Angelina Jolie had to confirm that yes, it’s twins, after co-star Jack Black “accidentally” spilled the organically grown beans…and then other co-star Dustin Hoffman “accidentally” let slip her due date:

First, Jolie’s Kung Fu Panda costar Jack Black spilled the beans and confirmed that Jolie and partner Brad Pitt are expecting twins. Now fellow costar Dustin Hoffman has revealed her due date!

The big day? Today show reporter Natalie Morales revealed on Thursday’s program that Hoffman told her the babies were due Aug. 19.

The new arrivals will be the fifth and sixth children for the Jolie and Pitt. The family currently consists of Maddox, 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, who turns 2 this month.

Accidentally my foot.  She probably promised to adopt both Dustin and Jack if they’d help “accidentally” leak the news.

Angelina says that she doesnt feel like “most women” when it comes to pregnancy…you know, because she’s so much better and more spiritually in tune with herself than us regular folk:

“I’m very happy,” said Jolie, 33, according to Today. “Unlike most women, I love being pregnant. [It makes] you feel like more like a woman than you’ve ever felt. You just feel like everything about your body is there for your baby.”

During the on-air interview, Jolie said that she would “possibly” stay in France for the births, and that she and Pitt preferred not to disclose the sex of the babies.

Hey, I didn’t mind being pregnant.  Pregnancy was actually very nice, despite being sick all the time.  And getting that way was fun, but the baby-coming-out part…well, not so much.  “Unlike most women”?  You mean, like those of us who don’t have the money to travel to a new country every month and who are forced to keep their children in one place until they are grown, thus providing a sense of security and stability and continunity in their young lives?

I’ve taken a lot of stick from people who say I hate on Brangelina or that I’m jealous somehow of them and their life.  Let me say…whatever.  I’m not hating on them for having a bunch of kids or for having a bunch of money or for traveling the world.  But she has shown time and again that she is a bit obsessive when it comes to this particular area of her life and that while she professes to love her kids, she has no idea what terms like “stability” mean.  I know people with lots of kids (five or more) who totally make it work, and who had children for the right reasons, and I know people with lots of kids who are not making it work and who had kids for the wrong reasons, and I believe Angelina is adding to her family for the wrong reasons.

But despite saying after Shiloh was born that she would find a spot, stay home and raise the kids, she’s been off trotting the globe making movies.  She’s dragged those kids all over the world, instead of keeping them in one place to give them structure and continuity in their lives.  Poor little Maddox had to quit his school in NYC after Angelina decided to uproot the family once again.  And even though she’s pregnant with what will make her fifth and sixth children, she’s not ruled out adding to the brood.

Look, I have no doubt that she loves her children.  But much like animal hoarding, this obsessive preoccupation with “saving” children and hoarding as many as she can isn’t about care, but control.  Angelina seems to have well-documented control issues, and this manifests itself in her everyday life and this need to adopt children.  Once the children get older, I’ll be interested to see just how well they like their globetrotting lifestyle then.  Her lifestyle is not child-centered, but adult-centered, and the children just happen to live in it.

I’m NOT against adoption, but if she’s that set on adopting then there are babies right here in the USA who need homes.  Or would she not be able to swoop in and take them away as easily here?

Beautiful control freak.  She may love her kids, but love alone isn’t enough.

Regardless, I wish her a safe pregnancy and healthy babies.  I’m not a total jerk, y’know.

Olympic medal winner Nancy Kerrigan welcomed her third child, a girl, to her family:

“They’re very excited,” Kerrigan told PEOPLE. “[Sons] Matthew wanted a girl and Brian wanted a boy, and the two would occasionally argue about it, but they’re both looking forward to having a new sibling.”

Once home, the new arrival will move into a navy blue nursery, one of four bedrooms in the family’s Lynnfield, Mass., home.

Kerrigan, who announced her pregnancy in January, gained only 25 lbs. with this baby, a pound less than she gained with Brian and two pounds more than she put on with Matthew.

Well, good, because I was so concerned that she might gain twenty-seven pounds this pregnancy.  It was totally keeping me awake at night.  Whew…another worry off my mind!

In other current events news, New Kids On The Block broke up, OJ Simpson walked, and Bill Clinton was re-elected.

Melissa Joan Hart, famous for some show that I forget, is lamenting the fact that when her rocker husband goes on tour this week, she’s going to be all alone with the little darlings:

“I’m not sure I can handle two babies on my own, unlike my sis who is super-mom,” Hart, 32, who gave birth to son Braydon Hart Wilkerson in March, writes on her MySpace Celebrity blog.

The actress and husband Mark Wilkerson, 30, a Grammy-nominated musician, also have 2-year-old son Mason.

“We are adjusting nicely to being a family of four, although it is a tough job,” says Hart. “It’s about to get a lot tougher as Mark leaves on tour this week.”

Poor thing.  I can just imagine what it is like to have a toddler and an infant at home at the same time.  No, really, I can, because I did it.  My husband worked 60-70 hours a week.  And look, we all survived!

I find it hard to muster up a lot of sympathy for a woman who has enough dough to, oh, I don’t know…hire someone to help out?

Don’t get me wrong.  I applaud celebs who want to raise their own kids without leaving them solely to the nanny, but come on.  This isn’t a true single mom who has to make the decision about either finding decent childcare while she works her minimum-wage job or leaving the kids home alone because she can’t afford it, or having to make the decision between paying a babysitter or buying food for the week.  This is a celeb who lives in a nicer house than most of us will ever see, has more money that most of us will ever have, and who can afford to have someone come in at least a few hours a day to help out with things.

I’m sure she already has someone helping with the housework (unlike the aforementioned exhausted single mom, who has to pick up her dinky little apartment whenever she gets the opportunity after working all day long) and the yard work (again, unlike the single mom in the apartment with no yard at all for her kids to play in), so hiring someone to help change nappies and feed bottles a few hours a day shouldn’t be a stretch of the finances.  I’m sure her life is busy, but come on.

So call me when your life gets really rough, Melissa.  Until then, shut up and go change a diaper, because while you were whining on MySpace your kid just dropped a load.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother’s Day. I know I sure did with my little gifts

UPDATE:  CRAP CRAP CRAP.  Why did he have to turn out to be a Scientologist???  I am seriously ticked off.

I suppose I need to do a search every time I write a story about a celeb to see if they belong to the CoS or not.

However, I won’t delete the article because the essence of it is truth.

YES!  A celebrity who isn’t accepting money for shots of their baby.  Usher, who posed for FREE with his son for the upcoming cover of Essence magazine, said there’s no way he’d pimp out his kid for cash:

FINALLY, there’s one celebrity who refuses to cash in on parenthood by selling baby pictures to a magazine. “In no way would I ever pimp out my child for money,” Usher told Page Six.

The pop singer - upset by rumors he was trying to sell photos of his infant son, Usher Raymond V, and eager to defend his wife, Tameka, and his upcoming album, “Here I Stand” - wants to set the record straight.

“I am livid that people talk about my child,” Usher told us. In fact, he has posed - for free - with his son for an “incredible” Father’s Day cover for Essence magazine.

“What makes you a man more than being a father to your child? I recognize I gave anonymity away when I became an artist, but to have people try to paint a horrible picture of what’s so beautiful - it’s obvious someone is trying to stop something so beautiful.”

Now there is a celebrity who’s ideas I can totally get behind.  What he said about anonymity is so true…Usher chose this lifestyle, as so many celebs do, but their kids don’t choose it.  Seriously, he could teach people like Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie and Denise Richards and all the other so-called “stars” who whore out their kids for dough a thing or two.

And true…even though Brangelina donated the money they got for the pics of Shiloh to charity (and probably will do the same with shots of the pending baby), the offer of money was still made and they still took it.  Donating the money isn’t wrong…being offered millions of dollars for a shot of a BABY is wrong.  What makes these magazine editors think that a shot of a celeb baby is more important than shots of any other baby in the world, that they have to offer millions of dollars for it?

Oh yeah, the gullibility of the public to swallow any pablum they decide to shove at us and to feed the egos of the celebrities.  What was I thinkin’?

For those of you who don’t know who Katie Price is, she’s somewhat of a celebrity in Britain.  Just what she’s famous for isn’t quite clear, other than having breastesses the size of watermelons (she recently had them reduced), wearing enough makeup to cover every face in La Cage aux Follies, and marrying Peter Andre, whom she met in the jungle while filming I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!

She also has had some television shows and written a kids’ book or two and I don’t really care enough to research this further, because it isn’t important.  What is important, however, that during a visit to Los Angeles to get the veneers on her teeth touched up (what, they don’t have dentists in London?  Oh wait…nevermind), she took her daughter, Princess Tiáamii (yes, that is her name) out for a shopping trip.  Oh, and while she was out, she managed to infect everywhere she went with chickenpox, because that’s what her daughter is sick with:

Despite medical recommendations to keep a chicken pox sufferer at home, the glamour model brought the nine-month-old baby for a day out in Beverly Hills - and her spotty appearance certainly caused a stir.

Katie Price, 29, and husband Peter Andre, 35, flew into Los Angeles with their three children Princess; Harvey, five; and Junior, two; on Friday.

The couple are filming and promoting their reality TV show, which has recently been snapped up by U.S. network E!.

During their three weeks Stateside, Katie says she hopes to take the children to Disneyland and fix her veneers at a cosmetic dental surgery.

Arriving at LAX airport, Katie admitted Princess had caught the virus from older brother Junior.

She said: “She’s covered in chicken pox. How typical.

“She’ll be alright. Junior’s just had them.”

On Sunday, the couple left Harvey and Junior with the nanny to show ailing Princess the sights of Beverly Hills.

With their reality TV crew and a horde of paparazzi following their every move, the publicity-loving pair brought ailing Princess for lunch at celebrity hangout The Ivy.

Seated outside on Robertson Boulevard in the warm LA sun, the couple kept the photographers entertained with public displays of affection in between mouthfuls.

After lunch, the pair moved on down the road to trendy boutique Kitson, where Katie spent hundreds of dollars on clothes for her children.

When poor Princess appeared to be growing ever more uncomfortable from her illness, the pair decided to bring her to a clinic in Encino, before being redirected to the Children’s Hospital in nearby Hollywood.

The couple were swiftly seen by a specialist, who prescribed Princess with medication.

Did I mention that she took the poor little girl out shopping the day before as well?  Just what a toddler with chickenpox wants to do, go to Abercrombie & Fitch.

Here’s the deal:  Chickenpox is highly contagious.  People who are sick with it are supposed to stay home until all the spots are crusted over.  In fact, you can infect others up to two days before you even know you have it yourself.  You don’t have to have contact with the infected person to catch it. You are definitely not supposed to come into contact with a pregnant woman, especially in the first 28 weeks of gestation, because of serious risks to the unborn baby.  All that, and people with chickenpox are generally achy, itchy, and miserable.  When my kids had them, the last thing they wanted to do was go shopping…the first thing they wanted to do was lay on the couch and sleep.

Well, we can just add this to the list of Bad Parenting Decisions that Katie has made.  She’s already suing a former nanny for alleging that Katie is a bad mother who, among other things, never spends time with her kids unless they are in front of a camera and who has been investigated for a scalding incident involving her oldest son Harvey (he is blind and disabled).

Yeah, I guess she and her husband did take their daughter to the doctor, but only after a day of shopping, eating at a notorious paparazzi hangout, and mugging for the cameras.  Hey, you have to take care of the important business first, before you can be bothered with little details like a sick child.

It should also be noted here that the cameras following Katie and Peter around are from E!, the network that is also bringing you the Denise Richards reality show.  You know, the mom who pimps out her daughters for fame and cash, even though their father attempted to stop it in court.  Maybe Denise and Katie could get together and trade tips on how to properly whore your kids out to the highest bidder.

Do us all a favor, Katie, and keep your kids at home while they’re sick.  Oh, and go down to the local clinic and take a free class or two on How To Properly Be A Parent.

UPDATE:  Just found this photo of little Princess having a great time at the Ivy, enjoying her lunch and making life sweeter for those who sought an overpriced lunch in a sophisticated atmosphere at a swanky upscale restaurant.

And yeah, Katie did know that her daughter had chickenpox on the flight from London:

Arriving at LAX airport, Katie admitted Princess had caught the virus from older brother Junior.

She said: “She’s covered in chicken pox. How typical.

“She’ll be alright. Junior’s just had them.”

So let’s review:

• Katie knew her daughter had chickenpox.
• Katie knew her daughter would get them, since her son had just had them (if you are the parent of more than one child, you know that what one gets, the rest eventually get).
• Katie exposed passengers on a transatlantic flight to chickenpox.
• Katie took her daughter out shopping and eating, in full view of E!’s cameras, before bothering to get her any sort of medical attention.

Oh yeah.  Mom Of The Year candidate here!

I’m going to admit right off that these are very cute babies.  Max looks like his daddy and Emme looks like her mommy.  But then…most babies are cute, even without a six million dollar price tag.

Yes, the new People magazine is out, and guess who is on the cover:

This week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, features 12 pages of new photos of the pop star with husband Marc Anthony and their 1-month-old bundles of joy inside their Long Island home and nursery.

The happy new parents spoke candidly to PEOPLE about the pregnancy, addressing everything from Jennifer’s weight gain to rumors of infertility. For all the details, pick up the new issue, on newsstands Friday.

And guess what?  The babies…look like everyday, run-of-the-mill, normal babies.  You can see airbrushed photos of Jennifer in the $120,000 nursery, of Jennifer holding the babies, and of Jennifer gazing lovingly at Marc as he holds the babies.  People magazine has been counting down to this on their website with the expectancy of a lunar launch.  I guess they need to get their money’s worth out of this little deal.

But here’s what I propose:  I say that we don’t buy the magazine.  $6M for airbrushed photographs of J-Lo, in which the twins just so happen to appear, is ridiculous.  Jennifer and Marc do not need this money.  They have more money than they know what to do with, and that is one thing that keeps them distant from reality.  As I said yesterday, I have no problem with celebs splurging on whatever they like…when they then turn around and give back to others less fortunate.  But by all accounts this $6M is going straight into their bank account, instead of being used, for example, to help those mothers and children who are less fortunate.

People could have offered to donate that money to a reputable charity in J-Lo and Marc’s name, instead of giving it to greedy celebrities who will undoubtedly use it to purchase yet more gilded trim for the nursery.  This is simply a publicity stunt for Jennifer…it’s to stroke the egos of the parents, it has nothing to do with the babies.  I don’t doubt that she loves her babies very much, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that she wanted to share this moment with fifty million of her closest friends.

So, sorry…you do what you want, but I won’t be spending one red cent to buy a People magazine.  I don’t even really want to link to them in this story, but I guess I have to.  Regardless, they are cute, and I hope they live long and healthy lives.

If this photo is any indication, poor Marc Anthony is taking on the brunt of the baby-tending duties:

Jennifer, 38, was smiling and radiant and appeared to have lost most of her baby weight already while 39-year-old Marc, who became a dad for the fourth and fifth time with the twins, appeared a little tired and run down.

But his rumpled looks cannot have been helped by the late nights, and the demands required with raising twins.

New father Marc Anthony is so hands-on with the babies, that the star and her staff have nicknamed him the “Burp Whisperer.”

Singer Marc is so smitten with newborns Max and Emme, he has apparently been volunteering to change their nappies and tend to them day and night.

Marc told a US newspaper: “I’m so excited. I’m so hands-on with them that the household developed a nickname for me. They call me the Burp Whisperer.”

Poor guy.  Let the man take a nap now and then!

Not so sure about that comment that J-Lo has lost her baby weight, though.  No way she’s lost that much weight in such a short time.  She looks fine, but let’s not get too carried away…that leg looks kind of beefy!

Now, I’m not picking on her, because she looks good, I’m just saying that it’s a bit ludicrous to have such pressure to return to pre-pregnancy form so soon after delivery.  Stars get too worked up about losing their baby weight as soon as the kid(s) pop out.  Relax, enjoy your new babies, and don’t take everything so seriously.

Actress Halle Berry gave birth to a little girl on Sunday, and it seems mom and baby are doing well:

Halle Berry – who only recently said, “I want to stay pregnant forever” – had a baby girl Sunday and “is doing great,” her rep has confirmed.

The father is Gabriel Aubry. Berry, 41, and the 32-year-old model met while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles in November 2005 and first stepped out publicly together three months later at the February 2006 opening of a Versace boutique in New York City.

Berry first announced her pregnancy in September last year, when she was three months along.

Aww.  Best wishes to mom and baby!

I do have to wonder if Halle will be offered the millions usually extended to new celeb moms for “exclusive” pics of their newborns.  So far, we haven’t heard any rumors that she has, and what a refreshing change.

Of all the recent pregnant celebs, Halle comes out the winner…she hasn’t posed naked, she hasn’t talked about a zillion dollar nursery, and she certainly looked the hottest.

After almost a year, comedian Eddie Murphy has still not seen his newest offspring:

[Lawyer Gloria] Allred didn’t comment on the Enquirer’s report that a source close to Eddie claims he and Mel only slept with each other three times during their relationship, or that she told him she was on birth control. However, the powerhouse attorney exclusively told us that regardless of the couple’s past, “I think it’s sad and inexcusable that Mr. Murphy chooses to punish his baby by refusing to visit her or be involved emotionally or in person in her life. It’s shocking that he continues to refuse to be involved with his daughter and that he has intentionally missed the precious first year of her innocent life.”

Oh ugh.  Gloria Allred.  I really can’t stand that woman.  Can she shut up now?  No, it isn’t sad, it’s probably the best thing for that little girl.

A few months ago, Mel B was apparently fighting depression because of Eddie’s refusal to visit his daughter:

Spice Girl Melanie Brown is battling depression because ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy is refusing to visit their daughter, Angel.

Scary Spice’s lawyer Gloria Allred reveals the singer is desperate for 6-month-old Angel to have a father figure in her life — but the actor reportedly wants to play no part in her upbringing.

It would seem the plan from Eddie’s point of view is to wait until the baby is older and see her then, although that is a convenient way of putting it off indefinitely:

Although Eddie accepts that Angel is his daughter, he has said that he won’t see the little girl, because he doesn’t want to set eyes on Mel.

A source said: “He says he will have to wait until Angel is older before he can get to know her without any interference from her mother.”

Secrets behind the couple’s doomed three-month fling have been revealed in legal papers in which Eddie, 46, states that Mel allegedly asked him for a $9million (£4.5million) house, plus living expenses for 18 years in exchange for her silence while she was pregnant.

But Eddie baulked at the demands and it is claimed he has since refused to see the baby and the Spice Girl.

You know…Mel B needs to just realize that Donkey has absolutely no interest in anything other than himself.  He is not going to be visiting his daughter any time soon, if ever, and the sooner she can come to terms with that the better off both she and her daughter will be.

Eddie doesn’t seem like the sort of role model one would want for one’s daughter, but then again maybe that thought should have occurred to Scary Spice before they did the nasty.  Eddie, for his part, has always claimed that Mel tricked him into getting her pregnant.  But the last time I checked, we are responsible for ourselves, and there’s no reason for Eddie not to have taken birth control matters into his own, um, hands.

Of course, we do have to take into account that the blood was not flowing to his brain, so he obviously wasn’t thinking straight.  Wait…does that explain his whole personality?

However, Mel isn’t exempt from her share of the blame here.  We obviously don’t know the details of the birth control situation (and it all boils down to he-said/she-said anyway), but the last time I checked it takes two to tango, and if there were any questions about it then the answer to sex would have had to be a no.  Plus, if she did indeed try to take him to the cleaners over this, and if she did purposefully get pregnant just to take his money (how last century), then she needs her own reality check, and I ain’t talking about one you get from a TV show.  I’m not so sure she did the latter, but I don’t have much of a problem believing the former.

So basically, you’ve got two people who don’t seem to have their priorities straight, fighting about a baby.  If I were Angel, I’d ask Gloria to get me a new set of parents altogether, these two are malfunctioning.

Mel, a little advice.  It is better to have no father in your child’s life than a bad one.  A reluctant and hostile father, angry at the mother, can be one of the worst influences on a child that there can be.  Find a good father figure for your daughter (um, hello, perhaps your husband…if you thought enough about him to marry him, then you should believe is is good father material, right?), let him take over that role, and move on with your life.  It would be the best thing you could ever do for her.