Here are some photos of Blac Chyna out to lunch with friends in Miami a few days ago. As you can see, she’s wearing a pretty simple jumpsuit and flats and she’s obviously showing these days. I think Chyna/Angela Kardashian just has one of those body types that “show” very quickly, like Kim Kardashian and Jessica Simpson. Short, curvy women are never going to carry their pregnancies like Gisele Bundchen, you know? But that doesn’t stop people from freaking out online and on social media. After these photos came online, people were criticizing Chyna’s pregnant body, because the internet is a cesspool of body shaming. So Chyna had something to say:

“To all you people out here with negative comments and insecure words (obviously because you have nothing else to do but criticize the next) I AM HAVING A BABY! Exactly what do you expect to see?! If I walked out in makeup and heels everyday to be beautiful to your means I WOULD BE MISERABLE AND UNHAPPY which are two vibes I refuse to transfer to my little one. If I comment on y’all pics and go in on them tired ass weaves or unblended ass contours I’ll be wrong right? It’ll be tragic! So stop playing & Put Some Respeck on my name.”

[Via People]

I’m including the Instagram comment below. I mean… she’s not wrong. Even when people were totally over Jessica Simpson’s back-to-back pregnancies and when everyone was laughing at Kim Kardashian’s pregnant figure, I defended those celebrity women. How tacky is it to pick on a pregnant woman? Of course their bodies are changing. Of course short, curvy women are going to carry differently than a tall model. So, if you want to talk sh-t about Chyna, do it about something other than her body.

#BlacChyna has a message for all of you fat shammers ???

A photo posted by Celebri-Tea News?? (@celebri_teanews) on May 17, 2016 at 5:28pm PDT

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Love & Friendship star Kate Beckinsale and her ex, Twilight actor Michael Sheen, posed for a photo with their 17-year-old daughter Lily

The actress, 42, recreated their daughter’s birth photograph via Instagram Tuesday.

“Always a baby to me #Lily,” the Total Recall star captioned the nostalgic side-by-side.

Beckinsale and Sheen, 47, began dating in 1995 and later split in 2003.

The former couple are best of friends, and the British actress is on great terms with Sheen’s current girlfriend Sarah Silverman.

“I love her. I love her. I love her.” Beckinsale told E! News of Silverman. “I am so glad Michael found her so I don’t have to spend the rest of my life looking for her!”

Beckinsale has also talked about her loving relationship with Sheen.

“I love Michael,” she shared. “He’s absolutely one of my most favorite people ever. I think we both felt it was really important for Lily also to have everybody in the same place. He loves her, I love her and Len loves her. Everyone is nice.”

Always a baby to me #Lily — See more tonight on the @latelateshow ?

A photo posted by Kate Beckinsale (@katebeckinsale) on May 17, 2016 at 4:22pm PDT

Here are some photos from last night’s de Grisogono party in Cannes. As I previewed earlier, Kim Kardashian came to Cannes just to attend the parties, and my guess is that Fawaz Gruosi (the older man she posed with) of de Grisogono jewelry was the one who flew Kim out on a private plane, just to attend this party. Although my guess is Kim will stick around through Thursday, for the amfAR gala. Anyway, Kim wore this Lanyu gown which seems uncharacteristic for her usually Balmain-and-Givenchy style these days. This is a remarkably “clean” look, and I don’t even hate the fact that her hair is too severe and her makeup is caked on. Basically, I like it because Kim looks different. That being said, she still looks like a wax figure.

Speaking of Givenchy, here’s Bella Hadid in a sparkly Givenchy suit. And completely dead eyes. Girl, SMIZE!

Toni Garrn in velvet… I’m okay with this dress, but why did so many ladies have hair in their faces? The ‘90s really are back, aren’t they?

Honestly, I think Kris Jenner looks nice here. Call me crazy, but this is a nice dress and I really do think she’s got a great haircut. Of course, she looks freshly filler’d and Botoxed too.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some photos of Kesha at the Humane Society’s Rescue Gala a few weeks ago in LA. It’s good to see Kesha out and about these days, trying to reclaim her career and her life after everything that’s gone down legally and personally with Dr. Luke. The last time we checked in on Kesha’s legal situation, the federal judge had thrown out part of Kesha’s appeal, and Kesha was and is still legally and contractually tied to Dr. Luke and his label, Kemosabe Records. The judge seemed to believe that even if Kesha’s claims of physical and emotional abuse were true, Dr. Luke would still support Kesha’s music and give her free rein to record and perform, because capitalism. Let’s see how that’s working out, shall we? For several days, Kesha and her team were making a big deal about how she would be performing at the Billboard Awards on May 22 (this Sunday). She was going to perform a cover of Bob Dylan’s “It’s Ain’t Me, Babe.” She got written permission from Kemosabe Records, but then Dr. Luke rescinded the permission. So… yeah. FREE KESHA.

Sad news for Kesha and her fans. The “TiK ToK” singer has been barred from taking the stage at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 22. Dick Clark Productions, which oversees the annual awards show, released a statement on Tuesday, May 17, revealing that the 29-year-old’s scheduled performance has been canceled by her producer, Dr. Luke, and her label Kemosabe Records. The singer has been in a contentious legal battle with Dr. Luke, 42, over allegations that he sexually abused her.

“Kesha accepted an invitation to perform on the show and she received written approval from Dr. Luke’s record label, Kemosabe Records,” Dick Clark Productions said in a statement. “Kemosabe subsequently rescinded its approval following a media report on Wednesday May 11 regarding Kesha’s appearance on the BBMAs. Unfortunately, Kesha and Kemosabe have since been unable to come to an agreement for Kesha to perform on the show. Dick Clark Productions has a long standing relationship with Kesha. We hope that the parties can come to an arrangement such that we can continue that long standing relationship with a performance by Kesha on the Billboard Music Awards stage on May 22nd.”

Not long after, Kesha took to Instagram to respond to the news that her BBMAs set has been canceled.

“I was very excited to perform a tribute to Bob Dylan by singing a cover of ‘It ain’t me, babe’ at the Billboard awards this year. I’m very sad and sorry to say I won’t be allowed to do this,” she wrote. “I just wanted to make very clear that this performance was about me honoring one of my favorite songwriters of all time and has never had anything at all to do with Dr. Luke. I was never going to use a picture of him, speak of him or allude to my legal situation in any way. I simply wanted to sing a song I love to honor an artist I have always looked up to. thank u all for the continued support.”

According to TMZ, Dr. Luke put a halt to Kesha’s performance after catching wind that it was reportedly going to make a “statement” about her legal war with her former collaborator and Sony.

[From Us Weekly]

Remember how the judge who threw out Kesha’s case and her appeal thought it would be easy-peasy for Kesha to record and perform without having to break her contract with Dr. Luke? That for Dr. Luke, it was always going to be about profit and money and not exerting control over his (alleged) victim? How’s that working out? It’s mind-boggling that Dr. Luke has the authority and the audacity to shut down Kesha in this way, and to do it so publicly. For the love of God… FREE KESHA.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

L.A. face with an Oakland booty

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

Blake Lively posted this Instagram yesterday, declaring that she has an “L.A. face with an Oakland booty.” This is a line from the much-beloved Sir Mix-a-Lot song, “Baby Got Back,” which is funny because I always thought that Blake was a total Becky.

This whole thing led me down a weird rabbit hole – Jezebel questioned whether Blake was being “passively racist” with this IG. Without the context of “Baby Got Back,” I think “LA face with an Oakland booty” is problematic. But my issue is more like… her butt doesn’t even look that big? She’s pregnant, so she’s a bit fuller and curvier everywhere, but are we even comfortable calling this an “Oakland booty”??? Maybe my perception has been warped by staring into too many Pinocchio Butts though.

I agree with her about the LA face though. She definitely has an LA Face. And Barbie style. And an “Allure of Antebellum” soul.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Instagram.

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to the love of my life… I can’t wait to marry you all over again! #LoveWins #BestAnniversaryGiftEVR #TrueHeart

A photo posted by Tori Spelling (@torispelling) on May 7, 2016 at 4:43pm PDT

The last time we checked in Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean, he was re-proposing to her in Paris with their four kids ahead of their tenth anniversary. That was three weeks ago and, just like the well-photographed proposal by the Eiffel Tower, now there are new photos of Tori and Dean getting matching tattoos of a French saying. I really hope that one of our French readers can point out that it’s grammatically incorrect or that there’s a misspelling somewhere, but for now I’ll take it at face value that it’s accurate and says “My Whole Heart, My Whole Life” or “Tout mon coeur, Tout ma vie” as The Daily Mail reports. The two had the French saying tattooed on the inside of their arms. You can see the photos at The Daily Mail because they hired one photo agency to document it and didn’t put the pictures on Instagram. They have to protect their investment after all.

Tori and Dean may have each other’s hearts and lives and along with that comes a mountain of debt. We’ve heard that they had to downsize and that, despite the fact that Tori’s mom Candy claims she’s paying all their bills, they owe money to American Express and multiple other creditors. If that’s the case how have they just spent three weeks in Europe? They’ve Instagrammmed photos from Copenhagen, Paris and of course shopping in exclusive boutiques. Tori did have a presenting gig in Denmark and she’s been shilling for Psychic Source on Instagram. I guess that means she can write this trip off her taxes. To be fair to Tori, she claims to have caught bronchial pneumonia a few days before Dean proposed, which left her stuck in Europe until she recovered. She looks fine in photographs taken around that time and it seems to have worked out ok for her. They used AirBNB to rent an apartment and may have saved some money that way.

What’s next, her third wedding to the same guy? Someone has to be paying for that, right? Us Magazine bought the photos and story of her commitment ceremony, in 2010. She may as well put this on Snapchat because I doubt any of the glossies are going to buy the photos this time.

Oh and in case you think that mutual tattoos means they’re doomed, Dean already has a bunch of tattoos for Tori including her face, Tori as an angel with her butt showing and the words “Truly Madly Tori,” and just the name “Tori” above his wang. That kind of makes his cheating scandal seem like a manufactured plot point for their now-canceled show.

Celebrating ten years, one decade, an era, and new beginnings with my #truelove @imdeanmcdermott #LoveWins

A photo posted by Tori Spelling (@torispelling) on May 7, 2016 at 10:45am PDT

We got all of these amazing flowers from an open air market right down the street from our apt. All for 20€! #Paris #airbnb #mayday

A photo posted by Tori Spelling (@torispelling) on May 1, 2016 at 4:12pm PDT

Happy Mama Bear Day to all! So blessed to be the mama to 4 beautiful babies and the step mama bear to one incredible man @thejackmonty I love all 5 of you with all my heart and soul! Xoxox

A photo posted by Tori Spelling (@torispelling) on May 8, 2016 at 4:05pm PDT

Melania Trump covers the latest issue of DuJour Magazine, and this might be the best interview Melania has done thus far. And I’m saying that as someone who enjoyed Melania’s crazy GQ interview last month. This DuJour piece is even better! Melania comes across as unapologetically elitist, hilariously vapid and politically tone-deaf. Basically, it sounds like she and Donald Trump are perfect for each other. You can read the full piece here (it is long, but totally worth it), and here are some highlights:

She doesn’t drink Starbucks: “I don’t drink Starbucks,” she says. You don’t drink coffee? I ask. “I drink coffee, but I don’t drink Starbucks. My son likes it, the what do you call it? The Frappuccino? He likes that.”

The Clintons’ wedding gift to the Trumps? “I don’t think they sent a gift. Some people didn’t send gifts.”

How she’s been misrepresented in the media: “That I’m shy. I’m not shy. I know what I want, and I’m selective.”

On Chris Matthews’ leering comment about her model-strut: “Unbelievable. That’s what I’m saying! I’m not only a beauty, I’m smart. I have brains. I’m intelligent… I would just say, Men will be men.”

Where she shopped for furniture when she first moved to NYC: “I went to Crate & Barrel. Does that still exist or no?”

She moved in with Trump before they were married: “When I moved here with my husband, we weren’t married yet—so I kept my apartment.”

Meeting Michael Jackson: “I met Michael Jackson. It was here in New York in the Pierre Hotel. He called us, so we went over and we had dinner. Just after dinner, we were chatting on the sofa and my husband went into another room to see some art somebody wanted to show him. And Michael said to me, ‘Hey, when Trump comes back, let’s start kissing so he will be jealous!’?” They didn’t kiss, she says, “No, no, no. But we were laughing so hard.”

She’s not a famewhore: “I have a life. I go out every day. I bring my son to school. I pick him up. I’m not an attention seeker. I’m not the one who calls paparazzi, ‘I have lunch with the girlfriends, and I’m going to this restaurant.’ I get along [with] the moms at the school pick-up, it’s ‘Hello, how are you?’ But it’s not friends friends. I like quality over quantity.”

Her 7-year-old son doesn’t sleep on the same floor as his parents: “The third floor is Barron’s. It’s much easier that way. For him as well. He has friends over, he has his toys. He has a play date tomorrow and is bringing two friends over. They come here, they go upstairs and they play. They kick a ball, they play with iPads. I don’t allow Xbox before homework is done.”

What happens for immigrants, like Melania, who want to come to the US legally: “The law needs to be changed to help those kind of people. But they can’t just sneak in and be here. That’s what I’m saying. I do have sympathy. I’m a very compassionate person. But don’t sneak in and stay here without papers. We need to follow the law. If the law needs to be different, we need to do that.”

On Louis CK calling Trump “Hitler”: “We know the truth. He’s not Hitler. He wants to help America. He wants to unite people. They think he doesn’t but he does. Even with the Muslims, it’s temporary… Maybe he needs to say it in a softer way. He doesn’t go after religions. He feels like we need to know who’s coming to this country. If not, we don’t have a country. That’s how he feels. We see how he is, and he wants to unite the country and bring people together and bring jobs back.”

On campaigning in Iowa: “It was kind of a fun experience. We stayed in a hotel. It was clean. It was, I think, a Holiday Inn. You do it in a fun way. My husband knows me and how I am. I like beautiful stuff. I live the life. It’s funny when we go and travel. They don’t have five-star hotels there, but you go with it. It was a great experience in Iowa, because we went to an Evangelical church on Sunday. The church we got married in is very different. In Iowa there was a band, there was singing. It was very different, but it was a great experience. Being on the campaign trail and traveling around the country is hard work.”

[From DuJour]

Aren’t these quotes amazing? The Crate & Barrel thing, the way she obviously charmed by the peasants in Iowa, the way she has to mention that it’s hard work on the campaign trail because there aren’t many five-star hotels. What else is there? Her obliviousness to the privilege she had as a white, European model immigrating to the US versus those other people. The fact that she keeps insisting that she’s all about being a stay-at-home mother while her 7-year-old son has an entire floor in Trump Tower! There’s also a lengthy section where Melania tries to convince DuJour that Donald Trump values her ideas and that she’s one of the few people who can really advise him. If you believe that… well, God bless.

Photos courtesy of WENN, DuJour.

Here are some photos from last night’s second premiere in Cannes, the premiere of Personal Shopper starring everybody’s favorite lip-biter, Kristen Stewart. I’m sure we were all expecting Kristen Stewart to sweep onto the carpet in yet another Chanel look, and that’s exactly what happened, although I was expecting a full-length dress and not a mini. I get that she’s being paid by Chanel and she wants to get that cash money, but I doubt her contract stipulates that she can ONLY wear Chanel in Cannes. And this would have been an interesting moment for Balenciaga, or Calvin Klein, or hell, even Ralph Lauren. Instead, Kristen wore this absolutely horrid minidress. Does Karl Lagerfeld hate her? I don’t think he does, which is so weird, right? I think she’s just choosing the weird stuff from Chanel’s racks.

The styling is what takes this next-level though. I will never, NEVER understand red/pink eye makeup. Why is that EVER a thing? When was that ever considered “the look”? The only thing I like here is the ear-diamond whatever.

While Personal Shopper was booed by some critics at earlier screenings, as I said yesterday, most critics agree that Olivier Assayas got yet another stellar performance out of Kristen, and this marks another career-best for her. When asked point blank about the critics’ boos, Kristen shrugged it off, pointing out that not everyone booed. She also said this about the film: “I don’t mean to sound too dramatic or actor-y in saying, ‘Oh, it almost broke me,’ but I can do anything [now]. This movie made me feel like there’s nothing I can put myself through that could make me not keep going. I’ve just never felt so good feeling so bad.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Cameron Diaz has a new feature in Harper’s Bazaar which reads like an e-mail interview. She gives some decent quotes, so it’s worth covering. Cameron is still promoting her health and wellness book, The Longevity Book, and unlike her past interviews she sounds somewhat sensible here. She doesn’t make any grand pronouncements about health, aging, relationships or stress and she just speaks to her own experience. So when Cameron says she believes in dressing your age, she says it’s the age you feel not the age you are, which isn’t a bad way to look at it. She also gushes about her husband, Benji Madden, a little and calls marriage “awesome,” which she’s done before.

Do you believe in “dressing your age”?
I do, actually. But everybody’s age is different, and by that I mean that even when you’re a certain age, it’s all a matter of how you present yourself, how old your spirit is, and where you are in your life. Some 50-year-olds are still 35. It’s about expression and what they can pull off.

What’s something you refuse to wear at 43 (or ever)?
I’m definitely not doing tube tops. No way.

Who are some older women you most admire?
Gloria Steinem is one of the great feminist examples of a woman doing it her way. Jane Fonda has also always been somebody who puts herself out there in a very honest way. I appreciate that. We have so many great examples in Hollywood, from Meryl Streep to Helen Mirren. They walk such a fine line between giving everybody what they want and not sacrificing themselves for it.

What’s something new you’ve tried after 40 that you never thought you would?
I got married last year. That was the biggest thing I’ve done in my 40s, and it opened me up in different ways. It’s pretty awesome. I didn’t think it was something I’d do, and I don’t know if I’d have done it if I hadn’t met my husband [Benji Madden]. It was a surprise.

What is the biggest realization you’ve had about yourself after turning 40?
That as you get older, your body changes in so many little ways. It doesn’t react the same way that it used to. I don’t get the results that I used to as easily as I once did. Now I look at myself and I realize, “Oh, right. I’m in this time now in my life where I have to be thoughtful. If I slack off, things don’t come back so easily. I have to be committed.” In part that’s what my new book, The Longevity Book, is about. But just like everybody else, I’m more and less disciplined at various times based on what’s going on in my life.

Which trend has enjoyed too much longevity?
Social media is great for a lot of things but not as a substitute for actual human connection. We need more actual human contact with one another. And less screen time.

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

If someone asked you for an item of clothing you would never wear, what would you say? I would say short shorts, because I have seen way too many women walking around with their ass cheeks hanging out. It doesn’t matter if you can bounce quarters off your butt, I don’t want to see that. That’s the first thing that comes to mind, but I just recently saw Khloe Kardashian in extremely see-through tights, which I never knew were a thing, so I can add tights to my “will never wear out without something over it” list.

As for her thoughts on social media, I agree that it would be nice to have more human contact and less screen time. Sometimes it seems like people are doing things just to document them digitally, and I worry about that. I worry about how our phones are changing us and how we relate to each other. (And making people drive like distracted idiots.) On the other hand technology has connected us and helped our children learn in ways that we couldn’t have imagined. I think the good far outweighs the bad.

Photos credit: FameFlynet and WENN

Here are more photos from Prince William, Prince Harry and Duchess Kate’s appearance in London on Monday, where they launched Heads Together, the umbrella organization for various charities and mental health campaigns in the UK. Heads Together is setting a fundraising goals, but it’s unknown if Harry and the Cambridges will actually do some heavy lifting with organizing fundraisers and shaking the dirty peasant hands of the nouveau riche potential donors. Which brings me to this fascinating story by Tom Sykes at the Daily Beast – Sykes spoke to some charity and fundraising professionals who are not all that pleased at the idea of Will, Harry and Kate teaming up for one big umbrella organization. Some highlights:

Kate is the one pushing for a focus on mental health: Sources say that it is Kate, however, who has led the way in encouraging the royal focus on mental health, and she has made a point of championing this unfashionable cause throughout her royal career. Kate has taken on very few patronages, but several of those—Place2be, Action on Addiction and, now, Heads Together—are focused on this area.

The money: Heads Together, an umbrella organization bringing together eight of the country’s leading mental health charities, is now set to reap enormous rewards from its association with the young Royals. The coming together of Harry, Kate and William as a kind of triple-threat, fundraising A-bomb for just one, big cause is a huge departure from the way the Royals have traditionally done their philanthropic business.

But there are concerns: The Heads Together event will have sent shivers down the spine of seasoned professionals in the fundraising world who will be wondering how they will be able to attract royal attention to their smaller causes, which don’t make the cut for the newest Royal Foundation. There is little doubt that, as a unit, the young royals can bring tremendous attention to their favored causes, but the united front is actually a significant worry for countless small British charities that have long been highly dependent on the Royals for public profile in the UK. The general idea was that you got one royal per charity, not three.

The slimmed down monarchy: The core of the problem is to be found in Prince Charles’s decision that a ‘slimmed down’ monarchy—him and his kids, basically—is the best way to maintain support for the institution. It seems reasonable to conclude that Edward, Andrew, Eugenie et al won’t be spending their lives cutting ribbons after they have been cut out of the perks of royal life. Charles’s pared-down monarchy means a smaller group of working royals and, inevitably, a smaller number of organizations supported.

Kate is never going to be Prince Philip: Kate may not be as lazy as is sometimes portrayed by the British media, but equally she has no intention of emulating another royal spouse, Prince Philip, who has already shed many of his most time-consuming patronages but is still patron of more than half of the 1,300 organizations of which he and the Queen are the figureheads. It is an astonishing number, but when the monarch and her husband die, there will be no repeat of the scene following the death of the Queen Mother when the Royal Family was reported to have laid out index cards with each patronage written on it, and divvied them up.

Royal leverage: Officially, royals talk about using Harry, Kate and Will as a unit to create more “leverage”, but that’s not the way everyone sees it. “It’s actually almost impossible to raise any significant sum of money in England without a royal being involved, even a minor one,” one experienced fundraiser tells the Daily Beast. “The fact is that there are effectively not going to be any minor royals in the future. William, Harry and Kate all coming together to promote this one ‘foundation’ may be great for efficiencies, but there is a major concern about where it leaves the rest of us.”

[From The Daily Beast]

What always bugs me about William and Kate (and to a lesser degree, Harry) is that it’s like they don’t realize how easy it would be for them to simply take up the “Fundraising Royal” mantle. They wouldn’t have to pretend to be “keen” about this issue or that issue. Just be a prince or a princess, wear some great jewelry and put on nice clothes, and just go to fundraisers three nights a week. Shake hands with people, make a short speech, and BAM, you’ve raised awareness for an important cause, plus people gave money to an important cause just because a royal was in attendance. Why don’t they get that? Why all of this wringing of hands about “privacy” and such? Just go out and use your title to raise money, for the love of God.

Beyond that, I feel strongly that the real reason why the Cambridges and Harry are uniting for Heads Together is because Will and Kate NEED Harry. Harry is the best-reviewed royal these days and Will and Kate are the worst-reviewed. Here’s their speech:

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.