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How long has Jen's reported bun been in the oven? Plus, Brad Pitt and Sienna Miller take aim at paparazzi pics, the latest romance rumblings and lots more ... Jennifer Garner went about her business this week as speculation ramped up about the contents of her belly, hitting the grocery store and playground with perpetually smiley tot Violet, 2. As usual, the paparazzi tagged along, and they made sure to zoom in on the actress's ever so slightly bulging midsection (not to mention her grocery cart, which, if you're wondering, had apples, bananas, yogurt and TLC crackers in it). Now, sources seemingly deep inside Mrs. Ben Affleck's womb are tattling to the weeklies, with People reporting she's four months along and Us saying she's in her fifth month. For now, the couple remains mum on the stork burblings, although a few days ago, Jen's former "Alias" co-star and good friend Victor Garber appeared to confirm the impending arrival of baby No. 2 to Us (he quickly backtracked, insisting he'd been misunderstood). Garner, 36, who has often talked about adding another Ben-bino to their brood, is "the perfect mom," gushes the owner of indoor Los Angeles playground Giggles N' Hugs to People. "And trust me, I've seen hundreds of mothers in here." Affleck, adds one of his buddies, is "totally insane about Violet. I know how much he enjoys being a parent. He gushes over Violet. He says she's really smart, she's really verbal and she's got a funny personality. He's happy to be a father and she's happy to be a mother." Oh, and on the off chance you didn't catch just how domestically blissed out Jen and Ben truly are, another snitch reiterates to Us, "They are very happy."
Matthew McConaughey: Actor. Surfer. Delivery room DJ. "We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs," the actor drawls to OK! of coaching Camila Alves through the birth of their son, Levi, who arrived on July 7. "We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music ... We were jamming! She was sweating. No painkiller, let's go. She just clicked into that gear that only a woman has at a time like this." Not surprisingly, the epically easygoing McConaughey remained even-keeled during the birth. "We'd been up for 40-something hours, and we went from dead tired to a really steadfast, 'Let's handle this ... let's stay in the rhythm. Don't let the contraction be more than you,'" he tells the mag, which reportedly shelled out $3 million for the first photos of button-cute Levi." Matthew says Camila wanted a natural childbirth but had to get the drugs when complications arose. "We ended up having an epidural because, on the large contractions, the umbilical cord was being compressed," explains the star, who apparently didn't get popped in the nose by Alves for using the plural when talking about receiving pain medication during childbirth. "They went in and tried the vacuum. This is where I learned -- and no one tells you this -- but having a baby is a bloody, pukey, sweaty, primeval thing! And I mean that as a beautiful thing. It is wild. But the vacuum didn't work, and the doctor said, 'C-section.'" McConaughey, who cut the umbilical cord, also recounts the moment he learned they'd had a son (the couple decided not to find out the gender beforehand). "I said, 'Come here, little man,'" he shares. "I saw the pecker and screamed that we'd been right all along about him being a boy. Then I brought him over to [Camila]." Levi already has his very first wet suit, adds his dad, who jokes that he'll "be surfing next weekend." "This kid has a lot to learn from us," philosophizes McConaughey. "I want him to come out being a little wiser, a little cooler and a little happier than we are."
In less positive procreation news, Amy Winehouse is scaring the bejeezus out of us by blabbing about her desire to pollute the gene pool with incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil. "Blake and I can't wait to have kids. I want at least five kids. I want twins," the rickety, substance-susceptible singer yammers to the British edition of OK!. "Blake is gonna be the most amazing dad." (We assume she means once he gets out of the pokey, where he's currently serving a 27-month sentence on assault and obstruction-of-justice charges.) "To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults," opines Winehouse, whose newly unveiled wax figure at Madame Tussauds looks far healthier and hygienic than she currently does. "They've got their heads screwed on a lot better." "The only thing I do when I'm pregnant is eat and sit on my butt!" That's Gillian Anderson, admitting to Us that she's in couch potato mode as she awaits the arrival of her third child (dad is her British boyfriend Mark Griffiths, with whom she has a nearly 2-year-old son; she also has a 13-year-old daughter from a former marriage). Anderson rationalizes her sedentary state by figuring she'll have plenty of time to feel the burn after the stork arrives. "I'm not really craving anything, but there's the lazy part of me that thinks, 'What's the point in working out until I have the baby?' Then we'll actually do something!" shrugs the actress, who's out promoting "X-Files: I Want to Believe." "I know that's not necessarily the right way to look at it, but that's just me." |












