In a new interview with The Drum, Kim Kardashian opens up about her divorce from Kris Humphries . Having only been married to the basketball player for 72 days, and seemingly afraid of how such a quick termination would look, the reality star says she feared her lifestyle would suffer as a result of the backlash. “At the time when I was going through the divorce I did say to everyone, ‘You guys, I think our careers are over. I hope you’ve saved your money. “And now we’ll just continue to do our clothing stores and we started off doing before [Keeping Up with the Kardashians] “I totally thought it was over.” Watch the interview to see Kardashian explain how she felt “paranoid” at the time, along with other personal details.
Dear Bossip , I am 26 years old and I have been in a serious relationship with my now fiancé for almost 3 years. He is 40 years old, and has two kids (11 & 16) from a previous marriage. When we first met he was very upfront about not wanting anymore kids or to even be married again. I was fresh out of a long-term relationship so marriage and kids were the last things on my mind, and I wasn’t even sure at that point if I ever wanted kids. Well, fast forward a few years and we have since moved in together and he has done something he once said he’d never do – he proposed to me! He has proven to be a great man to me; he is faithful, God-fearing, hard-working and smart. The problem is that I have realized in the past few years that having at least one child is very important to me and that I can’t see living life without becoming a mom. Terrance, this has become a VERY touchy subject. He does not talk about it unless I initiate the conversation and he changes his mind like he changes underwear! One day he will say, “Yes,” when I ask him if we could possibly try for a baby. Then, the next day it’s “Hell, no!” This is the ONLY thing we fight about. We have had some really bad arguments where he’s cursed me out and told me to “Leave him the f**k alone!” about it. It has left me feeling hurt, upset, unwanted, and as if my wants/feelings don’t matter. He says that he wants us to “enjoy each other, travel, and spend money,” and he feels that living a financially comfortable life with him should be enough to make me happy. I was recently more upfront with him about my feelings and the fact that I want a child (with or without him). He made me feel stupid by saying, “What? Are you going to leave me and have a baby by the first man you meet?” Obviously this isn’t the case, but it had me second guessing myself, like, is what I want really possible? So, long story short, I can’t see myself marrying him if he is firm on not having any more children. I’m at the point where I am willing to walk away from this relationship so I can find a man who is willing to raise a family with me, but I am also terrified of the idea of leaving him. I know I will resent him in the future if I give up having a baby for him and he will probably resent me if he agrees to have one with me just to make me stay. So, it’s lose-lose. How do I initiate this breakup and do you think I’m crazy for wanting to leave? I’m so torn and it’s starting to take a toll. Any advice is appreciated. – Want To Have Children Dear Ms. Want To Have Children , Well, it appears you have already made up your mind and you want me to co-sign it for you. You stated in your letter “I can’t see myself marrying him if he is firm on not having any more children. I’m at the point where I am willing to walk away from this relationship so I can find a man who is willing to raise a family with me.” And, if he’s told you from the beginning that he doesn’t want to have children, and you keep asking him and he tells you no, and to leave him alone, then I’m sure he’s certain about not having any children. Therefore, you know what you should do, but as you stated you are afraid of leaving him because of the comforts he provides for you. Also, you’re uncertain because though he said he would never get married again, surprise, surprise, he proposed. Now, you’re confused because he proposed to you, so, you figure that if you wait then he will eventually change his mind about having a child. It’s obvious that you two are not on the same page. You want children. He wants to be financially secure to travel and do things. He wants money. He already has children, and is presently dealing with a pre-teen and a teenager. And, I’m sure he is paying child support. Thus, it leads me to believe that he is fearful of two things – 1.) Getting married again and what if it doesn’t work out. He’s been married before, and now he’s in 40s. He can be scared about the prospects that if this doesn’t work, and you have children, and he gets another divorce, then, he will be stuck paying alimony and child support for the rest of his life. So, he will never get the chance to save money, travel, and spend like he wants. Which also, and probably, explains why you two live together. It cuts down on the costs of living separately, and he is paying child support. Your combined incomes help tremendously. Besides, him being in his 40s, he is thinking of his future and retirement, which I’m sure he hasn’t been able to really save as he’d like. Thinking of his future, his children will be old enough where he doesn’t have to pay child support, and he can finally travel and spend like he wants. Having another child will severely affect his retirement, and he may not want to take that gamble. 2.) He has children. As I stated previously, one is a pre-teen, 11, and another is a teenager, 16. They are growing. They have medical expenses, school costs, clothes, activities, and other expenses including child support which are probably eating up his costs/money. So, for him, having another baby is expensive, and he will have to go through those early baby years again. And, he may be freaked out about having another child. Also, he knows that if you want one, there is the possibility you will want another. Now, since you two are not on the same page, it is important that you discuss this together, and get to the real root of what is freaking him out about his definitive resistance on not having any more children. Otherwise, this will always be the underlying issue of your relationship, arguments, and eventually you will leave. But, I am concerned that you stated he makes you feel hurt, upset, unwanted, stupid, and as if your needs and feelings doesn’t matter when it comes to the issue of discussing having a child. If you’ve expressed this to him, and he continues to make you feel like this, then, why do you remain in this relationship? No one should hurt you, make you feel unwanted, and or to feel stupid and as if your needs and feelings do not matter. You’re human. You’re his fiancé. He should make sure you have and get what you want. Why berate you and curse at you because you are interested in having a child, and want to discuss it with him? Now, if he’s tired of discussing it, and, if he feels he’s made himself adamantly clear about it, but you keep bringing it up, then, perhaps it’s time to drop it, and start deciding on what you want to do, if even leaving the relationship. Also, the fact that he doesn’t want to have any more children, and he’s been married previously, yet, you’ve never been married and don’t have any children, but he proposed to you, however, he expects you to be a stepmother to his children. That is a double-edge sword and it’s unfair. He wants you to inherit his baggage, and take all that comes with him, including his children, but he is not willing to accommodate you. Notice that you’re a woman with no children, so, he is not inheriting any children, or extra mouths to feed and clothe, only your extended family. So, is and was that intentional by design? Did he purposely seek you out and date you because of this, and was that the first thing he asked you in the beginning of your relationship? Also, what would have happened if you did have children? Would he still be with you, or have asked you to marry him? Who knows! But, what if he meets another woman who has children, then, is he willing to take on her children? I strongly recommend pre-marital counseling. It will help you resolve this issue. I’m sure a counselor will tell you that you two are not on the same page, and if he continues and persists about not having any more children, and, he discloses his real reasons for not wanting any more, then, you have to do what is best for you. Money cannot buy happiness. Money cannot replace the feeling of motherhood. Money cannot compensate for having a child. If that is his goal, and it’s not a goal of yours, and a child is what you desire, and it is not what he wants, a marriage will not fix it, but only make it worse. You will be miserable, and unhappy, and eventually you will resent him, and ultimately end up in divorce. Think this through thoroughly. I know it’s scary to leave and start over, but it will not be the end of the world. You will meet a man who is single, never been married, nor has any children and he will want a family with you. – Terrance Dean Hey Bossip Fam, what do you think? 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It has been three months since Bobbi Kristina Brown’s hospitalization, and her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, has not visited her. Nick has been the center of a lot of negative attention surrounding the mysterious happenings that led Bobbi Kristina to be hospitalized and diagnosed with irreversible brain damage. So much, in fact, that Bobbi Kristina’s family has refused to allow Nick to see Bobbi Kristina, citing Nick may have had a role in Bobbi Kristina’s drug use . That might be changing though. Nick has offered to meet with Bobby Brown to discuss finally visiting Bobbi Kristina. If things go his way, he will finally be able to see Bobbi Kristina. According to US Weekly, “Despite his strong desire to see Bobbi Kristina, Nick has respected the families’ wishes for over three months and has refrained from visiting or from pursuing access to her through the courts.” “He has asked through counsel many times privately and now asks both the Browns and the Houstons, please let him see her.” Nick had requested to see Bobbi Kristina numerous times before, but the Browns have responded with the recommendation from legal counsel. “Mr. Gordon was offered an opportunity to potentially visit Bobbi Kristina but…declined to meet the terms of any possible visit,” the statement said. And, of course, they couldn’t end the statement without adding more drama to an already fragile situation: ”Obviously Mr. Gordon is not as desperate to visit Bobbi Kristina as he wants the world to believe.” View Slideshow: Nick Gordon on Dr. Phil: The Scariest Moments Nick’s attorneys “advised him not to meet” the family’s conditions. But Nick is still desperate to see Bobbi Kristina. Attorney Randall Kessler said, “Nick has repeatedly offered to meet with Mr. Brown privately to discuss his request in person, rather than through lawyers.” “Those offers have also been rejected.” Gordon recently went to rehab after a supposedly “volatile” interview with Dr. Phil in March. Nick’s mom told Dr. Phil, “He has said to me many times that he is going to kill himself.” She added, ”Two weeks ago, he tried…He was able to throw up pills.” Since the interview, Gordon is out of rehab . But sadly, Bobbi Kristina remains in a coma. Bobby Brown is optimistic about his daughter’s prognosis. After she was awoken from a medically induced coma, Bobby Brown said Bobbi Kristina was awake and was looking at him. “Bobbi Kristina’s condition has changed since moving from Emory University Hospital and there has been improvement,” his lawyer said on April 20. “Doctors have indicated that she will have a long life. However, Bobbi Kristina is presently embarking on a rehabilitation process and the quality of her life will not be known for years to come.” Her grandmother told the world a different story though. After Bobby Brown said his daughter will recover, Cissy Houston said Bobbi Kristina is unresponsive and has irreversible brain damage . View Slideshow: Bobbi Kristina Brown: Through Good Times and Bad
It’s official! Josh Brolin and Kathryn Boyd are engaged. The news comes straight from Brolin’s rep, so we are excited to report the official news! According to an insider who talked to Us Weekly, Boyd, 47, got engaged sometime last month . After the proposal, Josh and Kathryn went to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. There, they were spotted celebrating their engagement at Bar Esquina with a group of friends. “They were with two tables worth of people so it was a big group, more than eight people,” an eyewitness said. “They had a fixed menu and it seemed like they were celebrating something… It looked like a party and it seemed celebratory.” That sounds like an engagement party to us!!! From what the eye witness says, Brolin and Boyd were “all over each other” and that “she was sitting on his lap” at dinner. “They were kissing each other a lot, had their arms around each other,” the observer added. They were “super affectionate all night.” The Gangster Squad actor and his assistant began dating in March 2013, just one month after reps for both Brolin and his ex, Diane Lane, confirmed they were divorcing. Lane and Brolin were married for eight years. They finalized their divorce in November 2013. In February 2014, Brolin and his new lady were caught kissing in Rome. His marriage to Kathryn will be his third. In addition to Diane Lane, he was also married to Alice Adair. Adair and Brolin share two children, Trevor, 26, and Eden, 20. Hey, third time’s a charm! Kathryn might have her hands full though. In 2013, Brolin rear-ended a car and got into a bar fight within 48 hours. Later, he checked into rehab for an alcohol addiction . View Slideshow: Celebrities Who Got Engaged in 2015
Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly has verbally assaulted just about anyone who isn’t on his far right corner of the political world. For instance, O’Reilly called Beyonce a terrible role model . And even said ISIS would behead Ben Affleck . Or just listen to anything he says about gay people. But O’Reilly’s often stupid antics may have gone to a whole new level. A new report claims that Bill O’Reilly physically assaulted his wife. According to Gawker, a source claims that during his divorce battle with ex-wife, Maureen McPhilmy, “the justice in the case heard testimony accusing O’Reilly of assaulting his wife in the couple’s Manhasset home.” O’Reilly and McPhilmy are in the midst of a custody battle over their two children, Spencer and Madeline. Apparently, things got out of hand, and Bill dragged Maureen down the stairs by her neck. Gawker acknowledged that New York family court cases are sealed, but the source said “a court-appointed forensic examiner testified at a closed hearing that O’Reilly’s daughter claimed to have witnessed her father dragging McPhilmy down a staircase by her neck, apparently unaware that the daughter was watching.” At this time, it isn’t clear when this incident happened. It could have occurred before they split in 2010. “The same source indicated that the daughter, who is 16 years old, told the forensic examiner about the incident within the past year,” claimed Gawker. McPhilmy and O’Reilly divorced in September 2011. Initially, they split custody of their children. But McPhilmy recanted and went for sole custody after O’Reilly put their children’s therapist on his payroll. According to a judge, when O’Reilly put the therapist, Lynne Kulakowski, on his payroll, she became responsible “to perform virtually all of [O’Reilly’s] parental duties.” This isn’t the first time O’Reilly’s ethics have been interrogated. O’Reilly was under serious scrutiny after the truthfulness of his past reporting was questioned. View Slideshow: 21 Scandals Stars Wish We’d Forget
These celebrities are proud parents – for the first, second, third or maybe even more times – following the births of their babies in 2015. 1. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are parents for the first time! Their inaugural bundle of joy arrived in early January. 2. Kate Middleton and Prince William Kate Middleton and Prince William welcomed royal baby princess Charlotte on May 2! (Somehow Kate looks like this having given birth that day.) 3. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel welcomed their first child, a boy named Silas, in April 2015! 4. Paulina Gretzky and Dustin Johnson Paulina Gretzky and Dustin Johnson welcomed their first child together in January 2015. Congratulations to the engaged couple! 5. Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra welcomed their second child on New Year’s Day 2015. They’re keeping this one, a daughter Nova Reign. 6. Carrie Underwood Carrie Underwood had a major reason to smile in February of 2015: she gave birth to her first child! It was a boy named Isaiah. View Slideshow
It wasn’t all that long ago that Robin Thicke was a hot commodity, adored by both fans and his doting wife, Paula Patton. But oh, what a difference two years can make. These days, Thicke and Patton are divorced , despite his many public, embarrassing efforts to win her back. (There’s only so much philandering a girl can take.) Add to that the fact that Thicke has lost millions after being sued by the family of Marvin Gaye for ripping off his one hit (“Blurred Lines”) from the late soul legend, and it’s hard to think of another star who’s fallen so far, so fast. But at the end of the day, Thicke is still rich (His dad is famed television actor Alan Thicke.) and still famous (for better or worse), which means there are still attractive young women who want to sleep with him, and the 38-year old dad apparently wants the whole world to know it. Page Six reports that Robin and his 20-year-old girlfriend, April Love Geary , nearly had an angry mob on their hands when their in-flight PDA session prevented other passengers from boarding on a recent flight. “He was standing in the aisle as people boarded, leaning over to make out with her,” one witness complained. “He was blocking the way. She was giggling. It was obnoxious. He was just like, ‘Oh, sorry.’ He knew he was being disruptive.” Wow. It’s annoying enough when you’re stuck behind someone who’s trying to cram a bag they obviously should’ve checked into the overhead bin. Can you imagine being held up by a douchey celeb because he wants the world to see him makeout with his barely-legal girlfriend? We’re guessing the only reason Robin is still with is that all of the people he pissed off had just been screened for weapons. View Slideshow: Robin Thicke Being Kind of Shady
Terrence Howard says his former wife Michelle Ghent extorted him and threatened to expose his genitals to this world unless he paid up. Luckily for Ghent, Howard only fired this salvo via legal documents. His Empire alter ego Lucious Lyon probably would’ve just offed her. All kidding aside, this ugly celebrity split is getting even uglier … Terrence is now re-married to Miranda Howard (pictured), but his divorce from Ghent has made news for a lot longer than that marriage lasted. He’s embroiled in a spousal support war with Michelle, who got five years worth of support for a union that only lasted a year – well above normal. The actor says he agreed to that generous deal because Michelle Ghent extorted him, and he claims some of that alleged extortion is on tape. Before she was flat-out threatening to kill Terrence Howard , the duo were bickering about the amount of support that the actor would pay her. She threatened to release naked photos and videos of him unless she got what she wanted, he says, according to his attorney Brian Kramer. Terrence says he secretly recorded her saying, “I can make a good $2 million right now … you want to see your little d–k out there in front of TV?” Moreover, Howard says he also has her on tape saying she will tell every woman in the world he gave her an STD … and might murder his ass. She supposedly says, “Trust me, you’re f–king with the wrong person. You f–ked with me way too much. I will f–king bury you deep in the ground.” The long and short of this? In making these claims, Terrence wants the judge to throw out the pact they made so he doesn’t have to pay any more. The spousal support settlement lasts for another year, and she’ll continue to siphon a portion of his earnings as long as the deal is in place. Given how many people watch Empire online , his earnings are likely to be huge in 2015-16, so there’s a lot riding on the outcome for both. View Slideshow: 19 Shortest Celebrity Marriages
Bruce Jenner’s Ex-Wife Linda Claims He Wanted Gender Reassignment In 1980s It’s been a lonnnnng, long time comin’, but she knew change was gonna come… Via DailyMail At his lowest point in the 1980s, Bruce Jenner wanted to flee to Europe for gender reassignment surgery and return to America as his children’s Aunt Heather. That was around the time his young sons asked their mother why their father had breasts. As Diane Sawyer’s explosive tell-all with Bruce came to an end last night, his second wife published a blog detailing their love affair, idyllic marriage and the gender dysphoria revelations that led to their divorce after two sons and a seemingly picture perfect Malibu life. Linda Thompson, now 64, met Bruce at the Playboy mansion when he was separated from his first wife, Chrystie Crownover, the mother of his two eldest children. They fell in love and got married in Hawaii when she was already pregnant with their son Brandon. A few years later they welcomed a second son together, Brody. “Mommy, why daddy got dem tidday meats?” -Brody and Brandon Jenner But when Brody was 18 months old and Brandon was three, Bruce revealed to Linda the secret that he finally told the world Friday night. She was, she insists, blindsided. With a ‘somber look’ Bruce told Linda – who had braced herself for the revelation of perhaps an affair – that he identified as a woman. ‘What do you mean you identify as a woman?’ she recalled asking. ‘What does that mean? And just as he told Diane Sawyer, Bruce told his wife of four plus years that as long as he could remember, he felt wrong with the reflection staring back at him in the mirror. According to Linda, her handsome husband told her, ‘I have lived in the wrong skin, the wrong body, my whole life. It is a living hell for me, and I really feel that I would like to move forward with the process of becoming a woman, the woman I have always been inside.’ She insists she never saw it coming and there were no signs. Considering how (in)famous the Kardashians and the Jenners have become, we’re actually pretty surprised that Linda didn’t dropped this bomb a long time ago. Pretty sure Kris would have appreciated the heads up.
