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by Kat Giantis
MSN Entertainment
September 1, 2005
The offspring of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline will arrive in the world toting plenty of baggage, from a genetic weakness for Cheetos and super-sized Frappuccinos to the emotionally scarring parental scrapbook that is "Chaotic."
But the tot's hours in therapy could increase exponentially if the Britster follows through with her plan for a British-inspired moniker.
"Ever since I was a little girl I thought, for a boy I love Sean Preston -- or London Preston. Isn't London pretty?" Britney asks in the latest issue of Elle (via the London Mirror). "And for a girl I love Addison Shye. I think that's pretty."
Britney, 23, who is reportedly due in the next few weeks, maintains she's doesn't know the sex of the baby but has an inkling it's a boy. And she's apparently leaning toward London because that's where she and K. Fed first hooked up, an historic moment shakily captured in "Chaotic."
If Spears decides to go with the geographic name, she would be jumping on board a trend embraced by both Michael Jackson (his daughter is named Paris) and Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham (she dubbed her son Brooklyn), reason enough to rethink the idea.
Mrs. Federline also admits she'd prefer to skip the huffing and puffing portion of the birth, and is keeping her fingers crossed that she'll deliver via Caesarean section. The reason? Her mom overshared about the pain she endured during delivery.
"I have a feeling I'm going to have an operation," Brit tells the magazine. "I don't know why, but I hope so. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing that she's ever gone through in her life. So if a Caesarean doesn't happen, I'll be like, 'Epidural, please!' Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over."
(Given that the most physical things we've seen Spears do in the last year are shop and throw soda at paparazzi, we're not sure exactly what abilities she's referring to, but moving on ... )
The semi-retired pop starlet says Federline will be by her side in the delivery room, a place he's visited twice before with ex Shar Jackson. She also reveals her dream of having two girls and a boy and gushes over how fabulous she's found the conception process (warning -- ookiness ahead): "Oh yeah! Right, oh my goodness, it's awesome, though. Wow!"
Well said, Britney. Well said.
In related news, Spears has sent a message to fans worried about the fate of her family in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana.
In a posting on her Web site, she writes, "My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and any other states that might be affected by Hurricane Katrina. All of my family members there are safe, and thank you to all my fans for your concern."
Aniston: Chatty with Diane, Cozy with Vince?
Jennifer Aniston's waterworks-filled Vanity Fair interview was the magazine's best-selling issue ever, and now it appears she's ready to bare her soul on camera. The almost officially ex-Mrs. Brad Pitt, who is soon to hit screens in "Derailed," will give her first Brangelina-era TV heart-to-heart to Diane Sawyer, reports gossip maven Cindy Adams.
Not so coincidentally, when Pitt was out stumping for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," he also chose to open up to Sawyer, who joined him on his humanitarian mission to Africa.
No word on when or where Aniston's must-see interview will take place (or whether, somewhere, NBC's Katie Couric is weeping bitter tears of disappointment), but expect her to address the percolating rumors surrounding the nature of her relationship with her "Break Up" leading man Vince Vaughn.
As we told you earlier this week, the vertically challenged twosome was allegedly seen smooching at the film's wrap party in Chicago on Aug. 24. Now, People reveals more details about their evening out, with one spy claiming they huddled in a private booth and "got very cozy with each other. Very friendly and very, very comfortable with each other. The hand on the leg, the arm on the shoulder."
Jen's rep, as usual, downplays the seemingly intimate body language, insisting the coziness was widespread. "Do not read into this," the spokesman pooh-poohs to the mag. "At the wrap party ... everyone was enjoying themselves, cast and crew included, and they were all being very affectionate to each other."
Meanwhile, in other Sawyer sit-down news, she's landed yet another former Sexiest Man Alive. The New York Daily News reports she'll fly to Italy next week to chat up George Clooney at his Lake Como villa, an invitation he's never before extended to a journalist.
Clooney, out drumming up publicity for his Cold War drama "Good Night, and Good Luck," reportedly opted to go with ABC after initially getting booked on NBC's "Dateline" and the "Today" show.
But the paper says that when "Dateline" decided to drop the A-lister in order to hear the deep thoughts of overexposed "Desperate Housewives" vixen Eva Longoria, an irritated Clooney fired off an angry letter to the show, canceled his convo with "Today" and signed on with Sawyer.
Clooney's interview will air in late September or early October.
Lohan's Man from Mars?
Does Lindsay Lohan have a weakness for men who are unafraid to experiment with eye makeup? The New York Post says the teen queen was front-and-center when Jared Leto rocked out with his band 30 Seconds to Mars at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Tuesday night.
Lohan, with a little help from her burly bodyguard, "pushed her way" through the crowd to secure a primo view of the performance. Later, the pair, with their peeps in tow, purportedly hung out backstage before hitting a post-party, where they rubbed elbows with Ethan Hawke and director Darren Aronofsky.
This is the latest sighting of Lohan, 19, and Leto, 33, who has been linked in recent months to 19-year-old Ashley Olsen and 20-year-old Scarlett Johansson (gee, if only we could discern some sort of pattern in the actor's dating history).
In late July, the New York Daily News caught LiLo giving Leto "a big sloppy hug" at a New York hotspot, and on Aug. 20, the Star spied them getting up close and personal at the Tropicana Bar in L.A.
"They were making out," a mole told the tab. "They were sitting with four or five other people, but they were totally just concentrated on each other. They were talking and laughing and joking with each other for at least a half hour."
For those too lazy to do the math, Lindsay was just 8 when Jared was giving good brood as high-school heartbreaker Jordan Catalano on "My So-Called Life."
Madonna on the Mend, the Smell of Ben and Much More ...
Madonna isn't going to let a little thing like three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a busted hand stop her from making a quick buck. The London Daily Mail reports the 47-year-old pop icon, on the mend from her horseback riding accident two weeks ago, turned up at a London studio this week in a sexy black suit and slightly less sexy matching sling to shoot a TV spot for Motorola.
In related news, chances are Madge didn't receive a get-well card from Camille Paglia. In a piece for the London Independent, the feminist writer recalls how she was "distinctly unsettled" when she saw Madonna in the August issue of Vogue "ostentatiously posing in riding habit and boots on a horse whose reins she is awkwardly and incorrectly holding." According to Paglia, riding requires not just physical prowess but "relaxation and self-subordination," which may make it the wrong hobby for "a hyperactive planner" like Madonna. Concludes Paglia, "Madonna will surely persist and may well triumph as a rider. But until then, let's hope she avoids the facile, disrespectful use of horses as props and fashion statements."
It turns out Madonna isn't the only big name shilling products on British TV. Ben Affleck will pocket close to $2 million for dousing himself in Lynx body spray, reports Brand Republic. The ad, which the actor shot recently in L.A., will highlight "the magnetic effect" the scent has on women. And for those who really want to smell like Ben (and you know who you are), just pick up a bottle of Axe -- it's the same thing.
Matt Damon may or may not be contemplating a walk down the aisle with longtime love Luciana Barroso, but he does seem to have mastered that whole "in sickness and in health" thing. According to the New York Post, the actor accompanied a "tearful" Barroso to a Manhattan emergency room Sunday night after she ate something that didn't agree with her. "She had food poisoning and got really dehydrated because of that," Damon's rep tells the paper. The Oscar winner is currently in New York shooting the "The Good Shepherd" with Angelina Jolie.
So much for Michelle Pfeiffer's relaxing day of retail therapy. The London Mirror reports the actress, in town filming "I Could Never Be Your Woman," was depositing the spoils from a shopping expedition into the back of a Range Rover on Tuesday when a man hopped into the driver's seat and took off (the chauffeur had conveniently left the keys in the ignition as he assisted the star). "Michelle was relieved no one was hurt and quite bemused by it all," an insider tells the paper. The thief apparently had an accomplice, who distracted Pfeiffer and the driver long enough for him to make his getaway.
If you've eaten recently, we urge you to skip the following item. Really. We're not kidding. OK, don't say we didn't warn you. The Insider reports that Katie Holmes has been given a custom director's chair on the set of "Mission: Impossible III" that reads "MRSC2B." Uh-oh, here comes lunch ...
Unlike the majority of the population, Vivica A. Fox doesn't enjoy jokes made at the expense of Star Jones Reynolds. The actress threatened Jimmy Kimmel with physical violence on Tuesday after he poked fun at her pal, says the New York Daily News. Trouble apparently began right from the get-go, when Kimmel made light of Fox's supposedly "harrowing" experience as a bridesmaid in the freebie-fest that was the "View" co-host's wedding to Al Reynolds. The interview quickly deteriorated, prompting the admittedly "desperate" Kimmel to propose that perhaps he should sit down with Fox and the Reynoldses. "You would get your [bleep] kicked," warned Vivica. When Kimmel pointed out the entertainment value in this, she responded, "It wouldn't be funny. I would have to take off my shoe and beat you down, brotha!" Fox, whose recent birthday celebration was hosted by Star and Al, later fumed to the paper, "I don't like when people make negative comments about my friends."
Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham is firing back at claims she's never cracked a book, insisting she was misquoted but admitting that her literary follow-through needs a little work. "It was an interview I did for a Spanish magazine and what I said was that I never seem to finish books," she explains (via the London Mirror). "I always start them, get distracted, and never seem to get the time to finish. I'm sure all mothers with three boys know what I mean."
Gwen Battles 'Chubby Kid' Within
The toned and taut figure Gwen Stefani showed off at the VMAs in a clinging-on-for-dear-life leopard-print gown didn't come easy. But unlike certain celebrities who claim their fat-free frames are natural or the result of nixing calorie-laden vices such as French fries (Hilary Duff, we're looking at you), the pulchritudinous pop star says she achieved her slimline look through good old-fashioned hard work.
"I'll never be one of those women who says, 'I look like this because that's how I am,'" Gwen tells Grazia magazine. "I work out a few hours every day. It takes a lot of effort for me to look like this. If I slack off, it really shows. That little chubby kid starts coming out and I have to rein her back."
Not surprisingly, she's having some trouble letting go of her pudgy past. "I still think of myself as a fat little dorky kid from Orange County desperately wanting to be cool," Stefani admits. "I wasn't a prom queen or cheerleader. I was 10 pounds overweight and wore my odd little clothes."
While the No Doubt frontwoman later grew out of her awkward stage ("the weight shifted up with me and I guess I was pretty popular") and eventually fulfilled her cheerleader dreams in the "Hollaback Girl" video, she admits there's still one goal she's yet to achieve, namely having a baby with husband Gavin Rossdale.
"It hasn't happened and that's something that isn't under my control," she says. "I would like it to happen, of course I would, but I have an amazing husband and career so I'm not complaining."
