Kelly Rowland was right. Blue Ivy Carter is absolutely gorgeous!

The proud parents opted to reveal their beloved heir and offspring on their own terms, neither courting the tabloids for a million dollar deal announcement (ahem, Mariah Carey), or keeping their star child to themselves until the media lost interest (e.g., their own super secret wedding in 2008)…

Instead, they chose to share images of their new-born daughter with the world via a Tumblr page they released themselves.

“We welcome you to share in our joy.”

A handwritten message on the page reads.

“Thank you for respecting our privacy during this beautiful time in our lives. The Carter Family.”

And isn’t it fitting this child of the power couple, who’s already made music history and had her name trademarked, makes inroads into our hearts this way?

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A brand we still haven’t gotten a single glimpse of, by the way.

Apparently Beyonce and Jay-Z needed to take immediate steps to ensure their baby’s name wasn’t used as a brand name for any line of baby-related products, including carriages, diaper bags and baby cosmetics, after a fashion designer, Joseph Mbeh, submitted an application to trademark “Blue Ivy Carter NYC” just four days after the child was born…

Not to mention that Blue Ivy strain of marijuana, which was named in honor of the yet-to-be-seen star child.

The A-list power couple have already filed their application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after it turned down Mbeh‘s earlier application, and a second claim by another applicant who attempted to trademark “Blue Ivy Carter Glory IV” for a line of fragrances just last month.

Wise of Beyonce and Jay-Z. It’s a good thing they acted quickly (although not quick enough) to exercise their legal right to trademark their baby’s name. Who’d want their child to grow up  with a moniker found on nearly every product, from heavy-duty poop diapers to weed sprouts?

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Congratulations, Jasper… err… Jackson!

Edward and Bella may have been the first (and only) ones from the Cullen coven to successfully procreate, but it was actually Jasper Hale (Jackson Rathbone) who was the first to do it in real life.

According to the latest star news, Jackson and his girlfriend, Sheila Hafsadi, are expecting their first child. Rathbone’s rep tells Us Weekly:

“[Jackson and Shiela are] thrilled and excited to be expecting their first child.”

Shiela is actually already five months pregnant, and Jackson couldn’t be more excited. Us reports:

“A source tells Us he recently traded in two of his vehicles for a Lexus Hybrid SUV to make more room for the family’s little one.”

Aaww. Congratulations!

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It seems Blue Ivy‘s parents, Jay-Z and Beyonce have been carefully considering the people to whom they plan to entrust their 19-day-old heir’s spiritual guidance, and they feel media mogul and queen of television, Oprah Winfrey is the perfect fit for their destiny’s child…

Among Jay-Z and Beyonce‘s considerations for shortlisting godparent candidates is that said godparent should not be a blood relation. This scratches out Blue Ivy‘s aunt, Solange Knowles, who was raring and ready to spoil Blue Ivy more rotten than she already is.

And secondly, the godparent needs to be freaking rich. All the better to gift Blue Ivy with the bling she needs in the life she’ll lead.

So we guess Oprah fits the bill. Congrats Oprah!

Is Diddy up next?

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The new dad has announced he’s cleaning up his act…and his language…now that he has baby girl Blue Ivy Carter in his life.

Isn’t this going to be a rather hard rule for Jay-Z to follow? Because we believe there isn’t a single rapper in Hollywood who doesn’t use the “b” word…even dating back to the early ’80s when the art form became part of the mainstream music industry. So if Jay-Z‘s never going to use the “b” word again, we suppose there are other worthier expletives to choose from, eh?

And so the man once known as Shawn Corey Carter wrote a poem in honor of his baby daughter vowing to drop the “b” word from all of his future lyrics forever…

“Before I got in the game, made a change, and got rich/I didn’t think hard about using the word b—h/I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it/Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it.”

It looks like Jay-Z is taking parenting seriously, so woe to anyone who calls Blue a “b*tch”… or tries to date her before she’s 30.

“No man will degrade her, or call her name. I’m so focused on your future, the degradation has passed. I wish you wealth, health and insight. Forever young you may pass. Blue Ivy Carter, my angel.”

Well, you can’t fault the man for trying to be the best dad of the most sheltered and spoiled baby princess ever. And we guess it also means he’ll be subjecting us to the kind of “love my baby” poems like the one above for the rest of his career…

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Not only was Blue Ivy the most anticipated baby in Hollywood, her coming disrupted the smooth operations and customer service (for other patients, that is) at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and made history as the youngest ever person to make it to the Billboard Top 100 chart. Now L.A. pot shops have dedicated a strain of weed sprouts in her name…Beyonce and Jay-Z (and particularly Jay-Z) must be puff-out proud!

In another record for the Guiness’ Book, “OG Blue Ivy” is popping up in multiple weed dispensers all over Hollywood. So if you’ve a mind to draw in the sweetness of this baby whose namesake hasn’t yet been seen by the world, hop on over to any pot shop in L.A. and breathe in the scent of celebrity.

And while Beyonce and Jay-Z haven’t given their okay on this new strain, neither have they sicced their legal hounds with notices to cease and desist on sellers of “OG Blue Ivy.”

So, suck in deep while the goings good….

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Reserving the whole neonatal ward, and indeed, the whole floor of the hospital for the birth of baby Blue Ivy cost Beyonce and Jay-Z a reported $1.3 million, though the hospital was quick to deny that they gave any special treatment to the Grammy award winning singer and her hip-hop mogul of a husband. But pictures do speak a thousand words, don’t they? So here’s a few more thousand of them…

“The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true,”

the hospital said in a statement they recently issued.

“The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations.”

But what about allegations the couple’s stringent security detail gave other hospital patients and their visitors,  not to mention the medical staff, a hard time?

“The family does have its own security detail on site. However, the hospital has been and continues to be in control of managing all security at the facility,”

the Lennox Hill administration continued in it’s statement.

A statement belied by reports of an irate Manhattan contractor, Neil Coulon, among many other mistreated parents, who complained that Beyonce‘s security team refused him entry not only once, but three times, when he tried to visit his wife who had given birth to premature twin girls.

“Once they checked in there was high security everywhere,”

his wife, Rozz Nash-Coulon, revealed to The Associated Press.

“It looked like the president was on our floor. The hospital’s security cameras were taped over. Internal windows from the hallways into the ward were blacked out.”

Other patients complained that they were hampered by the star’s burly security guards. Others said they were denied access or forced to wait to go to their rooms. Cellphones were detained at the floor to the maternity ward, and one of the doctors alleged he was unable to contact his patients via mobile because of this.

And that just goes to show how special Blue Ivy Carter is…barely a week old, yet recipient of the kind of treatment reserved for royalty. Who wouldn’t want to give birth in these kind of surroundings?

Watch out, people…Blue Ivy Carter will be a force to reckon with…right after you get past her parents, that is…

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And we don’t even know what she looks like yet.

Blue Ivy Carter yowled her first hello into the world Saturday, her presence making itself felt on a whole floor of the neonatal wing at New York’s Lennox Hill Hospital. Inspired and immeasurably touched, her hip-hop mogul father burst into song…said song making it’s way to No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 within three days of it’s release…

“The most amazing feeling I feel/Words can’t describe what I’m feeling for real/ Maybe I paint the sky blue/My greatest creation was you. You. Glory.”

Jay-Z raps in the refrain of the viral sensation that features baby Blue‘s cries at the end.

“Hard not to spoil you rotten, lookin’ like lil’ me,”

Jay-Z gives us a hint about which of her parents Blue Ivy takes after.

“The most beautifullest thing is this world…She’s Daddy’s little girl…”

Take a long listen here to Jay-Z‘s emotional tribute to his “Wicked ass lil’ B”…

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The 30-year-old Grammy award-winning pop singer and her hip-hop mogul husband, 42, shelled out a reported $1.3 million to book a whole swanky, newly renovated suite (some sources say they took over a whole floor) of the Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. And then there’s the list of Beyonce‘s diva-ish demands…

Beyonce checked in under the pseudonym “Ingrid Jackson,” which doesn’t make a lot of sense if everybody knew Ingrid Jackson booked the whole neonatal wing of a New York hospital at the same time news was spreading like wildfire that a certain broad named Beyonce was ready to pop out Destiny’s Child.

She also demanded for hospital staff to turn over their cell phones to avoid any unauthorized picture snapping, and instructed all security camera lenses on her floor to be covered with tape.

And we still have to get to the security team who reportedly muscled their way across the whole maternity and neonatal wing in their zeal to keep paparazzi and  curiosity seekers away, quite forgetting Beyonce…excuse us, “Ingrid Jackson”…wasn’t the only patient or expectant mother there.

In fact, Brooklyn contractor Neil Coulon complained about having been barred repeatedly from seeing his wife who gave birth to premature twin girls that day. Coulon’s still waiting for an apology. Think he’s going to get it?

Maybe Bey…that is to say, “Ingrid Jackson,” should have just flown to another country to give birth. You know, like Brangelina. Goodness knows she and “Mr. Jackson” can afford it.

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A-list power couple BEYONCE and JAY-Z booked, sealed and redecorated the whole neonatal wing of Lenox Hill for a reported $1.3 million, and distressed father Neil Coulon, 38, of Brooklyn, reported that he was barred several times from seeing his newborn babies by the couple’s security. He claims Beyonce‘s bodyguards treated the whole wing like their own private club, which tripled his wife’s stress giving birth to premature twin girls…

Coulon complained Beyonce‘s security team barred him from entering the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit repeatedly, once for over 20 minutes, so he could see his newborn daughters.

“Three times they stopped me from entering or exiting the NICU (Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit) and it happened once on Friday — just because they wanted to use the hallway,”

Coulon, a contractor from from Bedford-Stuyvesant told the NY Daily News.

“They should have been more strategic about it,”

he griped.

“These are children with problems in intensive care and you’re just going to take over the hospital like you own it? All I want is an apology.”

He also reported bodyguards wearing headsets even cleared the sixth floor waiting room, booting his relatives out.

“I know they spent $1.3 million and I’m just a contractor from Bed-Stuy, but the treatment we received was not okay. My wife is just terribly upset. She had a C-section. She gave birth to twins. She is sore. Nobody needs this.”

Coulon continued, riled.

“This is the NICU. Nobody cares if you’re a celebrity. Nobody is star-gazing. They just want to see their children.”

Welcome to the seamy side of showbiz, Neil Coulon, where celebrities believe money could buy everything.

You could always sue…

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Beyonce, who announced her first pregnancy in August at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, has finally popped out her and hubby Jay-Z’s little bundle of joy! The singer reportedly gave birth on Saturday to baby girl Blue Ivy Carter (Jay-Z’s real name is Shawn Carter) at a hospital in New York.

A few of the couple’s celebrity pals have confirmed the news via Twitter through their messages of support and congratulation to the couple. Just a few hours ago, Beyonce and Jay-Z’s close friend Gwyneth Paltrow tweeted:

“Welcome to the world, Blue. We love you already.”

Rihanna, Jay-Z’s protégé, also took to Twitter to extend her congratulations to the couple:

“Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih”

Def Jam co-founder and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons also tweeted:

“congrats to my good friends Beyonce and Jay-Z“

The first time parents reportedly chose the name “Ivy” because the number 4—IV in Roman numeral—is significant to them, as they were both born on the 4th (Beyonce on September 4 and Jay-Z on December 4) and got married on April 4, 2008.

Again, congratulations to Beyonce and Jay-Z!

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It’s about time!

Fergie and Josh, who tied the knot in 2009, may finally be ready to have kids, after almost three years of marriage. When PEOPLE asked if she and her hubby had any baby plans for 2012, Fergie coyly replied:

“Maybe, who knows? We’ll see.”

Despite the vague answer, Fergie says she does plan to spend more time with Josh this year. She said:

“I want to spend time with my husband, watch football, watch basketball… I’m going where the day takes me – having days where I have no schedule. That’s going to be nice and refreshing for me … a definite change.”

Fergie added:

“I’m looking forward to being home and not having to sleep in a different city or country every night.”

Hmm. Let’s hope all that newfound downtime with her hubby finally gets her knocked up!

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Celebrity gossip websites have been going in a frenzy ever since gossip has spread like wildfire reporting Beyonce and Jay-Z have welcomed a new baby, Tiana May Carter, into their kingdom Thursday.

The rumors started when a whole maternity wing in a New York hospital, the St. Luke’s Roosevelt, was booked for the occasion of the highly anticipated birth a couple of days ago. Now the Internet is a-buzz with the news that Beyonce has finally delivered destiny’s child into the world, but no one seems to have confirmation of the fact yet…

Are Beyonce and Jay-Z shopping for a birth announcement that’ll pay them a fat paycheck they’ll use to start the baby’s likely considerable trust fund? Or maybe there’ve been complications in the birth, and Beyonce‘s still in labor even as you read.

Nobody knows for sure if a healthy baby girl was delivered, or if their brand new spawn has two heads and eight arms.

We’re putting our bets on the probability that the proud parents are enjoying their one and only offspring and spending quality time as a family this New Year’s before the media deluge begins…

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Georgia Geraldine Dane was born to the “Grey’s Anatomy” star and his actress wife just in time for them to celebrate the New Year with. Eric and Rebecca are currently parents to one-and-a-half-year-old Billie, who was reportedly over the moon about her new sister…

“Both mom and baby girl are happy and healthy, Billie is thrilled to be a big sister, and dad is getting ready to live in a house full of ladies,”

Rebecca Gayheart‘s reps told Access Hollywood.

What an auspicious way to start 2012…with a new family member to round them off to four.

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The multi-Grammy winner wordlessly announced her pregnancy in August this year during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, and it was made known by official announcement she was five months pregnant at that time.

Now celebrity news is a-flutter over reports Beyonce could give birth anytime today…

The buzz at New York City’s St. Luke’s Roosevelt is that a “celebrity VIP” suite is currently being prepared for the birth of the heir to Beyonce and Jay-Z‘s kingdom, and that Beyonce is expected to deliver as early as today.

The hospital has a Labor and Delivery Suite (where Alicia Keys delivered her son, Egypt last year) usually reserved for high profile parties, and it’s rumored Beyonce will be occupying that suite very, very soon. In fact, she may have already checked in even as you read this…

So in advanced for Beyonce and Jay-Z‘s soon-to-be-delivered destiny’s child…congratulations!

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…because Yeater‘s lawyers are still waiting for the “Baby” singer to submit to another DNA test, this time with both parties present to meet the legal requirements and substantiate the “chain of custody.”

According to Yeater‘s lawyers, the Bieb‘s camp has so far been uncooperative in resolving the case. Justin Bieber submitted his first DNA sample without Yeater‘s lawyers present, preventing them from actually verifying the results themselves.

“Bieber’s counsel hasn’t told me where Bieber’s alleged DNA is secured, nor has provided information substantiating the chain of custody and protocol utilized in the claimed DNA collection and testing,”

Yeater’s Chicago lawyer and paternity expert, Jeffrey Leving, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

“If negotiations with Bieber’s counsel do not result in DNA testing of everyone under mutually agreeable and controlled conditions, then the legal proceedings will likely need to be refiled.”

He further threatened.

Poor Justin. He’s got a number one Christmas album out, and the President of the United States even invited him to sing at the White House, but none of that’s likely to erase the paternity claim, and potential paternity suit filing, that’s hanging over his head for the holidays…

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Last month, Selena was so excited upon learning that her mom, Mandy, and stepfather, Brian Teefy, were expecting a little bundle of joy, she immediately took to Twitter to broadcast the good news.

“Momma and Brian are finally letting me share the news… My mommys carrying my baby brother or sister :) I’m the happiest girl in the world!”

Selena posted a shoutout to her 9 million Twitter followers last November 26.

Unfortunately, right when Selena was in the audience at the Power 106′s Cali Christmas 2011 concert in Los Angeles last night, tragic news came that Mandy had lost the baby…

Selena immediately left the show and headed home to be with her devastated family. Her scheduled performance on MTV’s live New Year’s Eve special hosted by her pal Demi Lovato and “Teen Wolf” star Tyler Posey has also been canceled.

Our prayers go out to Selena and her family as they go through this painful time…

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“Now I’m nine weeks along.”

Kourtney adds:

“You’re supposed to wait 12 weeks to tell people, but I feel confident.”

Unlike their first pregnancy, which came as a surprise to both Scott and Kourtney, this one was a bit more planned. Scott admits:

“It wasn’t like we weren’t trying… We kind of just said, ‘If it’s meant to be, it’ll be.’”

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Hollywood news thinks the “Baby” singer may be under a lot of stress following the news the woman he allegedly impregnated with his sperm, Mariah Yeater, has been pressuring him to submit to another DNA test, this time with a member of her own legal team present…

It’s clearly bringing Justin down because he of all people plumb forgot the lyrics to “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.” Apparently, Justin forgot what comes after “…he’s making a list…”, and he repeated that line more than a few times before covering up for his blooper by cutting some cool dance moves onstage at the Rockefeller Center. Unfortunately, his lapse was quickly picked up by MSNBC’s “Today Show”, which covered the event.

Still, we’re giving Justin a break. Despite being a professional performer, he is, after all, only 17-years-old. And he’s actually handling the situation pretty well for his age…

So, please Santa, jot down The Bieb‘s name on that list of yours, will you?

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Does this mean Justin‘s finally going to be a daddy, after all…and for real? *gasp*

And here we thought Selena was a good girl… well, at least a good enough girl to carry her own contraception for just in case…

Hold your horses, Beliebers and Selena fans. The former Disney star did have some baby news of her own…only it isn’t her baby, but her mom’s.

“Momma and Brian are finally letting me share the news…”

Selena shared on Twitter .

“My mommys carrying my baby brother or sister :) I’m the happiest girl in the world!”

She gushed, attaching an Instagram photo of her mom and step-dad bending over the beginnings of a baby bump.

Selena‘s mom, who divorced her biological dad when Selena was five, remarried the singer’s stepdad, Brian Teefy, in 2006, and now they’re about to gift heretofore only child Selena with a sibling of her own.

In the meantime, Selena (and Justin) remain content to share parenting duties for their adopted baby, Baylor.

Do we hear a lot of  “whews!” from you all?

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