Breaking news! This just in! J-Lo gave birth to TWINS! A boy and a girl! What bizarre celebro-names she will give them? Will either inherit her acting skills, singing skills, dancing skills...or that million dollar rear? Oh, the questions and curiosities that ping-pong in my head...
I'm kid, of course. However, on a serious note, I would like to comment on this upward trend of celebrity pregnancies. Once considered a liability or hindrance to the entertainment career, babies and pregnancies are now accepted, and even coveted. Swapping Dolce for diapers, Prada for pregnancy, celebrities have found their newest, most prized accessory: babies! It's "trendy" to have a baby now. It no longer hurts your career - it catapults it. The ambiguous baby bumps of "is she or isn't she?", the confirmation of "yes, she is!," the baby bump watch on every magazine, the birth, and finally...the ridiculous marathon race to shed the most baby weight in the least amount of time. The tabloids love it, and we love to read it, whether we admit it or not. Pregnancy is now a celebrity's self-marketing stategy. It guarantees publicity. And it pays to have a baby - big time. Brangelina received 4 million dollars from People magazine to have exlusive rights to Shiloh's first baby pictures. (Yet, I don't blame them, almost; Shiloh is so ridiculously adorable, that it almost hurts my eyes to stare at her.) And it gets worse: People mag has now offered 6 million to Jennifer Lopez to have rights to the first photos of her twins. 6 MILLION DOLLARS! That's insane.
I'm sure many celebrities have babies because they genuinely want them - and I hope that is the majority, the rule, not the exception. Yet, I can't help but wonder how many celebrity couples, or just the women, have babies to propel their career to new heights. How do you guys feel about celebrity pregnancies? Do you trust their motives behind it?

Well, I'm off to watch the Oscars...keeping my eyes peeled for the next celebrity baby bump!