Blog Posts by Kathleen Perricone

The new parents! (WireImage)

She’s been awarded Golden Globes and Emmys, but Claire Danes received her best accolade on December 17 when she became a mother. The “Homeland” star’s rep has confirmed to People magazine that she gave birth to son Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy, but did not provide any more details.

Danes’ decision to remain mum on the specifics is not surprising since she and husband Hugh Dancy hadn’t said much about their little bundle of joy, which she announced in July. But we do know baby Cyrus seems to have arrived a little bit early – or Danes was just throwing us off. In September, the 33-year-old told Anderson Cooper on his “Anderson” daytime talk show that she was due "beginning of next year."

Natali Germanotta vogues Joanne Trattoria. (Marvin Joseph/ViralFashion.com)

Looks like Lady Gaga's sister was born this way, too. But Natali Germanotta, 20, doesn't quite have the same eccentric fashion tastes as her older, famous sibling. In a photo shoot for ViralFashion.com, the Parsons The New School for Design student strikes a pose in various high-end pieces from Alaia, J Mendel, and Proenza Schouler as she hangs out with well-dressed pals at Joanne Trattoria, her parents' Italian restaurant located on New York City's Upper West Side. It's good advertisement for the eatery, no?

Reese Witherspoon. (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)

Since giving birth to son Tennessee James on September 27, Reese Witherspoon has been looking incredible, but she says her post-pregnancy weight loss has been more of a footrace. Showing off her slim figure in a tight black dress at the March of Dimes Babies event over the weekend, the actress admitted that despite appearances, it's not exactly easy getting that pre-baby bod back. "I don't know if I'm bouncing back, I'm slowly crawling back," she told "Extra" in an interview that is set to air on Monday night. "You know, all of your joints feel wobbly and your head is sort of confused."

Witherspoon, who is also mom to 12-year-old Ava and 8-year-old Deacon with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, even joked that she's been so flighty the last few weeks that she somehow forgot what a refrigerator was called. A few days earlier, she had asked someone, "What do you call that thing that keeps the food cold?" But she went on to say, "You just have to be gentle and patient with yourself and just sort of you know … slowly get back to your health."

Gosselin. (Getty Images)

Buying and wrapping Christmas presents for eight kids sounds like a job that would require the help of a team of elves, but Kate Gosselin is doing it solo this year. Ever since she split from husband Jon Gosselin in June 2009, she's been doing most of the everyday work herself — since she has primary custody of 12-year-old twins Mady and Cara and 8-year-old sextuplets Aaden, Alexis, Colin, Hannah, Joel, and Leah — and this holiday season will be no different. Although the brood typically spends Christmas Eve with their father who lives nearby in Reading, Pennsylvania, "They're at the age now where we ask them," Kate tells omg!. "So they basically dictate it and they want to be home Christmas and the days surrounding it."

Now that the kids — who grew up before our eyes on TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and then the spin-off "Kate Plus 8" for seven seasons — are older, they're much more into the holiday spirit and what it truly means. Kate, 37, got a lot of help decorating from

Aguilera. (Getty Images)Handler. (Courtesy of E!)Chelsea Hander has gotten a lot of mileage out of jokes about Christina Aguilera's questionable fashion decisions, so we were a tad bit worried when the singer appeared on "Chelsea Lately" last month and the two women appeared to make nice. We wondered: Will that be the end of Handler's Aguilera jokes? Thankfully, the answer to that question is no.

See more: Aguilera wears revealing black bodysuit

On Thursday, the talk show host welcomed Blake Shelton as a guest on her E! talk show, so to have some fun with the strapping country singer, she dressed like his "The Voice" co-star Aguilera. For the segment, Handler donned a black bustier bodysuit — a nod to Aguilera's racy star-spangled ensemble at the American Music Awards earlier this month — with fishnet stockings and black boots. The 37-year-old comedian was a little more conservative than Aguilera was, showing less cleavage and covering up with a sparkly jacket.

Shelton was in the dark about Handler's plans to wear the

Jessica with Maxwell on Thursday. (Splash)

Is Jessica Simpson hiding something under that baggy sweater? Just one day after Us Weekly reported that the singer-turned-fashion mogul is 9 weeks pregnant with her second child, she arrived at Los Angeles International on Thursday bundled up in a loose-fitting gray sweater, black blazer, and leggings with a large purse on her shoulder and 7-month-old daughter Maxwell in her arms, ensuring that no one could get a good look at her belly. It should be noted that Simpson's fiancé Eric Johnson walked behind her empty-handed … making it seem like a conscious decision for the maybe-pregnant star to carry adorable little Maxwell.

[Related: Jessica Simpson Pregnant Again: Weight Watchers Speaks Out]

Simpson, 32, has remained mum on the rumored pregnancy and her publicist denied Us' request for a comment. But her silence could obviously be because like most expectant moms, she wants to wait until she's past her first trimester. Before she announced her first pregnancy on Halloween last year dressed as a "mummy," it was obvious for weeks that Simpson was with child, even though she would not confirm nor deny it.

Aubry and Martinez. (WireImage)

There are two sides to every story. When Halle Berry's ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry and current fiancé Olivier Martinez got into a bloody brawl on Thanksgiving day, the initial report was that the model started it all when he attacked Martinez after dropping off his 4-year-old daughter Nahla at Berry's home. Now, four days later, Aubry, 36, is telling his side of what happened that morning.

According to TMZ, Aubry was granted a restraining order from the "Unfaithful" actor, and in his declaration, he claimed that the day before the fight, he took Nahla (his daughter with Berry) to her school play, and when his ex and Martinez showed up, Martinez whispered in his ear in French, "I wish I could beat the s--t out of you right now. You're lucky we're in a school right now. We're going to take Nahla right now and you're not going to follow us." That next morning, Aubry states, he brought the little girl back to her mother's home, but instead of the nanny receiving Nahla as she normally does, Martinez appeared at the door and said, "We need to talk." According to Aubry, he was walking to his car when Martinez jumped off the stairs and knocked him to the ground. As he beat the model, he yelled that he had cost him $3 million in lawyer fees (Berry and Martinez recently lost their bid to move to France with Nahla). Aubry also writes in his declaration that after the fight, Martinez said, "We called the cops … you're going to tell them that you're the one who attacked me, or I'm going to kill you."

Miley Cyrus. (Michael Kovac/Getty Images)

"Hannah Montana" is all grown up! It's hard to believe that Miley Cyrus is only turning 20 as she's been acting much older for years. After rising to mega fame as a Disney star, Cyrus took the path that many other child actors have and rebelled against her saccharine-sweet persona. Between sexing up her image, joking that she was a pot head, getting engaged to Liam Hemsworth, and, most recently, chopping off her long beautiful locks, she always keeps us on our toes. In honor of her 20^th birthday on November 23, omg! takes a look back at her five most jaw-dropping moments when she was "just being Miley."