I was listening to the radio as I was driving somewhere a few days ago and “Blurred Lines” came on and I thought about how weird and almost quaint it was that Emily Ratajkowski became super-famous just from that one music video. That was years ago! And she managed to parlay that dumb music video into a legit career as a model/actress/feminist. Whenever she posts anything on her social media, sites like the Daily Mail run the pics and those are usually some of the most viewed stories. It’s all very strange. Anyway, Emily is pregnant. She announced her pregnancy last October and I honestly forgot about all of it, even though she posts photos of her bump quite regularly. In her social media photos, you can also see that her lips have gotten a lot bigger too. Which is quite common with pregnancies – a lot of women find that they get “pregnant face” and “pregnant lips.” But some people think Emily has been getting her lips artificially pumped.

Emily Ratajkowski is speaking out about her changing body during pregnancy. The model, 29, posted a candid picture to her Instagram Stories on Friday in which she addressed questions from fans about the length of her pregnancy and whether or not she has received lip injections. Ratajkowski first tackled the question about facial fillers, telling her followers that she has “never had lip injections” and in no way was “judging folks who do.”

“You can’t even get injections when you’re pregnant!” the mom-to-be explained. “A woman’s blood volume increases 50% which is why ladies can get a little puffy in the face and lips during pregnancy.”

Ratajkowski then shared that she has been getting comments lately from people saying “you’ve been pregnant forever.”

“LOL yes pregnancy lasts for 40 weeks which can definitely feel like a long time, but I announced halfway into my pregnancy and it’s only been 3 months since then! Actually it’s weirdly gone by very quickly to me,” she wrote. Ratajkowski went on to explain that while it’s “weird to have your body change so much in a matter of months” she has found a “whole new appreciation for what [her] body can do and what is beautiful…”

[From People]

I was one of those people who thought she was getting her lips jacked before her pregnancy. I just didn’t believe that she naturally had that bust AND those puffy lips and that some of it was probably surgically enhanced. But maybe I was wrong! And for real, pregnancy does weird things to a lot of women’s faces and bodies. I remember being startled by how much Beyonce’s face changed when she was pregnant with the twins. Jessica Simpson’s lips were so swollen during her pregnancies too.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Emily’s Instagram.

Once it was clear that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were moving out of the UK permanently, I wondered if they would still try to keep up with their British patronages. Obviously, Prince Harry was pushed out of his military roles, so I wondered if Buckingham Palace would begin to exert pressure on the National Theatre, SmartWorks or Mayhew to drop Meghan as their patron. Thus far, that has not happened. In the case of SmartWorks and Mayhew, I think they’re completely happy to keep Meghan on as their patron, and she’s already given them so much exposure and additional funding through her clever fundraising tactics. Just before Christmas, the Sussexes gave their “painted” Christmas card to Mayhew to post and publish too. And now Meghan has authorized Mayhew’s CEO to sort of speak on her behalf.

The Duchess of Sussex might be settled in her new life in Santa Barbara, but she still regularly checks in with her royal patronages, including animal charity Mayhew. Meghan, 39, has long been an advocate for the welfare of animals and owns two rescue dogs, a beagle named Guy and a black labrador called Pula.

Mayhew’s CEO Caroline Yates tells HELLO!: “Whenever we talk to the Duchess about the charity, she always references how important her dogs are and what a support they are, particularly during everything that’s happened this year, with COVID, and with the personal trials and tribulations she went through this year. It was really nice to share our experiences with her about how important animals are when things are tough and what a comfort they can be. That’s what Mayhew is all about, that’s what we want to try and encourage, we want to try to promote the human-animal bond and what a great source of comfort and stimulation, and joy pet ownership can be.”

The animal charity was given the honour of sharing Prince Harry and Meghan’s stunning Christmas card photo in December 2020 on their social media channels, which featured an artistic rendering of the couple with their son Archie and their pet dogs, Guy and Pula, as they played in the garden of their Montecito home. Caroline reveals charity was “really thrilled” to be chosen to share the Sussexes’ 2020 Christmas card.

“We had no idea what it would look like before we got the photo, and when we saw it, we thought, ‘Oh wow!’ It’s very family-oriented, it was really lovely,” she tells HELLO!.

The Duchess became patron of the Mayhew in January 2019, announcing it as one of her four royal patronages, alongside Smart Works, The National Theatre and The Association of Commonwealth Universities. Caroline says the patronage was a “total surprise” for the charity after Meghan carried out private visits to their animal home in Kensal Green, North London at the end of 2018. She tells HELLO!: “It just came across that the Duchess wanted to be involved with some real grassroot organisations. I think what struck her about Mayhew is our work with communities. We work with marginalised groups in society, we work with the homeless, we work with elderly people who are struggling to look after their pets and their home and we work with a lot of people who have mental health conditions that need support and guidance, but get so much from their pets, so we try and ensure that they stay together, but without compromising the welfare of the animal. I think that’s what she found attractive and interesting.”

While Mayhew’s event fundraising has been hit during the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, the charity has found ways to adapt its services, including hosting a virtual Christmas carol concert with a host of celebrity supporters and taking its TheraPaws programme online. Caroline tells HELLO! that Meghan receives regular updates from Mayhew and is particularly interested in TheraPaws, an animal assisted intervention programme, which has been designed to promote physical, social and emotional wellbeing.

[From Hello]

Meghan works with an animal welfare charity which provides access to therapy dogs to marginalized and stressed communities… good lord, that’s her wheelhouse, and I bet she loves those stories. Anyway, I love that Meghan quietly authorizes her patronages to speak about her and her involvement here and there. It’s not like Caroline Yates was spilling any scandalous tea – ooh, Meghan loves her dogs! Meghan has relied on her dogs’ company during the pandemic year!

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Halsey revealed yesterday that she’s expecting her first child in series of snaps, from a backyard maternity shoot, on Instagram yesterday. Perched in front of a white and purple (thankfully not pink and blue) silk backdrop, the singer’s bump is on full display in a pair of boyfriend jeans and a cro…

Some days, I’m just really surprised and sort of amused by the long memories and detailed accounting from the Sussex Squad. When I began covering the Ioan Gruffudd-Alice Evans split this week, I never expected it to become a story about how Alice Evans has tweeted multiple shady things about the Duchess of Sussex. But here we are.

What did I do Alice Evans Gruff. I just politely showed you to the two different ways Meghan Markle spoke up this week pic.twitter.com/hzIAIGginc

— TV Fanatic??? (@TvKhaleesi) June 4, 2020

Alice Evans Gruff criticizing Meghan Markle for not want to deal with the 4 Tabloids that have written the most racist things about her.

Also, Alice defending a known racist Lawrence fox.

And finally Alice criticizing Meghan for not making George Floyd’s murder about her. pic.twitter.com/i3HpDtXKRg

— TV Fanatic??? (@TvKhaleesi) June 4, 2020

So, there you go. Alice Evans is a Twitter Karen who has tweeted shady sh-t about Meghan for a while, and when she gets called out on her crap, she blocks people or tweets-and-deletes. It seems like that’s a family trait in the Evans-Gruffudd household. After this week’s melodrama, with Alice accusing her now-estranged husband of gaslighting her and leaving her, it looks like Ioan has turned HIS social media accounts private:

Ioan Gruffudd has blocked fans from looking at his social media profiles, by setting them to private. The move to protect his online security comes after his wife Alice Evans accused him of controlling her Twitter and ‘mentally torturing her.’

Alice, 49, revealed she and Ioan, 47, were splitting on Twitter this week via Twitter, telling fans Ioan was leaving the family home next week after 13 years of marriage because he ‘no longer loves her.’ Ioan’s decision to block fans comes after the couple released a joint statement insisting they were ‘committed to their children’.

The united front followed an extraordinary 24 hours, which saw a series of tweets posted by the actress – and subsequently deleted – claiming her husband was leaving the family and she was being ‘gaslit and mentally tortured’.

[From The Daily Mail]

I mean, I don’t see why anyone should ding Ioan for this at the moment. Maybe we’ll find out in a few weeks that he’s the villain of this story, but people are reaching at the moment, trying to make it sound like Ioan is the bad guy with no evidence whatsoever. Personally, after everything I’ve learned about Alice this week, I wonder how Ioan even stayed as long as did. Perhaps he knew that if he even tried to leave Alice, she would react this way. I think he’s just trying to cut down some of the noise, and both Ioan and Alice should probably set all of their accounts to private, or just delete them entirely for a few months.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

I wanted to recommend these blue light glasses we featured last year in March. I still use them all the time and they definitely work at night when I’m trying to watch TV and work on my laptop at the same time. I have the purple gradient ones above but they come in so many different varieties. My mom loves these t-shirt dresses. She bought herself a floral version from an Amazon post last year and I got her a black one for Christmas. Also I got my son these crazy men’s socks for Christmas. He’s been wearing them a lot so I think he likes them! Here are some more things Hecate and I are looking at.

An set of eyeshadow brushes for precise application

From CB: We were asked in an Amazon post recently to find an eyeshadow brush set. You can get a set of 12 eye brushes by Daubigny for under $10. They come in three different color options and in a travel pouch. They have over 1,500 ratings, 4.6 stars and a B on Fakespot. They’re said to be soft and blend well and to be a great bargain for the price. “I can’t say enough good things about these brushes for the price point I was blown away. In my opinion they’re just like sigma brushes or morphe brushes but a heck of a lot cheaper.” “These are very nice brushes. I’ve had them for about a month and havent noticed any shedding.”

Wide mouth mason jars to make those meal in a jar things

From CB: I have been watching Those So Yummy and Tasty videos to fall asleep to at night. They have music without talking and I find people making food, especially desserts, soothing. I want to try the layered oatmeal and salads you can make in mason jars. These are four wide-mouth 16 ounce Ball jars for under $21. You can use them for canning of course but they’re also pretty for storage and can also be used for leftovers. They have 142 ratings, 4.7 stars and an A on Fakespot. People write “It is good quality glass, there is a good seal and I noticed no leaking.” “Always dependable for canning, storing, fermenting food. Just the right size mouth for easy access.” (Some people say these are not 16 ounce jars but I looked through so many listings for these jars. Many had other issues and lower Fakespot ratings.)

A skincare trio that’s too nice to give away

From CB: This brightening skincare trio by trusted brand I Dew Care features a vitamin C serum, lip mask and vitamin C gel cream. This would make a great gift but I would probably keep it. It’s $25 and you get almost two ounces of products. It’s vegan, cruelty free and paraben free and has almost 1,200 ratings, 4.3 stars and an A on Fakespot. Women say the products are light and absorbent and that they can see a difference in their skin within a few days. “After a week of use I already see an improvement in my skin. This kit is perfect if you have dry skin. It doesn’t clog my pores and cause me to break out.” “This brand makes my skin glow! I have never had my skin look this good!”

A detangling brush that really works

From CB: This detangling brush for kids and adults by Crave Naturals is under $12. It has 29,000 ratings, 4.4 stars and a B on Fakespot. People say it detangles hair easily without breakage, pain or pulling. Parents have stories about how it works like nothing else they’ve tried. “I’m a single dad of a 6 years old girl and combing her hair is the hardest part of taking care of her. She gets really bad knots in her hair. This brush is the only thing that has ever worked. Thank you so much. She even likes to comb her own hair now.” “ Bought this brush a while back and my daughter uses it every night.” “I absolutely love this brush, whether wet or dry, it’s great! I have 2 name brand Wet Brushes and honestly, they don’t even compare to my surprise.”

Travel size hand sanitizer so you’ll never be without protection

From Hecate: I’ve started keeping a travel sized hand sanitizer spray in my car. We all get a little spritz and it just feels safer. If you get one with a scent, it makes you feel protected every time you smell it. These are Meyers, which is a pretty reliable cleaning brand. They come 1 for $4 or 4 for $14. Amazon offers them in basil or lavender scent. The spray has 4.8 stars from 233 reviewers and Fakepsot gave them an A. One reviewer talked about how they prefer mists, “Since it is not gel-based, it does not make my hands sticky at all. And, I have trusted the Mrs. Meyer’s brand for a long time.” I agree, I like that you can’t feel it once it’s on. Another said they like the basil scent the most, “The basil hand sanitizer spray is the best scent! Not overpowering and very pleasant” which is good because that’s the one I want to get.

A lip scrub and balm in one for baby smooth lips

From Hecate: My lips are chapped and begging for some kind of relief. When I baby them they feel so wonderful that I wonder why I don’t do it more often. This Qilebi double effect lip treatment is a lip scrub/mask on one side and lip moisture care on the other. It’s available in either peach or strawberry, which both sound sexier during Valentine season, don’t they? The lip scrub got 4.1 stars out of 715 reviews hand Fakespot gave it a B. Reviews were very enthusiastic, one reviewer said she was sold after her first use, “After my first application my lips not only felt more softer but I noticed the pigmentation brightened up.” Another said it stays on your lips so it works that much faster, “ Let me RAVE about the moisturizer! It is so light yet had an airtight cling to your lips and I felt the moisturizer working immediately!” Might as well get those lips ready for V-day now.

A cute short nightie for Valentine’s Day

From Hecate: I love a cute nightie and Valentine’s Day is always a good excuse to get one. Especially when they are under $16 and Amazon is offering a 15% off coupon! This little number comes in seven colors and sizes small to 3XL. Most of the reviews say it has no give so it’s best to go up a size. I like this one because it’s silky but also because it’s a simple design, short and sexy with a lightly draped neck. The nightie has 4.2 stars from over 1,400 reviews. It does not have a great Fakespot rating, but that’s typical for clothing and I was sold by the customer photos. Women said it looks as fancy as costlier versions, “Great quality and looks as luxurious as other expensive brands.” Also, it has adjustable straps so you can get just the look you want, “Good quality satin with adjustable straps. It’s short….a little breezy but just covers what needs to be covered.” Treat yourself, we all deserve something special for Big Heart Day.

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Dear Gossips, Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day, the world’s biggest conversation about mental health. Bell Let’s Talk aims to raise awareness about mental health and over the last ten years has raised over $113 million for mental health initiatives – much of it through the interactions that happen on Be…

People Magazine has announced that they’re introducing a new quarterly magazine “focused exclusively on the royals.” People Mag already covers the British royals extensively and with a truck full of sugar, so I’m not sure what the quarterly magazine will cover really? Don’t get me wrong, the royals are good business, for print media and blogs alike. The Sussexes alone could keep a lot of publications in business. So is this just People Magazine milking one of their most popular subjects, royalty? Perhaps. Here’s what we can expect:

In addition to this week’s cover story on Queen Elizabeth’s private life, PEOPLE has several other royals-focused projects in the works, including a new quarterly publication and two TV specials. PEOPLE Royals will showcase glamorous new photos and inside stories fans haven’t seen or read elsewhere – from lavish celebrations and cocktails fit for a Queen to the luxurious lifestyles of the world’s real-life princes, princesses, kings, and queens.

“PEOPLE has reported on the royals since its debut in 1974,” says Dan Wakeford, Editor-in-Chief, PEOPLE. “We felt it was only natural to launch a stand-alone beautifully crafted quarterly magazine that will inspire and entertain with deep stories and lush photography.”

Each cover story will focus on a different member of the royal family and will offer a rich look into his or her untold story. The 100-page premium issue also includes a first-person essay, written by Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson and an exclusive interview with Prince Albert of Monaco, who talks about his life in quarantine during the pandemic.

PEOPLE’s vast audience has had an insatiable appetite for the royals over the years. In fact, Princess Diana appeared on the cover of PEOPLE more than any other subject in the brand’s history. William and Kate’s wedding in 2011 and Harry and Meghan’s wedding in 2018 remain among the best-selling issues. One of PEOPLE’s most popular digital verticals is dedicated to the royals at people.com/royals, which satisfies readers’ interest in up-to-the-minute, 24/7 content.

This week’s issue of PEOPLE featuring the Queen also highlights a letter from Wakeford about the new quarterly publication: “Kate and William and Meghan and Harry bring glamor and excitement to many around the world,” he writes. “The family has had its ups and downs, but the Queen’s strength of character and calm leadership have helped steady the monarch, and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren have ensured that the royals will captivate us for years to come.”

[From People]

See, if it’s just Katie Nicholl-esque hagiography on the Windsors, I’m going to have to pass. And I wonder how much Fergie is getting paid to write and consult? Good lord. This feels like it could be especially messy. Think of the Windsors going to People Mag and making them do all of the heavy lifting of fluffing up the Keens’ images, not to mention the petty-ass Queen. I wonder if People Mag will even bother to call out the Keens for their shenanigans now that they need even more access for their stupid quarterly magazine?

People has also announced that they’ve got two more royal specials coming out on the CW. Harry & Meghan’s American Dream will air on Tuesday, March 30 at 9pm ET/PT, and PEOPLE Presents: William & Kate’s Royal Anniversary will air on Thursday, April 29, at 8pm ET/PT. Lordt.

Anyway, any excuse to reuse these photos of Kate at the 2019 Royal Ascot. She was especially lively because the Windsors forced Meghan and Harry to stay away from Royal Ascot that year. Kate had center stage all to herself, so she celebrated by wearing a Victorian doily.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, WENN.

Benedict Cumberbatch has the kind of look which works well for period films. It’s kind of a wonder that he ever gets work to play modern roles, because he’s so completely suited to play World War II or post-war characters. After trying and failing to play American characters, Benedict returned to what he does best: a posh British accent and period costume. In The Courier, and Benedict plays a “normal guy,” a salesman who is recruited by British intelligence to work as an asset and spy, flying into Russia under the “businessman” guise during the height of the Cold War in 1960. Here’s the trailer:

What’s kind of crazy to realize is that Britain has so many of these stories which have never been told because of the Official Secrets Act, a catch-all for all kinds of huge secrets during World War II and the Cold War. MI6 did a lot of good and bad work during that time period, and I have no problem believing that they thought it would be super-clever to send an untrained businessman into Russia to work as a spy. As for Cumberbatch… I’m an old-school Cumberbitch and I love him in these kinds of roles, clearly. It looks like a great vehicle for everything he does well as an actor, plus it just looks like an interesting story.

GALLERY UPDATE: Five new stills featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Greville Wynne in ‘The Courier’ https://t.co/FRaL0xZBKv pic.twitter.com/qVyYnpo7qU

— Benedict Cumberbatch Central (@cumberbatchcom) January 27, 2021

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I’m old enough to remember what kind of “internet age” we were promised. We were promised mass information, mass communication, and the rise of a socialist-lite egalitarian community. What we got was “too big to fail” banks wrecking the economy and the rise of Nazis, fascism and dumbf–k conspiracies like QAnon. But this story has made me hopeful that at least some people are trying to bring chaotic good to the stock market. The backstory: hedge funds wield their $100 billion-plus portfolios around, making massive bets that this stock will fail or that stock will rise. Some of the biggest hedge funds in the world decided to short GameStop’s stock, betting that the stock would continue to decline and that they would reap a huge profit. Then a wide variety of small investors, mostly self-organizing on Reddit, decided to mass invest in GameStop and a handful of other declining stocks. Reddit’s small investors pushed the price of GameStop’s stock so high, and now they’re cashing out, making a huge profit on their small investment. Wall Street is FREAKING OUT.

A real estate salesman in Valparaiso, Ind. A former line cook from the Bronx. An evangelical pastor and his wife in Huntington Beach, Calif. A high school student in the Milwaukee suburbs. They are among the millions of amateur traders collectively taking on some of Wall Street’s most sophisticated investors — and, for the moment at least, winning. Propelled by a mix of greed and boredom, gleefully determined to teach Wall Street a lesson, and turbocharged by an endless flow of get-rich-quick hype and ideas delivered via social media, these investors have piled into trades around several companies, pushing their stock prices to stratospheric levels.

Some of the names are from an earlier business era. BlackBerry’s shares are up nearly 280 percent this year. Stock in AMC, the movie theater chain, has surged nearly 840 percent. But the trade that captures the David-versus-Goliath nature of the moment involves GameStop, the troubled video game retailer that was once a fixture in suburban malls.

On Wall Street, individual investors are often derided as “dumb money,” destined to lose against the highly compensated analysts and traders who buy and sell stocks for a living. But in recent days, individual investors — many of them followers of a popular, juvenile, foul-mouthed Reddit page called Wall Street Bets — have upended that narrative by banding together to put the squeeze on at least two hedge funds that had bet that GameStop’s shares would fall.

While the hedge funds and other professional money managers had been shorting GameStop’s shares, betting that its stock was doomed to further decline, the retail investors — online traders, mom-and-pop investors, small brokers and others — have been pushing the other way, buying shares and stock options. That caused GameStop’s market value to increase to over $24 billion from $2 billion in a matter of days. Its shares have risen over 1,700 percent since December. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, the market value rose over $10 billion.

The tribal framing online, as a kind of team sport pitting plucky upstarts against well-heeled Wall Streeters, has been especially helpful in motivating more investors to participate. This week, Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, fueled the trading by posting about the Reddit page on Twitter. And speculation is growing that other investors are seeing fresh opportunities to push the stock even higher.

No one knows how this ends. Some analysts say the intense activity could eventually prompt a wider sell-off in the market by forcing hedge funds on the losing side of these trades to sell parts of their portfolios to raise cash to cover their losses. While this speculative frenzy played out on the market’s sidelines, the S&P 500 fell more than 2.5 percent on Wednesday, its worst day since late October, as the Federal Reserve gave a glum assessment of the economy and before a number of big tech companies announced their earnings.

[From The NY Times]

There’s no hedge fund which will ever be designated “too big to fail” – meaning, there is no bailout on the horizon. Instead, you have the so-called professional class of Wall Street commentators completely flummoxed by what is happening, and some of the richest hedge funds in America losing billions in a matter of days. It honestly is like an episode of Billions (a show I love). I saw one Wall Street analyst try to explain what was happening as “it’s a combination of boredom and people investing their stimulus checks.” Which is funny, because that’s the way these douchebags think – “we gave the peasants a few dollars and now look what happened!” Anyway, I’m proud of these small investors. I saw some screencaps from Reddit where the small investors were talking about donating portions of their profits to charity and helping family members pay for medical care. These are real people… screwing over faceless hedge-funds and feeding the poor.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about this mess too, lol.

Psaki on Biden’s thoughts about GameStop stonks: “It is a good reminder that the stock market is not the only measure of the health of our economy and it does not reflect how working and middle-class families are doing.” pic.twitter.com/xAopMdOcWU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 27, 2021

BREAKING: Elon Musk loses “richest man in the world” title to TigBitties420_x

— manny (@mannyfidel) January 27, 2021

Regardless of what I understand about the stock market, it’s just nice to know that right now in Greenwich, Connecticut there are broke hedge fund managers weeping in their parked Range Rovers while their mistresses are sending them to voicemail.

— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) January 28, 2021

The Internet showing up to repossess a hedge fund manager’s house pic.twitter.com/cfgtiHTi5S

— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) January 28, 2021

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Paris Hilton and boyfriend Carter Reum are going strong over a year after we found out they were together. So strong, the couple is looking to take the next step in the relationship. But not the one we were expecting. According to Paris, the couple is currently undergoing in-vitro fertilization to have a baby. Paris, who has been taking advice from renewed gal-pal Kim Kardashian, froze her eggs and is ready to fulfill her dream of becoming a mom. Because to Paris, having kids is “the meaning of life.”

Taking a huge step! Paris Hilton confirmed that she is undergoing in vitro fertilization with boyfriend Carter Reum — and they have Kim Kardashian to thank.

“We talk about [planning a wedding] all the time and planning our baby’s names and all of that,” the businesswoman, 39, said on “The Trend Reporter with Mara” podcast on Tuesday, January 26. “So, I’m really excited to just move on for the next step of my life and finally just have, like, a real life. I really do believe that having a family and having children is the meaning of life. I haven’t got to experience that yet because I don’t feel that anyone really deserved that love from me and now I’ve finally found the person who does, so I cannot wait for that next step.”

The Simple Life alum added, “We have been doing the IVF, so I can pick twins if I like. Kim is actually the one who told me about that. I didn’t even know anything about it.”

In January 2020, Us Weekly confirmed that Hilton was dating the 39-year-old M13 Ventures founder. At the time, a source told Us that the duo were “extremely serious” and that an engagement “could happen very quickly.”

A source told Us exclusively in August 2020 that Hilton was “definitely trying” to get pregnant and is ready to “start a family,” and the heiress said in an interview that same month that Kardashian “inspired” her to freeze her eggs.

“I think every woman should do it because you can really control it and not have that ‘Oh, my God, I need to get married’ [mindset],” the “Stars Are Blind” singer told Britain’s Sunday Times. “I’m obsessed with dressing them up. I want … twins, because then you get [a girl and a boy] at once.”

During a “Lady Gang” podcast appearance the following month, Hilton teased what she wants to name her future children. “I have baby London, which is the girl, and I’m trying to figure out a name for the boy,” she explained at the time, noting that she doesn’t “want a theme of cities” for her babies’ monikers.

[From Us]

To be fair to Paris, she has been talking about wanting kids for a very long time. However, if her true reasoning for wanting a baby is because she believes, “that having a family and having children is the meaning of life,” that’s a bit concerning. Attaching that much importance to anything is red flag for anybody. Especially if, in her next breath, she gives the reasons of wanting kids to dress them up and because she’s picked out names. I remember when Paris appeared in the documentary The American Meme and talked about giving her phone number out to her fans whom she called her “Little Hiltons.” She spoke of them as if they were her children, watching them “grow up” and how they “just genuinely love me.” She claimed to speak to these fans every single day because of the validation they gave her.

Paris is 39. She’s wanted kids forever and Carter seems like a decent enough guy. The scenario makes sense. I hope things work out for her the way she has them planned. But that’s just it, babies rarely follow the plans we make for them.

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