Celeb Corner
Heidi Klum and Seal to File for Divorce?
TMZ is reporting that sources close to the couple say Heidi Klum will file for divorce from husband Seal as early as next week.
Heidi Klum, whom the sources say will cite “irreconcilable differences,” has three biological children with Seal: Henry Günther, 6, Johan Riley, 5, and Lou, 2. Seal also adopted Heidi Klum’s daughter with Italian entrepreneur Flavio Briatore, Leni, 7.
Heidi Klum and Seal, who married in 2005, famously renew their vows every year in a lavish ceremony.
Let’s hope the rumors aren’t true!
Dooce’s Heather Armstrong Separates from Husband
Famed mom blogger Heather Armstrong of Dooce fame has announced that she and her husband, Jon, are separating.
Heather Armstrong wrote a blog post on Tuesday about the separation, hinting at thoughts of suicide (which she thankfully walked away from), and the difficulty of telling her own children.
I’m sad and devastated, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been more stable than I am right now.
No, this is me facing a list of issues that I have neglected, issues that have subsequently settled like dust to the bottom of my soul. And a few weeks of intense running, time spent alone on sidewalks tripping over limitations and physical pain have stirred it all up in a giant, suffocating cloud.
Heather Armstrong began blogging in 2001, about “pop culture, music, and my life as a single woman.” Armstrong also wrote about her then-bosses, an action that subsequently got her fired. After she got married and had her first daughter, Leta (now 7-years-old), her blog posts about her severe post-partum depression sparked a cult following. As Heather Armstrong explains on her ‘About’ page on Dooce:
This website chronicles my life from a time when I was single and making a lot of money as a web designer in Los Angeles, to when I was dating the man who would become my husband, to when I lost my job and lived life as an unemployed drunk, to when I married my husband and moved to my mother’s basement in Utah, to when I became pregnant, to when I threw up and became unbearably swollen during the pregnancy, to the birth, to the aftermath, to the postpartum depression that landed me in a psyche ward.
Heather Armstrong has written several books since she launched her successful blog, including It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita, and Things I Learned About My Dad (In Therapy). A third book, Dear Daughter: The Best of the Dear Leta Letters, is scheduled for release in April.
Heather Armstrong’s husband Jon also blogged about the separation, explaining that they have also decided it would be best if he no longer worked for the company they set up, Armstrong Media.
“I’ve felt that we were headed in the wrong direction, but I have allowed other issues to block me pushing for the changes. I’m not sure that I have the words to explain the devastation, pain, regret and sorrow I’ve felt the past couple of months. I’ve tried. After a very painful holiday season, this is where my life is: away from my kids; away from my wife; away from my dogs.
Paula Deen Announces She Has Diabetes, Denies It’s From Her Diet
Paula Deen announced on the Today Show Tuesday morning that she has Type 2 Diabetes (also known as adult-onset diabetes), a diagnosis the Southern chef says she’s known about for three years.
So why is the Food Network star, best known for dishes such as Bacon-Fried Mac n’ Cheese and a Bacon/Donut Burger, just disclosing this news now?
Amidst growing speculation and rumors that she had diabetes (The National Enquirer first reported it in 2010), Paula Deen said she wanted to wait to announce she had diabetes until she could give something in return.
“My knowledge about the disease was very limited. But now I’m coming with good information, something that can help and bring hope to other people. It may sound cliché, but it’s the God-honest truth.”
The “good information” appears to be Paula Deen’s new partnership with the drug company Novo Nordisk, who is paying her to be a spokeswoman. Paula Deen is currently taking their drug Victoza, a once-daily, non-insulin injection. Paula Deen announced her new initiative with the drug company and their new website, Diabetes In A New Light, on the popular morning talk show.
Type 2 diabetes, a chronic disease in which there are high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood, has been on the rise in the United States, and has increased in proportion to higher rates of obesity. As of 2010 there were approximately 285 million people with the disease compared to 30 million in 1985. Type 2 diabetes, which is the most common form of diabetes, is linked to a variety of causes, most notably genetics, weight, diet, and lifestyle. Excess body fat is seen in 64% of cases of diabetes in men and 77% of cases in women.
Health care providers are finding more and more children with type 2 diabetes, a disease usually diagnosed in adults aged 40 years or older.
When Al Roker asked Paula Deen if she thinks her recipes contributed to her diagnosis, a noticeably uncomfortable Deen said: “”That is part of the puzzle.”
Paula Deen added: “People see me cooking all these wonderful, Southern, fattening recipes … it’s for entertainment. People have to be responsible,” said Paula Deen. “Like I told Oprah, ‘Honey, I’m your cook, not your doctor.’”
Paula Deen, who has built an empire around her heavy-handed recipes, says that she doesn’t eat the type of recipes she makes on her show every day of the year. “You don’t want to make a steady diet of just lettuce…You don’t want to make a steady diet of fried chicken,” Paula Deen has said. “In moderation, you can always have that piece of pie.”
Anthony Bourdain, a chef not afraid to mince words, recently called Paula Deen “the worst, most dangerous person to America,” in response to the butter-drenched, fried food she constantly makes.
“I would think twice before telling an already obese nation that it is OK to eat food that is killing us,” Bourdain has said of Deen and the bad food she seems to endorse. In response to her diagnosis, Anthony Bourdain said he obviously “takes no pleasure” in the news, but that’s it’s not unexpected. “When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you’ve been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you’ve got type 2 diabetes…It’s bad taste if nothing else,” he said.
So in light of her diagnosis, will Paula Deen start advocating healthier recipes for America’s families? Apparently not.
“I suspect I’ll stick to my roots but will say a little louder, ‘Eat this in moderation,’” Paula Deen has said.
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