Spring Break
Pop Culture
by Andrea Fineman
Managing Editor
Arts | 3/4/08
Posted online at 11:51 PM EST on 3/3/08
I don't know what you look for in celebrity gossip, but one of my favorite features of the celebrity gossip machine is the Celebrity Baby Watch. I don't know what it is. Perhaps it's the promise of innocence that babies bring into the world of celebrity misdeeds and misfortunes; perhaps it's the intrigue of paternity and parenthood (and judging the quality thereof). But what I really think attracts us to news of new celebspawn is the promise of ridiculous names.
So naturally, for the past week, I've been aiming my web browser at www.tmz.com and www.perezhilton.com several times per day in search of Jennifer Lopez's newborns' names. The twins, a boy and a girl, were born Feb. 22 just after midnight, but she and husband Marc Anthony withheld the names from the public until Friday afternoon.
The names? Max and Emme. No middle names were released, apparently, nor any explanation for the choices, although TMZ reports that Max and Emmy are the names of the sibling stars of PBS childrens' series Dragon Tales. The show apparently features a brother and sister duo who provide children with life lessons while "socializing with dragons."
Former J-Lo boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs didn't miss the chance to publicize his own ventures. The artist formerly known as Puff Daddy told People magazine he was sending Sean John baby clothes to Lopez and Anthony.
Diddy also has twins, born a little over a year ago. Unlike J-Lo and M-An, S-Co and girlfriend Kim Porter (henceforth K-Po) didn't disappoint when choosing names for their twins. The two girl babies are named D'Lila Star, after K-Po's grandmother Lila Star, and Jessie James, after Combs's grandmother, Jessie Smalls.
When asked for further comments on Lopez's newfound motherhood (the twins are Lopez's first children, though Anthony has three children from a previous relationship), Diddy said, "It's double the love, and it's also double the crying and the screaming, so it's a unique blessed situation. It's a rarity to have twins. She'll be all right."
So naturally, for the past week, I've been aiming my web browser at www.tmz.com and www.perezhilton.com several times per day in search of Jennifer Lopez's newborns' names. The twins, a boy and a girl, were born Feb. 22 just after midnight, but she and husband Marc Anthony withheld the names from the public until Friday afternoon.
The names? Max and Emme. No middle names were released, apparently, nor any explanation for the choices, although TMZ reports that Max and Emmy are the names of the sibling stars of PBS childrens' series Dragon Tales. The show apparently features a brother and sister duo who provide children with life lessons while "socializing with dragons."
Former J-Lo boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs didn't miss the chance to publicize his own ventures. The artist formerly known as Puff Daddy told People magazine he was sending Sean John baby clothes to Lopez and Anthony.
Diddy also has twins, born a little over a year ago. Unlike J-Lo and M-An, S-Co and girlfriend Kim Porter (henceforth K-Po) didn't disappoint when choosing names for their twins. The two girl babies are named D'Lila Star, after K-Po's grandmother Lila Star, and Jessie James, after Combs's grandmother, Jessie Smalls.
When asked for further comments on Lopez's newfound motherhood (the twins are Lopez's first children, though Anthony has three children from a previous relationship), Diddy said, "It's double the love, and it's also double the crying and the screaming, so it's a unique blessed situation. It's a rarity to have twins. She'll be all right."
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