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“Toddlers & Tiaras” Mom Defends Choice to Give 6-Year-Old Red Bull

June Holler from Virginia is already a serious contender to the title of worst mom of the year, after footage for TLC's “Toddlers & Tiaras” showed her giving her 6-year-old daughter Alana a concoction of Red Bull and Mountain Dew. Here's more to make your blood boil. Holler first came to the at...

10 February 2012
07:23 GMT

Living in the Countryside Improves the Immune System

I recently came across a study providing an interesting new view on the increasing incidence of eczema, asthma and allergies in the developed world. In the paper, researchers explained that those born and raised on farms tended to exhibit reduced immune response to harmless factors. Our body's natural defenses ...

9 February 2012
09:00 GMT

Sister Tweets Photo of Khloe Kardashian and Her Real Father

Just when you thought the scandal around Khloe Kardashian's paternity was about to die down, sister Kylie Jenner adds more fuel to the fire on Twitter, by uploading a photo claiming to reveal who Khloe's real biological dad is. The scandal broke last month, after Robert Kardashian's wives after Kris Je...

9 February 2012
06:31 GMT

Child Abuse Rates Soar in the United States

Scientists with the Yale University School of Medicine have recently compiled a statistic of child abuse rates in the United States, and the data aren't pretty. Annually, more than 4,500 children were admitted into hospital around the countries following abuse. No less than 300 of these kids died on account of...

6 February 2012
06:03 GMT

Jamie Lynn Spears Was Embarrassed to Ask Doctor for Birth Control

When word broke that Britney Spears' teen sister was pregnant with her first child, and that she planned to carry the pregnancy to term, there was a lot of talk about how she was glamorizing teen pregnancy. Quite the contrary, Jamie Lynn says now.The latest issue of Glamour Magazine brings and interview with the...

6 February 2012
04:25 GMT

World's Strongest Boy Does Push-Ups on Glass Bottles

When most of us were 7 years old, we were probably blissfully playing with dolls and robots, begging mom for sweets and running outside with our friends. Giuliano Stroe has other hobbies, set as he is to prove that he is, indeed, the world's strongest boy. The Romanian kid first caused waves in the international...

2 February 2012
16:41 GMT

Jennifer Aniston “Is Trying Everything” to Have a Baby with Justin Theroux

It doesn't matter how much she denies it or how many times she sets the record straight, Jennifer Aniston's motherhood plans remain tabloid fodder. She's “trying everything” right now to conceive, says the latest. Not long ago, word got out – and consequently spread like wild fire in ...

2 February 2012
11:20 GMT

Nadya Suleman Takes on Haters: I Feel Sorry for You, but Thank You

Nadya Suleman is making good of her promise to do her best to provide for her 14 children without embarrassing herself like she did in the past. In a new episode of her web series, she has a few choice words for haters. After a few, much ridiculed attempts at becoming rich and famous, Suleman promised she would no ...

1 February 2012
06:46 GMT

Michelle Williams Puts Acting on Hold to Be with Family

Now that she's done promoting “My Week with Marilyn,” Michelle Williams can look forward to what the future might bring. One thing is certain: it won't include more movie roles, at least not for a year or so. The actress, who has spoken before of her willingness to quit Hollywood if she believed...

31 January 2012
07:11 GMT

'Toddlers & Tiaras' Mom Gives Dr. Drew a Taste of Go Go Juice

Earlier this month, TLC came under heavy fire after airing footage of 6-year-old Alana apparently being doped during a beauty pageant show on “Toddlers & Tiaras.” The mystery of the Go Go Juice has just been solved. Those not familiar with the TLC series should just know that it centers around moms an...

25 January 2012
04:16 GMT

Jessica Alba's Honest Co Line Is Both Green and Affordable

Jessica Alba is officially going green – in fact, she has gone already. Just a few days ago, she launched the eco-friendly Honest Co line that includes anything from diapers to home and baby skincare products.In a new interview with the New York Daily News, the gorgeous actress explains how the idea for the lin...

24 January 2012
15:51 GMT

5-Year-Old 'Gender Neutral' Sasha Laxton Speaks in New Video

Cases of parents who choose to raise their child as “gender neutral” are not few. Beck Laxton and Kieran Cooper are among the first couples in the UK to do so, having just recently unveiled that Sasha is actually a boy. The revelation was made just a few days ago, as Sasha went to school and they could ...

23 January 2012
14:41 GMT

Jennifer Lopez Wants to Have Casper Smart's Baby

Jennifer Lopez may be dating backup dancer Casper Smart for only a few months, but she already knows she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. The two are very much in love and feel that getting pregnant is the next logical step in their relationship, it has emerged. The latest print issue of Star magazine (...

23 January 2012
05:29 GMT

Angelina Jolie Is 3 Months Pregnant

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are getting ready for their seventh child. The Oscar-winning actress is about 3 months along and, while she's not yet ready to go public with the news, she's been telling friends about it. The claim comes in the latest print issue of OK! Magazine – so you know to take it w...

19 January 2012
09:51 GMT

The Blue Ivy Carter Effect: Jay-Z Swears Off Profanities in Music

Jay-Z and other rappers have often been criticized for how their music demeans women for referring to them with the B-word. For what it's worth, critics can stop hating because Jay has already decided to take the offensive word out of his vocabulary. NME obtained a poem that Jay-Z wrote shortly after the birth ...

18 January 2012
07:31 GMT

Gays May Be Better at Parenting

While many people like to pride themselves in being tolerant of same-gender couples, very few of them actually approve of gay marriage. Even fewer think that it's OK for gay couples to raise children. However, studies conducted on this issue prove these people wrong. Researchers demonstrate that children raise...

16 January 2012
10:05 GMT

Beyonce Had Miscarriage Before Blue Ivy Carter

Before becoming pregnant with Blue Ivy Carter, who was born just 2 days ago, Beyonce miscarried once. The revelation comes in Jay-Z's song “Glory,” which was released just hours ago. As we also reported in a previous material, to celebrate the birth of his first child, the music mogul released a trac...

10 January 2012
10:34 GMT

'Toddlers & Tiaras' Mom Dopes Kid for Beauty Pageants

TLC's “Toddlers & Tiaras” has come under fire again, after the most recent episode showed a pageant mom apparently doping her daughter before one of the shows. Video of the alleged doping is below, embedded at the end of the article. This is not the first time that the reality series, which details t...

9 January 2012
07:25 GMT

Bristol Palin Moves Back to Alaska, Is Celibate

After her stint on ABC's Dancing With the Stars, Bristol Palin's career in showbiz (i.e. reality television) looked very promising. As interest in her fizzled, she started shooting for one but never completed it. She's now back in Alaska. However, the move to shut herself from the industry is a choice,...

9 January 2012
04:37 GMT

Ricky Martin Trying for a Baby Girl

After years of speculation about his orientation, Ricky Martin came out in March 2010 in a touching post on his official blog post. This out of the way, the pop star is now looking to expand his brood, he reveals in a new interview. Martin, who is already a father of twins, sat down for an interview with the February...

9 January 2012
03:37 GMT

McAfee Teaches Parents How to Cyber-Educate Their Children

The security solutions provider McAfee released an advisory that teaches parents how to behave around their offspring to make sure they become a good model when it comes to the use of high-tech gadgets and the Internet. “What child doesn’t want to be just like Mom, Dad or an older sibling?” Stanle...

5 January 2012
13:21 GMT

Mom Gives 7-Year-Old Daughter Lipo Voucher for Christmas

For Sarah Burge, the 51-year-old woman known as the Human Barbie, getting your 7-year-old daughter a voucher for liposuction for Christmas is nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, she's outraged that people would call her a bad parent for it. Burge made a lot of headlines last year when she showered her daughter...

4 January 2012
16:21 GMT

Beyonce Gives Birth Today

Despite reports to the contrary, Beyonce hasn't yet given birth – but she'll do so no later than today, a new report suggests. The singer is scheduled to deliver a baby girl at a super-secret location, MediaTakeOut informs. Right on New Year's Eve, Twitter and other popular social networking webs...

4 January 2012
06:22 GMT

Robert de Niro and Wife Grace Hightower Welcome Daughter

Robert de Niro is a father again. The veteran Oscar-winner and wife Grace Hightower have just welcomed a baby girl into their family. Helen Grace is the couple's second child and was born via surrogate. Details of the pregnancy have not made headlines until the deed was done, as the saying goes: that is to say, ...

27 December 2011
04:58 GMT

Suri Cruise Named Most Influential Celebrity Kid of 2011

In our celebrity-centered culture, it's not just singers, actors, film directors and other showbiz people that are considered celebrities: the term also applies to their kids. Suri Cruise, for instance, has just been named the most influential celebrity kid of the year. As 2011 is drawing to a close, we'r...

25 December 2011
17:51 GMT

How Maternal Hormones Change Women's Brains

Over the years, there have been many studies focused on how hormones affect the bodies of both mother and baby. Yet, very few of them were focused on investigating how the chemicals change women's brains. This is the focus of a new research, and the results are interesting, to say the least. Whenever a child s...

22 December 2011
16:01 GMT

Divorce Between Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez Takes Nasty Turn

They're yet to file for divorce and they had determined to make the split an amicable one, but things have recently taken a very nasty turn between Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez. He's now going for sole custody, it has emerged.Shortly after announcing that she was separated from Marc, Jennifer started dat...

22 December 2011
10:46 GMT

Abused Children Can Be Turned into Reliable Witnesses

Children who have been subjected to abuse are rarely allowed to testify in court, since their memories are known to be very malleable. However, a new research from the University of Cambridge demonstrates that the young ones can be made into reliable witnesses, through sensitive interviewing. The group behind this ...

21 December 2011
04:30 GMT

Viral of the Day: Cat Lulls Crying Baby to Sleep

Connar the baby and Stewie the cat share a very special bond – so special it is that Stewie can literally put Connar to sleep by simply patting him on the head, as the video above will confirm. 35-year-old Aaron Grant from Canada uploaded the clip earlier this year, but it's just now that it's being c...

20 December 2011
11:02 GMT

Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Fighting Because of the Kids

Last summer, word got out that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were on the brink of divorce. While it was claimed at the time that they were done because of an alleged affair, fresh reports suggest this wasn't the case. TMZ was the only media outlet to say that Will and Jada had talked about separation and d...

19 December 2011
05:32 GMT

Viral of the Day: Most Intense Taekwondo Fight Ever

Kids always do it better! A new video with toddlers has just gone viral, getting over 1.2 million hits on YouTube in just a few days. Check it out above. In the minute-long video, two kids are seen at a taekwondo demo, where they’re supposed to fight each other. As viral videos go, this one is perhaps the sweet...

18 December 2011
06:27 GMT

You Learn to Love During Infancy

Experts at the University of Minnesota say that children learn how to love during infancy, when they are between 12 and 18 months old. This period is absolutely critical for their later development, the team behind the new study says. In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Current Direction...

16 December 2011
05:50 GMT

How Stay-at-Home Moms Can Keep Their Mental Health Intact

A study conducted on 1,364 mothers reveals that women who choose to stay at home and take care of their children could avoid developing a host of mental health issues by taking a job, or simply getting out of the house more. The study was carried out on women who had just given birth in 1991. Subsequently, investig...

13 December 2011
09:53 GMT

UK Trailer for 'ParaNorman' Gets Release

LAIKA, the animation studio behind the hit “Coraline,” is gearing up for another release that promises to be just as funny and, at the same time, scary. “ParaNorman,” a kids' horror animation, has just gotten a brand new trailer. The first trailer dropped at the beginning of November, ...

13 December 2011
07:06 GMT

Infants Do Not Imitate Everyone

Adults apparently have different degrees of credibility in the eyes of infants, scientists explain. In a new study, it was determined that children carefully select who they imitate, even though the behavior comes naturally to them. Until now, it was believed that babies would copy the behaviors of whomever they ca...

12 December 2011
05:33 GMT

'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted' Has First Trailer

If you thought the first two “Madagascar” films were fun, wait until you get a first look at the latest, called “Europe's Most Wanted.” Indeed, the entire gang is back and is determined to show you a good time. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer, Frances McDorman...

9 December 2011
11:38 GMT

Angelina Jolie in Marie Claire: I Could Get Pregnant Again

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt already have a numerous family of 6 children but they may not be stopping here. The cover for the latest issues of Marie Claire magazine suggests Angie might be broody again.This is definitely Angelina's week: the gorgeous actress is promoting a new film, “In the Land of Blood ...

8 December 2011
06:46 GMT

Family Violence Produces Same Neural Effects as Combat

A new investigation has determined that children who are exposed to violent family environments and abuse tend to suffer from the same type of brain changes that affect soldiers after they are exposed to combat for the first time. At the same time, kids become capable of detecting any potential threats in the futur...

7 December 2011
08:33 GMT

Liberal Muppets Are Brainwashing Kids, Fox News Says

If you took your kids to see the latest Muppets film over the weekend, you might have just brainwashed them to be against capitalism. At least that's what Eric Boiling of Fox Business Network seems to believe. The video below is with a discussion between Boiling and a couple of analysts about how the “...

7 December 2011
05:44 GMT

Jennifer Lopez at Odds with Mother Because of Boytoy Casper Smart

Jennifer Lopez is at odds with her own mother, Guadalupe Lopez, because of her affair with 24-year-old backup dancer Casper Smart. Taking a fling on a family holiday could end up hurting Jlo's kids with Marc Anthony even more, Guadalupe believes. Guadalupe and Jennifer are very close. In fact, they actually l...

5 December 2011
05:53 GMT

Jessica Simpson Says Pregnant Glow Is Actually Sweat

Count on Jessica Simpson for always calling the spade a spade. On her first red carpet appearance since she announced she was pregnant with her first child, the star explained why the “pregnancy glow” is not all it's cracked up to be. Jess and her fiancé Eric Johnson were in attendance at the ...

30 November 2011
09:18 GMT

Kim Kardashian Feels She's 'Not Supposed to Have Kids and All That'

Kim Kardashian's first post-divorce interview is here: in the latest issue of Glamour magazine, the reality star, accompanied by sisters Kourtney and Khloe, opens up about what went wrong in her marriage to Kris Humphries and muses about motherhood.Since she's long said she always dreamed of being married a...

30 November 2011
06:11 GMT

Things Get Deadly Serious in New 'Journey 2' Trailer

Less than a month after the release of the first trailer for “Journey 2: Mysterious Island,” comes a second look at the film loosely based on Jules Vernes' book by the same name. This time, there's no room for laughter.The film is a sequel to the incredibly successful “Journey to the Cente...

28 November 2011
12:13 GMT

'Supernanny' Jo Frost Quits over Money, Is Fuming

A year or so ago, confirmation came that Jo Frost was done with the immensely successful “Supernanny” franchise, which had won over audiences on both sides of the pond. Today, she reveals the real reason she's out of the picture. Just as Lifetime is getting ready to launch a new television series cal...

28 November 2011
10:44 GMT

Lily Allen Gives Birth to Baby Girl

Lily Allen is a mommy. After two heartbreaking miscarriages, the British singer, who tied the knot with her beau in June this year, has given birth to a healthy baby girl, it has emerged. Neither Lily nor husband Sam Cooper has yet confirmed the happy news, but Twitter is already buzzing with congratulations from f...

28 November 2011
02:36 GMT

Daughter Lourdes Is Embarrassed by Madonna’s Cougar Ways

Being Madonna’s daughter must come with almost unimaginable perks but, according to a new report, it also has major downsides. Lourdes, or Lola, her eldest child, is extremely embarrassed that her mother won’t grow up and act her age. The latest print issue of the National Enquirer (story via here) includ...

27 November 2011
04:02 GMT

Rebecca Ferguson Blasts Rihanna: Her Act Is Not for Kids

British singer Rebecca Ferguson is joining the list of celebrities speaking out against Rihanna's extremely racy public persona, mostly manifest in her live shows. She wouldn't let her daughter see her in concert, Rebecca says. While the Barbadian beauty insists that her aim is not to be a role model but...

26 November 2011
05:45 GMT

Angelina Jolie Is Still Crazy, Fascinated by Blood, Says Report

Angelina Jolie may have boasted in a recent interview that she keeps her darker side under strict control, but a new report suggests she might have been bending the truth in her favor. She is actually weirder than ever. InTouch Weekly spoke to one of her former staff members who, under the cover of anonymity, agreed ...

25 November 2011
04:27 GMT

Mariah Yeater Wants Justin Bieber to Take Second DNA Test

Mariah Yeater, the 20-year-old woman to claim to be the mother of Justin Bieber's child after a one-night fling last year, will not go away. Though the singer has already taken one DNA test, she's asking him to re-do it. Yeater first took Bieber to court on the grounds that he must pay her and “thei...

24 November 2011
10:35 GMT

Dutch News Show Hacking Leaves 13,000 Children Exposed

The website of a Dutch television show called Sinterklaas was hacked and the personal information of 13,000 children was stolen. DutchNews reports that the names, dates of birth and email addresses of the youths could be found in the database breached by the hacker. The information was stored in the database since...

24 November 2011
03:57 GMT


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