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Alanis Morissette Marries Rapper Boyfriend
Alanis Morissette may have one hand in her pocket, but the other one is now sporting a wedding ring.
Congratulations to our favorite '90s angst rocker, Alanis Morissette! According to Us Magazine, the 36-year-old singer wed rapper Mario "Souleye" Treadway in a private, super-secret ceremony in Los Angeles recently. "So happy to share with you that my man Souleye and I got married. We're very excited to embark on this journey with each other.... sending love... connect soon xo - Alanis," she posted on her Twitter account.
How The Birth Control Pill Affects Your Libido [VIDEO]
Why does going on the Pill mean decreased sexual desire for so many women?
Whether it's on the radio or in the news, we're always hearing about how the birth control pill decreases women's sexual desire. But what is the scientific process behind this, and is it natural?
Taking Off The Baby Weight Together
When my wife got pregnant, I ate for two, too. Now, we're losing the baby weight together.
I had a lot of sympathy for my wife when she was pregnant. And I proved it at the dinner table, at the lunch buffet and at Sunday brunch. I like to tell people that I gained sympathy weight during these times, though I suspect it was actually just "feeling justified to eat as much crap as I want" weight. But after we had our second kid, the time came to face the scales and take off the baby weight, together.
Khloe Kardashian May Be Pregnant
Khloe Kardashian is reportedly 2 months pregnant with Lamar Odom's baby. Is Kim green with envy?
Is Khloe Khloe Kardashian following in her sister Kourtney’s footsteps and becoming a mom? After surprising everyone last fall by hastily marrying LA Lakers star Lamar Odom, whom she only had dated for a month, Khloe is, now, reportedly pregnant! Although a family friend close to the Kardashians is denying the news, according to RadarOnline, Khloe is 2 months pregnant and supposedly made the decision to become a mother after witnessing her nephew’s birth back in December.
Celine Dion Is Pregnant With Twins
After a long struggle to get pregnant again, Celine Dion is expecting twins later this year.
It seems that Céline Dion's heart will not only go on and on, but it has room enough for two more kids. The Canadian singer and her husband/manager René Angelil confirmed to People Magazine that Céline, 42, is 14 weeks pregnant with twins after undergoing in-vitro.
Angelina Jolie Suffered A Miscarriage
Is Brad Pitt putting pressure on Angelina Jolie to conceive?
When Brad Pitt declared that he and Angelina Jolie wanted a "soccer team" of kids (for the record, that would be 11), many assumed that he was just joking. But, it's looking more and more like Brad and Angelina are seriously trying to one-up the the Gosselins and 9 By Design families with their brood. Already, they have 6 children - 3 adopted ones (Maddox, Zahara, and Pax) and 3 biological tots (Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox) and, supposedly, Angelina has been desperately trying to conceive number 7. However, according to AllieisWired.com, the 35-year-old actress may be having infertility problems and has already suffered through one miscarriage earlier this year.
John Travolta & Kelly Preston Having Another Baby
Kelly Preston confirms that she is pregnant with her third child.
The latest issue of Star announces that John Travolta and Kelly Preston are having a baby—news that the Travoltas have confirmed on their official website with this statement: "It's impossible to keep a secret...especially one as wonderful as this. We are expecting a new addition to our family."
Jeffrey Morgan And Hilarie Burton Have A Baby
Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan managed to keep their relationship and baby a secret.
Talk about keeping your private life a secret. Former One Tree Hill actress Hilarie Burton, 27, and her TV actor beau Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 44, (who totally looks like Javier Bardem's long-lost twin brother) have not only been dating for a year, but they also pulled a Sandra Bullock and had a baby together, all without the tabloids finding out!
How To Be A Mother, A Wife—And Yourself
Does becoming a mother change the essence of who you are?
When you're the stay-at-home mother of an infant, you spend almost no time alone, and thinking goes out the window, unless you count anxious fretting over when to start solid foods and how to persuade the baby to go down for a nap. It's unclear to me now why I imagined this wouldn't be a difficult adjustment.
Marriage And Multiples: Surviving 3 Sets Of Twins
A writer with three sets of twins describes how having multiples affected her marriage.
If someone had told me when I was 25 years old that one day my husband and I would be parents to three sets of twins, I would have laughed out loud. At the time—it was 1988—my husband Bruce and I had been married about three years. We were very much in love, building our relationship upon mutual trust, love, respect, humor and faith in God. We also had a very active, healthy and happy sex life, but we hadn't yet decided it was time to start our family.