Kourtney, Kim and Khloé speak only to LIFE & STYLE about what caused the family's big fight with Scott, the father of Kourtney's baby--and how they all finally came together.
Standing in her mother's backyard, surrounded by a sea of blue balloons, blue cake and blue cotton candy, Kourtney Kardashian, looking stunning in a Diane von Furstenberg dress and Movado jewels, greeted guests as they arrived at her glamorous baby shower in LA on Nov. 14. Kourtney spent the afternoon enjoying bite-size burgers and mini pizzas from LA restaurant Chinois and dessert, flown in for the event from New York City's BCake NY with 84 of her closest female family and friends. And making a surprise appearance was Scott Disick, Kourtney's boyfriend and the father of the baby, who was greeted like family by the entire Kardashian clan!
But as anyone who follows E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians knows, Scott's relationship with Kourtney's family hasn't always been so chummy. "We're obsessed with one another," Kourtney tells Life & Style. "If someone does something wrong to one of us, we're all down their throats."
"When Scott came back into our lives, it was like Kourtney was asking us to forgive and forget everything she'd said about him," Kim explains. "We were really confused. We had to readjust our feelings about him, and sometimes we had a tough time with it." Scott's hard-partying behavior did little to ease their concerns. "I think he was just trying to have as much fun as possible before the baby came," Kim tells Life & Style. "All he wanted to do was hang out with his friends. He needed to realize that Kourtney and the baby had to come first."
"It was hard," Kourtney admits. "There was so much negative energy. But this is the father of my baby -- I needed everyone to just get over it." In the end, Kourtney's pleas for peace didn't win over her family -- Scott did. "He just started trying so much harder," Khloé tells Life & Style. Case in point: "He put the crib together -- no one asked him to," Khloé says. "He's not a manual labor kind of guy, but for him to put the crib and changing table together meant so much to Kourtney." The transformation isn't lost on Kourtney. The tension "was really intense for a few months," she says. "But I feel like if that stuff hadn't happened, things wouldn't feel as good as they do today."
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Actress Tori Spelling is calling all boys and girls who are size 18 months to enter a modeling contest for her clothing site littlemaven.com via her Twitter!
The lucky winner will be featured on Tori's clothing Web site, LittleMaven.com, alongside Tori's two children, Liam and Stella, and also win a gift certificate to purchase some of Little Maven's cutest apparel.
Tori launched Little Maven over the summer; the actress has said that her inspiration for the line was that she realized "the need for inspired yet accessible clothing for infants and toddlers."
To enter your little one in the search, tweet photos to @torianddean; include #torilittlemaven and your child's name and age. Applicants must be in the LA area and available Dec. 2. Follow Tori on Twitter (@torianddean) for updates and the announcement of the winner on Nov. 24.
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Like his New Moon character, Sam Uley, Chaske (pronounced Chess-kay) Spencer proved to be leader of the pack on set in Vancouver, British Columbia. "I was the older brother or father figure," he told Life & Style during an exclusive photo shoot with costar Charlie Bewley on Nov. 4 in LA. "I'm very protective of Taylor Lautner, Alex Meraz and Kiowa Gordon. We can get on each other's nerves, but it's just like a family." British export Charlie Bewley, who plays Volturi vampire Demetri, crossed the pond to make his big-screen debut in New Moon -- and life will never be the same! "I haven't really absorbed the whole thing," he admitted during Life & Style's exclusive New Moon shoot. "But I'm working out a rapid autograph style now. It's coming along nicely."
L&S: You and Taylor both gained 30 pounds of muscle. Did you hold weight-lifting contests?
Chaske Spencer: We were all really competitive and supportive of one another. One time, I had the highest score on this rowing machine, and the next day I came in and Rob [Pattinson] had beaten me -- he worked out at night, and the wolves came in during the day. I beat him again, but on the last day of shooting, I came in and he'd beaten me by a second.
L&S: Do people ever ask you to take off your shirt?
Chaske Spencer: All the time! Just seeing myself shirtless on the posters makes me very self-conscious. When the Twilight saga's over, I'm not going to the gym for a while.
L&S: This is your first movie. What was it like working with veteran Dakota Fanning?
Charlie Bewley: She's wonderful. The most impressive thing is the way she works the camera with her eyes. Dakota has a wonderful stillness for a 15-yearold actress. It's something most people don't master in a lifetime.
L&S: Do girls swoon over your accent, or are they unable to understand you?
Charlie Bewley: It's a bit of both. I've never been asked out by an American woman, though. The one physical commonality my girlfriends have had is that they have disproportionately large heads. It's kind of weird.
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Lindsay Lohan's relationship with estranged father Michael Lohan got even uglier on Nov. 4, when Michael released a series of secretly recorded audiotapes of conversations he had with Lindsay and her mother, Dina. But now Michael is doing an about-face.
"I will not release another audiotape about Lindsay," he tells Life & Style, claiming he leaked the tapes only to pressure Lindsay -- who he fears is abusing prescription drugs -- into a rehab facility. "I did it because I wanted Lindsay to know how I felt when I heard that tape. When I get a phone call at 2, 3, 4 or 5 in the morning from my daughter and she's in dire straits, I get very concerned."
On one recording, a hysterical Lindsay claimed, "No one cares about me." On another, Dina talked about Lindsay "cutting herself and hurting herself," while another disturbing recording exposed the troubled 23-year-old's apparent secret fling with Heath Ledger, who died of a drug overdose in 2008. Dina was livid after the tapes were released, saying, "The tapes were from a long time ago. For a father to stoop this low is unforgivable."
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In his first interview, Scott talks to Life & Style about how the baby has changed his life plus his plans for a future with Kourtney.Photo Credit: Startraks
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Leave It to Lamas reality star Shayne Lamas thought she was sober after having just one vodka and soda with dinner, so she didn't think twice about going through a sobriety checkpoint in LA on Nov. 14. "I thought this is fine, that's why I chose to drive," Shayne, 24, tells Life & Style. Photo Credit: Startraks
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For a working mom, entrusting a child to a nanny always involves a scary leap of faith -- and comes with a nagging, incessant worry. Former supermodel Cindy Crawford saw her worst fears realized when her young daughter, Kaia, became the target of a chilling blackmail scheme that's consumed the family for four months.
Back in July, federal authorities say, Cindy and her husband of 11 years, Rande Gerber, received a terrifying phone call from model Edis Kayalar, an acquaintance of their former nanny. Kayalar claimed he was shopping around a photo that the nanny had taken of Kaia, then 7, "in revealing clothing, bound to a chair and gagged," according to authorities. Desperate for help, Rande and Cindy called the police. The authorities managed to deport Kayalar, who had reportedly overstayed a tourist visa, back to his native Germany. But even then, the nightmare didn't end. Shockingly, on Nov. 1, Kayalar e-mailed the couple and demanded $100,000 to keep the photo private.
Kayalar has been charged with extortion and could face two years in prison. But the ultimate betrayal came from the nanny, the person Cindy and Rande entrusted to care for Kaia, now 8, and their son Presley, 10. "Their kids mean everything to them," an insider tells Life & Style.
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Jennifer Lopez put a halt to the release of a movie that's supposedly based on her marriage to Ojani Noa, but her ex isn't giving up. His lawyer and business manager are in court trying to overturn a judge's ruling that blocks the tape from being shown, and they're accusing J.Lo of harassing Ojani, to whom she was married for 11 months between 1997 and 1998. "She's having him followed," Ojani's business manager, Ed Meyer, tells Life & Style. "We just ran the license plate of the car -- it's a black Audi -- and it goes directly back to Jennifer Lopez. Ojani's scared."
But Jennifer, 40, is within her legal rights, says an insider close to the actress. "It's a process server trying to give Ojani a subpoena," says the insider. Ojani's lawyer, Frank Sanes Jr., tells Life & Style that his client fears for his life. "We have some concerns right now about the personal safety of Ojani," Sanes says. "We believe he's under surveillance by someone. He's had death threats."
Jennifer was granted a temporary restraining order that prevents Ojani from selling the allegedly steamy home videos. But Ojani, 35, claims his flick, How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story, is not a sex tape but a Borat-style parody of his life as a Cuban immigrant and that the superstar is unfairly keeping him from making money. "She's destroying my life," says Ojani, who was waiting tables when he met Jennifer.
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In another show of support for Angie, Brad declined an invitation to the Oct. 31 Grand Prix Ball Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates -- and the $5 million payday that came with it. Instead he opted to stay in LA to trick-or-treat (dressed as DJ Lance Rock from the children's show Yo Gabba Gabba!) with Angelina and the kids on Oct. 31.
"He's spending more time with the family and doing less of these appearances, even though it's a huge sum of cash," says an insider. James Magee, a rep for Global Event Management, confirms that Brad was expected at the affair. "We were told he would be attending as the guest of the Tourism Development & Investment Company," Magee tells Life & Style.
"But he was a no-show, and nobody seemed to know why." The ball, which helped raise money for the clean-water charity Fresh2o, was the culmination of a three-day event celebrating Formula One racing. Festivities (left) featured performances by superstars such as Beyoncé, Aerosmith and Timbaland.
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Celine Dion and husband René Angélil were thrilled in August when their fertility doctor announced that their in vitro fertilization procedure had worked and Celine was pregnant with a second child. But sadly, the good news was premature.
"Dr. Zev Rosenwaks believed the pregnancy took, but that wasn't the case as we found out some days later," says René. "We were shocked. We are living the reality of the majority of couples who have to use [IVF]: The process can be long and arduous."
The couple, who conceived their son, René-Charles, now 8, through IVF, are not giving up. After finding out the procedure was unsuccessful, René, 67, says the pair tried again in October and were heading back to the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine in NYC for another round. "You know Celine, she doesn't let go," René says about their ongoing efforts to get pregnant. "She is more determined than ever. Since April, Celine has undergone numerous examinations, multiple hormone injections and blood tests. We are full of confidence."
For more on Celine, pick up the latest issue of Life & Style, on newsstands today!
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She filed for divorce from Deryck Whibley just last month, but Avril Lavigne has already found a new man: Lindsay Lohan's ex, Wilmer Valderrama. "They have been friends since working together on Fast Food Nation in 2005, but things heated up last month," an insider tells Life & Style. "One of their first dates was Oct. 29 at Nobu in West Hollywood." Avril, 25, and Wilmer, 29, took things public at LA club Wonderland last Saturday. "She had her hand on his knee and they were whispering in each other's ear, laughing," says a witness. "They even closed the club, sneaking out just after 2."
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The theatrical release of the highly anticipated Twilight sequel New Moon is only days away, but your favorite Twi-stars are walking the red carpet tonight for the film's premiere at Mann's Village Theatre and Bruin Theatre in Westwood, Calif.
See the red carpet footage from start to finish brought to you live from MySpace by clicking below starting at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST tonight!
MySpace Twilight Saga: New Moon Red Carpet Live Stream
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It's Levi Johnston's last day at the Playgirl photo shoot, and Life & Style has exclusive details.
"The shoot is going well," Levi's manager and bodyguard, Tank Jones, tells Life & Style. "Levi is standing naked right now -- he's got one hand down there."
"In terms of props, he's used a hockey stick. That's the only prop in the shoot," he adds. "You'll see what you need to see in these photos."
So how is the 19-year-old father handling his first nude photo shoot?
"I'm good!" Levi tells Life & Style. "I haven't gone through them yet, but there are a lot of good shots."
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