Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe and husband Rodger Berman hit the beach with their boys – Skyler, 4, and Kai, 1 – in St Barths, France on Wednesday (April 1).

The day before, the mom-of-two, 43, Tweeted a fun holiday photo. “Yes this happened..dancing in the sand choreographed by @lauren_andersen #notashamed #onlyinstbarths #greatfriends,” she captioned the image.

Then on April 2, the reality star shared a shot with fellow celebrity mom, actress Jessica Alba, during their spring break getaway.

“Best last night in paradise dining al fresco on #Maya #greatfriends #perfectnight #springbreak xoRZ,” she Tweeted.

Best last night in paradise dining al fresco on #Maya #greatfriends #perfectnight #springbreak xoRZ pic.twitter.com/CG4AawOI1w

— Rachel Zoe (@RachelZoe) April 2, 2015

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Mad Men star January Jones – single mom to 3-year-old son Xander – covers the May issue of Marie Claire U.K. and opens up about taking placenta pills, her thoughts on marriage, and her childhood crush.

On consuming placenta pills to help combat postpartum depression: “Whenever I felt down, I would take a placenta vitamin and feel better. I didn’t have a fork and knife and eat it like a steak, I took it with my vitamin C and B12. I don’t know if they were a placebo, but they made me feel better. People act like I’m doing some kind of witchcraft.”

On marriage and kids: “I think when I was younger I was keen on having marriage, kids and all that. But as I got into my late twenties and early thirties, all my ideals shifted and having a document to prove love wasn’t really important to me. It’s the relationships that were important, and I still think that way. I mean, if someone came along and was obsessed with marrying me, I would think about that. But growing up, all my family was married and never really got divorced, so marriage was a big deal, it was something you definitely did, so it’s not that I’m afraid of it. I just don’t need the tax write-off.”

On her career: “I have yet to feel I can make a living from this. I still feel like they are going to find me out and I won’t be able to support my family in five or ten years. There is this insecurity, because this is the job where you put yourself out there to be judged, so we kind of ask for that insecurity.”

On her childhood crush Ethan Hawke: “My biggest crush when I was a little girl,” she recalled, noting she fell in love after watching White Fang. “I was weeping and I felt utterly powerless. I wanted to have that power to make people cry or laugh. I just thought that was such a cool thing.”

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Baby Dilly is on the way!

After sharing a Bible verse about “the womb,” 19 Kids and Counting star Derick Dillard confirmed on Friday, April 3, that his wife Jill Duggar is in labor.

The dad-to-be, 26, spilled the beans on Good Friday, describing in detail how he feels about the impending arrival of his baby boy.

“My wife, Jill, is beginning to have contractions which means that the birth of our son is near,” he wrote in a blog post titled, Jill’s Labor and My Understanding of the Bible.

“I can’t even describe right now the anticipation I am feeling, as I am about to get to meet my firstborn son for the first time face to face,” he continued. “So many people have already testified that nothing can quite describe that moment and that I’ll just have to experience it for myself. When I look around, I can see new life everywhere. The trees are budding, which means summer is near.”

He added: “In Matthew 24, Jesus uses the pictures of both a laboring mother and a budding fig tree in spring to relate to people how events surrounding the last days of earth – ‘end times events’ (i.e. famine, wickedness, false teaching, rumors of war, the testimony of Jesus going to all the world) will transpire. If you don’t know Jesus, and your uncertainty of the end of the world scares you, I urge you to consider the words of Jesus, repent of your sin, and live your life for God.”

The reality star also talked about his wife’s contractions.

“From what I’ve learned in birth class (as well as from Jill, who is a student midwife) and from what I am witnessing right now with Jill, labor pains start sporadically and then become more consistent, longer lasting, and stronger the closer we get to the birth of our son,” he wrote. “Again, it’s important to remember that we don’t know when he will be born, but we can definitely see the evidence that points to his imminent arrival, whenever that might be. This is the perfect picture of how ‘end times’ events will play out.”

He added: “Now that I’m about to be a dad, I find it quite interesting that Jesus related the end of the world to the event of birth,” he wrote. “And it’s easy to relate to because as much as Jill and I want to know when this birth will happen, the day and the hour of baby dilly’s birth is definitely unknown.”

The couple shared an updated baby bump photo on Mar. 27 when Jill was 40 weeks, 2 days pregnant.

Congratulations to Reid Scott and Elspeth Keller.

The Veep star, 37, and his wife have welcomed their first child – son Conrad – on Tuesday, March 31, Us Weekly reports.

“My beautiful wife Elspeth and I are beyond thrilled!” the actor gushes in a statement. “Our little man-cub, Conrad, is happy, healthy, and hilarious. What a rush!”

Scott and his wife, who wed in June 2014, revealed their pregnancy news at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January.

Scott is best known for playing the role of Dan Egan on HBO’s Veep since 2012.

Congratulations are in order for Jason Mewes and Jordan Monsanto.

The Jay and Silent Bob star and wife welcomed their first child – daughter Logan Lee Mewes – on Wednesday, April 1, E! News reports.

The baby girl weighed in at 7 pounds, 11 ounces, and measured 20 inches long.

Jason’s pal and costar Kevin Smith shared the first family photo via Twitter.

“Should I call you LOGAN, Weapon X? @JordanMonsanto, @JayMewes & their brand new, mint-out-the-box baby girl, Logan,” he Tweeted.

The proud new dad went on to share a photo of his newborn daughter.

“Yo snootch to the NOOTCH world “I’m LOGAN LEE Mewes ” daddy’s little girl!! Snikt, Snikt !!,” he Tweeted.

Yo snootch to the NOOTCH world “I’m LOGAN LEE Mewes ” daddy’s little girl!! Snikt, Snikt !! pic.twitter.com/FkOhDvLKui

— Jason Mewes (@JayMewes) April 3, 2015

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Sam Smith has lost a lot of weight very quickly. [Wonderwall]
Kellan Lutz got a job, people. [LaineyGossip]
Hot Panda P0rn. And apparently they’re good at it. [Dlisted]
Jimmy Fallon & Michelle Obama did Mom Dancing Part 2. [Buzzfeed]
Live action Winnie the Pooh? NOPE. [Pajiba]
E! is adding more Kardashian and Kardashian-Lite programming. [Reality Tea]
This girl doesn’t look at all like Marilyn Monroe. [Starcasm]
Amber Rose wants Wiz Khalifa back? [CDAN]
Jessica Alba’s body is insane. [Celebslam]
Zayn Malik is still with Perrie Edwards. [A Socialite Life]
Photos from the 2015 World Figure Skating Championships. [Go Fug Yourself]
Classic Florida story is classic. [The Blemish]
Nicole Scherzinger almost popped out. [Moe Jackson]

*Just a note: We won’t publish any stories this weekend for the Easter holiday. Unless something HUGE happens, of course. We’ll be back on Monday & we hope everyone has a happy Easter!

Jon Hamm has an excellent (if slightly morose) interview with Variety this week ahead of Sunday’s premiere for the second part of the last season of Mad Men. I’ll be watching on Sunday, will you? I’m with Mad Men to the bitter, drunken end. But Hamm’s headspace these days is “what comes next.” And I’m sort of sad to say that Hamm really does seem to be begging for the next big thing, to make the legit jump to films in a larger way. You can read the full Variety piece here. Some highlights:

Playing Don Draper: “Playing this guy does not come without its own difficulties. It’s not fun to live in this guy’s headspace year after year… the darkness in Don has not abated, it’s gotten worse year after year. It’s relentless. And it can be hard on you as a person. I love coming to work; I love the people I work with. But it’s been rough.”

His sudden celebrity was hard: “I think I’m a pretty regular person thrust into incredibly irregular circumstances. It’s weird to get super-famous, super-fast. It’s really hard. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not the hardest thing in the world. It’s not performing heart surgery or breaking big rocks into little rocks. (But) it takes a lot out of you emotionally.”

On never winning an Emmy: “The minute you start crying about not winning awards, it seems a little weird. I’m in a very good group of people who haven’t won. I’ll live.”

His acting capital: “I’m afraid I’ve spent my good acting capital doing silly, nonsensical things. I hope I’ll get another chance to play a part as deep and varied and emotional and real as Don was.”

He’s not yet a movie star: “It’s hard to pick roles, honestly. There’s a certain strata of the Hollywood atmosphere that I’m decidedly not in — it’s Bradley Cooper, Pitt, Affleck, Clooney, Damon. I’m not a proven box office draw, I haven’t won an Oscar. I’m a guy from a TV show a lot of people like. I feel like a very capable actor, but I’m also looking for the thing that will make me feel fulfilled and challenged. If there’s a role I want, and they say, ‘Matt Damon’s interested,’ it’s totally legitimate. I would cast Matt Damon over me, too!”

The internet: “You want to know what’s wrong with you, just Google yourself. The most hateful, horrible things will come up. It’s anonymous, with no accountability. And it all kind of hides under the rubric of free speech.”

The rumors: “Jen and I aren’t married, and that’s something people seize on all the time. They ask, ‘When are you having kids?’ I said it to Tina once, ‘Are you going to have another kid?’ and she said, ‘When is that OK to ask?’ And she’s right. It’s such a personal question and so horribly presumptive. It’s (like) asking, ‘When are you and your husband going to f— again?’ I know, the more I talk about the Internet, the more I sound like an old man standing on his lawn shaking his fist.”

[From Variety]

Variety also includes a quote from Hamm’s friend Bryan Cranston, who says that Don Draper was and is a more difficult role to play than Walter White, and that Hamm should win the Emmy this year, breaking the drought. I do think it’s a travesty that Hamm NEVER won an Emmy for Don Draper, but I also feel like… the show won Best Drama a bunch of times. That really is honoring the whole show and the whole cast.

As for Hamm trying to figure out his place in the food chain, there’s no direct quote about this, but I get the feeling that Hamm really is trying to make a larger film career happen. And in the meantime, he’s just doing smaller parts on Netflix projects and the like. While I think Hamm has what it takes to be a real movie star, I also think he shouldn’t discount jumping into another TV show. It wouldn’t be the end of the world for him if he was *JUST* a great TV actor, you know?

Photos courtesy of Peter Yang/Variety.

The Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out in less than a month. This will be your first chance to see Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Quicksilver, officially joining the Marvel universe (except Quicksilver was in X-Men: Days of Future Past but it was a different actor). Oh… wait, Aaron did an uncredited cameo in Captain America: Winter Soldier, so nevermind. You probably already know him then.

I don’t have much of an opinion of Aaron as an actor. The only thing I’ve really seen him in was Kick-Ass. He made it work in that film, but I would imagine joining the Marvel universe will do good things for his career. In any case, Aaron has a new interview with Marie Claire UK. He talks about his wife, Sam Taylor Johnson, who is 48 (Aaron is 24), and their marriage and how proud he is of her work on Fifty Shades of Grey. Some highlights:

Whether he considered playing Christian Grey: “No, never! I think there would have been a lot of unhappy fans of the book. We both read it and knew right then that when she went into direct it, I wouldn’t be the one to step into those shoes. And that was fine. It didn’t feel like one of us was like, ‘I really wanted to do that’. I’m obviously really, really proud of Sam and it was great to see her take that project and make it her own, and not have to feel like just because there’s a role… I feel like I’m too young for that role anyway!”

On his marriage: “With Sam I just knew. I just knew I wanted kids with her, I wanted to be with her and I wanted to get married to her. I never had that moment like, ‘I want to be an actor’, but I love being a dad.”

[From MTV UK]

Too young for Christian Grey and yet old enough to be married to the 48-year-old director and have two kids with her? Sure. As Aaron and Sam’s marriage lasts longer than I was originally expecting, I have to say that they are growing on me. A little bit. I still think there’s something “off” about their relationship and that they probably won’t last forever, but you know what? You could say about most couples. Imagine Aaron at the age of 18, meeting his 42-year-old director and thinking, “This woman will be the mother of my children.” That’s intense. He was either a very intense 18-year-old or he’s taking some creative liberties with their romantic history. God knows.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This is a photo of Matthew Perry encountering millennials on the street in January. They’re all excited to meet Chanandler Bing, and he was gracious in response. The cigarette, ugh. But I will always have a soft spot for Perry. He’ll always be my favorite Friend, and I keep rooting for him to find the right mix on another television show.

With that said, I caught The Odd Couple last night, and the inner Chandler Bing voice spilled right out: “Could this BE any more awkward?” Perry was fine as Oscar, he’s a trooper. Thomas Lennon seems tailor made for the role of uptight Felix. Yvette Nicole Brown worked her lines too, but the show is a stinker. The writing isn’t funny, and the laugh track is one of the most obnoxious I’ve heard. Perry’s pushing through the publicity. He has a charming new interview that’s much better than his show:

On being recognized: “Friends definitely had that magic attached to it. It had great casting, great directing, great writing. It hasn’t been off the air since we finished shooting it, and now, with Netflix, it’s getting a new audience and I am getting recognised in the street by people who weren’t even alive when we actually shot the show … who are very confused … by how old I look.”

He’s addicted to humor to a fault: “I come from a funny family, and I’ve always been more comfortable in an atmosphere that was lighthearted. But I got to a point where I was kind of addicted to it. I always wanted to fill the silence with a joke — and that’s not an especially healthy way to be. It was like that going out with girls. If you made a joke on the first and second date she would love it. But if you were still making jokes on the seventh date, she’d be saying: ‘One more joke and I’m going to kill you!’”

Still looking for love? “I love children. I have a lot of much younger brothers and sisters so I was always babysitting as a kid. I have godchildren, whom I love, and I look forward to being a father. I think I’ll be wonderful at it. There’s just one important step to be taken first. Like being able to go on a second date …”

Overcoming his struggles: “I’m a little older, a little wiser. I have spent a lot of time trying to get centered in my life and to be a little less anxious and nervous, and I think I’m succeeding. Yes, it’s been well-documented that I’ve had my own troubles in life, and you can’t help but use those as a springboard to try to become better or you sort of get lost in the darkness of it all. My life is a lot less about myself now. I get much more of a kick out of helping people than out of anything else I do, including acting. So out of darkness comes light.”

[From Daily Mail]

Perry also talks about his struggles with sudden fame and how he coped with drugs. We’ve covered that before. He seems healthier now, and hopefully it will stick. I completely empathize with his addiction to humor to lighten an uncomfortable silence. That can wreak havoc on a budding relationship. Perry dated Lizzy Caplan for a few years, but they’ve been over for awhile. He says he can’t find a woman who will go out with him on a second date. Assuming he no longer goes three months without changing bedsheets, he’ll get there eventually.

Vintage Friends cast photos! I couldn’t resist.

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Margaret Atwood is a 75-year-old living legend. She is a poet, inventor, humanist, novelist and Canadian. She is wry and forward-thinking. She is amazing. Go here to read her Wiki. For some reason, someone asked Margaret Atwood what she thought about Duchess Kate’s style. Surprisingly, Atwood had an opinion. Incidentally, I don’t think this is anti-feminist or anything, to ask a living legend like Atwood about something superficial like Kate’s style. For all we know, this came up organically within a longer interview. And who says that we can’t be good at our jobs AND have an opinion on Kate’s style, you know?

Her style is followed by women across the globe and whatever she wears is sure to sell out within minutes. Yet the Duchess of Cambridge has been dismissed as an ‘uneventful’ dresser by leading author Margaret Atwood.

‘I think she dresses quite uneventfully,’ the author of The Handmaid’s Tale said. ‘I think she’s watching her back, I think she probably has people who pretty much tell her what is appropriate for her to wear. I don’t think she’s become the fashion plate that Diana was, and I think she’s probably doing that advisably, wouldn’t you say?’

Miss Atwood is just the latest high-profile female writer to apparently attack the duchess’s image and public persona. Double Booker Prize winner and Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel has described Kate as a ‘shop window mannequin’ and a ‘machine-made’ princess who has been ‘designed by committee’. Meanwhile Sandi Toksvig has said the duchess doesn’t have a ‘single opinion’ of her own, and Joan Smith caused outrage by labelling Kate ‘unambitious and bland’.

Speaking at a talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Miss Atwood, who has also won the Booker for The Blind Assassin, admitted she judges women on the clothing they wear. The novelist, who has been described as a feminist writer, said: ‘Let’s pretend you’re meeting a person for the first time, as you do when you meet a character in a book. What do I see? Your dress, I see your face of course, I focus on that. I see your earrings, I see your necklace, and those are all part of you. They are all part of the total image of who I’ve just met.’

[From The Daily Mail]

All of those descriptors fit Kate: she is uneventful, bland, unambitious, designed by a committee, etc. But let’s be real – we would always find something to bitch about with Kate. That’s the nature of her role at this point. I would hope that after four years with The Firm, she would have learned to put on panties, stop fiddling with her hair during events and find a way to at least feign professionalism, but I do get the impression that Kate is “dull” on purpose, because that’s the way William wants her, and that’s the way the senior royals want her. And here’s something nice: her style was SO MUCH better during her second pregnancy. Seriously. She managed to dress appropriately and almost conservatively for the entire pregnancy.

Photos courtesy of WENN.