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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Reportedly Welcomed Their Third Child Two Months Ago


Congratulations are in order for Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds! The couple has welcomed their third child together — but according to Us Weekly‘s sources, it happened almost two month ago.

Few other details, including the baby’s name or sex, have been revealed — and considering how tight-lipped the parents typically are about their relationship and kids, don’t expect them to spill the beans anytime soon.

Lively’s pregnancy announcement also came as a shock to fans. In May, the actress stepped out at her husband’s movie premiere for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu sporting a baby bump. She confirmed the pregnancy news with a cheeky Instagram post, captioning a carousel of photos of her and Reynolds “PokeMOM…. Out now.”

While neither Lively nor Reynolds have personally confirmed the arrival of their newest little one, Reynolds and Lively were spotted on a dinner date at NYC’s Take Room on Friday — the same day reports just happened to break of their baby news. The actor even shared a selfie from their night out (perhaps that was his way of commenting on the baby news?) in which a blurry Blake wears a black pinstriped top and gold necklace and looks unprepared for the pic, as her husband smiles into the camera. Lively reposted the pic shouting out jewelry brand Marla Aaron and adding a hot dog emoji to boot.

The couple already share two daughters, 4-year-old James and 3-year-old Inez. Reynolds waited for about three months after James’s birth to reveal her name on the Today Show. And Us Weekly only confirmed news that they had welcomed Ines to the family in December 2016, three months after she was born in September 2016.



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Olympian Allyson Felix Broke a Record Held by Usain Bolt Just 10 Months After a C-Section


Over the weekend, Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix won her 12th gold medal at a track and field World Championships—breaking a record formerly held by Usain Bolt, the runner often referred to as the “world’s fastest man.”

Felix, 33, took the world record from Bolt in Doha after a 4 x 400 mixed-gender relay race victory. She’s competed in four Olympics and won nine medals, six of them gold, but what makes this victory even more important is that it’s Felix’s first since giving birth to her daughter, Camryn, ten months ago.

The birth wasn’t easy. People reports that the Olympian suffered from severe preeclampsia and gave birth via C-section. “It’s different, definitely challenging. I think for any new mom when she returned to work just, you’re exhausted and you’re balancing your family and what it all looks like,” she told the magazine in July about getting back into her training routine.

After her major accomplishment this weekend, Felix simply tweeted, “Humbled???.”

Since then, she’s spoken out about what this victory means as a mother. “Our journey to motherhood and back is bigger than us and bigger than sport. I believe it’s about overcoming and that is something we all have to do,” she wrote on Instagram yesterday. “I have seen the power of the collective. The need to speak your truth. It’s a pivotal time for women in sport. We can create change. Women, let’s support each other. Uplift and encourage. Open doors for one another. Celebrate and elevate each other. We can all win. This is sisterhood.”

It seems her daughter, and other mothers, are her biggest inspiration. “Life looks different. Cammy is 10 months old today. Figuring out this mom life,” she said. “I’ve had to fight a lot this year- for my health, for my daughter, for women & mothers, for what I deserve and for my fitness. I’m really proud to be at my 9th world championships and this one is extra special because my baby girl is in the stadium to watch it all.”

Felix, a new Athleta ambassador, has an impressive record of using her platform to advocate for women—and especially mothers—in sport. After Olympian Alysia Montaño called out her former sponsor Nike for not supporting pregnant athletes, Felix (and fellow Olympic runner Kara Goucher) also spoke up. “What I’m not willing to accept is the enduring status quo around maternity. I asked Nike to contractually guarantee that I wouldn’t be punished if I didn’t perform at my best in the months surrounding childbirth,” she wrote in a New York Times op-ed in May. “I wanted to set a new standard. If I, one of Nike’s most widely marketed athletes, couldn’t secure these protections, who could?”

It’s safe to say Felix has set a new standard: Women can be mothers and champions.



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My Husband Died. Four Months Later, I Started Dating Again


“You look just like my dead husband.”

The first message I ever sent on a dating app offered a pretty good indication of how unprepared I was to re-enter the dating world.

To my credit, the message was honest. To my match’s credit, he handled it well.

“lol, I don’t know how to respond to that,” he wrote, adding both a smiling and frowning emoji for good measure.

“On a lighter note,” he added, “How are you?”

It was a good question. I was just four months out from my husband’s sudden and unexpected death. Jamie collapsed and died while running a half marathon; he was less than a mile from the finish line, where I was waiting for him. If I answered honestly, I would have said I was heartbroken, devastated, and lost. I was desperate for a way to escape my pain, and had convinced myself that dating was the answer.

Jamie and I met in college. We became fast friends, and, after lots of persistence on his part, I eventually agreed to date him. It was the best decision I could have made. We got married at 23, adopted a dog, moved to new houses and states, and supported each other as we pursued various goals and dreams. I imagined us growing old together, not becoming a widow at 31.

The author and her late husband, Jamie.

Courtesy Katie Hawkins-Gaar

I certainly didn’t anticipate re-entering the dating world 11 years after what I thought would be my last first date.

Online dating offered the allure of a respite from grieving. Each light and flirtatious conversation was a fleeting attempt to numb all the dark and difficult emotions that haunted me. But I couldn’t hide from my pain for long. I’d smile my way through a date at night, only to spend the following day crying about how hopeless everything seemed. Sometimes I’d cry with friends, who tried their best to support me, even if they weren’t entirely sure how to do that. More often than not, I’d cry alone.

Things didn’t work out with my dead husband’s doppelgänger. Nor did they last with the guy who got squeamish every time I brought up death. I tried seeing a Jaime, who pronounced his name the same way my Jamie did. That was weird too. I went on dates with a lawyer, a sculptor, and an adjunct professor. I even tried a long-distance romance, with a widower whose wife died just a month before Jamie did. That had promise, but there was ultimately too much sadness between the two of us.



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Erin Lee Carr Released Two Documentaries and a Book in the Past Six Months. Here's How She Did It


It’s my personality to take on more things. I was already working on another gymnastics film when that story broke, so I knew I needed to include Larry Nassar.

Do you remember where you were when you first heard about Michelle Carter?

I’m always researching things that are crime and Internet related—that’s basically my sweet spot—and so I think it was a Washington Post headline and it had the text, “It’s now or never,” that Michelle Carter sent to Conrad Roy [her boyfriend]. And those small words strung together led me to the bigger story. I immediately started reaching out to people involved with the case.

How is writing a book similar to or different from writing a documentary?

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Filmmaking is collaborative and writing is lonely. I was alone with my thoughts, day after day. I’d written short pieces before but nothing of the order of 75,000 words.

Your dad’s memoir, The Night of the Gun, told the story of his own life from the perspective of a reporter. Did you approach All That You Leave Behind the same way?

I had emails and text messages and voicemails that have a timestamp and could tell me the time and place and help with my memory, but I chose not to continue the same reporting style as The Night of the Gun, one, because I didn’t want to do a repeat and, two, because my dad is an incredible investigative reporter and I knew if I tried to do anything like that, wouldn’t be successful. I always use the present tense to describe him since he’s part of my every day. I involve him in my life and think about him all the time.

The book is a roadmap through your grief and struggles with addiction. What was it like to write about such personal subjects layered on top of losing your dad?

When we talk about early recovery, there’s this thought of, “Don’t talk about it, you can’t write about this until you’re 5, ten, fifteen years in to make sure it’s real.” To mention your sobriety is to break the rules. But given that my father was the one who said, “You have a problem,” I thought it made a lot of sense to include in the book. I knew I was going to be writing about things that were pretty embarrassing, and I didn’t want anyone who’s paying me large sums of money to do a documentary to wonder if I’m trustworthy. So I checked in with some of my dad’s creative consiglieres and I said, “Am I going to hurt my chances of continuing the job I love?” The answer was no. Luckily we live in a society that values honesty and recovery.

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What’s the hardest interview you’ve ever done?



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Shay Mitchell Just Revealed She's About Six Months Pregnant


Surprise: Shay Mitchell is pregnant.

On Friday, June 28, the Pretty Little Liars actress revealed on Instagram that she’s expecting her first child with boyfriend Matte Babel, having kept it a secret from the public eye for at least six months “Does this mean I’m allowed to drive in the car pool lane at all times now?” she wrote in the caption of a photo of herself with her baby bump.

But the reveal didn’t stop there—Mitchell also posted a YouTube video about the news titled “Guess Who’s Preggers.”

“There is something in the oven and it’s not my pizza!!!” the 32-year-old wrote in the video description. “WOW… It’s kind of surreal processing the fact that another human is growing inside of you. It’s exciting, nerve-racking, difficult and emotional all at the same time.”

She continued, “Everyone waits for the right time to make the announcement and for me it wasn’t until I couldn’t hide it anymore and was tired of wearing over sized sweatshirts. We’re beyond excited and looking forward to starting a family. I’ve learned so much about myself and parenthood over the past 6 months, and feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface! It’s going to be a wild ride!!”

In the video, Mitchell gives a behind-the-scenes look at how and why she kept her pregnancy quiet. “When you’re in the public eye there are some things you want to just keep a secret until you feel ready,” she explained. “This, for me, has been the hardest.”

Earlier this year, Mitchell opened up about the miscarriage she had in 2018. “We all have to deal with various struggles and challenges in life,” she wrote on Instagram Story at the time. “And sometimes it’s easier to only showcase the good times on social media, which is what leads many people to criticize it for its lack of authenticity. Having so many people follow me on Instagram and read my posts is both incredibly humbling and hugely uplifting. The support and affection that so many of you show me lifts me up during even my darkest days, one of which happened last year after I miscarried and lost the child of my hopes and dreams.”

In her YouTube video, Mitchell teased that she’ll give a full look at her pregnancy journey in a new series called Almost Ready, which premieres July 17.

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“It didn’t feel right to just put up a photo and be like, ‘I’m pregnant!’ and have people just think that everything’s been peaches and rainbows,” she said in the video. “This is real life and I want people to come along with me on this journey in real time.”

Congrats to Mitchell—we can’t wait to follow along with her new series.



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I Was at the Top of My Career. Then I Quit My Job to Travel the World for 13 Months


The logical part of me knew this feeling could just be part of “adulting,” the realization that the bloom can’t stay on the rose forever. But the voice inside me that I’d learned to listen to to get me the career I had said I needed a breather. I told my husband that night that I had to quit. My exact words were, “I need a break. I can’t keep this up. I just want to stop.”

“What happens after that?” he asked. I didn’t know. I’d never quit anything before.

His next question was, “Should we go travel?”

He had worked in the restaurant business his entire life. When he moved to New York from the midwest to be with me two years earlier, he’d taken a job that he didn’t love but that paid the bills. He put in long hours that were at the opposite end of my day. Weekends together were non-existent. As I finished at the office in the early afternoon, he would head into the restaurant. He’d get home around 2 a.m, an hour before I got up for work. Twice we had dates in that late-night-early-morning window: an after-work drink and dinner for him, an early morning coffee and breakfast for me. On one of those occasions we were sitting in a diner near our apartment around 3 a.m. He was eating pancakes and an ice cream sundae; I had a BLT. The TV on the wall suddenly played the all-too-familiar Special Report music and the graphics reserved for breaking news. William and Kate’s first baby had just been born. My phone started to buzz with emails, and the alerts rolled in. Date over. I kissed him goodbye and headed into the studio.

So that night, when he asked, “Should we go travel?” I didn’t hesitate. I pictured a year of uninterrupted dates and going to sleep at the same time.

Yes.

To be clear, I didn’t want to eat, pray, or love. I wasn’t in the dark days of a breakup, and my job hadn’t ended. I didn’t need to find myself. There was no crisis (yet), but I knew that a pre-emptive strike was needed. A pause for pause’s sake. It wasn’t so much an epiphany as that internal voice, telling me this was the right thing to do. It was the same voice that had guided my previous life-changing decisions—studying abroad, moving to New York, marrying my husband. It was always louder and clearer than the strains of fear and anxiety and confusion that often haunt big choices. When this voice spoke, it was never a matter of should we do this, but rather how soon can we?

Over the next few weeks we hatched a plan to leave New York and began to tell family and friends. Some people thought it was completely crazy, that we were being irresponsible. Just as many said they wished they were doing the same. I gave my bosses 10-weeks notice. It was by far the scariest moment of the entire process, not because I had doubts, but because once I uttered the words, I knew there was no going back. (I spent the moments before the meeting panicking in a bathroom stall.) The first executive reacted in disbelief, then said he understood that I might need a break and asked if I wanted to take off a month or two or even six, as a sabbatical. He suggested that he could find a different spot for me at the show, with different hours. I was honest and direct with him: I wanted a year off to travel, and my last day would be mid-January. I think he mistook this announcement as a whim. He ended the meeting encouraging me to think it over. But I’d made up my mind.



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