Grey's Anatomy's Eric Dane and his wife, Rebecca Gayheart, are suing the snarky website empire Gawker Media over a video that showed them cavorting naked and intoxicated with a female friend. The video leaked online last month, and the two are seeking more than $1 million in damages for copyright infringement as well as an injunction that would prevent the video from being distributed further.

The video clip, which the lawsuit says was filmed last year, shows Dane, Gayheart, and former beauty queen Kari Ann Peniche spending some quality naked time together, having a totally boring conversation and … Read More

Katherine Heigl and her husband of eighteen months, Josh Kelley, are adopting a baby girl from Korea, the actress announced Thursday. In a segment filmed for Ellen Degeneres's show, set to air Friday, Katherine said, "I wanted to tell everybody so you don't think I stole a Korean baby."

The ten-month-old girl will be named Naleigh, a combination of Katherine's mother's and sister's names. "She was actually born the day before me in November, which I thought was really serendipitous and just kind of like a sign," Katherine told Ellen. "I realized just recently that I basically forfeited … Read More

I've been reading a book I wish I'd had when my first child was born:  "And Baby Makes Three," by John Gottman and Julie Schwarz Gottman.  The authors write about how parents can keep their relationship strong as they adjust to the challenges of parenthood.Most of the book is good solid advice on fighting well:  remember you're on the same side, work things through, take a break when you need to.  All of the conflict resolution skills you learn before you have kids but forget when you're sleep-deprived.The Gottmans have an insightful chapter on parents' sex lives, too.  What I … Read More

Will we be seeing a great baby bust in 2009? At the very least, we'll see fewer births than were previously expected.

A recent article by Anne Harding for Health magazine reports that many American women have decided to put their plans to have a baby on hold due to the murky economy waters.

Pay cuts, layoffs and credit card rate hikes are leaving couples feeling too vulnerable to plant any real roots. Baby Blues: You're Ready, He's Not!

One statistic in the article cites that one in five married women ages 18 to 44 answered … Read More

Remember when Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson decided to make yet another go at it and we were all sort of apprehensive? But then we were all like, "you know, maybe they are perfect for each other. They're adults, they can handle probable handle the ups and downs and ins and outs of a topsy-turvy Hollyweird relationship. No one else is going to get hurt, right?*"

That may no longer be the case. Per Digital Spy, the star-crossed stars could cross into mutual parenthood. The hearsay mentions a few biggies: 1) one of the past … Read More

According to the ongoing research at the University of Iowa, newlyweds experienced a significant drop in marital satisfaction in the first year of parenthood, says the Times Online. In fact, the decline is far more severe in couples with a new baby than in newlyweds without children.

Couples who were happiest as newlyweds experienced the greatest drop in wedded bliss after baby arrived. Ugh.

Okay, okay. There is some good news. Researchers noted that satisfaction levels returned to normal by the time the baby reaches 18 months.

Says the piece: "The … Read More

I was ready for kids at age 28—and well aware that women's fertility starts to plummet at 35. When I saw my doctor that fateful year, she asked me if I wanted children. "Yes," I replied. "Definitely." With a stern look, she snapped, "Well, you're not getting any younger!"

Thanks for the news flash, I thought. What kind of idiot does she think I am?

I was a romantic, procrastinating idiot, to be exact. Despite my clear intellectual understanding of the issues involved, it took me until age 38 before I seriously started thinking about single motherhood, and even … Read More

It looks as if I won't have another baby. Not for medical reasons (though I'm on the downward slope of my fertility) and not for lack of a loving partner. Indeed, it's due to the ongoing excellence of my relationship with my boyfriend that I'm hesitant to press the baby issue—even though I count the days when I was pregnant with my daughter, now 14, as among the happiest of my life. I hold the unpopular opinion that having a baby doesn't necessarily bind a couple together in the way our romantic notion of family claims. The upheaval in … Read More