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Sexy nursing bra Brit .

Word on the street is that she had scheduled a c-section 6 weeks early on purpose so she could skip the last bit of weight gain and stretching.  Apparently quite the trend for celebs these days .  Sickening if you ask me.

Hmmm, I also notice the babe is mysteriously missing from these photos ... good to see they aren't letting that little boy get in the way of their convertible- and restaraunt-filled lives.

I think she looks great although I can always count on her to wear something completely inappropriate...but ANYWAY. I heard lots of reports, even this morning, that her friends are saying how depressed she is over her weight gain during her pregnancy & that she can't start working out for 6 weeks, crying all the time, etc - damn, I think she looks great. And I'm no Britney fan.

tara t wrote:

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honestly, i think she looks the best in those pictures than she has for a looong time.  she looks great.  bad shirt, but she looks great.

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I'm with you. I think she looks awesome for just having a baby. Better than she's looked in a long while, even fashionwise.

What the heck did KFed do to his hair?!?   Although, it does look better than the trucker hat that he's usually sporting, hehe.

And Brit does look pretty good, minus the poor choice of clothing.  At least it looks like she's washed her hair since having the baby.

She does look better than she has in a long time.

Did anyone read the article in this month's Elle? (Pretty sure it was Elle) I wasn't sure whether I should feel badly for the writer/editors who were trying to fit her incoherent babblings into something that wouldn't make her sound like an idiot, or feel badly for her b/c they obviously couldn't, and they opted for the question/answer format that revealed just how truly out there she seems to be. Poor thing. I'm going to look for the article. It's good for a laugh.

ETA: Okay, here's the Elle article.

from kevin to kabbalah to baby, britney spears has great expectations for the next chapter in her story. BY HOLLY MILLEA

The sign on the electronic gate reads surviving trespassers will be prosecuted. Desperate paparazzi times call for desperate star measures, especially when you're a multiplatinum album-selling Grammy winner worth an estimated $123 million. Tucked inside her Malibu compound, the 23-year-old Britney Spears—pop-singing seductress, newlywed, barefoot mother-to-be, tabloid staple—answers the door in short shorts and a blue butterfly-sequin halter top. Her hair in a loose ponytail and dangly pink crystal-cube earrings swinging from her lobes, she shoos away her yapping chihuahua, Bit Bit (who is wearing a white ruffle tank top), and invites you into her living room. Settling on the couch, Spears sits Indian-style, hugging a pillow to her blossoming belly. She and Kevin Federline, a former backup dancer, now her husband, await along with the rest of the world the birth of their baby this month.

But that's not all Spears has coming this fall.

ELLE: You've created a new fragrance called Fantasy?

BRITNEY SPEARS: Mmm-hmm. The first scent was Curious. Fantasy, and I'm not just saying this, it really does smell better.

ELLE: What are the predominant notes?

BS: I like vanilla anything. And it has a bit of China musk. I love going to Target and gettin' all those little cheap scents. But [Fantasy] doesn't smell very cheap. It smells very sexy.

ELLE: You smell great. And you look great. Congratulations on your pregnancy.

BS: I've always known that I was going to have a baby one day. But there's times when I get a little scared. It's mind-blowing to have a child. I think it's kind of healing, too. Like, to your body. And therapeutic. All the secrets from your family come out of the closet for some reason. But it's good. They have to come out sometime. You know what I mean?

ELLE: Do you mean that you're expressing your thoughts and feelings to your family?

BS: Just your needs and your wants. Right before I met Kevin, I didn't talk much. I got kind of introverted. Being an entertainer, especially starting at such a young age, you long to please people and become what they want to see. In the last two years I've totally gotten out of that. Having a child and getting married, it's gonna help me not be influenced so much, or manipulated, which can happen in a huge way.

ELLE: You have a lot of people around who might think they have your best interests at heart, but—

BS: And they honestly do, and they mean well. It's a sticky thing because you love these people. The sad thing is that it's usually the ones closest to you. And you have to completely separate yourself.

ELLE: Being married, you really do have someone looking out for you.

BS: Yeah, and he's that person. Exactly. I was so lucky the day I met him.

ELLE: Before Kevin, did you have the feeling that your life was living you and you weren't living your life?

BS: Being on top isn't everything, and money doesn't buy happiness, and all those things. You have to make time for yourself, definitely. It was really weird for me at first because all I ever knew was work. And then you're like, Oh God, what am I going to do today? I still love what I do, but I can't go at the same pace.

ELLE: Are you working on a new album?

BS: I'm just in the studio playing, but it will probably be a year, a year and a half.

ELLE: You were offered the Daisy Duke role in The Dukes of Hazzard, correct?

BS: Yeah. Ashton Kutcher was supposed to be in it too. But things change and happen for a reason. That wasn't my time. I'm supposed to be pregnant now. And I'm proud of Jessica [Simpson], she's doing really well.

ELLE: And now you're busy with domestic roles.

BS: My house is getting done. We're adding on to it. My husband, he won't let me see it right now because it's not completely done.

ELLE: But you have input!

BS: Oh, on everything. Trust me—everything. I was like, “I want this, I want that, this.…”

ELLE: Is the baby's room blue or pink?

BS: I don't know the sex. I want to be surprised. But I have a feelin' that it's going to be a boy. Ideally, I've always wanted a boy and then two girls.

ELLE: Did you know before you took the test that you were pregnant?

BS: Well, two weeks before I found out I was pregnant, I wrote a song about becoming pregnant; like, I did a video for it.

ELLE: The sex must be really great when you're having it to make a baby.

BS: Oh yeah!

ELLE: All that Catholic schoolgirl stuff—

BS: Is out the window!

ELLE: And when you think of all those years you spent trying not to.

BS: [Laughs] Right. Oh my goodness. It's awesome, though. Wow!

ELLE: Your mom's going to be a grandmother for the first time. Was she happy when you broke the news or taken aback?

BS: Taken aback. I think she thought I was probably going to wait a little bit, be married for a while. But those weren't the plans of Britney! [Laughs] She's gonna be a hot grandma. And I'm gonna be a hot mom.

ELLE: Will you have a natural childbirth?

BS: I have a feelin' I'm going to have an operation. I don't know why. But I hope so. I don't want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life. So…if [a cesarean] doesn't happen, I'll be like, “Epidural, please!” Hopefully my athletic abilities will take over. Kevin's going to hold my hand.

ELLE: What is Kevin's best quality?

BS: I get kind of spastic sometimes. And he's like this [gestures a straight line]. And I can tell him anything and he's awesome. And so humble and just loves me no matter what. And I love that about him.

ELLE: How hard was the initial public reaction to the fact that Kevin had another relationship and a baby on the way when you met him?

BS: I didn't really think about that at the time. I didn't care. I loved him. And so they could talk all they wanted. It doesn't matter to me.

ELLE: You've weathered the tabloid coverage like a pro.

BS: It's hard. I worry about my little sister. I see Jamie Lynn in that light and I'm like, you know, I was always mad because I was always overprotected, and now I'm just going to overprotect her!

ELLE: Her show, Zoey 101, got nominated for an Emmy.

BS: Her little show's doing amazing. I'm so proud of her. I love her. She's very sweet—and dry. She's the person when you're in a room that says the things you want to say but you don't say. She just blurts it out and you're like, Oh, that was an air breaker! She's very smart.

ELLE: She's getting to the age you were when you—

BS: I know, she's about to be in the ninth grade, and that was when I had my first serious boyfriend.

ELLE: Have you given her the birds and the bees talk?

BS: Oh, she knows a lot more than our generation. And she hasn't done anything.

ELLE: Not that you know of! Kids these days, you have to talk to them about sexuality in life and death terms. The world—

BS: It's crazy.

ELLE: Scary, too. Did you vote last year?

BS: Um, no, I did not.

ELLE: Britney!

BS: Oh my God. [Puts a pillow over her face] I'm embarrassed. [Puts it down]

ELLE: Okay, tell me about practicing Kabbalah.

BS: Kabbalah has helped my soul. I was brought up Baptist, and there's religions and all that stuff, and the Bible's written—everything's in codes. And the thing that drew me to Kabbalah is, it all comes from light. This sounds so weird, I know, but I'm just trying to explain it in a way that—like, it all stems from light. And Kabbalah, out of all of 'em, is the oldest, er, it's so rich, I think it kind of overrules everything. Like, if I read a normal self-help book—I think that the people who write these [Kabbalah] books are so on a different level, that if you can come into contact with their consciousness, it's like, so profound and enlightening.

ELLE: Do you actually read Kabbalah books?

BS: Yeah, I read 'em and I meditate on them.

 

ELLE: Are they in English?

BS: No, it's all in Hebrew. I don't understand everything. But it's kind of okay that you don't.

ELLE: Is Kevin practicing Kabbalah now too?

BS: Not as intensely as I am. For some reason I'm thirsting for it. But he looks at the books every once in a while.

ELLE: What would you say is the best thing about being married?

BS: The simple thing of just having somebody to lay your head on. Oh [fanning her face with her hand], it makes me want to cry right now. At night, when you just have somebody that loves you unconditionally no matter what. Oh [her eyes filling up with tears], it just makes me want to cry right now.

ELLE: Didn't you ever think you would have that with someone?

BS: [Tears streaming down her face; she wipes them away] Oh, why am I—[crying]? This is so silly. I thought I would have it, but not like that. It's deep. Your love grows. And it's awesome.

ELLE: It's a gift. Speaking of which, let me see that wedding ring.

BS: This isn't the real one, though. Because I don't—I like this one, but I'm gettin' a newer one that's even better.

ELLE: Wait a second—is this a real diamond?

BS: Oh, it's totally a real diamond. But it's not the final. I like this, but it catches onto everything. I want something that's not as pokey-outy. The one I'm gettin' is a little bit flatter. And it's just more of a rare diamond.

ELLE: Get the upgrade before you cut your hair—pregnant women are notorious for chopping it off and freaking out their husbands.

BS: Not me. Next week I'm putting in these new extensions. They look really pretty and natural. I feel better with long hair. And for my baby, I want to be a goddess.

 

-- Edited by Lisa at 15:16, 2005-10-17

LMAO at that article. Half the time I was like "what????"

That article was too funny.

I read in US weekly today that she is doing light exercise but soon she will start doing the excrises like she used to, plus she is being placed on a diet. I think she looks great though for just having a baby.

hahahahahahaha!!!

My favorite part:

ELLE: Get the upgrade before you cut your hair—pregnant women are notorious for chopping it off and freaking out their husbands.

BS: Not me. Next week I'm putting in these new extensions. They look really pretty and natural. I feel better with long hair. And for my baby, I want to be a goddess.

Seriously? You want to get new extensions for your baby? Cool.

This is mainly what made my head hurt....

BS: I've always known that I was going to have a baby one day. But there's times when I get a little scared. It's mind-blowing to have a child. I think it's kind of healing, too. Like, to your body. And therapeutic. All the secrets from your family come out of the closet for some reason. But it's good. They have to come out sometime. You know what I mean?

I want to say - "um, no, I really do not know what you mean at all"

And this:
Like, if I read a normal self-help book—I think that the people who write these [Kabbalah] books are so on a different level, that if you can come into contact with their consciousness, it's like, so profound and enlightening.

This makes me aware of how stupid I must look when I overuse "like" like Britney. It's like, so profound & enlightening!