In yesterday’s totally-not-staged paparazzi shots of the day, Minnie Driver pals around in Malibu with her adorable son Henry. In this photo, she struggles between her tote and her darling little one. Oh, the trials of motherhood! I’m happy Minnie is happy, but these photos look so fake.
Minnie’s last film, Motherhood, opened October 23,2009 and basically failed, both financially and critically; Yahoo! Movies gave it an average grade of “C-.” Better luck next time, Minnie.

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Actress and rich person Uma Thurman is promoting her new film “Motherhood,” which tackles that elusive creature known as the “mommyblogger” by claiming to understand she knows the unique struggles that normal face women every day. She tells Showbiz Spy, “Motherhood is a thing that can be terribly under-appreciated. People are very willing to heap criticism on mothers. ”
And while that may be true for Uma, who is a single mom to her two kids after her divorce from actor Ethan Hawke, at least Uma has a big pile of money to swim in when the criticism gets to be …read more

Paz Vega welcomed her daughter Ava five weeks ago, and she’s embracing life as a mother of two.
“Motherhood is the greatest, something superhuman, the piece that’s missing from the puzzle,” she told Hola magazine, adding that her love for Ava and her two-year-old son Orson is like a “bottomless well.”
“It doubles, it triples. It’s inexhaustible and inexplicable.”
Like most moms, she wonders how she “ever lived” without her children. “In homes with children, there is light,” she explained.
Paz went through a scary delivery with Ava, who required a c-section for transverse positioning. She recalls, “I remember, more than anything, …read more

Patricia Heaton may suffer from typecasting, but she doesn’t care! After years playing a mom on Everybody Loves Raymond, she’s taking another maternal role in the new sitcom The Middle.
“I relate to every single thing,” the mom-of-four told Entertainment Tonight. “This is a very comfortable character for me to be in.”
She hopes that in creating characters which mirror her own life, other women will be able to relate to them.
“Moms [are] feeling harassed in having to do everything, do everything really quickly and always feeling inadequate because everything you see on TV, in the magazines, is how you are …read more

Toni Collette’s role on United States of Tara hasn’t just given her an Emmy nod. It also reenergized her love of acting after the birth of her daughter, Sage, now 18 months.
“Even though I was beyond exhausted — I was breastfeeding and had a little person living off my body — I was always excited to wake up and go to work,” she told The Sydney Morning Herald.
But as she prepares to shoot the second season in Los Angeles, far away from her Sydney home, she’s prepared for a change in the dynamics. In fact, she admits she’s still unsure …read more

Australian pole vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva is enjoying time away from the track as she embraces life as a new mom. She welcomed her son Makar, with her trapeze artist fiancé Plamen Milanov last month.
“I am very happy. We have wanted this baby for so long,” she told The Daily Telegraph.
“It is a very, very special time. I love being a mom. I am happy being at home . . . looking after him. I have been selfish about focusing on my career for 33 years – now I am happy to give all my time to this baby.”
Tatiana’s …read more

Edie Falco hit the big time for her role on The Sopranos, but this achievement pales in comparison to becoming a mom. Edie welcomed four-year-old Anderson and 16-month-old Macy via adoption, an experience she found a little overwhelming!
“You can’t believe you’re being left alone with this infant. ‘Don’t they know I don’t know what I’m doing?’ Losing sleep. Up to that point it had been all about me, ‘Oh, I’ll get another massage.’ And all of a sudden there’s this screaming thing in your house and that’s what your whole life is. That was huge,” she explained, adding that motherhood …read more

They say motherhood changes a person, and Jill Scott definitely won’t argue. The actress and singer said she feels “reborn,” adding that “giving birth is such a cleansing experience that I feel like a brand new woman.”
Her pregnancy was a trial at times, but the five weeks she’s shared with her son Jett since have been “incredible from start to finish.”
“It might sound clichéd, but I never thought I would have as much love for anyone as I do for my new baby,” she explained in the latest issue of Black Voices. “I feel so loving and full of life.”
After …read more

When Dara Torres walked away from the pool after the 2000 Olympic Games, she never imagined what would come next. The now 42-year-old gave birth to a daughter, Tessa Grace, came out of retirement to swim at the Beijing Olympics, and took home three medals!
But the American swimmer admits she definitely felt “guilty” about ending her retirement.
“I can’t say it wasn’t hard, because it was … I would call the nanny every 10 minutes,” she admitted.
With the upcoming World Championships next on the agenda, Dara’s learned to manage the guilt by keeping Tessa involved.
“That really helps out a lot,” she …read more

Diana Krall’s latest album Quiet Nights comes from a peaceful place, and it’s little wonder. It seems life has changed for the jazz singer since she become a mother to two-year-old twins Dexter and Frank.
“I’m just really happy,” she told USA Today, adding “I didn’t have just [music] to focus on; I always looked forward to the end of the day, when I saw my kids. So the whole process was a joyful one, very natural, not at all self-conscious.”
But music is the focus once again as Diana prepares to embark on a summer tour to promote her new CD. …read more