Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and wife Candice Crawford welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Hawkins Crawford Romo, on Monday. “Hawkins Crawford Romo is now a part of the Dallas Cowboys family,” a rep for the Cowboys said in a statement, confirming the new team member . “He came into this world on 4/9/12 at 5:30 p.m., 8 lbs. and 8 oz.
Spare us the details dammit! Jessica Simpson Shares Intimate Details Of Her Pregnancy Since the first episode of Newlyweds: Nick And Jessica we learned that Jessica Simpson has NO filter and pretty much says whatever comes to her mind, moronic or otherwise. Well, since she has been pregnant Jessica has shared with us ALL of the private issues surrounding her baby bump and it’s effects on her body, appetite, and most importantly, her sex life! SMH Take a look after the flip of all the wonderful stories of fluids, gasses, and “wetness” that the blonde bombshell has shared with the world… Images via WENN
She recently Tweeted her engagement photo . Now Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is showing off the perks of her pregnancy on Twitter. Sort of literally. The Jersey Shore train wreck, 24, may have just shed some weight, but now that she’s wild child, she’s proud of what she’s gained elsewhere. We are talking about in the chestal region: “I got swagger with my pregnant self,” Polizzi Tweeted, showing some serious cleavage peeking out of her neon yellow top in what would actually be sort of a hot photo if we weren’t talking about Snooki. So it goes. Snooki and Jionni LaValle officially announced their pregnancy in March, more than a month after tabloids got wind of it and it was all but confirmed anyway. While there’s no word on what her co-stars, like one-time hookup Vinny Guadagnino , think of her body, they think she’ll be a great mom … what about you? Will Snooki be a good mom?
What’s the Film : Citizen Ruth (1996), available on DVD and Hulu Why it’s an Inessential Essential : The premise — one woman’s attempt to have an abortion turns into a national debate and bidding war — was a bold choice out of the gate for writer-director Alexander Payne. Citizen Ruth is his first feature film, and like his subsequent work, it has a biting wit, absurdities from every corner, and deeply flawed characters. Ruth (Laura Dern) is a dim-witted screw-up who is pregnant for the fifth time; her four offspring have been placed elsewhere because of her addiction to inhalants. When she is charged with a felony for huffing “patio sealant,” the judge coerces her to terminate the pregnancy. In jail, she meets anti-abortion crusaders who start a tug-of-war with pro-choice rivals over the unborn child, who becomes widely known as Baby Tanya after a clinic doctor manipulates Ruth into imagining keeping it. Tackling this tricky subject matter, Payne found an unreal story to tell, except that part of it was real. In the DVD commentary, he and co-writer Jim Taylor reveal that the plot was inspired by the true story of a woman who was offered money by anti-abortion and pro-choice camps to honor their respective wishes for her fetus. The parallels to reality don’t stop there. In one of Dern’s best unhinged moments, Ruth screams at two overzealous medical staffers at a clinic, who then pull out all the stops and force her to watch a video of abortion footage. That seems far-fetched, though maybe not in places like Arizona, where a lawmaker recently proposed a bill that would require women to watch an abortion before having one. The state representative, Terri Proud, calls her idea “(The) Reproductive Games.” Truth is catchier than fiction. Why We Recommend It Now : Released in 1996, Citizen Ruth resonates today, of course, because the issue of affordable health care has evolved into a fight over reproductive rights. Although Baby Tanya, were she real/alive, would be old enough to have a Sweet 16 party this year, not much has changed in the public discourse. Payne skewers the radicals on both sides, who are largely motivated by impressing their leaders — Tippi Hedren, for example, as a mother/god figure to the lunatic pro-choice activists. Their behavior is over the top, but their ideologies still echo. Among the points the movie makes so nicely is that extremists tend to lose sight of the real people and issues involved. When Sandra Fluke testified about hormonal birth control, the point she made — that the drug treats medical conditions — was lost once Rush Limbaugh piped in and turned Fluke into an abstraction and a “prostitute.” Ruth is unfit to be a mother, yet a contingent of crazies think she should take a stab at parenthood, aided by 15 grand, because somehow it’ll just all work out. There’s something to be said for laughing so we don’t cry, and Citizen Ruth allows us to do that. The DVD has few extras, but it does feature a revealing commentary track from Payne, Taylor, Dern and production designer Jane Ann Stewart. Explaining that the film doesn’t take sides, Stewart says her team strived to make both camps look a little foolish. Payne gets to the heart of the matter, saying, “Jane, you asked me, ‘Is nothing sacred?’ And it’s true. Everything is sacred, and nothing is sacred. Everyone is open for being examined as a human being.” Other Interesting Trivia : Payne says the film’s limited release was probably the reason he didn’t receive one threatening letter over it, though he was concerned about potential violence at the time from groups like the Army of God. Dern recalls a conversation with the women who ran Planned Parenthood in Texas, who called her to say how much they loved being mocked in the film. Also, let the end credits roll a couple minutes for a hint at Ruth’s fate. PREVIOUS INESSENTIAL ESSENTIALS The Last Temptation of Christ The Sitter
Dear Bossip , I’m a 27-year old female who just had a baby 2 months ago with a man who lives in another state. Here is some back story on my relationship with my child’s father. We met when I was 15 and he was 19 through mutual friends. He was visiting in the town I live in. We started out cool, just talking late nights on the phone and things like that. We never seen each during this time, just talking on the phone all the time. At the time I knew he had two kids with his first baby moms who I’ll call ‘Nicole.’ Well, fast forward 10 years and I’ve gone to college and been in other relationships and slept with other people, but I always kept in contact with him even when he got looked up twice. However, I was falling more and more for him throughout these last 10 years. Well, finally after 10 years of not physically seeing each other and only having phone sex, I decided that I wanted to go see him in his home town. So, I go and see him and everything was cool. So, him and I do visit each other every few weeks for about 2 months. Well, one day I get a phone call from a woman (who I’ll call ‘Jessica’) who identifies herself as his wife. As you can imagine this news is shocking and devastating to me. Well, Jessica proceeds to tell me that they have been married for 2 years and that they have 3 children together with one on the way. She also tells me that he has 7 kids with ‘Nicole,’ and that she also has another kid on the way at the same time. Needless to say, him and I got into a huge argument and I told him I never wanted to talk to him again. Even though he hurt me to my core I still really loved and wanted him. Fast forward again to about 6 months later and he calls me and tells me how sorry he was for lying to me, and about how he wants to make us work, and that he and ‘Jessica’ were divorcing. After about a month of us talking again he came to live with me in my hometown, and he was going back and fourth because he was having health issues. He had doctor’s appointments and needed to check on his other kids. During this time things were going well, and about 2 months of him living with me I became pregnant. Well, when I was about 2 months pregnant ‘Jessica’ and ‘Nicole’ showed up at my doorstep with ‘Nicole’ being about 7 ½ months pregnant at the time. I was livid that these two bitches had the nerve to show up at my doorstep. But anyways, I maintained my composure and let them in. ‘Nicole’ informed me that she was carrying his 8th child! Which he also confirmed. ‘Jessica’ informed me that there was no impending divorce, and that she had no plans to divorce him at all. After both women sat in my house and continued to tell me all the lies he was telling including lying about his age for the last 11 years (he is actually a year younger than what he originally told me), ‘Jessica’ then informed me that she was here to take her husband back home. Then, ‘Jessica’ then proceeded to have a crying-fest and then basically reconcile in my living room! So, he packed his things and leaves with the two of them, leaving me heartbroken, pregnant, and alone. I spent the remainder of my pregnancy alone and angry that he wasn’t there. He did call me several times a week to check on me and the baby’s progress. He was always telling me that he still loves and cares about me. Well, fast forward again to 2 months ago and I have the baby without him being there for the delivery (he was unable to make it because of the holidays). Since the baby was born he has been calling me and texting me daily telling me he loves me and wants to be with me, even telling me that him and ‘Jessica’ are divorcing (for real this time), and that he was only with her for her money because he doesn’t have a job. He even came and seen the baby for the first time a few weeks ago, and when he was here he told me that he wants to move back with me and raise our child together. Mr. Dean, I really love and care about him and I want to make our relationship work for the sake of our child, but I don’t want to get hurt again, but at the same time I don’t want my child to grow up fatherless. Please advise me because I am completely confused. Thank you for your time and sorry about this being so long but there was a lot to say. – Just Really Confused Dear Ms. Just Really Confused , Sigh! Deep sigh! Really deep sigh! I can’t! I shan’t! I won’t! Are you sure that you and he are not related? Perhaps cousins, or half-brother and sister? Maybe long lost brother and sister? What the hell kind of foolishness did I just subject myself to reading? Girl, girl, girl, girl, girl! WOW! Three, on the loose, donkey ass women running round the streets knowingly mating with one donkey ass man. Unprotected. WOW! (Lifts the matted bangs of your purple weave and knocks on your forehead) What’s that hollow noise echoing in the background? I’m calling my congressman today and demanding that my tax dollars do not fund or go toward the welfare administration’s support of –ish like this mofo nonsense!!! I know none of you have a job, or are even looking for work. Y’all just sitting in the Rosa Parks and Grant Housing Projects waiting on Ray-Ray and ‘em to come over and chill with y’all while you hope you can go to the grocery store with your EBT card and get some eggs, bacon, and formula. SMDH! Anyway, that dirty community d**k you all are sharing, well, uhm, “Keisha” (I’ll call you that for the sake of this letter), he is not, has not, and will never divorce his wife. Haven’t you learned anything since his wife already told you that they were not getting a divorce? Haven’t you learned anything when you discovered all his lies, and conniving and manipulative ways? Wait, hold up. Of course you didn’t learn anything, the highest level of education it appears you’ve completed is the fourth grade. Someone please tell me what three grown ass women knowingly sleep with one man, and continue to lay up with him even after knowing about one another? What grown ass woman knowingly has 8 kids by a man who is married, lives with his wife, and has another girlfriend on the side? I’ll tell you what type of grown ass woman who does that: YOU THREE RETARDED ASS BIRDS I’ve done a rush and special admission for you and the other two women for the ACADEMY OF SPECIAL NEEDS AND SLOW ASS WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROM D **KDOME AND STUPIDITY. I’ve taken the liberty and enrolled you all in three courses: Dumb Women Do Dumb Things: When The Brain Suffers From Too Much Exposure of D**k Juice on the Head Birds Of A Feather Flock Together: How To Get Out of the Nesting Brood You Is Smart, You Is Kind, You Is Important: Get You Some and Get Your Life You, the other women, and that man is just sad all over. You really expect and think you are going to have any type of relationship with this buzzard? Ma’am, he is not faithful to his wife! He is mating (because I’m certain two donkey’s having sex is not making love) with another woman who has 8 children by him. And, you know this, and yet you still sit up and say that you love him? What do you love? You only had a relationship with him via the phone for 10 years, and you never saw one another (Donkey, donkey, bird, bird). Then you start this long distance relationship with him, but 2 months into it his wife calls you and tells you everything, and, yet you continue to see him? But, hold up, it gets better, 6 months later he calls and apologizes, you listen, and then you move him into your home? What type of woman are you? Let me ask you this: Is this man financially, mentally, and emotionally taking care of his 8 children with his other girlfriend? Is he financially, mentally, and emotionally taking care of his 4 children with his wife? Let me answer this for you: HELL NO! You even stated in your letter that he doesn’t have a job. If he can’t provide for his 12 other children, then how do you expect him to take care of your child? If he is irresponsible, immature, and spiritually deplete from his own life, then how do you expect him to be responsible, mature, and spiritually empowering for you? But, this is not difficult to figure out because you yourself are irresponsible, immature, and spiritually deplete. Let me repeat this for you: Your married boyfriend has 8 children with his mistress/girlfriend, and she will probably have more with him. Is this the type of man you want to have in your life as a role model for your child? There must be something seriously wrong with you when you knowingly involve yourself with a married man with 4 kids, and he’s openly having an affair with another woman who has 8 children with him. And, both of these women show up at your house, unannounced, and they detail everything about their relationship with him to you, yet, this man leaves with them, and you’re sitting over there talking about how much you love him, and want to be a family with him. Chile, d**k is a dangerous drug, and you’re sucking and smoking lots of it. Look, I know that whatever I say to you that you are not going to heed, follow, or listen to my advice. You are stuck on stupid and his d**k. Chile, that’s a deadly combination. A bird stuck on stupid and d**k. LMBAO! Therefore, let me say and do this, (drops bird seed on the floor and leaves a trail. Please follow), that man is not in love with you. He is not even in love with himself. No man who sleeps with three different women, impregnates them, and allows himself to go from each of their homes with no job and relies on the women to care for him remotely loves anything about himself. If he doesn’t love himself, then please know that it is impossible for him to love you. You three women are just dumping grounds, and trash receptors for his semen (i.e., nut collectors), and you have no regards for your own health, safety, or self. When you don’t cherish or respect your own body, the temple of your spirit, then you will allow anyone to do harm and destroy your body, the temple of your spirit. And, if the body, the temple of your spirit, is destroyed, then your spirit dies, along with your body. It’s important that you know how special you are and that you do not have to subject yourself to this man, and his trifling, no-good, hopeless and broke ass. You and your child deserve more, and better. It’s going to take you walking away from him, getting yourself together, and taking care of your child without him. He is not a father, a man, or a worthy companion. YOU CAN DO BAD ALL BY YOUR DAMN SELF! Find some spiritual and powerful sisters to surround yourself with. Utilize the time that you put into chasing him and go to school and better yourself. Stop repeating the cycle and behaviors that perpetuate ghetto hood basic bish stupidity. THE MAN IS LYING TO YOU, HAS LIED TO YOU, AND WILL CONTINUE TO LIE TO YOU. He is no good for you, and has never been. Love yourself, and your daughter enough to walk away, and be and do something with your life. – Terrance Dean Hey Bossip Fam, what do you think? Share your opinions and thoughts below! Also, e-mail all your questions Terrance Dean : loveandrelationships@bossip.com Follow Terrance Dean on Twitter : @terrancedean “LIKE” Terrance Dean on Facebook , click HERE! Make sure to order my books Mogul: A Novel (Atria Books – June 2011; $15), and Straight From Your Gay Best Friend – The Straight Up Truth About Relationships, Love, And Having A Fabulous Life (Agate/Bolden Books – November 2010; $15). They are available in bookstores everywhere, and on Amazon, click HERE!
Snooki is pregnant and engaged. Maybe you heard. The Jersey Shore star is still in the early stages of her pregnancy, and has yet to confirm officially that she is with child (or engaged) but it’s out of the bag. She already has a list of names in mind for her baby, too. If the Snooki spawn is a boy, she is said to favor Jionni Jr., after her fiance. For a girl, she recently said she loves the names Isabella or … Giana. Polizzi said she would also consider Tony and Frankie as boy names, but a mini Jionni LaValle might end up going by the same name as his daddy. Aww. But Snooki may one day have a chance to use all of those. “Family is a big thing for me and I can’t wait to start a family,” she told People this winter. “I definitely want a big family – like four or five kids poppin’ out!” Whoa, slow down now … the thought of one baby Snooki is scary enough. Let’s just start with one. What do you think of her names … and possible others? Vote below: What should Snooki name her kid?
The fact that someone got Snooki pregnant is truly a scary thought. Fortunately, it looks like the Jersey Shore star herself got the memo. According to those close to the MTV train wreck, she’s undergoing a major personal transformation , determined to become a responsible member of society who takes pregnancy and impending motherhood very, very seriously. It’s okay, you can laugh. We did. Sources close to Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi say that ever since discovered she was expecting her first child, she quit drinking, quit screwing around and convinced the people around her that she could not only handle it, but be ” mother of the year .” We’ll believe that when we see it. No offense Snook. Snooki does come from a loving family and despite being a total drunken promiscuous mess, understands what it takes to become a responsible mother. As far as her upcoming Jersey Shore spinoff goes? At least one baby store has agreed to let her film there, but don’t expect her life to continue to unfold in the public eye for too much longer. The premise of the spinoff with BFF JWoww is that it’s the girls’ “last hurrah.” The untitled show will follow the girls’ transition into adulthood – moving into an adult apartment, taking some serious adult steps with their boyfriends, etc. Speaking of which, Jionni LaValle is the father of her child. Supposedly. Snooki hasn’t confirmed the pregnancy, though the cat is out of the bag, and she’s with Jionni still … so it seems likely he’s the father. Likely. The boyfriends (Jionni and Roger Williams) will not have starring roles on the show … but the relationships will be “key.” So, there’s that.
Congrats are in order for Jersey Shore’s own Nicole Polizzi aka Snooki and her boyfriend Jionni Lavalle. She is reportedly 3 months pregnant. She had been denying reports about her pregnancy so that she can broker a deal to announce her pregnancy on the cover of Us Weekly , which is coming out soon. Snooki will cash in big on this new baby, plus her spinoff show with J-Wow is in production now. Do you think Snooki can still remain relevant while pregant?
We’ve already posted MTV’s 16 and Pregnant trailer for Season 4. Now we have your first look at the cast of the new season, premiering Tuesday, March 27. The U.S. teen birth rate has reportedly declined by nearly 10 percent in the last few years, helping douse criticism that the show is glamorizing teen pregnancy. However, there are still plenty of cute teen moms for casting directors to choose from, and these 12 high schoolers from across the nation made the cut. Spoiler alert: There are more cheerleaders than ever! 1. Lindsey Harrison (above). The model and cage fighter complains that she “cannot do anything I normally would do” after she becomes pregnant. Now 17, she gave birth to daughter Aniyah in October and is still seeing her baby daddy. 2. Myranda Trevino. Almost the high school track star lives in Texas with baby daughter Kaylee Michelle (born in September) and is dating baby daddy Eric. 3. Katie Yeager. Now 17, Katie gave birth to her daughter Molly last August. She lives in Wyoming and appears to be on good terms with baby daddy Joey Maes.