Matt & Luciana Damon- A Daughter

Actor Matt Damon, 37, and wife, Luciana “Lucy”, 32, added another daughter to their growing family on Wednesday, August 20^th. She was born in Miami, Florida just slightly overdue, with a due date of August 16^th reported previously. The couple named their new baby girl Gia Zavala. According to their rep, “Everyone’s doing great. She is a healthy baby girl.”

Matt is surely outnumbered now, with four females in the house. Let’s hope he doesn’t mind the color pink! He joked with USA Today saying recently, “I’m so outnumbered down here [at his home in Miami], it’s crazy.” He added that he will be, “taking the rest of the year off.” That is, after Green Zone re-shoots are complete.

The couple first met in 2003 while Matt was filming Stuck on You and Luciana was a bartender. They reportedly met at the bar where she was working, in Miami. Matt and Luciana were married in December 2005 during a private ceremony at City Hall in Manhattan. Little Gia joins two big sister Isabella (2) and Alexia (10). Alexia is Luciana’s daughter from her previous marriage.

Ricky Martin- Twin Sons

Latin pop singer, Ricky Martin, 36, is the proud father to twin boys. The babies were the result of a surrogate pregnancy and their birth quite a surprise to Ricky’s fans worldwide. Ricky is presently unmarried and no partner’s name has been released. The twins names and birthdates were also not released.

On the Official Ricky Martin Site a spokesperson for the Latin superstar announced Wednesday, August 20^th, with a posting titled, “A new day for Ricky“. It goes on to say, “In recent weeks, Ricky Martin became a proud father by the birth of twin sons. The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, are healthy and already under Ricky’s full-time care.” The spokesperson added, “Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children.”

Back in 2006 and 2007, Ricky, who is best known for such hits as “She Bangs!”, “Livin’ la Vida Loca” and “Shake Your Bon-Bon”, spoke of his desire to adopt underprivileged children. He was quoted saying, “I believe that at some time in the future this house will be full of colored crayons strewn over the floor and the walls will be covered with scribbles. There are a lot of kids out there in need of a home.” He also said he wanted to adopt a child, “from each continent.” Ricky is a long-time supporter of children’s causes, as an ambassador for UNICEF, as well as through his Ricky Martin Foundation.

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Singer and daughter of the late Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, 40, and husband number four, music producer Michael Lockwood, have confirmed they are expecting not one, but two babies this fall. During an interview a few months ago with Entertainment Tonight, Lisa Marie slipped up about the twins before she was ready to make the double-delivery announcement. According to her blog on MySpace, “I stuck my foot in my mouth and said that I was having twins by accident.” She went on to write, “I begged them to edit that out and not say anything yet as I wasn’t ready for it to be out there then, but that when I was, I would give it to them exclusively. They really could have ran with it but they said they would not.” They kept their word, which Lisa Marie said she found, “so refreshing, I couldn’t believe it.”

Looks as if twins just plain run in the family. Lisa Marie’s father, Elvis, was a twin himself and also her mother, Priscilla, has younger brothers who are twins. The two new additions to the Presley-Lockwood family are fraternal and said to be due at the beginning of November, but more than likely will arrive by Halloween.

Although not confirmed, the twins are rumored to possibly be a boy and a girl. There are also reports already of possible name choices for the babies. According to new reports, the baby boy will be named “Jesse”, after Elvis’s identical twin brother who was stillborn. The girl will reportedly be named “Gladys“, after Elvis’s mother (Lisa Marie’s grandmother). Lisa Marie is said to have ordered monogrammed playmats with those same initials on them. During an interview with ET this month, Priscilla said her daughter’s biggest craving has been watermelon. She also said despite carrying two babies at once, Lisa Marie’s pregnancy has been an easy one so far.

On her MySpace blog, Lisa Marie wrote about the twins, “We are beyond thrilled and blessed, elated and saturated in happiness.” Also during her August 8^th post, she shared, “I am not recording at the moment as there isn’t much room for breathing and singing right now, most of that area has been taken up and I cant really sing a line without running out of air halfway though.” She added, “Writing and recording will resume when the little occupants in there have decided to join the outside world.”

Lisa Marie has a daughter, Danielle Riley (19) and a son, Benjamin Storm (15) from her marriage to Danny Keough. She has no children from her marriages to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage. The twins will be the first children for Michael, as well as the first between the two of them.

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After being rated third in 2007, obesity is now rated by adults as the number one health problem for children in America, according to an annual report by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. Smoking and drug abuse outranked childhood obesity last year, but now those concerns have been pushed lower on the list, followed closely by bullying, internet safety, child abuse and neglect, teen pregnancy, alcohol abuse, AD/HD, sexually transmitted infection, chemicals in the environment and not enough opportunity for physical activity.

The poll included participation from 2, 064 adults (aged 18 and over), who were asked to rate 20 different health problems for children living in their communities. Approximately ¾ of the households surveyed included children. Director of the National Poll on Children’s Health, Matthew M. Davis, M.D., says, “The National Poll on Children’s Health report clearly shows that adults in America are very concerned about the problem of childhood obesity and its causes. While recent studies have suggested that the childhood obesity epidemic may be leveling off, the results of this poll reveal that adults in the U.S. are still very much concerned about this issue.”

1. Childhood obesity
2. Drug abuse
3. Smoking
4. Bullying
5. Internet safety
6. Child abuse and neglect
7. Teen pregnancy
8. Alcohol abuse
9. (Tie) Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and sexually transmitted infection
10. (Tie) Chemicals in the environment and not enough opportunities for physical activity

To read the full report,

visit http://health.med.umich.edu/workfiles/npch/20080714-topten-report.pdf .

Do you agree with the list or do you think there’s a bigger concern for children than obesity?

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