Niki Taylor will add “mother” to her nameplate come spring. The 33-year-old supermodel is expecting her first child with her husband, NASCAR driver Burney Lamar.
Taylor began modeling professionally when she was 14. She’s graced numerous magazine covers, including those for Seventeen, Vogue, Allure, ELLE, and Sports Illustrated. Taylor is also a familiar face for CoverGirl. In 2001, she was critically injured in a car accident in Atlanta, which left her with internal injuries and severe liver damage. She was in a coma for six months before undergoing 56 reparative operations and extended physical therapy. She has since returned to modeling as well as developed her entrepreneurial side in the biz, opening a store, and launching her own fragrance in 2005.
Taylor was previously married to Arena football player Matt Martinez for two years, with whom she had twin boys, Jake and Hunter, now 13. She became engaged to current husband Lamar after only their third date, and they married Dec. 27, 2006.
Charlie Sheen’s pregnant wife, Brook Mueller, is doing well after emergency gall bladder surgery earlier this month.
As Mueller is in her first trimester, the surgery was very risky for both her and the baby, E! Online reports. However, she was in such intense pain that the surgery was necessary.
She is recovering so well that she was able to attend the Emmy’s with Sheen on Sunday night.
Charlie Sheen and new wife Brooke Meuller are expecting their first child together, In Touch Weekly is reporting.
“They are so happy and excited,” a snitch told the mag. “They are in love, and this news makes things even better.”
Sheen and Mueller met in 2006 and wed in May.
Sheen has two daughters with ex-wife Denise Richards. He and Richards often come head to head over their children. Richards has alleged that Sheen molested their children, while Sheen is furious that Richards allows the girls to appear on her reality show.
Taylor Hanson is expecting a fourth child, People magazine has confirmed.
Hanson, 25, and wife Natalie, 26, will be expecting their newest addition in the winter.
“Each of our kids has made life richer and more exciting,” they told the mag. They also appear to be having another boy, saying, “We can’t wait for this guy to join the party.”
Taylor’s brothers and bandmates have a lot of catching up to do. Isaac, the oldest, has two children, while Zac just recently welcomed his first child.
Rumours that Paris Hilton was pregnant began flying when the socialite was spotted out with boyfriend Benji Madden sporting what onlookers described as a “baby bump.”
The couple had arrived to Crown Bar in Los Angeles when bystanders caught a glimpse of Hilton’s apparent swollen stomach.
“Paris definitely looked a lot bigger than she usually looks,” said an onlooker. “She is either pregnant or had eaten a massive meal!”
Hilton’s rep, however, denies the reports and claims the rumours are “false.”
Earlier this year, Hilton expressed her desire to get pregnant soon: “I do want a baby, pretty soon. Not yet because I’m so busy, but next year.”
Michelle Monaghan, star of “Made of Honour,” is expecting her first child.
Monaghan’s husband, Peter White, is a graphic designer. The 32-year-old’s rep confirmed the happy news to People magazine, saying, “They are very excited.”
It was only in April that Monaghan was dreaming of this day. “I love children and it’s something that I’ve always wanted, to be a mother and have kids,” she told People at the “Made of Honour” premiere.
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz announced their engagement last week, and now there are rumours that it may be a shotgun wedding.
OK! Magazine is reporting that 23-year-old Simpson is pregnant, and is due in October.
Simpson’s father, Joe, is a minister.
A source for the magazine said that Simpson and Wentz are “perfect for each other as any two people could be. They don’t spend a minute apart if they can possibly avoid it and are over the moon about the baby.”
As for wedding plans, the source said that “They’re planning on something in the Santa Barbara area probably by the end of May. Ashlee would like to walk down the aisle before she’s showing – although she is very cute the way she is always checking out her belly now and asking everyone, ‘am I showing yet?’ She’s leaning towards Vera Wang for her gown. Pete and his groomsmen are probably going to be in Dolce & Gabbana.”
Elvis may have a third grandchild on the way.
Australia’s Daily Telegraph reports that Lisa Marie Presley, 40, is pregnant. Presley’s rep kept quiet, saying only that Presley “is not one to comment on her personal life.”
Presley is married to musician Michael Lockwood. Her two teenagers, Danielle Riley and Benjamin Keough, are the product of her first marriage to Danny Keough. She and Keough remain close: he was best man at her 2006 wedding to Lockwood.
Presley has also been wed to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage.
While she’s keeping her pregnancy news to herself, Presley is said to have an album in the works. And the new baby’s grandma, Priscilla Presley, will be competing on the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC.
Is Hollywood also on strike from birth control pills?
Ethan Hawke and “24″ star Mary Lynn Rajskub both joined the expectant parents list yesterday. Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale confirmed they were expecting a second child on Tuesday, as did Dixie Chick Martie Maguire on Sunday. And of course there’s those pesky rumours that Brad and Angelina are expecting twins.
The famous children grow up much too fast. Already, Nicole Richie and Christina Aguilera’s newborns are battling over which will bring in the most cash for an exclusive photo spread.
The trend may actually be in part because of the Writer’s Guild Strike, because as productions have shut down, stars feel they finally have time to start a family.
So if you’re having trouble keeping track, 2008 will reveal the fruit of the following celebrities’ loins:
Julianna Marguilies
Chris Noth
Omar Epps
John C. McGinley
Kevin Weisman
Vincent D’Onofrio
Melissa Joan Hart
Jeri Ryan
Soleil Moon Frye
Brooke Burke
Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry
Ana Gasteyer
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony
Jodi Sweeten
Cate Blanchett
Elisabeth Rohm
Alex Rodriguez
Jack Black
Angela Kinsey
Zac Hanson
Nancy Kerrigan
Jamie Lynn Spears
Jessica Alba
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida
Matthew McConaughey
Rena Sofer
Alessandra Ambrosio
For a more complete list, with more information on due dates and planned names of the little bundles of joy, click here.
Hollywood has gone baby crazy in 2008, and now you can add another star to the list of expecting mothers.
Gwen Stefani has “confirmed” that she is 13 weeks pregnant, claims The UK Sun.
According to their source, “They found out at California’s Cedars-Sinai hospital and couldn’t wait to share the news with everyone.”
Stefani and hubby, rocker Gavin Rossdale, already have a one-year-old son, Kingston.
Stefani, 38, said in October that she planned to have another child soon, due to her age. “Obviously I’m in a race to have another one but I don’t want to do it while I’m out on tour,” she said.
Luckily for her, Rossdale is an attentive expecting father. “He makes whatever food I crave,” she added.
