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Lisa Irwin's mother reveals she was drunk the night her daughter disappeared.
Lisa Irwin has been missing for nearly two weeks.
As I first reported, Deborah Bradley tells police she put the 10-month-old in her crib and eventually went to bed. Jim Irwin, Bradley’s fiancé and Lisa’s father returned from work around 4am and says the baby was missing so he immediately called police.
In the days after Lisa Irwin’s disappearance the couple appeared to be upset about how police were treating them. At one point police say the couple stopped cooperating with the investigation, however Irwin and Bradley say that isn’t true.
Now, Deborah Bradley is telling PEOPLE magazine exactly what happened the night her daughter disappeared, revealing that she “drank enough wine at home while relaxing with a neighbor that she has no recollection of whether or not she checked on her daughter or turned off the house lights before she went to bed.”
Bradley says the alcohol may have even caused her to black out. “It’s a possibility,” Deborah Bradley tells PEOPLE. Continue reading »
The Obama family
Barack Obama’s father left when the future president was just two years old.
While he credits his mom and grandparents for his solid and loving upbringing, he says he always felt his father’s absence anyway.
Just in time for Father’s Day, President Obama writes an essay for People magazine about his efforts to be the father he never had to daughters Sasha and Malia.
Read an excerpt here:
Kate Gosselin: the mommy everyone loves to hate.
Something caught my eye last night as I was waiting for the subway. Thankfully it wasn’t a giant rat – or at least I wouldn’t call her that, though some people might refer to Kate Gosselin that way. Her beachy, blond photo on the cover of People magazine was hard to ignore as I walked past the newsstand, but I decided against buying a copy, because I can’t stand to watch the tabloids promote Kate even as they tear her down.
In response to Kate’s cover photo, “Mom of 4 Bonnie Fuller” asked, “Is Kate Putting Self Promotion Ahead Of Parenting On Her Priority List?“ I don’t know, “Mom of 4 Bonnie Fuller.” Is Kate putting self-promotion ahead of parenting, or is self-promotion just a part of having a job in media, “Mom of 4 Bonnie Fuller?” Where are your kids while you write your columns on your website with your name all over it?
We all know Kate Gosselin is the Mommy the media loves to hate. Kate appeared on the cover of Life & Style this Spring, with the phrase “OUT OF CONTROL MONSTER!” splayed across her chest. In an article about Kate’s new book, the rag accused her of exploiting her children for cash, which may seem inarguable, given that she’s chosen to raise her kids on-camera. But the piece went on to criticize her for appearing on Dancing With The Stars, which had her flying “3,000 miles from their Pennsylvania hometown once a week so she can compete on the show,” adding, “The kids, meanwhile, are left behind – in tears.” Really? How do we know Kate’s kids are left in tears while their Mom is on TV or a book tour or off getting botox and breast implants in Mexico with her bodyguard? When Kate is traveling, her kids are spending time with their Dad, picnicking with his 23-year-old girlfriend. If they’re crying, maybe he should do something about it?
Kate is constantly accused of exploiting her children and being a self-promoter, and while I’m not saying there isn’t truth to both of those statements, I have trouble understanding how Kate is the “bad guy” when she’s the parent hustling to feed her family after her husband cheated on her. No doubt she’s said some inappropriate things out of anger towards him, but why is it that Jon’s cheating scandal seems to have completely disappeared from the annals of pop-culture memory? More importantly, why is it that Jon has been referred to by the media as a babysitter to his own children? It seems to me that the villification of Kate Gosselin is an indirect attack on working mothers everywhere. Continue reading »
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar haven’t ruled out Baby No. 20.
“We’ll just wait and see what God has in store,” says Michelle in the Feb. 8 issue of People magazine.
It’s hard to believe the couple would risk another — and another and another? — pregnancy after what they experienced with child No. 19, daughter Josie Brooklyn. She was born at 25 weeks gestation and weighed only 1 pound 6 ounces. She’s around 8 weeks old and is still in the NICU at a Little Rock hospital.
So what exactly makes the Duggars refuse to say no? TV contracts? Death-defying thrills? Continue reading »
People Magazine just released their 10 Best Dressed list. The have honored ten celebrities for their sizzling style. “Daring or demure, high fashion or hippie chic, each of these stars turned up the heat and set the fashion world ablaze this year.” Four of the top ten just happen to be moms. Very very chic moms. The winners? Continue reading »
Remember Mayim Bialik from the sitcom “Blossom”? Well, like all of us, she grew up. And like many of us, she had children. So what, you say? Well, Mayim says that you can train your kid to use the potty much earlier than you thought. In fact, she started when her son was two days old. Continue reading »
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