Amid split rumors, Ben Affleck was seen picking up daughter Violet, 9, from school in Santa Monica, Calif. on Thursday (June 4).

On Tuesday, we spotted the Gone Girl actor, 42, picking up both of his girls – including 6-year-old Seraphina – after class.

And on Tuesday morning, the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice star stepped out with his mother Chris and 3-year-old son Samuel for breakfast in their posh L.A. neighborhood.

According to Entertainment Tonight, Ben and his wife, Draft Day actress Jennifer Garner, might be headed for a divorce. The parents-of-three have their 10-year wedding anniversary coming up on June 29.

Despite the speculation about their relationship, they’ve been keeping busy on work and family. Ben has been busy filming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, while Jennifer recently launched her new children’s crafts line, We Made It.

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Ever since Kim Kardashian konfirmed her second pregnancy last Sunday, she’s been complaining. It’s been glorious. First she had her newscycle hijacked by Caitlyn Jenner, then she had to tell everyone everything about how she was feeling, which is apparently “sick as a dog.” She’s been complaining about morning sickness (which in her case is all-day sickness), she’s been complaining about heels, Spanx, food and Kanye’s inability to stick around after he knocks her up. I genuinely feel sorry for her about her all-day sickness, but I’m really looking forward to her non-stop bitching for the next six months. Kim is only three months along and she’s already over it. This is definitely going to be her last pregnancy. Anyway, Kim spoke to Elle Magazine about Spanx and heels and she drops a few F-bombs because she’s knocked up, puking and she doesn’t give a f—k.

How she feels in her Spanx: “Please feel secure. You know, earlier today, I was wearing these pregnancy Spanx and they were newer, so they weren’t really the color tone of what I used to wear, and so you totally saw through, and I was just like ‘F–k it, I’m more comfortable in that and it’s just going to be one of those days’—I wasn’t feeling good.”

What she does for the sake of a photo: “But you know, sometimes I wear two pairs [of Spanx] under something or stockings—it holds you in. And when you go on all these hormones and stuff, before I felt like, you know, I was trying everything so I was getting bigger and bigger and I was like ‘No, I’m not pregnant yet, I need to be skinny.’ So, I was definitely insecure. And, I mean, sometimes I’ll wear something and I’ll get inside and be like ‘Oh my God, I want to take these shoes off,’ like ‘That was not normal, I can’t wear these, I need to just leave and take them off.’ So it might look good in the picture, but I get them and then like, I’ve got to be normal and like unbutton my pants when I get in the car.”

She hates flats: “I happen to hate the way I look in flats. It’s really hard for me so I’m already thinking, like, ‘What the f–k am I going to do?’ And when I was pregnant, it was the hardest thing. But I know it’s better and easier, you know, so it’s a struggle.”

[From Elle]

What’s funny to me is that at no point does it occur to Kim to just take it easy, wear flats, unapologetically gain some pregnancy weight, not wear Spanx, not wear too-tight clothing and simply go away and not be photographed for several months. The thought never even occurs to her that she’s perfectly capable of having a low-key, out-of-the-spotlight pregnancy with no drama. But the Struggle is Real for Kim. She’s going to be complaining about heels, Spanx, clothes and so much more for months.

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Former footballer David Beckham shared a sweet snapshot via Instagram Friday.

“Mia Hamm eat your heart out. Harper Seven taking lessons from her brothers (oh and her dad),” the soccer star, 40, captioned the image of his 3½-year-old daughter Harper kicking the ball.

Last Sunday, the proud papa posted a photo of his daughter riding her bike.

Beckham is also dad to sons Brooklyn, 16, Romeo, 12, and Cruz, 10, with wife Victoria Beckham.

“Harper loves football,” Victoria recently said of their daughter, and joked, “It’s like a dagger going into my heart! As much as she is girly, she’s a tomboy as well.”

The former Spice Girl recalls the “lovely surprise” of finding out she was finally expecting a daughter.

“I was told when I had my scan that I was having another boy at first,” the fashion designer said. “I felt so lucky to be pregnant, so whether Harper was going to be a boy or a girl I felt very blessed.”

But just before her due date, she got a “lovely surprise” when the doctors told her she was in fact expecting a daughter. She went on to say that having a daughter is a dream come true.

Any chance for baby No. 5? “No,” she laughed. “I’ve got four! I feel like I’ve done my bit.”

Mia Hamm eat your heart out ???? Harper Seven taking lessons from her brothers ( oh and her dad ) ??

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If you remember correctly, Blake Lively launched her lifestyle site, Preserve, last summer. The collective reaction went from ambivalence to… laughter, I think. There were some defenders, but I think most of us recognized it for what it was: a hipster, artisanal-lite take on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop. The writing on the site was widely mocked, deservedly, because in additional to shilling hipster nonsense, Blake was also writing pro-Antebellum-South essays. Anyway, Blake’s Preserve launch coincided with her August 2014 Vogue cover story, in which she talked almost exclusively about Preserve and how unique it was and how no one ever thought of shilling hipster junk on the internet. Now, in a new Time Magazine interview, Blake is coming clean about how the launch was rushed on Anna Wintour’s orders. You can read the full Time piece here. Some highlights:

Whether she’s an actress or a businesswoman: “I don’t see an “or” there. I see myself as a storyteller—or at least that’s what I try to do. As an actress, I try to tell stories in the most honest way possible, and hope people will connect to that emotionally. With Preserve, I’m doing the same thing: meeting chefs, meeting artisans, designers, craftsmen. I’m moved by their stories and I’m sharing them with my friends.”

Whether Preserve has a business plan: “I hope there’s a business plan! It’s a proper company… It’s hard to make something different. I’m lucky to have friends who are successful entrepreneurs, and their companies’ valuations are very impressive and they’re up against time and money. I’ve seen such generosity that I haven’t seen in the profession of acting—it’s not that actors aren’t generous, but no one has connected me with Meryl Streep to muse about what has worked onscreen and why. In the world of entrepreneurs, I’ve been amazed to be connected with other companies’ CTOs and CFOs and talk about what has worked and what didn’t.”

Anticipating the negative reaction to Preserve: “I see what happens in the world of female entrepreneurs and I see what the media does. And that they pit women against each other and there’s an “or”—should women stick to this or this? I knew we’d probably get grilled, or celebrated for being someone they’re not already picking on. It felt like a new kid coming to school: I’ll get picked on, or liked, for being from a different place. And I’ve been to 16 schools in my life, so I’ve experienced that bullying. There is constructive criticism we’ve taken to heart. And then there’s people being mean for the sake of being mean, or when you’re trying to be light and people take you literally. It’s a nasty world. You don’t see male entrepreneurs pitted against each other, destroyed, picked apart, and every word they say served up to judge.”

Anna Wintour’s demands: “The things that keep me up are things I look at on the site and I know could be better. I knew this was supposed to be better. Time and money, time and money. What I wanted Preserve to be at launch was not what it is at all. It’s just impossible! We found ourselves at launch and we had a Vogue cover set up, so I couldn’t call Anna Wintour and say “I need six more months”—people hacked into our site a week and a half before it was meant to launch, so the site leaked. The site’s not close to what I want it to be. I hope by the time it’s what I want it to be, my standards will be raised infinitely more.”

She never wanted to be an actress: “I never knew I wanted to be an actor. I fell into it and was lucky to have incredible opportunities that shaped my life. There were things I planned for my life that I missed out on. Going to an Ivy League school was my dream. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and carve my own path.”

[From Time Magazine]

Poor baby, Anna Wintour forced her to launch her silly lifestyle site to coincide with a Vogue cover!! #RichWhiteWomanProblems. I feel like the whole “bullying” section of the interview was specifically about the “Allure of Antebellum” issue, in which she attempted to force Gawker to remove their critical coverage and they in turn published her legal threats. If she says that Preserve is not where it needs to be and that they’ve experienced 9 months of growing pains… sure, I agree. But I don’t think that gives her a free pass. She made such a big deal about how this site was going to be SO different and special and we had never seen anything like it, and now that everyone has seen that it’s a pretty mundane, poorly organized, hard-to-navigate site shilling hipster nonsense, now she wants a do-over.

PS… This interview was part of Time Magazine’s larger profile on celebrity women and their lifestyle sites. Go here to see Gwyneth’s piece.

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Allison! Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great time last night at the Broken Spoke. AND the Landing Strip! Here’s Tami Taylor earlier this week…in exchange for you sharing with me her hidden talent. I have never been able to do this. It’s one of the great failures of my life.

The Mega Pet…      

Time Magazine’s current issue has a larger story about celebrities who have launched their own lifestyle brands. That’s the trend now, from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop to Jessica Alba’s Honest Company to Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James and Blake Lively’s Preserve. We are living in the golden age of rich celebrity women telling us what to buy, how to dress, what to eat, where to vacation and how to diaper our children. I’m covering Blake’s interview separately, because it was just too eye-rolly to pass up. Gwyneth deserved her own post too, because Goop was the first of this current “celebrity lifestyle site” trend. You can read the full Time Mag piece here. Some highlights:

Gwyneth on the appeal of Goop: “It’s funny, because when I started the business I didn’t think of it as an extension of myself in that way. I started it to answer my own questions and to aggregate information. I didn’t think of it that way at the time. Now I can look back and say, If you look at the careers of successful people in the entertainment industry, [they] heavily leverage their lifestyle to their advantage. This has happened with more and more thought as I’ve gone along. Initially it was kind of an accident. The world is just changing so much, with social media and the expectation that privacy is a thing of the past. People do want to understand who they align with. If it’s somebody who is on Goop for the celebrity aspect of it, they’re going to find things, for better or worse, that align with me and my values and my tastes.

Whether it’s easier to communicate through Goop: “Yes, that’s true to a certain extent. I’m not interested in building a celebrity business. I want Goop to be its own brand that can thrive and scale without my involvement at some point… I think with the press, of course I can communicate certain things directly to the world, and I have on a couple occasions. The press is its own animal and is going to do what it’s going to do on the side. I’ve never absorbed that. In this day and age, a lot of press seems very all over the place. Yes, you could use your site as a way to communicate with fans, and yes, I have done that, but that’s not really the intention.

Whether she looks at other actresses’ lifestyle sites: “This is a very interesting question, because I wonder if George Clooney would be asked about Puff Daddy’s ancillary liquor line. I’m fascinated how the media in particular are so confounded by entrepreneurial women doing something outside of their box. Jessica [Alba], especially, who’s a friend of mine—our businesses could not be more different. There’s not a lifestyle piece to her business. The fundamentals of our sites are very different. Reese launched—our businesses have similarities, but hers has retail. People are grasping at straws to tie us together and I get it, because it makes a good story, but I’m slightly offended by this sort of generalization that happens with myself and Jessica and Reese and Blake. Yes, there are similarities. But there aren’t stories in TIME written saying, “Wow, look at Arnold Schwarzenegger, who did x, y, and z!”

But there is a trend of actresses-branching-out-to-lifestyle: “I wrestle with it. I feel there’s something slightly misogynistic about it. This is a common theme. I think Reese and Jessica and I—I don’t know Blake Lively, and I don’t know if Jessica and Reese know each other—I’m friends with both of them and I speak to both of them and I want to do everything I can to support their businesses. I’m not articulating it well, because I haven’t completely worked out what it is, but I feel very proud when Jessica was on the cover of Forbes. I think that’s amazing. You can quantitatively say, “Look what she’s done, she’s been able to conceive of a business and scale it to that size, in that amount of time.” But we have such different businesses.

Changing the narrative: “You just keep going in hopes the story becomes not people pitting women against each other, which is not founded in truth. There’s no competition. None of us think we’re in each other’s space. I don’t know how you do it! You just get to f—ing work! I think we’re in a funny time for women. We are more and more the breadwinners in families across America or contributing equally; there’s a shift happening sociologically and psychologically. People are wrestling with this new archetype of being a woman with a brain who’s also sexual and trying to do more than one thing at a time. I also feel proud. Why would I not want to do that, if it’s a passion?

[From Time]

I want to see Gwyneth’s face when she says “I don’t know Blake Lively.” Don’t you? Does that make me a horrible misogynist? Here’s the thing, and I can’t believe I’m defending Gwyneth Paltrow, but here goes: I think she’s trying to be a nice person by defending the individual visions of the women who took Gwyneth’s Goop model and tweaked it in different ways. Gwyneth’s right in that Jessica Alba’s company became something entirely different, but Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James and Blake’s Preserve are merely versions of Goop. And that’s not on Gwyneth. She grew Goop.com from a silly, out-of-touch newsletter about her life into a silly, out-of-touch lifestyle site, e-commerce site and growing multi-platform brand. It is misogynistic to ask Gwyneth to judge the women copying (with minor tweaks) her model. Now, all that being said… every one of these women owes a huge debt of gratitude to the OG, Martha Stewart.

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Congratulations are in order for newlyweds Glory Johnson and Brittney Griner.

The WNBA stars, both 24, are expecting their first child, they announced in an adorable Instagram image.

Posting a photo that depicts a bun in the oven, Johnson wrote, “#SUCCESS #BLESSED #WelcomeToTheJohnsonGrinerFamily.”

Johnson opened up about their impending baby joy.

“It has always been a dream of mine to start a family with someone I love,” Johnson said in a statement released by the team.

“Being a professional athlete that plays year-round, there is never a perfect time to get pregnant without putting my career on hold,” she said. “The entire process, from learning our fertility options, to making sacrifices necessary nine months before the child is born, is merely preparing me to become a great wife and an even better mother.”

She added: “Right now, I not only have my health to worry about, but also the health of this little one resting inside of me. Rest assured I will be back next season, stronger and more ready to play than ever!”

#SUCCESS #BLESSED #WelcomeToTheJohnsonGrinerFamily

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Dear Gossips,

Melissa McCarthy’s Spy opens this weekend. So far, the reviews are excellent. At post time, Spy is rated 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is expected to take the box office. That’s amazing and it’s important. Because finally Melissa McCarthy is in a feature that’s deserving of h…      

I get sad when people don’t pay attention to Charlotte Casiraghi. She has a lot of potential to be a standard of royal and royal-adjacent gossip coverage, but I end up ignoring her most of the time because there doesn’t seem to be a ton of interest in her. Charlotte got knocked up by her boyfriend back in 2013. It was sort of scandalous because her lover was Gad Elmalah, a 16-years-older French-Moroccan and a non-Catholic (Gad is Jewish). Charlotte didn’t confirm her pregnancy until the very late stages, and when it was announced, she packaged it with an engagement announcement too. The baby, a little boy, was born in December 2013. Charlotte and Gad named him Raphael. Things were pretty quiet and in the year and a half that followed, Gad and Charlotte did not marry. And now they never will. Apparently Charlotte has dumped him!

Charlotte Casiraghi is nursing a broken heart – and a sore back after falling off her horse in a jumping competition today. The 28-year-old – who is eighth in line to Monaco’s throne –has abruptly split after three years with French comedian-actor Gad Elmaleh, 44, PEOPLE confirms. The couple are parents to a 17-month-old son, Raphaël.

“It’s sad,” a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE, confirming reports that broke in the French media on Thursday. “Mostly, this is a couple that drifted apart over their careers. He wasn’t around enough – and she wanted a father for her son.”

With a 16-year age gap, the princess – whose mom is Monaco’s Princess Caroline and grandma is the late American actress-turned-Princess Grace Kelly – and the comedian were an unconventional and extremely private couple. After meeting at a party in late 2011, the pair embarked on a discreet relationship that quickly went from whispered affair to tabloid favorite.

Their coming-out was a public appearance together in March 2013 alongside members of the Monaco royal family at the Bal de la Rose – but they continued to maintain a quiet profile, even as Casiraghi prepared to give birth to their son in December that year.

Never married, the couple split their time largely between France and Los Angeles. Their backgrounds and interests were wildly divergent: Casiraghi is a competitive horse jumper and Gucci model. Elmaleh is a Moroccan-born, French stand-up comedian and actor who appeared in 2011?s Midnight In Paris. He has a 15-year-old son, Noé, from a previous relationship with French actress Anne Brochet.

[From People]

It’s worth noting that once again, People Magazine gets the titles wrong. They want to make everyone into a princess. Charlotte is not a princess. Her mother, Princess Caroline, wanted her children to be without royal titles. Charlotte has always been known as Charlotte Casiraghi. It was said that the late Prince Rainier adored Charlotte in particular (out of all his grandchildren) and from what I understand, she’s already a significantly wealthy heiress, mostly from what her grandfather left her.

Considering Charlotte’s uncle Prince Albert finally got around to providing the Grimaldi throne with some legitimate heirs, it’s not like Charlotte’s place in Monaco’s line of succession is particularly urgent. She’s rich, she’s beautiful, she can do whatever she wants. But it’s still rather surprising to see a young, royal-adjacent almost-princess having a baby out of wedlock and breaking up with the dude before they even get married. Who should she get with next? Prince Harry is a pipe dream. I could see her with an American movie star though. Jake Gyllenhaal’s probably in the market for a new girlfriend. Oooh, Bradley Cooper would be excellent! He already speaks French.

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Is that a baby bump? Or just a loose, sacky dress? OR BOTH? George Clooney and his wife Amal have been in Kentucky for most of this week. I’ve been seeing social media updates and reported sightings of them for days. George’s parents live in Augusta, KY and that’s where Amal and George were for the most part. Apparently, Clooney’s folks were hosting a big family reunion, which I guess gave the extended Clooney family a chance to spend some time with The Most Important, Brilliant and Fashionable Woman in the World, The Amal Unicorn.

It’s a Hollywood homecoming! George Clooney took his wife Amal back to his hometown of Augusta, Ky., for an annual family reunion earlier this week, E! News has learned. The newlyweds stopped by several of the actor’s favorite spots, including Magee’s Bakery, where he showed his leading lady the ins and outs of the town’s finest foods.

“George grew up around here,” Russell Dickson, the co-owner of the baker told us. “They both ordered transparents. It’s also called clear pie or cellophane pie. It’s made of eggs, butter, sugar and milk. It was her first time having one and she absolutely loved it.”

Dickson also chatted with the Brit beauty about how she’s finding Southern food thus far, and it turns out, she likes it!

“She mentioned she’s just become a fan of country breakfasts, biscuits and gravy,” he shared.

And Dickson admits that despite being one of the most famous stars around the globe, Clooney is still “the same guy, still a practical joker….We caught up on what’s new with everyone. They said they were having a good time in town.”

Meanwhile, word spread quickly around town that the Tomorrowland actor was in Augusta for his yearly family visit. According to a source, the 54-year-old was even spotted playing basketball in the Augusta High School gym with a bunch of students. And on Tuesday night, we’re told the family got together for a private party where Amal was introduced to several people who weren’t able to attend the wedding.

“He was really excited to introduce her to those who didn’t go to the wedding or didn’t know much about her. He’s proud. They are a loving couple and he seemed very proud,” our insider gushed.

[From E! News]

You Yankees and foreigners might balk at Southern breakfasts, but trust me, I’ve seen “the full English breakfast” and the “New York breakfast,” and I’d take a Southern breakfast over those any day. If I was much of a breakfast eater, which I’m not (I eat yogurt and a banana for breakfast). I wonder if Amal has tried grits? I wonder if she’s tried scrapple?

Meanwhile, OK! Magazine (rolls eyes) claims Amal is taking acting classes because George asked if she’d like to do a cameo in one of his films. The theory is that Amal might make an appearance in Hack Attack, the film George is making about the Rupert Murdoch-owned press hacks. Since Amal is a “perfectionist,” she’s taking acting classes to make sure that she’s the best actress ever, in the world, throughout history.

George Clooney was in his (& my parents’) hometown today ???????? I run down this street every time I visit my grandpa! pic.twitter.com/wCboO0pPGs

— Susan W. (@whatupitsusan) June 3, 2015

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