During a Wednesday appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Parenthood star Dax Shepard said having two children — daughters Lincoln, 3, and Delta, 17 months — is “exponentially” harder than having just one. So the actor recently had a vasectomy.

“Last year, my wife was working in Atlanta. We were there and she all of a sudden goes, ‘Oh my gosh! I’m so stupid. I’ve been sick for 10 days and ignoring it — I’m definitely pregnant,’ ” he shared. “I was like, ‘We’re going to turn into Jon and Kate Plus 8 or something. We already have no life! This is going to be not worth living.’ I freaked out. It was so bad.”

He added: “That was Tuesday and she had to work, so for eight hours we didn’t get a pregnancy test. For eight hours I was, like, imagining my life with all these kids. That was Tuesday. I flew home Wednesday for a meeting. Thursday morning, I had a vasectomy.”

But as it turns out, the actor’s wife, Bad Moms star Kristen Bell, 35, was “not thrilled” with his quick reaction.

“I’m a man of action, so I was in and out,” the Without a Paddle star, 41, said.

While the procedure went well, the follow-up appointment – in which he brought a sperm sample to be tested for sterility – wasn’t as straight forward.

“So I was working, I had a meeting scheduled at 3, no problem, I’ll have time to go into my office, relax, extract, go to Beverly Hills, I brought a Mason jar with me that I rinsed with extra hot water, it was sterile (I think). So I’m in this meeting—mind you, my best friend is in the meeting, he knows the time crunch that I’m under—and the meeting is going on and on and on, it’s all the presidents of Warner Brothers, and I can’t get out of this meeting and the clock is ticking,” he shared.

He added: “All of a sudden I have 15 minutes to get from Burbank to Beverly Hills and procure my sample. This is the God’s truth: I had to drive crosstown, rush hour, thank God there was heavy traffic on Laurel Canyon so it slowed down enough that I could. I literally masturbated on Laurel Canyon in heavy traffic into…you’re not just dealing with that, it’d be one thing to just like all, loosey-goosey just go for it, but I have a jar and it’s heavy traffic, it’s very curvy—for y’all who have not been on Laurel Canyon, it’s one of the twister roads in America. It’s hard enough to get through that road while not making love to yourself into a container. Anyways, the great news is I’m sterile.”

Back in February, Duana answered a letter for a little girl who was named Teagan. Teagan was born on February 22nd and two weeks later was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, the most common fatal genetic disease affecting children and young adults.

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Do you know Justin Lin (without Googling?) According to Wired, he’s the “most important blockbuster director you’ve never heard of”. But JJ Abrams personally requested that he take over from him on Star Trek Beyond (opening in July) and he’s been widely credited by almost everyo…

L.A. face with an Oakland booty

A photo posted by Blake Lively (@blakelively) on May 17, 2016 at 5:04pm PDT

It’s been two days since Blake Lively posted this ^^ Instagram about her “L.A. face with an Oakland booty.” And for what it’s worth, she hasn’t taken down the Instagram post. Perhaps because she didn’t and doesn’t seen anything wrong with a Becky quoting a Sir Mix-a-Lot song. The “LA face with an Oakland booty” is a lyric from Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” a song that has an amazing shelf-life, right? Well, someone FINALLY asked Sir Mix-a-Lot what he thought about Blake quoting his song and claiming that she too has an “Oakland booty.”

He likes Blake Lively’s butt and he cannot lie. Hip hop star Sir Mix-a-Lot defended the actress a day after she was lampooned on social media for using a lyric from his seminal hit “Baby Got Back” to caption a photo of her derriere in a form-fitting gown.

“I don’t think she’d wear that dress if she thought that booty is horrible — and to me, it ain’t horrible,” he told the Daily News on Thursday. Despite his approval, a slew of fans blasted Lively for captioning the Instagram photo “L.A. face with an Oakland booty” — with some accusing the Caucasian starlet of turning the black female body into a punchline. But Mix-a-Lot doesn’t understand the backlash.

“I don’t get it at all,” he said. “She’s saying she’s proud of her butt. I’m glad she embraced the look, because that’s what I wanted (with the song).”

Mix-a-Lot says he wrote “Baby Got Back” in 1992 to celebrate women in a time where magazines and TV shows were churning out unrealistic beauty standards. He wanted curvaceous ladies to embrace their bodies, and he says his booty-loving anthem applies to women of all colors and ethnicities. Therefore, the rapper says, it’s important for naysayers to figure out what exactly Lively’s intention was with the caption before they immediately assume she was dissing black culture.

“All I would say to the critics is let’s better understand the context of what she said,” Mix-a-Lot contended. “If what she’s saying is ‘I have this butt that Mix-a-Lot was talking about in ‘Baby Got Back,’ that’s a good thing. She’s saying I’ve embraced this ideal of beautiful. However, if what she’s saying is ‘I cannot believe I got this fat, this is horrible,’ then I agree with the critics,” he added. But the 52-year-old artist doesn’t believe that’s the case, and he’s glad the 28-year-old Lively hasn’t removed the controversial photo amid the wave of backlash.

“I’m glad she didn’t pull it down, he said. “I don’t think she should.”

[From The NYDN]

I understand what he’s saying about Blake perhaps making a statement of embracing her curves and how it’s all body positive and la de da, but there IS a racial element to it, right? We’re not just imagining that. For a white woman to publicly proclaim that she has an “Oakland booty” is problematic at best. But anyway, what is Sir Mix-a-Lot going to say? Of course he likes her booty.

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The National Enquirer has a HOT TIP. “Hot tip” being a rumor that is several weeks old, but sure. As we learned after the Met Gala a few weeks back, Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston were partying together for some reason. And then Taylor basically asked Tom to dance, and so they did. Awkwardly. With some flailing. They danced to Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” and T.I. It seemed like an odd pairing, and there were rumors of a potential attraction/hookup at the time. But days later, Taylor was seen in LA with Calvin Harris, so no one really took the rumors seriously. Until now!

It looks like Taylor Swift is taking her own advice about boyfriend Calvin Harris -— by shaking him off! The sultry songbird seems to be saying goodbye to musician Calvin and hello to studly “Thor” star Tom Hiddleston. The two were spotted dancing together recently at a New York City gala, and later were in full canoodle mode at an after-party.

“Taylor was clearly going to town with Hiddleston,” gushed an eyewitness.

Meanwhile Calvin, 32, was nowhere to be found, which has led to fears their relationship is on the rocks. A source further claims that when Harris found out about his girlfriend’s alleged tryst with Hiddleston, he “hit the roof.”

[From the National Enquirer]

My vibe is that I don’t believe Taylor is Tom’s type, although he is probably her type. My vibe is also that Taylor is pretty serious about Calvin Harris, although if we found out that they broke up this month, I can’t say I would be surprised, if that makes any sense? Like, she’s super-serious about Calvin until she isn’t. Anyway, Gossip Cop spoke to a “source close to the singer” (Swift) who says there is “no truth” to the breakup rumors or the Hiddleston hookup rumors. There’s no truth to it in the same way there was no truth to the story about how Taylor bought a house next to the Kennedy Compound while she was dating Conor Kennedy?

Taylor and Tom Hiddleston dancing together during the #MetGala! pic.twitter.com/c9XOMz6sor

— Taylor Swift Updates (@TSwiftLA) May 3, 2016

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Earlier this week, Bethenny Frankel admitted to getting Botox to reshape her jaw. It was refreshing to hear a celebrity own up to injectables, as so many try to fib and attribute their altered faces to skin care, diet or weight loss. (Looking at you, Olivia Munn.) Bethenny explained that her dermatologist told her that her jaw was too “tense” due to habitually grinding her teeth. She said “About three years ago, my dermatologist said to me, why don’t we try injecting your jaw because it’s so tense.” The result is that her face looks more filled out, her cheeks are less prominent and she does look “better.”

Radar Online was able to get Bethenny’s dermatologist to speak about her procedures on the record, and he explained it as an aesthetic decision to bring her jaw more in proportion to the rest of her face.

Botox doc — Manhattan dermatologist Dr. Howard Sobel — is exclusively telling all to RadarOnline.com about his client’s injections.

“Botox can be injected in the Masseter muscle, right above the jawline. This is often done to correct the discomfort and tensions of TMJ, specifically what I did for Bethenny.” Dr. Sobel, the founder of DDF Skincare, explains to Radar.

The professional admits the 45-year-old mom’s face has changed shape.

“Bethenny’s jawline was very prominent and not in proportion to her cheeks,” he says, adding that he injected small amounts of Botox over a period of months to atrophy the muscle.

“By shrinking the Masseter muscle down slowly, her cheeks became more prominent than the squareness of her jaw, resulting in a softer, more feminine look.”

Dr. Sobel would not comment on any other services the outspoken star may have received.

Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Susan Evans— who has never treated the star— recently told Radar that she believes she has gotten cheek implants or fillers, in addition to a chin implant and eye lift.

[From Radar Online]

It doesn’t seem like Dr. Sobel really read Bethenny’s interview or he would have said something about her bruxism, but the end result is the same and she probably did get some relief from her tense muscles. It doesn’t sound like it was the reason he originally presented to her as she claimed, but whatever. I love how Radar adds another surgeon who speculates that Bethenny probably had a bunch of other things done too.

In related news, Bethenny skewered Sonja Morgan on the last episode of Real Housewives of NY. Apparently Sonja has a prosecco brand called “Tipsy Girl” which enraged Bethenny for potentially capitalizing on the success of her alcohol and lifestyle brand, “Skinny Girl.” Bethenny had Sonja in tears as she said “When a brand rides on the coattails of another brand and kind of uses a similar name, they call it a cheater brand.” She then dismissed it by adding “You can’t affect my business at all. It doesn’t matter,” but told Sonja she wanted nothing to do with her at all. Bethenny has since penned a blog calling Sonja “sad,” bragging about her business ventures and claiming she welcomes competition. It doesn’t sound like it.

These Real Housewives should go into business helping women decide what kind of Botox, fillers and plastic surgery to get. I just googled that, and plastic surgery advice coaches are a real thing. Obviously Bethenny couldn’t do this because you have to be good with people, but there’s definitely a call for it.

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CB and I were just chatting about Kanye West and what exactly is “wrong” with him when this story broke on Thursday. My take has always been that Kanye is a genius with issues, mostly a—hole issues, but that he’s also got some AD/HD issues. The word CB used was “manic,” and I could see how that could apply too. So, when I saw that Kanye had gone on a “seven minute rant” during his appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ show on Thursday, I thought it was going to be a funny, silly, Kanye-style rant. When I watched this video though… I see the manic. I see someone who seemed somewhat unhinged. I also think he seems high on something?

In case you didn’t want to watch seven minutes of CRAZY, I’ll summarize and highlight. First of all, I enjoy how Ellen played this. She stopped him a few times and asked him questions, further egging him on, but mostly she just sat back and let him talk. And it wasn’t a rant-rant. He was working towards a point, it just takes Kanye a while to gather his thoughts. But yeah, still problematic. Some assorted quotes:

Whether he should think-before-tweeting: “Absolutely not. What’s the point of thinking?”

Whether he should have reached out to Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook: “I understand Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t use Twitter, even though I have had dinner with him and his wife and told them about how I wanted to help the world, and he said he’d help me, and blah blah blah. That’s how it feels though, it’s like the pursuit of happiness, it’s like you’re trying to sell this bone density machine, you know in that movie. … I feel that if I had more resources, I could help more people. I have ideas that can make the human race’s existence within our 100 years better. Period. F–k the paparazzi, whatever perception you have of me, starting with the truth, started with what everyone’s thinking, start there, put some dope s–t with it.”

Why he’s important: “I care about people. My dad lived in homeless shelters less than five years ago, to find out … he’s a psych major. My mom was the first black female chair of the English department of the Chicago State University. I was raised to do something, to make a difference.”

#OscarsSoWhite wasn’t a joke: “I didn’t take the Oscars as a joke. You know, ‘All black actors can talk about the glass ceilings we’ve dealt with, talk about how many times you’ve been blocked from being able to excel.’ It ain’t no joke.”

Who is left to create? “Picasso is dead, Steve Jobs is dead, [Walt] Disney is dead. Name someone living that you can name in the same breath as them. We’re one race, the human race, we’re a blip in the existence of the universe and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. It’s like I’m shaking talking about it, I feel I can make a difference while I’m here, I feel I can make a difference through my skill set.”

Clothes are important: “I’m sitting with [President Barack] Obama, and Leo [DiCaprio]‘s talking about the environment, and I’m talking about clothes, and everyone looks at me like, that’s not an important issue. But I remember going to school in fifth grade and wanting to have a cool outfit. I want to take away bullying.”

[From US Weekly]

The thing that struck me as brutally honest was the part where he talks about the #OscarsSoWhite moment, and I think his point was lost, but it was a good point. The point he was trying to make was that black artists, black creatives and black entrepreneurs are always going to have a harder time being heard and understood by those within the white power structure, whether it’s Hollywood or the fashion industry or the tech industry or what have you. Of course, Kanye is saying that as a plea for money, in the hopes that someone will give him $100 million to make shoes and leather jeggings.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

It’s time for a flurry of wiglet adjusting and crotch clutching! Yes, the Duchess of Cambridge did a solo event today in Portsmouth to visit one of her favorite patronages, the 1851 Trust. And that means she got to spend time with hottie Sir Ben Ainslie. Everyone thinks/jokes about Kate’s crush on Ainslie. I do think that she seems particularly girlish and smiley around him, so take that as you will.

For today’s event, Kate repeated a nautical-themed (she LOVES theme dressing!) Alexander McQueen look that we saw back in 2011, when she was newly married. The first time she wore this, she paired it with darkly lined eyes and big, bouncy curls. All to visit people who had been affected by the London riots. The nautical-themed ensemble seemed inappropriate then, but it’s very appropriate now. After all, the 1851 Trust is all about sailing and boats and such. So, big gold buttons and navy and cream.

Meanwhile, William did a solo event earlier this week and most people would have just ignored him except that he dropped a piece of news about his kids. He spoke to some people at the event and he said that he was spending his time looking for schools for George. This set off a flurry of speculation about which primary school George would be sent to and whether it would be public or private, or in London or Norfolk. No one knows anything, but the Daily Mail has a list of potential candidates. I’ll make a prediction right now: I believe Will and Kate will really try to send George to school in Norfolk, not London. We’ll see if they’re allowed to remain in Norfolk much longer though. William’s contract with the EAAA runs out next year, and after that, the expectation will be that the family should move back to London.

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I wasn’t expecting Elle Fanning to be one of my favorite people at the Cannes amfAR gala, but that’s exactly what happened. She looked amazing in this Valentino, and the dress itself is pretty great. I wish the top part had been peacocky like the skirt though.

Bella Hadid in a simple Dior gown. Bella wasn’t just at the gala as a guest, she also took part in the fashion show. This year’s Cannes has been good for Bella – she’s really gotten her name out there and her dead eyes and the Leg of Sedation are now widely known.

Maybe this is totally my problem, but lately everything Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wears looks basic as hell. This Galvan doesn’t look fashion-forward or special or anything. It just looks like a really cheap pageant dress.

Jourdan Dunn in Dsquared2. It’s dramatic, it’s big, it’s drama. Good.

Barbara Palvin in Armani. I don’t know… I’m not feeling this. She’s a pretty woman, but this is a snooze.

Karolina Kurkova in Armani. I like this even though I don’t think it’s fitted correctly. I guess I just like the idea of it – a minidress with a bubble skirt, done well. Or it would have been done well if it didn’t look so bulky around the waist.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Pacific Coast News, WENN.

Heidi Klum is usually the worst dressed on any given red carpet, often in something so ridiculous it had to be deliberately bad. I’m thinking of the yellow sheer half feather applique, half frayed ruffled mess of a Versace she wore to the Emmys last year. That’s the first dress which comes to mind, but there are many more examples. Surprisingly Versace gave her a more staid gown for this year’s amFAR gala. It’s got a deep v-neck which shows off her bolt-ons and a very high leg slit, but for Heidi this is a win. The necklace falling between her boobs like a floral exclamation point doesn’t even distract from this pretty bright yellow gown. I really like the faux wrap at the waist and the gathered pleats around the bustline.

Mischa Barton is also typically poorly dressed but she’s been killing it at Cannes this year. She may have messed up DWTS but now she’s staging a fashion comeback. She’s in a purple floral sequin Zuhair Murad. Her styling is strange with that Elvis hair emphasizing her forehead, raccoon eyes and cheek contour in desperate need of blending. However that dress is classic and lovely and if you consider her fashion in Cannes as a whole this is a nice addition.

Petra Nemcova is a washed out strawberry in this Georges Chakra salmon and deep pink gown. There’s something delicious and princessy about this flowy one shoulder number but her styling kind of ruins it. This calls for understated makeup, not a matte burgundy lip. I do like the abstract color wash on the gown but I would like it more in a different color. Plus her posing suggest she hit the minibar while she was getting ready. She’s trying to show us her lips match her shoes.

Natasha Poly cut a striking figure in a sheer and sequin Roberto Cavalli gown. It’s got bell sleeves, there’s a v pointing to her crotch, there are flowers, snakes and little fishnet panels built in and I think it’s fabulous. Holy crap this dress is amazing. I know some people are going to dismiss this as fug but check out how she’s owning this look.

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Carine Roitfeld is the former editor of Vogue Paris and she’s in Alexandre Vauthier. Imagine the top half of this dress with just a plain black floor length skirt. It would be ok, right? As it is, this is too complicated and her makeup is too monotone and brown. It’s like she’s trying to go goth and isn’t quite there yet.

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