low-cut dress was too sexy.
Check out the video below. What do you think? Is Perry too sexy for a preschool audience?
| September 23 2010 at 08:33 AM
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt has a boyish haircut. Who cares?
The tabloids seem hell bent on proving that Shiloh Jolie-Pitt has gender identity issues.
US Weekly/Bauer Griffin
Today, US Weekly ran a photograph online of the 4-year-old girl diving into a pool in Berkeley, Calif., wearing baggy blue swim trunks and no top.
In our Puritanical country you think there'd be an uproar over the paparazzi snapping shots of a topless female youth. No, the media is much more concerned with the fact that Shiloh's shorts appear, gasp!, boyish.
The Internet is aflutter this afternoon with blogs running content along the lines of "The head strong four-year-old made a big splash by ditching a feminine swimsuit for baggy swim shorts."
Gosh, I'm glad the paparazzi wasn't around when my son was wearing his sister's floral swim shirt the other day. And what would the gender police have said about my son's pink wallet and my daughter's navy blue hoodie?
Aren't we supposedly more open-minded about gender issues in this day and age? Aren't we the generation who was inspired by "Free to Be You and Me" to give Barbies to our boys and blocks to our girls? Well, it seems that our society is still awfully quick to attach gender labels to our children--and it still is a big deal when a girl wears blue.
Yes, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt seems to have the wardrobe of a typical tomboy. (I would have gotten along with her quite nicely when I was a kid.) She wears camouflage pants, black puffy jackets, skull-and-cross-bone socks, and short hair.
The tabloids have been there every moment of the way to sensationalize Shiloh's masculine style.
"Shiloh is pushing the boundaries of a tomboy look and crossing over to cross-dresser territory," Alana Kelen, senior fashion stylist at VH1 said.
Life & Style ran a March cover story titled "Why is Angelina turning Shiloh into a boy?"
On the Hollywood Life blog tabloid queen Bonnie Fuller wrote: "Your 3 1/2-year-old daughter is getting dressed in boys clothes so often by you that the New York Post even described her today as your 'son.' And no wonder. She was photographed in daddy Brad Pitt's arms, heading in to the Broadway show, Mary Poppins, on Jan. 3, wearing a boy's (literally) Burton ski cap and black puffy jacket."
Fuller doesn't let up: "So Brad and so Angelina--what's up with the cross-gender dressing for Shiloh? Did YOU both want another boy, not a girl? Maddox and Pax weren't enough? Aren’t you worried that you're going to confuse little Shiloh? Give her gender identity issues? Isn't it hard enough to grow up without your parents dressing you like the opposite sex?"
While the tabloids have accused Brad and Anglina of dressing their child as a boy, Angelina insists that Shiloh is making the calls.
"I have a very strong-willed four-year-old girl who tells me what she wants to wear and I let her be who she is," Angelina told the London Evening Standard. "I think people think kids should be a certain way, but I feel they should wear what they feel like wearing and they should express themselves. Shiloh cried one night and said, 'Please cut my hair off. I don't want to have long hair.' I'm not going to leave it long just because somebody thinks I should."
Like Angelina, do you think kids should have the right to dress themselves--even if they're boys wanting to dress as girls and girls wishing to dress as boys? Enter a photograph of your little one's personal fashion into SFGate's When Kids Dress Themselves photo contest. You could win a $500 Gap gift certificate.
Jump into the discussion on SFGate's parenting Facebook page.
| August 06 2010 at 03:13 PM
Are high heels appropriate for little girls?
If you keep up with celebrity gossip, then you have seen some of the photos circulating of Suri Cruise wearing high heels. Are you outraged or do you think it's just another silly news story?
The 3-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes was first spotted sporting heels by the paparazzi earlier this fall--and then more photos kept coming. It seems heels are everyday footwear for this little girl.
The photos sparked a lot of discussion on parenting blogs and celeb sites. Some people felt it's normal for girls to want to dress up fancy ("Big deal!" they said), while others were more critical, saying she's too young and that high heels aren't comfortable footwear for active toddlers.
A commenter over at ParentDish wrote:
It is definitely not appropriate for little girls to be wearing heels. It can mess up their posture and footing. I can understand a few exceptions like during special occasions or during playtime but not out on most regular days.
Earlier this week, Holmes was quoted in Access Hollywood as defending her daughter's choice in footwear. "She, like every little girl -- she loves my high heels," Katie told the celebrity gossip magazine at the Dizzy Feet Foundation at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday.
What do you think? Are high heels appropriate everyday wear for toddlers?
| December 03 2009 at 10:06 AM
Octomom dresses up as a nun
Many people will be dressing up as Octomom this Halloween (8 plastic babies is all it takes). But what are Nadya Suleman and her lot going as this year?
Suleman dresses up as a pregnant nun, and puts her babies in devil costumes.
What do you think? Clever or creepy?
| October 29 2009 at 08:50 AM
Suri Cruise's $3 million wardrobe
If only I had an "in" with Tom Cruise's agent. Then I would confirm the crazy rumor that's flying around the Internet. Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes have supposedly spent $3 million on their daughter Suri's clothes, according to the Sun, a British tabloid. Yes, THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
People.com
Suri Cruise: the world's most expensively dressed toddler
"Katie and Tom really splurge on Suri, and as they're so famous, they always get the top fashion designers to custom-make her clothes," a source told ShowBizSpy.com. "Suri may only be three, but she's very vocal when it comes to her outfits and she's rarely seen in anything twice."
Suri is known for her fashionable, designer outfits and she's now a fixture in the celebrity mags. And her mom seems proud. Katie recently told the Sun: "It has been my dream forever to be in fashion and I'm truly inspired by my daughter Suri. She just loves dressing up." Katie is actually launching a clothing line with celebrity stylist Jeanne Yang.
Can you even imagine spending $3 million on your child's wardrobe? How much do you spend a year on your kids' clothes?
| October 01 2009 at 09:09 AM
Angelina Jolie breast-feeding sculpture
Daniel Edwards' latest work, 'Landmark For Breastfeeding,' depicts Angelina Jolie nursing two babies.
Remember the sculpture of a nude Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug? Or the Pepto-Bismol pink piece of Nadya Suleman, aka, Octomom?
Daniel Edwards is the artist behind these bizarre pop culture sculptures--and he just released photographs of his latest work: a bronze nude Angelina Jolie breast-feeding her twins, Vivienne and Knox. The statue demonstrates the "football-hold," a technique for nursing two babies simultaneously.
The inspiration for the statue came from Jolie's 2008 W Magazine cover photo that her partner, Brad Pitt, took of her breastfeeding a child. The New York artist was touched by the cover and wanted to create a sculpture that encouraged mothers to nurse. News of the art piece was released on Tuesday, in the midst of World Breastfeeding Week.
Titled "Landmark For Breastfeeding," the statue will be unveiled on September 11 at MainSite, a contemporary art gallery, in Norman Okla., near Brad Pitt's birthplace. A cast of the sculpture is expected to be auctioned by Sotheby's on October 6 for the New York Academy of Art's annual Take Home A Nude art auction, after being displayed at Holster Projects in London's West End.
The statue has already sparked controversy.
"I totally support shifting societal standards to make breastfeeding anywhere, any time totally cool," writes Celebitchy blogger. "I'm even okay with public art celebrating breast feeding. But to use Angelina's image for it? Just seems weird. Then again, they are raising awareness more with this than with a sculpture of just some random woman breastfeeding. So... well done?"
"I, too, was inspired by Jolie's nursing pic," writes Cate Nelson of Eco Child's Play. "As a lactivist, I think it's fantastic when women like this show that natural human processes are even done by hot starlet MILFs."
What do you think of the statue? Do you find it inspiring or creepy?
| August 06 2009 at 08:07 AM
Gisele's baby bump magically disappears
"Some things should not be shown. It's a matter of good taste."
"Sorry, but there isn't a woman alive that looks good pregnant."
"Pregnant women should cover their bellies, not flaunt it."
Courtesty London Fog
Pregnant Gisele flashes a flat tummy thanks to photo retouching.
Last week, SFGate readers griped about the homepage photo plugging the Beautiful Pregnant Bellies photo contest, which ends on August 8. I wonder: Would readers post the same comments about the above photo of long-legged supermodel Gisele Bundchen if she were flashing a baby bump? Actually, it turns out that Gisele should be showing one off in her photos for the new London Fog advertising campaign. According to the outwear company she was noticeably pregnant at the shoot in June, but the belly bulge was later removed from photos with airbrushing.
Dari Marder, London Fog's chief marketing officer explains, "Although Gisele was photographed while pregnant, most of the shots have been retouched to respect her privacy during this wonderful and personal time in her life."
What do you think about the London Fog photo? Do think the company was wise to remove the bump or would you have liked to see her baby?
| August 04 2009 at 09:37 AM
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