Anna Faris covers the March issue Redbook to promote her sitcom, Mom. Have you seen the show? I surfed onto it by accident, watched an episode, and experienced some serious secondhand embarrassment. Some people must like it. The ratings are decent, and the show’s in its second season. I feel like Anna’s never had a role quite like Lost in Translation again, and she probably never will. But a sitcom is probably ideal for a working mom in Hollywood.

Anna covers a few topics in this interview. She speaks to the mommy brigade about her premature birth to son Jack in 2012. Anna also reveals her grumpiness during Chris Pratt’s Guardians diet extravaganza:

Her premature labor: “My water broke in the middle of the night at seven months. We rushed to the hospital, and they were able to halt active labor with magnesium. I was at the hospital and the goal was to be in bed for four weeks … but on the seventh day, I went into labor again. I was in denial. For hours I was like, ‘I’m just having indigestion.’ Chris and I were so scared, but then Jack came out, even though he was so tiny, he looked so good to us.”

On parenthood: “It’s one of those things that drives you apart or makes you closer. I think that being a father is very meaningful and rewarding to Chris. He’s a great dad. He’s a little more serious than he was before. It forces your hand. You really have to become an adult.”

On the legendary Pratt body transformation: “I just remember being grumpy because there was no food in the house. I love to cook really fattening things like steak and pasta and potatoes. I bake banana bread. But it’s okay. I love Chris ripped and I love him a little rounder, too.”

The working mom thing: “Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.”

[From Redbook]

Are you tired yet of reading discussions about working motherhood guilt? I’m a little worn down on the topic, but I think most mothers feel guilty no matter what. Working inside and outside the home both require sacrifices. Anna probably gets to take Jack to work, which helps. She had to pull out the guilt discussion for Redbook because parenting discussions speak to their target audience. Fathers never get these questions, do they?

Anna did a press conference a few weeks ago where she called her husband a “thoroughbred.” I like Pratt, but that quote made me vom a little. Get a room, kids.

Because we need to liven this post up a bit, here’s some photos of Pratt wearing a Patriots jersey after losing his Super Bowl bet with Chris Evans.

Photos courtesy of Redbook & Fame/Flynet

On Monday night, Uma Thurman stepped out on a red carpet in NYC and by Tuesday morning, the internet was ablaze with stories about how Uma had overdone the Botox and fillers – we discussed it yesterday as well, go here to read. Several people pointed out that Uma’s makeup – or lack thereof – was significantly contributing to Uma’s seemingly “new face.” I think it was a combination of no eye makeup plus Botox and fillers. She genuinely looked “frozen” and her cheeks looked utterly unmoving. Well, Uma’s makeup artist was dispatched to People Magazine to give an explanation for Uma’s new look. Troy Surratt says it’s just makeup, obviously.

“Frankly, I’m quite surprised by the conversation,” Tony Surratt tells PEOPLE. “By now I would have thought that we were all open to and knowledgeable of the role that makeup plays in the world of fashion and particularly celebrity, as a medium for creative self expression. I think that women should feel open and free to experiment with different beauty looks — it’s only makeup, at the end of the day it all washes off.”

Surratt calls the look he created on Uma, “effortless Parisienne chic,” focusing on her lips and complexion. (Note: No mascara was used at all!)

“I wanted to give Uma a statement lip balanced by a more feathered brow,” he shares. “Uma and I discussed creating a look that was more editorial with soft natural lashes. As a makeup artist I’ve grown a bit tired of all of the lash-y looks and fake eyelashes that we’ve been seeing on the red carpet for some time now.” By going for bold lips, statement brows and barely-there eye makeup, “the face is sectioned into three equal parts lending a visual balance and allowing the mouth to be the star of the face,” Surratt adds.

[From People]

There’s more at People Magazine about what makeup he used, but it just read as an advertisement for certain products, so blah. Looking through these photos again, armed with the “it’s just makeup” excuse… I can see why the no-eyemakeup look is throwing off how we see her face, but I’m also pretty sure that Uma recently underwent a major Botox and filler session. It can be BOTH, you know. It can be “different makeup” AND “injectibles.”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe shared a new shot with sons Skyler, nearly 4, and Kai, 1.

“Could not be more in love with this painting of my boys by @shelbyandsandy #mommymoments #capturedintime #brothersforever #liveforyou xoRZ,” she Instagrammed the image posing by the painting.

In a series of pics, the reality star, 43, shared some snaps of her growing boys.

“Mommy sandwich with my angels #skylermorrison #kaiusjagger #mommymoments #liveforyou #bliss XoRZ,” she captioned a shot of herself with the boys.

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According to the Daily Mail (so I don’t blame you if you snort at the authenticity of this post), Gwyneth Paltrow intimated to Marie Claire that she and Chris Martin actually separated a year before the conscious uncoupling announcement and that she was actually subtly asking Johnny Depp ab…      

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is on the cover of the March issue of Town & Country. She’s in gorgeous formfitting white gown with a bustle serving as a subtle nod to her Belle character. T&C’s profile of Gugu, 31, is just as flattering as their classy editorial. She’s a formidable actor with an interesting background, and multiple actors gush to T&C about her talent and the pleasure of working with her. I know Gugu from Belle, in which she plays historical figure Dido Elizabeth Belle. After seeing the trailer, I assumed it would be an overwrought period film, but it’s not. Belle is a delight and Gugu plays the lead with such grace and vulnerability. I’m surprised she wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for that role, but I suppose it would be even more of a surprise if the Academy actually paid attention to actors of color for more than a year in a row. (Despite coming out in 2013 at TIFF, Belle was eligible this year.)

The article notes that Gugu played an entirely different kind of character, a narcissistic pop star, in Beyond The Lights, out last year. She’s also in that bloated scifi mess, Jupiter Ascending. (Who isn’t in that? I almost feel sorry for the Wachowskis, because I actually liked Cloud Atlas. So did the content director for Netflix apparently.)

Here are some quotes from Gugu in Town & Country, with much more in their full article:

On acclaim for her film Beyond The Lights
I mean, it’s really lovely. It’s great for the movie to, you know, have that establishment stamp from the New York Time. But reviews, numbers—they’re not for me. They’re for other people to read and absorb and analyze.

On her personal style
In my daily life it’s about being comfortable. I wear a lot of black. But now, to promote these films, I’ve been working with a stylist. I’ve had some fun Cinderella moments in red carpet land. I love the Audrey Hepburns of this world, and I think Cate Blanchett is stunning and always nails it.

It’s important to know that it’s okay to be your natural self. It’s also okay to dress up and wear makeup and hair extensions if you want, so long as you don’t feel like you need that or will be worthless without it. The point is, it should be a choice.

[From Town & Country]

Gugu strikes me as smart and grounded here. Her quotes about going natural vs. glamming it up are in reference to her Beyond The Lights character. I’ll have to rent that. Gugu has three films coming out this year including The Whole Truth with Keanu Reeves and Renee Zellweger and Concussion with Will Smith. I was hoping to see more of her and it looks like that’s about to happen.

photos credit: Victor Demarchelier for Town & Country via E! and WENN.com

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker got bundled up with 5-year-old daughter Tabitha in New York City on Monday (February 9).

Braving the chilly Manhattan weather, the mother-daughter duo were seen walking to school. Perhaps twin sis Loretta was home with the flu?

Also mom to 12-year-old son James Wilkie with husband, fellow actor Matthew Broderick, SJP is currently collaborating with chic shoe company Tome.

“I just think they’re so talented,” Parker told Vogue of design partners Ryan Lobo and Ramon Martin. “It’s really so exciting to see.”

The men of Tome went on to gush about working with SJP.

“Not only is she an actor that we respect and a woman that we respect, she has this incredible fashion legacy as well, and now the shoe line,” they share. “She’s so much like all of the women who have influenced our collection, when you talk about dedication and work ethic, you know, you have three kids, you have a film career, and now you have a shoe collection, like what? Who has the time?”

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Michael Keaton heads into the awards season home stretch with an NPR Fresh Air interview. I perhaps loved Birdman too much. All of the principal actors (Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone) gave Oscar-worthy performances. No joke, and no snark. All three of them delivered. Naomi Watts (who is usually bland) was surprisingly good too. There’s one scene in particular — where Keaton dashes through Times Square in his tighty whities — that resonates about the celebrity experience. It’s not a flattering scene at all, but he works it, and I’ve got a screencap as my current Twitter background image. In this interview, Keaton talks about that scene.

He talks about how he randomly swapped out his real name (Michael Douglas) for this well-known stage name: “I sort of resent it.” The whole interview is full of good stuff. He’s one of nine children, grew up in a tiny Western Pennsylvania farmhouse, and so on. It’s NPR, so the interview is humongous. Here are a few excerpts:

His underwear scene in Times Square was with real spectators: “Real people because you couldn’t …. not just this scene, the entire movie – it was, for Riggan Thomson, one indignity after another. Yes, just horrible, just getting worse and worse and worse. Just so sad and pathetic, and him trying to hold his dignity up somehow. There are certain things you just can’t know definitively how to shoot, so that always happened and you had to rewrite or refigure, sit down, or have a meeting. And one of them was, OK, we’ll get extras for a while, and then they’re probably going to disappear and get bored.”

He almost “swam” through the crowd in his undies: “I’m a runner, you know, so and a jogger and a hiker and a walker, etc., so I still – my wind’s pretty good, my legs are pretty strong, and I can move. I can still go, you know, for a guy, you know, my age, I can – but you can’t really because camera can only go so fast. So you start to invent things, and one of the things I thought was just hold yourself upright kind of and do a – just a strut that’ll work for camera but also look like kind of stupid – not stupid, but kind of, you know, kind of like – not silly, because you can’t go silly, but in a way, like, kind of hold up his dignity.”

Wearing the Batman suit: “Simultaneously ridiculous to the point where you had overcome it and risky. And I guess kind of cool. I’m claustrophobic so I had to work through that. It ended up working really perfectly for the character. It made me feel real isolated inside there – couldn’t really hear and – but – so that really was a – ended up being a bonus – plus for me. But once again, you think, oh, boy. This is one of those things – this could really go down. This could just be a huge mistake. So you commit to it, and you say OK, you know, I’m in. Let’s make this thing work. And plus I had the advantage also – the imagery was so strong and powerful. And once I saw that, I went, oh, I’m going to work this thing, man. I’m going to work the angles of the suit, the shadows of the suit, the frighten-ness of it, the sexiness of it. I’m going to the work the [expletive] out of that.”

[From NPR – Fresh Air]

There are theories about the magical realism aspects of Birdman that I’d love to discuss but don’t want to spoil the film. A lot of people didn’t like the ending, but (with my whacked out theory) it made sense to me. There was an alternate script that included a Johnny Depp ending, which would have been cool five years ago. Nowadays, Depp’s presence turns everything into a joke, so it’s a good thing Johnny turned down the appearance.

Keaton says he’s still the “same dimensions” as when he wore the Batman suit in the late 1980s. Do you believe him? I do. I also want to ascribe more shade to his remarks. Can I do that? Why not. “Michael Keaton to DC & Marvel superheroes of today: I don’t need your stinkin’ diet and workout plan.” There, done.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

Sports Illustrated interviewed Tom Brady after he’d had a chance to process his Super Bowl win. At the end, they discussed what it was like, coming home, coming down after the high of the victory. Here’s how he described it. And it’s making everyone horny:

Brady: “I ha…      

I feel sorry for Sam Taylor Johnson. I know she’s not a victim of anything or anyone, but I still feel sorry for her. She had to deal with a mountain of crap from E.L. James and the studio, and I get the feeling that Fifty Shades of Grey isn’t really HER vision, her film, or anywhere close to the film she wanted to make. But she’s still shilling it and she’s being remarkably honest in her interviews. In fact, out of everyone involved in Fifty Shades, I think Sam’s interviews have been consistently the most interesting. Anyway, in the midst of Sam’s HuffPo Live interview a few days ago, she was asked a personal question about when she knew she was going to marry then-Aaron Johnson, who was just 18 years old when they got together (and she was 41). She was asked when she knew and this was her reply:

“The instant he asked me. There were two proposals, one before we had even kissed. It was pretty instant.”

[From HuffPo]

Whenever I write about Sam and Aaron, I feel like the world has gone crazy. In previous interviews, she’s said that Aaron was the one to bring stability and family values into the relationship, and now she’s saying that he proposed to her before they had even kissed and she knew instantly that they would marry? Still, they’ve been together for five years or so and they have two kids together. Maybe it really will work out in the long run.

Sam also has a Q&A with THR and she once again name-checks E.L. James as a “difficult” person to work with. I appreciate that neither of them are sugar-coating it. But what was really interesting in this piece was the part where Sam talked about Charlie Hunnam dropping out:

“It was devastating at the time. It was tough because I thought I had a true collaborator with Charlie. But I started to sense that he was getting nervous about the fact that there were three books. It suddenly proved a little difficult of a concept that 10 years of his life could be this character. I think that made him nervous. But I now can’t imagine anyone else but Jamie playing it. We just went through a real bumpy ride to get there.

[From THR]

Well well well. You know that’s not the official storyline, right? The official story was supposed to be that Charlie’s work schedule was just crazy and he didn’t have the necessary time to commit to the role. Charlie spoke very highly of Sam throughout his cop-out though, and I believe they truly liked each other. But now Sam says Charlie tapped out for other reasons: Charlie didn’t want to play the same dumb Sparkles-wannabe character in three films.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Mom-of-three Jennifer Garner was spotted with son Samuel in Brentwood, Calif. on Tuesday (February 10). Looking casual chic in plaid, skinny jeans and ankle boots, the actress toted her tot – who turns 3 on Feb. 27 – and chatted with a fan before heading home.

The Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day star, 42, recently said she is done with diets and high maintenance beauty.

“I eat a lot—a lot—of salads. That’s the way that I get my veggies,” Garner told Yahoo! Beauty. “I eat lots of leafy greens, dark greens, with rice, too, because I want it to be a meal. I just have a big bag of greens that I get from the farmer’s market on Sunday. I keep it in a Ziploc bag and I just pull out handfuls of it for lunch everyday and add whatever I have to it.”

And her husband, Batman v. Superman‘s Ben Affleck, eats a similar diet most of the time, “unless he’s in the middle of really, really training for something,” she said. “And then, it’s such a different thing. Every calorie and every gram of protein—everything’s counted in a way that…I don’t know how he does it.”

The actress – who is also mom to daughters Violet, 9, and Seraphina, 6 – has no interest in wearing “crazy” dresses on the red carpet.

“With food I’m probably good 80 percent of the time. I’ve found out that I cannot pass up pizza without having some. I just can’t! My kids have a lot of pizza,” Garner shared. “I can’t go to a kid’s birthday party without having a slice.”

She added: “I mean, believe me, there’s always a point in the fitting where I feel like, ‘Why I didn’t I just try to lose four pounds and then I could wear any dress?’ I just can’t, though. I dieted for so long in the middle of doing Alias and being a superhero, that there’s something in me that can’t do anything that extreme.”

The Men, Women & Children star went on to share this anecdote: “Last night, I had some blue corn chips and cheddar cheese. And I have a photo shoot today! You know, whatever.”

As for her red carpet look, the actress keeps her makeup minimal.

“It drives my makeup people crazy! I mean, I have done that stuff before, but red lips on me is obnoxious,” she said. “I have enough of a big ol’ face that the last thing anyone needs is to have anything exaggerated that much.”

As for her “wholesome” upbringing in West Virginia, it sounds like beauty was not the focus in her household.

“I mean, we weren’t allowed to pierce our ears growing up,” Garner said. “We didn’t wear makeup. We couldn’t have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn’t think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome. Luckily for my dad, none of us really bucked him on it. We were all fine with it.”

As for her own daughters, it might not be that easy.

“I think it’s going to be harder,” she shared. “My eldest already wants her ears pierced. I don’t know how you do it. I think you try to lead by example. The funny thing about that is my kids see me wearing more makeup than I ever could have imagined. So, they kind of think that’s normal.”

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