Links For 29 March 2010

Ricky Martin Finally Comes Out
Ricky Martin finally has admitted to being gay. Not sure what took so long, he's already a huge icon. And it's not like we didn't all know already. Congrats on not having to lie anymore!

Bethenny Frankel Calls Wedding 'The Best Night Of My Life'
The Real Housewife of New York finally got a man to marry her. I've never heard a woman whine about getting married and pregnant so much in my life. Now Frankel, 7months pregnant has achieved both. And of course she is filming everything for Bravo.

Polaroid 600 One Camera on Sale Via the Impossible Project
Built in flash, digital LCD screen for picture count, and a focus-free lens. $180. Better hurry, they have fewer than 50 left. I would have been all over this, but I finally gave in and bought an IPhone...and promply became addicted to Hipstamatic.

Sandra Bullock...Gone Hollywood Without Jesse
Sandra Bullock has moved out of the home she shared with husband, Jesse James (reality tv's Tiger Woods) and into a home she owns in Hollywood. Could you get over your husband not just cheating, but being a complete slut about it?

Five Takes on the Family Tree
I especially love the Genuinely Yours Tree. Too bad the last last four generations of my family wouldn't amount to a twig. (We're not really breeders.)

16 and Pregnant

Last nights 16 and Pregnant was heartbreaking. Valerie seemed so alone. Valerie was adopted and you could feel her longing for a family. Her adoptive family was great and stood by her, but something was just missing. Maybe she was lost in the midst of all the adoptive (11) and foster children (over 90).

And then she her daughter, Nevaeh was born so ill that she had to taken by helicopter to the nearest children's hospital. It was the saddest episode yet. Yes, even sadder then when Catelynn gave her daughter up for adoption.

If last season was about fathers who were at least trying to make an effort, the boys so far on this season are baby daddies in the true Maury sense of the words. They are jerks to their very cores. Valerie's baby daddy, Matt even denied  that the baby was his.

Watch the full episode below:

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And if the show was sad, the aftershow was even worse. She knows that Matt isn't really going to be there but she still holds out hope.

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The New Season of 16 and Pregnant

It looks like season 2 of "16 and Pregnant" is going to be even better than the first. If you thought Farrah partied too much, you will be shocked by Janelle. At least Farrah tried to be a mother. Janelle lived in Fantasyland before giving birth (She didn't realize that newborns are a lot of hard work.), and when she just kind of gave up and pawned her baby off on her mother to raise.


I am excited to watch Nikkole's episode. Here is a clip of Nikkole and her mother discussing the pregnancy.


And here is a clip of her boyfriend acting like a brat. Poor Nikkole is in pain and that jerk is arguing with her mother and his. His mom even tells him to leave. Boys like that do a lot to dispel the myth of "If I have his baby he will love me forever."

"16 and Pregnant" airs 10pm Tuesdays on MTV.

Kourtney Kardashian Still With Her Loser

With one smooch (and then another and another) in Vegas on Friday, Kourtney Kardashian and boyfriend Scott Disick put to rest rumors of the couple's demise.(All that smooching sounds like acting for the camera. Most couples of that age don't go around kissing in public that much. What are they trying to prove?)

The pair have been under fire since reports surfaced that Disick, the father of Kardashian's 9-week-old son, Mason, had been unfaithful. The rumors, Kardashian said, couldn't be further from the truth.(Am I the only one who think he looks like a douche bag from the 1980s?)

When asked if she is laughing off the rumors, she told PEOPLE exclusively, "Yes, of course. You can't take it too seriously."

"Scott is my partner and we do everything together," Kardashian said before entering Las Vegas's Jet Nightclub.(Of course he's her partner. He has to make sure she doesn't throw him to the curb because she's his meal ticket.)

And if they are in any kind of turmoil, you wouldn't know it from their visit to the club, which was hosting a fashion show by Dash, the clothing store she owns with her sisters. After strolling in hand in hand and kissing for reporters, the couple headed to a VIP table. There, they were spotted smooching throughout the night while Disick continually touched Kardashian's leg.

While in Vegas, Kardashian and Disick left Mason in the care of her family, but that didn't stop the doting mother from keeping tabs on her son via her cell phone and picture messaging.

"I'm like, 'What is he doing? What is he wearing? Send me pictures,' " she said. "I've only left him to go to dinner twice." 

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MTV Teen Moms Unseen Moments

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Tonight MTV will be showing MTV Teen Moms Unseen Moments. It is kind of a goodbye to Maci, Farrah, Amber, and Catelynn. And it looks like the unseen moments are even better than what was shown of the show.

I wonder how the girls are going to adjust to parenthood without the cameras. Those cameras have been there since the very beginning. I don't think Farrah will be going away. She seems like the type to milk her fifteen minutes of reality tv "fame." She is rumored to be dating Pauly D from Jersey Shore. Even though they have never met according to him. And I really hope Catelynn is allowed the chance to work with girls thinking about adoption. Her story was the most moving out of all the girls. I will be watching tonight at 10pm. And I can't wait for Season 2 of 16 and Pregnant.

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Farrah From MTVs Teen Moms Beaten By Mother

One of the young mothers from the MTV reality show "Teen Mom" was allegedly choked and then hit by her 54-year-old mom this weekend -- and mom is now facing domestic violence charges.

The Council Bluffs Police Department in Iowa tells TMZ Debra Danielson -- the mother of 18-year-old "Teen Mom" Farrah Abraham -- was arrested at around 1 PM on Saturday for suspicion of domestic abuse/serious assault.

According to cops, Farrah and Debra started arguing over childcare issues when Debra allegedly threw an MTV shirt at her daughter ... which landed "on or near" Farrah's baby, who started crying.

That's when Farrah claims she went off on her mother -- who then grabbed Farrah by the throat. Farrah told cops she pushed her mother's hand away from her throat, causing her mother to strike her on the right side of her head and mouth.

In the report, officers say they observed multiple cuts on the right side of Farrah's lips.

I would be angry if my mother threw something and it hit my baby. But this probably wouldn't have happened if Debra had put her foot down over the childcare issues a long time ago. She lets Farrah walk all over her. They just should have stopped babysitting while Farrah went out. She would have learned to stay at home. Farrah thinks she is entitled to everything her parents do for her. Yes, her mother has anger issues, remember when she slapped her upside her head in the car, but I'm surprised this didn't happen a long time ago. I wonder what Farrah will do without her parents' money.

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Teen Moms

Maybe the problem for Farrah from MTV's Teen Mom isn't that she has a "kid", but that the guys see that she would rather hang out with them and her friends than her baby. Yes, she is still a teenager but Sophia is just a baby, and babies need their parents. Would you want to commit to someone who couldn't even commit to their own child?

And if her parents disapprove of her going out so much, why don't they just say no. She would quickly learn to stay at home if she had to pay a babysitter every time she went out. They are making it a wee bit too easy on her. And how does she thank them, by being rude and telling them how much she hates them. I would have tried that crap once, and my mother and grandmother would have never babysat again.

First Photos Of Poor Little Mason Dash

Thank God, that Kourtney Kardashian didn't name her newborn store after her son. Dash was her father's nickname. It is short for Kardashian. I know this because she is on the cover of this week's Life & Style magazine with little Mason Dash. At least she waited a whole week to have his photos taken, unlike Kendra Wilkinson who whored her baby out the moment they got him home from the hospital.

Tonight's Teen Mom Preview

MTV has a bit of a double standard. They wouldn't show Snooki from Jersey Shore getting hit (Even though everybody had already seen it.), but we get to watch Amber slap Gary up side his head.


Amber is ten times more mature than Gary, and he she has every right to be upset with him. But if MTV showed him hitting Amber everyone would be screaming about domestic violence. Gary needs to clean up his act or Amber will grow tired of his butt and leave. But Amber shouldn't be hitting him especially in front of their daughter.

And another thing I have wondered about. Why are these girls' parents so accepting of them having sex with guys 4 or 5 years older than their daughters? If your 15 year-old is dating a twenty year old don't be surprised if she turns up pregnant.

Farrah From MTVs Teen Mom

Sometimes it is easy to forget that MTV covers serious subjects, especially since they are also currently promoting Shore House. But the show Teen Moms is exactly that, a hip look at a serious subject. After years of declines the teen birth rate is once again on the rise. (I wonder if it has to do with the downturn in the economy. Does it have anything to do with less funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs.) I was able to interview Farrah. She came across as a smart, well spoken girl. Which shows you that teen pregnancy can happen to anyone. She was a nice cheerleader from a good Christian family with two parents. If it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone.


How are you managing to balancing parenthood and being a teenager?
For me, I think I am balancing being a teenager and a mother great. And I am glad that you asked that because that's a big topic.

How is your relationship with your mother? Do you find that she is more overprotective since Sophia's birth?
I think my mom is more wanting to help since Sophia's birth. She's not as overprotective in the way of like, everyday life. But with the whole dating thing, yeah, she got a little out of control.

Farrah's mom deserves a show all her own. But saying that she got a little out of control is one of life's great understatements. She is involved in a way that you don't see the other mother's involved. Maybe it's because Farrah is still at home. But you know that she will do her best to make sure that her granddaughter's needs are put first. 

How is the dating going?
I would say it's on a downhill.
I've been there.
Yes, I think every woman's been there. And being a mom doesn't make it easier.

The boy, Cole that she is dating on the show a hottie. He has movie star good looks. Have a look at the clip below.


What were you thinking when your mother told Cole, "We would love you to go to heaven with all of us"?
What was I thinking? Oh my, I was thinking...I don't know. I don't even know what I was thinking at that moment. What would your mom say? Like, you know, if you were there and your mom said that to a guy you were dating or possibly or getting married to.

This may be one of the most entertaining moments I saw on television all year. It's kind of like closing the barn door after all the horses are out, but funny. Of course, if it were happening to me I would die of shame.

I think I would die of embarrassment. 
That's what I was.
The look on your face, it was just a look of shock.
It was, because I was in very big shock. And I had to talk to Cole about God and everything. Oh my. I still wonder what is going through his mind, you know.


Has Sophia's father tried to be involved?
Um, that's not something I am going to comment on.

I wouldn't have asked this question if I had read the rumors first. It seems that Sophia's rumored father died in an car accident before her birth.

What was your experience on the show?
I would like to just say that I had a great experience. And I hope everyone likes the show because I know everyone is excited. And I hope they learn from me.

So you haven't had people acting negatively to you since the show?
You know everyone has there own opinion. But for the most part, you know, I've been hearing positive things, and you know...educating things. So it's been great.

I found your episode of the show to be more realistic than some of the others.
Well, thank you. I hope... It is real. So I hope people really take that into account and learn from it so that they don't make wrong choices for their own lives. 

What would you do if Sophia came to you at sixteen and told you she was pregnant?
I would say, "Did you not learn anything from me?"


You can find Farrah's Twitter Page here. I'm not positive it is the real one, but I will contact the show's publicist to find out. And watch the show. Everyone I showed the first episode to loved it. And I didn't just show it to teenagers. I showed it to my mother and grandmother.  I showed it to my sons, 16 and 10. Anything to make sure they don't get some girl pregnant. It's not a preachy program at all, but it isn't making teen motherhood look glamorous either. Watch Tuesday at 9PM on MTV.

MTV Teen Moms

MTV will be bringing back four of the mothers from their hit show, 16 and Pregnant. And trust me, the first episode shows how unglamorous it is to be a teen mother. We get to watch Farrah, Maci, Amber, and Catelynn juggle taking care of their babies with trying to build lives that hover somewhere between being a teenager and adulthood. The show is good enough that my 91year old grandmother watched and enjoyed it.



Teen Mom premieres on Tuesday, December 8 at 10:00pm ET/PT and will have eight one-hour episodes. And check here on Monday, because I will be interviewing Farrah. Farrah is my favorite, because she reminds me of myself almost two decades ago.

Spoiler: Catelynn and Tyler had unprotected sex after giving up their daughter for adoption!!! I was shocked. I assumed that they would be the one pair that wouldn't make that mistake again. You have to watch Teen Moms, and if you have teenagers make them watch it to. Until next week, you can watch full episodes here.

WeTV Platinum Babies

WeTV's new show, Platinum Babies is a peak inside the reproductive style of the rich and d-list. Think Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous for the tot set. You get to see fancy nurseries and extravagant baby showers. I don't know why people go on these shows, it just exposes you to the scorn of the friends and relations. And we all know from show like the Real Housewives that most of the people are just barely floating on a sea of debt. The show airs of Friday at 9/8C.

Little Boy Floats Way In Experimental Aircraft

Update: 
There is video of the family speaking. Listen at the 42second mark. He's asked why he didn't answer his parents, and he says that "We did this for a show." Hoax anyone? Read my earlier update, I said it sounded like a hoax.



Falcon has been found alive and well at home. He was hiding in a box in the garage.



A sheriff's deputy is saying that he saw something fall from the balloon.


He wasn't in the balloon. Where is little Falcon? Hopefully, the little brother was wrong, and Falcon just wandered away. But it isn't looking good. And the family once was on the reality show, Wife Swap. I hate to sound like a bitch, but if the boy wasn't in the balloon could this be a hoax on the parents' part.

He's on the ground. It was a gentle landing. The fire department is shoveling dirt to make sure it doesn't fly away, and tying it down.
The Associated Press is reporting that the boy, Falcon may have fallen out of the balloon. Why were his parents building something that looks like an UFO? Oh, the sheriff said that the family never intended it to carry anyone, it was just a family project.


Authorities were scouring the skies Thursday for a 6-year-old boy who unhooked his family's experimental balloon-powered aircraft and floated away from home, sheriff's officials said.

The Larimer County Sheriff's Department said the boy's family had been building an experimental aircraft that had a large helium balloon attached to it at their home, KUSA-TV reported. The aircraft was approximately 20 feet by 5 feet and covered in tin foil, the station said.

On Thursday morning, according to the family and officials, the boy got onto the aircraft and detached the rope holding it in place.

Several people in the neighborhood said they saw the aircraft floating over their homes and some snapped pictures.

Officials were scrambling to figure out how to rescue the boy. (Hate to say it, this thing is going to crash. What were his parents thinking leaving the balloon so unsecured.)

The craft, which is shaped like a flying saucer, has the potential to rise to 10,000 feet, Larimer sheriff's spokeswoman Eloise Campanella said. Sheriff's officials last saw the device floating south of Milliken, which is about 40 miles north of Denver.

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No More Jon &Kate Or Their Eight

Our long national nightmare is finally over.

Jon & Kate Plus 8, which in recent months had become just about as fun as reliving your parents' divorce, will stop filming new episodes next month, according to the New York Post.

After Jon Gosselin, 32, forbade TLC from filming his and 34-year-old estranged wife Kate's eight children for their show, the network will try to squeeze out a couple remaining episodes from existing footage before putting the show to rest, according to sources.

Kate, who's previously said she relies on the show for her income, and who says the kids have been crying since the film crews left, hasn't commented. Neither has Jon, who said he put the kibosh on the show because had an epiphany about the harm the show was causing the family – and not because he'd been axed from a future version of the show to be called Kate Plus 8.

It's not clear whether TLC would restart the show should Jon change his mind about filming the kids.

I wonder how they will make a living. Are they going to have to get real jobs?(gasp) Kate will have to go back to begging for "love offerings" at churches. You know we will have to see them floating dlist celebrity events like all those other former reality show stars.

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Mackynzie Renee Duggar

There's doting – and then there's Duggar doting.

Mackynzie Renée Duggar is in for an avalanche of family attention: She's not only the first grandchild in the reality TV clan, but she already has 17 aunts and uncles, plus one more on the way, since her grandparents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are expecting their 19th child in the spring.

Mackynzie was born at the home of her parents, Joshua and Anna, with a midwife and doula attending the birth. "Josh was excited to participate in the birth as well," says a family friend. "They are both so happy."

Josh has been front and center in his wife's first pregnancy – telling her the news that she was pregnant after she was too nervous to look at her own pregnancy test, and reading and singing to his daughter before she was born.

"I ask Anna what she needs," Josh told PEOPLE in July. "I talk to the baby and we involve her in our conversations. When Anna and I are talking to each other, we'll say, 'So, how do you like that, Mackynzie?' "

Although Mackynzie is his first child, Josh knows all about raising babies. He's the oldest child born to the Tonitown, Ark.-based Jim Bob and Michelle, who also are the biological parents of twins Jana and John-David, 19; Jill, 18; Jessa, 16; Jinger, 15; Joseph, 14; Josiah, 13; Joy-Anna, 11; twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 10; Jason, 9; James, 8; Justin, 6; Jackson, 5; Johanna, 3; Jennifer, 2 and Jordyn-Grace, 9 months.

The newest Duggar's name came from a combination Josh's cousin's name (Mackynzie) and Anna's middle name (Renée), but the couple hasn't completely committed to "M" being the letter to begin all their children's names. The Duggars famously have chosen "J" names for all their children.

Mackynzie Duggar's birth will be featured on TLC's 18 Kids and Counting special First Grandduggar, airing Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 9 p.m.
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Man Shops Globe

The Sundance Channel has a new show that follows Anthropologie's globe trotting buyer, Keith Johnson, around the world. We get to watch as he sources the items that turn Anthropologie stroes around the world into the beautiful vitrines that they are. And it is a reality show where the characters aren't crazy. Man Shops Globe premieres tonight on the Sundance Channel at 10PM E/P.

Atlanta Housewife's Ex Killed In Parking Lot Fight

Ashley Jewell, the onetime fiancé of Kandi Burruss, a castmember of Bravo's Real Housewives of Atlanta, has died from an injury sustained during a brawl outside an Atlanta strip club, TV station WBSTV reports.

"It appears he was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head," Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows told the TV station. Jewell was taken to a hospital where he later died.

Jewell, known as A.J., appeared regularly on the hit reality show, often clashing with Burruss's mother, who disapproved of her daughter's relationship. He and Burrus ended their engagement earlier this year.

Burruss reacted to the death with the following messages on her Twitter page:

• im just in one of those moods where i dont wanna talk, i dont wanna b held & told its gonna b ok. i just wanna cry myself 2 sleep, alone.

• I could never n a million years imagine this happening. please pray for AJ's children. that's who im the most concerned 4.

• im bout 2 giv my swollen eyes sum rest now. i just wanted to say thanks 2 every1 for their prayers. i gotta get up & go 2 my uncle's funeral

Burruss's publicist Lisa Nelson told the Atlanta TV station that Burruss, 33, a singer-songwriter who recorded with the band Xscape and worked with TLC and Mariah Carey, was "stunned and speechless" when told the news.

Police said they have not determined a motive for the brawl, but the investigation is still under way.

"We have developed a person of interest and we've made contact with him to question him about the incident," said Lt. Meadows.

NeNe Leakes, Burruss's sometime rival on RHOA, also took to Twitter: "RIP AJ from the real housewives of Atlanta! My thoughts & prayers r with Kandi, his children & family"

Costar Kim Zolciak tweeted the following message: "please Pray for my dear friend Kandi and her loss.I adored AJ and he will be misssed dearly"
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Kendra Wilkinson's Hubby Fired In Favor Of Michael Vick

Update: Baskett will be going to the Indianapolis Colts

The good news for NFL star Hank Baskett is that now he can spend a lot more time with his pregnant wife Kendra Wilkinson.

The bad news? He's out of a job.

The Philadelphia Eagles announced on Tuesday they had cut Baskett, 27, from their 53-man roster, a move that makes room for controversial quarterback Michael Vick.

Reached by the Philadelphia Inquirer after the news broke, Baskett responded: "I'm not speaking about it."

Baskett was released despite having had his best season ever in 2008, with 33 catches and three touchdowns.

Vick, however, is considered a stronger offensive player. The star quarterback, 29, last played for the Atlanta Falcons in 2007, but was let go after he was sentenced to 18 months in a federal penitentiary for organizing a dogfighting ring. He is set to begin practicing with the team today.

Baskett and Wilkinson are expecting a boy on Christmas Day.

Poor thing now has to spend all his time with that annoying wife of his.
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Michelle Duggar Pregnant With #19

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Michelle Duggar, not content to let Anna have the spotlight, is pregnant yet again. Sooner or later her uterus is going to fall through her vagina in an attempt to end this madness.

Make way for more Duggars!

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of Tonitown, Ark., who have 18 children and one grandchild on the way, are expecting a new addition to their household – baby No. 19 will arrive in the spring.

"We are so thrilled," says Michelle, 42. "We just couldn't believe it is happening." Jim Bob, 44, agrees: "This never gets old. We are so grateful for each child. We are looking forward to our first grand baby and our 19th child."

Oldest son Joshua, 21 and his wife Anna, 21, are expecting daughter Mackynzie Renée next month, so she will be older than her new aunt or uncle.

"I think it is going to be awesome, it is going to be great," says Josh about the news that his parents are expecting. "We have been looking forward to the arrival of my little girl and to now get to celebrate for my parents, it's a wonderful thing."


The families often get to see one another and are looking forward to the babies' births.

"I love all of this, it is so fun," says Michelle. "Anna and I will have babies five months apart. My mother and my sister were pregnant at the same time and it was really wonderful. The kids were really close and still are. I have a nephew who grew up with me, we're just three months apart."

The Duggars live debt-free in a house they built themselves with their kids, all whose names begin with J: after Josh there are twins Jana and John-David, 19; Jill, 18; Jessa, 16; Jinger, 15; Joseph, 14; Josiah, 13; Joy-Anna, 11; twins Jedidiah and Jeremiah, 10; Jason, 9; James, 8; Justin, 6; Jackson, 5; Johanna, 3; Jennifer, 2, and Jordyn-Grace, 8 months. Their lives are featured on TLC's 18 Kids and Counting, airing Tuesday nights.


Despite being pregnant 18 times before, Michelle says this pregnancy came as a shock, although her daughters wondered why she was eating more pickles than usual.

"I was wanting pickles and the older girls were saying, 'Mom, you only crave these at the very beginning of being pregnant, You kept it from us before, now tell us. Are you?'" Michelle says. "And I kept telling them I wasn't. I just wanted some pickles." (What a stupid cliche.)

But when she couldn't lose weight on her diet, she became suspicious.

"I was in Weight Watchers with Jim Bob (I wonder if they are on the Weight Watchers' payroll.) and I wasn't losing any weight," she says. "I couldn't figure it out. I was doing what I should. And the baby, who was nursing, was fussy. I kept thinking, 'This isn't right. She isn't teething, she doesn't have an ear infection. I'm not cheating on my diet, I should be losing weight.' Then, I put two and two together and wondered if I could possibly be pregnant."

She took out one of two tests she had in the house and it was immediately positive.

"I told Jim Bob and he couldn't keep it in, he was so excited," she says. "The kids were outside playing on a water slide and he gathered them together and had to share the news. There was all this screaming and yelling."

The Duggars recently renewed their wedding vows – they've been married 25 years and one month – and say that the ceremony was a wonderful way for their own children to understand the commitment of marriage. (As much as I make fun of the Duggars, this is one marriage that I don't think will fall victim to the reality television marriage curse.)

"We got married when Michelle was 17 and I was 19," Jim Bob says. "We were married in the hallway of a church because at the time they had no sanctuary. There were plastic chairs and crepe paper. So, when we renewed our vows, we did it in that same hallway and we splurged to make bows out of a plastic white table cloth this time, but we still had plastic chairs. I think it is important to have the kids see that commitment themselves."

Michelle says that since she was 36 years old, her doctor has given her and Jim Bob pamphlets about prenatal testing since there is an increase of risk of health problems in babies with older mothers. But, she says they don't worry about those risks and don't take the tests.

"We know what could happen," she says. "We read through the information. If the Lord chooses to give us challenges along the way, we know His grace will be there, so we don't opt to do the testing."

As far as her own health, her doctor told PEOPLE when her last child was born that Michelle's health was excellent: "Some women are made to have babies, and Michelle is to the nth degree," ob-gyn Amy Sarver told PEOPLE in December. "She is in terrific health without any strain on her uterus."

Michelle says she's just glad for every day that she gets to enjoy being with her kids, even as she endures a 19th round of morning sickness.

"I'm feeling nauseous right now," she says. "And, I'm tired. I am happy for the feelings of morning sickness and I'm happy for every day I get to play with my kids. We don't know what tomorrow holds and so I try to enjoy every moment."

Already, names are being discussed in the Duggar household: Jessa, 16, has printed up a list of J-names for boys and girls that have yet to be used by a Duggar, Michelle says.

"We'll hopefully find out whether it's a girl or a boy at 20 weeks," says Jim Bob. (Michelle is almost at the 12-week mark now.) "That will narrow the list down some."

And Jim Bob says he'd welcome a little assistance: "We'd love to hear from the readers at PEOPLE.com to come up with a special name for this child."
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First Duggar Grandchild Is A Girl

Update : Josh has told PEOPLE that the little girl due 20 October will be called Mackynzie Renée. Haven't these people ever heard of keeping something a surprise.

Josh and Anna Duggar will have a baby girl. Unable to keep any news to themselves, the sex of the baby was revealed on the Today Show.

Luckily for the planet, it looks like Josh and Anna want a normal size family. Josh told Meredith Vieira,“We’d be happy with two or three; I think children are a blessing, though. So we’re just thankful for the one that God has given us, and we’ll take ’em one at a time.”