Yesterday we reported that Radar Online scored an exclusive interview with Bruce Jenner’s mom, Esther, who confirmed that her son was transitioning. Despite the fact that Esther had only recently learned the news from Bruce, she was absolutely accepting and she gushed about what a great man her son is, and how accomplished he is. It was a joy to read and I’m getting teary now just thinking about it.

Today Radar released part two of their interview with Esther Jenner, and the amount of love, admiration and understanding she shows is incredible. She says she’s going to educate herself about transitioning too. Here are some quotes from Esther that were just released today:

I knew he was special from the time he was a little boy… I was so proud of him from all the way back in high school when he raced for the New England track and field. There was a coach in Wilton, Connecticut, who said ‘’You know what I see in Brucie? I see a decathlete.’

And of course, I didn’t know what a decathlon was. I knew it had to do with track and field. And that went on for eight years after high school and he always reached his goals.

Right now, I am more proud of him for what he’s allowing himself to do…

I have known for a short time [about his transition]… I have got to really educate myself.

I just love him like I always have. … I support him whole-heartedly.

[From Radar Online]

This lady just loves chatting about her son, it’s so nice to read. Meanwhile, as you can see above, Bruce scored the cover of People Magazine! According to People (which contradicts Radar’s reports that Kris isn’t totally on board with Bruce going public), Kris and the Jenner-Kardashian kids and spouses are all accepting of Bruce. Scott Disick took more time to come around, but I guess we would expect that from him. Here’s part of People’s report, with more to come in the upcoming print edition:

When Bruce Jenner was finally ready to tell his children that he is transgender, his revelation was met with less surprise than he may have anticipated.

“Bruce told them everything – where things stood, what his plans were for the future, and what everyone could expect,” a family insider tells PEOPLE of Jenner’s decision to transition and live his life as a female. “Everyone basically knew what was up, but it was still a shock to hear it outlined so explicitly.”

But it didn’t take long for Jenner’s six children – and his ex-wife Kris’s kids Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob Kardashian – to rally around the patriarch of reality-TV’s most famous family.

“They all came all around pretty quickly, but each of them had to process it in their own way,” says the insider. “All they want is for him to be happy.”

For Kim, the process included checking in on how her mother was responding to the news.

“Kim went to Kris and asked her how she felt. They had a very long conversation about it,” says the insider. “Once Kim was satisfied that Kris was emotionally okay, she was able to give Bruce her unconditional support.”

As for the men in the Kardashian women’s lives, the insider says Kourtney’s boyfriend Scott Disick “didn’t react very well” at first, but “is now on board” while Kim’s husband Kanye West seemed to embrace Jenner’s transition immediately.

“He is totally fine with it,” the insider says of West. “He believes in live and let live, and he took it all in stride. He and Kim are just trying to show Bruce love and acceptance – complete acceptance.”

[From People]

I’m glad that Bruce’s transition is getting press like this, and that it’s mostly positive after the mocking tone that some of the tabloids took. I hope that, as Esther said yesterday, her son’s transition will help pave the way for greater understanding and acceptance of trans people. I also hope that Bruce can provide a public face to the trans movement. As an aside, I’ve been watching the excellent Amazon show Transparent, (for which both Jeffrey Tambor and the show won Golden Globes) and Tambor’s character, Maura, transitions late in life just as Bruce is doing. I know Bruce’s journey isn’t the same, and that we can’t understand completely from a TV show, but I think it will go a long way toward helping increase awareness. (Incidentally, the plot for Transparent was inspired by creator Jill Soloway’s father, who came out as transgender.)

Also, I want to say something about pronouns. If Bruce wants to be referred to as she, we will do that. The People article, presumably approved by Bruce’s people, refers to him using the male pronoun. When Bruce expresses a stance on the matter, we will honor that.

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Selena Gomez is dating DJ Zedd. Or at least that’s what she wants us (and Justin Bieber) to think. Nothing’s been confirmed but they’re all over each other’s social media and he tweeted this photo the other day of her in studio with him so for all intents and gossip purpos…      

New mom Mila Kunis has been busy promoting her new film Jupiter Ascending, which premiered in Los Angeles on Monday (February 2). The actress, 31, looked lovely in a black bustier Dolce & Gabbana dress featuring a full-skirt, paired with lacy Christian Louboutin stilettos.

When asked about the most surprising aspect of motherhood, Kunis had no hesitation. “How little any of this matters,” she told Us, gesturing to the showbiz glitz around her movie release. “Not to say that this is meaningless. But like truly how little this matters and how much I’d rather be home right now.”

The following night, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kunis dished on leaving her daughter Wyatt Isabelle, whom she welcomed with Ashton Kutcher on Sept. 30.

“It’s really weird to be out,” she shared. “This is my very first time out and about. Swear to God! I left [Wyatt] at home yesterday for the first time during the premiere. It’s frightening. I have to be honest. I was with her every day for the first four months of her little life. I cried. I did. It’s weird. It’s very strange. If anyone’s a mom, and being a stay-at-home mom, it’s a very weird feeling to all of a sudden leave your child.”

She added: “It’s not that I don’t trust who she’s with. It’s just the idea of not being with her.”

When Kimmel joked that she doesn’t trust Kutcher to take care of their daughter, Kunis replied, “I trust him! He’s an incredible father! But the way that I hold the baby and the way that he holds the baby…I mean, he’s like a jungle gym!”

As for losing the baby weight, Kunis said, “Breastfeeding is like working out.” She added, “I am very active. I hike almost every day with her. I strap her in a papoose and away we go.”

Kunis and Kutcher are not using a nanny, but her mother has been helping out.

“I was cloth-diapered,” Kunis shared. “In Russia, 31 years ago, they didn’t have the current-day diapers. Everything was cloth, which means you sanitize them in a hot bucket, you dry them, you iron them, you hang them, you pin them, and that’s how I was raised. When I showed my mom diapers—current diapers, with Velcros and Elmos on them—she was like, ‘I don’t understand what this is. What do I do?’ I was like, ‘Mommy, you lift the baby up, stick it under and Velcro.’ ‘And then just throw in the trash?’ I was like, ‘Away it goes!’ And she was like, ‘Well, if I had this, I would just have seven babies. This is amazing.’ But, literally, it took her the longest time to stop putting it upside down. Like, she would put the Velcro on top and I was like, ‘No, no, no! On the bottom!’ Like, she will cloth-diaper the baby—any baby!—but these Velcro things really got her. Very different. Very, very different.”

And it sounds like her father is fairly excited as well.

“My dad has gone crazy buying her things! Like her very first cell phone and the piano kicker and the Baby Einstein Imaginarium,” Kunis shared. “My house is just filed with noise.”

That said, baby Wyatt “likes rope and string. She doesn’t really care about anything else.”

Kunis went on to talk about Kutcher’s ongoing app developments.

“People bring more baby things to him, and he kind of just runs them by me. Like, there’s these things called Bellabies—I’m not doing an advertisement for anything, by the way!—but you put the little microphone around the belly and you can hear the baby’s heartbeat,” she shared. “I think this is awful because unless you know what you’re doing, you may not hear the baby’s heartbeat and then panic ensues. It’s like WebMD but bad. If your baby’s like 7 months, you’ll hear it anywhere. But if your baby’s a little poppy seed, you really have to dig for it. Like, you gotta find that baby heartbeat,” she said. “And let me tell you, at 3 months I was like, ‘Where is it?!’”

She added: “People run these things by him all the time. Listen, when we started dating—this is an awesome story and this is fact!—Tinder hadn’t really been out yet. And he was like, ‘So, babe, I got this thing that I’ve been thinking about. You need to do me a favor and download this app.’ I was like, ‘No problem.’ I download Tinder, OK? I was like, ‘What is this?’ Like, swiping things left and right. I was like, ‘This is amazing!’ This is stuff that I do at home. He makes me go on all of these websites. Everything!”

Here’s yet another utterly meaningless poll, but it’s always nice to see where the British zeitgeist is with their homegrown Hot Guys. Glamour UK has released a new “Sexiest Men In the World” list, I guess voted on by Fifty Shades devotees, One Direction fan-girls and Sherlock-loonies. I suspect that this wasn’t a straight-up internet poll, or if it was, they didn’t allow fan-girls to vote multiple times, because if they had, Benedict Cumberbatch or Tom Hiddleston would have come out at #1. The Dragonflies and the Florals are very powerful on the internet. Anyway, long story short… Jamie Dornan scored the #1 Sexiest Man (in the world!) position. Bendy was dethroned! He’s only #2. And Hiddles is #3. Via the BBC:

1. Jamie Dornan
2. Benedict Cumberbatch
3. Tom Hiddleston
4. Robert Pattinson
5. Henry Cavill
6. Theo James
7. Harry Styles
8. Jamie Campbell Bower
9. Jared Leto
10. Pharrell Williams
11. Liam Hemsworth
12. Johnny Depp
13. Chris Hemsworth

I think Jamie’s ranking should be split in two: one ranking for clean-shaven Jamie and one ranking for bearded Jamie. Bearded Jamie can get it. Bearded Jamie is HOT. Clean-shaven Jamie barely cracks the top thirty, you know? As for Benedict… he’s had an awful year for “hotness.” Bad clothes, bad haircut, and the Sophie thing really affected his sexiness too. Sigh… at least we still have Hiddles. And Sparkles? I have to say, Sparkles is much cuter to me now that he’s with FKA Twigs. They’re adorable together.

PS… Vanity Fair released part of their Hollywood Portfolio for this year’s Hollywood Issue, and there are some really nice photos. Like, Benedict standing in a forest with a bloodhound (?!), Chiwetel Ejiofor looking dapper as hell on a plane (he’s Top Ten on my list), and Tom Hiddleston and Felicity Jones in a convertible. Nice. Go here to see.

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Justified Season 6, Episode 3 recap.

The dialogue on Justified is always good, but this episode was SPECTACULAR. This episode includes the line, “I’m going to shoot your dick off,” which has to be one of the top-five Justified one-liners of all time, although Ava telling the…      

Nicholas Hoult was photographed at JFK yesterday. He was in LA last week for some early promotion on Mad Max: Fury Road with Charlize Theron. You can see some of the shots here. The movie doesn’t open until May 15 and no, of course it won’t challenge The Avengers… but it doesn&…      

Last week, Lance Armstrong revealed he still has a massive attitude about his doping scandal. He still doesn’t understand why he was banned from competitive sports for life. He wants forgiveness but believes he fairly won his titles. His life is so unfair with only a borrowed mansion and Lancaritas to fill the day, you know? Lance also admits he’d dope again but thinks his “time out” should be over. (“Mom, can I come out of the corner now?”)

Just when I thought Lance’s sense of entitlement had reached its apex, law enforcement reveals he cheated his way out of hit-and-run charges. Lance spent the Christmas holiday in Apsen with his girlfriend (and mother of his two children), Anna Hansen. They hit some parties, and Lance reportedly hit two parked cars in Aspen. Instead of owning up to his (allegedly) drunken state, Lance let Anna take the blame. Here’s the lowdown from Page Six:

Authorities say disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong hit two parked cars after a night of partying in Aspen but agreed to let his girlfriend take the blame to avoid national attention.

Police say they cited Armstrong after the Dec. 28 hit-and-run but only after his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, admitted to lying for him.

Police say Hansen told them she had been driving home from a party when she lost control of Armstrong’s SUV, hitting the cars. But Hansen eventually told officers Armstrong was driving, and they both decided to let her take the blame.

Armstrong declined immediate comment, and his attorney didn’t immediately return a call.

[From Page Six]

Us Weekly confirms Lance was loaded. Anna took the blame because “Lance had a little bit to drink.” She didn’t want the press to destroy him over drunk driving. Anna now tells police she and Lance agreed to have her take the blame “ in order to protect their family.” Well, it didn’t work. Lance has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident. They won’t be able to prove his drunkenness, but maybe there will be other consequences.

Lance lied for many years about his doping. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong by doping. He’s perfectly fine with letting the mother of his children risk criminal charges so he can rebuild his marred image. And he thinks nothing of driving drunk. Lance Armstrong is a terrible person.

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Hollywood couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West hit the zoo with their 19-month-old daughter North.

Kardashian, 34, took to Instagram to share a few family photos of the outing, including a shot at the duck pond. “At the zoo with my boo and my baby boo,” she captioned the picture.

In a second photo, their tot takes the time to visit with a goat.

“We’ve really been trying for another kid,” Kardashian recently shared. “More kids can’t come soon enough!”

She went on to gush about her “smart” growing girl.

“[North] is so smart,” the proud mama boasted. “She is halfway potty trained, which is insane for her age. Last night she looked up at the sky and pointed and said, ‘Moon, Mom! Moon!’ I couldn’t believe she knew that.”

At the zoo with my boo and my baby boo

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Dear Gossips,

On the Chinese calendar, today is the Start of Spring. Which means that, technically, the Year of the Horse is over and the Year of the Goat/Sheep has begun. Chinese New Year is on February 19. But the astrological year actually kicks off today. I know it’s confusing but w…      

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I still remember the horrible scene from 1993 when a man ran onto the court in Hamburg and stabbed tennis great Monica Seles, then just 19, in the back. Seles had amassed eight grand slam singles titles before she was attacked. She returned to the sport in 1995 but had trouble playing at the same superior level. Although she officially retired from professional tennis in 2008, Seles still does exhibition matches. Last year she got engaged to billionaire Tom Golisano, the 73 year-old founder of Paychex payroll processing.

Now Seles has returned to the spotlight to discuss her binge eating disorder. (Note: this is not the first time Seles has revealed this publicly, although outlets are reporting it like it is.) I thought that binge eating was like bulimia, but sufferers do not throw up, they just eat large quantities of food in one sitting and feel shame, guilt and a loss of control. Binge eating disorder was officially recognized by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013. Seles also has a new partnership with pharmaceutical company Shire, which puts out the first drug approved to treat BED, an amphetamine called Vyvanse. (Vyvanse is also approved to treat ADHD.) Here’s more on her announcement, and you can see a video of her interview on Good Morning America’s site:

In an interview with “Good Morning America”’s Lara Spencer, Seles opened up about her experience in an effort to raise awareness about the disorder.

People with binge eating disorder (B.E.D.) frequently eat an unusually large amount of food but do not throw it up, according U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Women’s Health.

The binges may result in feelings of shame and embarrassment and may lead to obesity and other health problems. According to the Office of Women’s Health, as many as 4 million Americans suffer from the disorder, which tends to affect women more than men.

Seles is a paid spokesperson for Shire Pharmaceuticals, the drug company that make Vyvanse – the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of the disorder. Vyvanse is already approved for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Seles, 41, also appears in new public service campaign about the disorder, including a public service announcement that debuted on Tuesday.

“My binge-eating episodes will usually happen in the evenings when I would be back by myself after a long day at the tennis courts and would just eat large quantities of food,” she says in the spot that’s a partnership with Shire Pharmaceuticals, the National Eating Disorder Association and the Binge Eating Disorder Association. “My eating was just uncontrollable. Once the binge was over I felt so upset with myself.”

Seles told Spencer that she wants fellow binge eating disorder sufferers to know that they’re not alone.

“I look at my life and how many years I wasted by being shamed about it, hiding it from my family and friends and doing my binges in private … now there’s help out there,” she said, mentioning the website BingeEatingDisorder.com, which has information and resources about B.E.D.

Seles told Spencer that stressful situations led to her binges.

“My trigger foods were pretzels, potato chips,” she said. “And I would do them alone because I was so ashamed that, here, I was a tennis player who was so controlling on the tennis court. I could direct. I’m very dedicated. Yet, in this one area of binge eating I was out of control.”

[From GMA.Yahoo.com]

This reminds me very much of when Paula Deen announced that she had diabetes – at the same time she revealed her partnership with Novo Nordisk to shill diabetes drugs. While I do think Seles is sincere about having BED, it doesn’t sit well with me that she’s discussing her binge eating disorder at the same time that she’s announcing that she’s a spokesperson. She’s advertising a prescription drug basically. I do wonder how this came about. Monica’s wiki page reveals that she’s spoken about her binge eating disorder in the past, so it’s probable that the pharmaceutical company approached her.

I think it’s hard for me to relate to BED as a disorder because I do overeat, especially after I exercise hard and especially at night as Seles explains. I won’t eat an entire big bag of pretzels or a while pizza or anything, but sometimes I have an extra bowl or three and feel like I’ve lost control when I’m snacking. Many people do this, but people with BED do it to the extent that it interferes with their lives and they feel shame about it. Good for Seles for talking about it, but I still question her motivation. Also, binge eating disorder can be a product of our society. It’s way too easy to get high calorie low-nutrient food and we’re bombarded with images of food p0rn constantly.

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