Here are some photos from the MusiCares event on Friday night honoring the truly wonderful Carole King. I LOVE Carole King. Sorry, I just had to get that out of the way before we delved into the mess of these photos. Surprisingly, I have no problem with LeAnn Rimes’ hair or makeup or the color of this dress at all. Her styling is really good here. But let’s talk about That Which Cannot Be Ignored: Bump Edition.
Celebitchy, Bedhead and I were doing, like, forensic analysis of these photos. Let me fair: in the photos of LeAnn full-on, she does not look pregnant in the least. I actually think that in the front view, she looks like she’s lost weight. But in all of the photos where you see her body in profile? WOW. That looks like a baby bump. Alternative explanation: the dress has a weird knot below the boobs and it’s possible that it’s messing up the side view. But… if she is pregnant, that would explain why she’s been so mysteriously quiet lately. The calm before the sh-tstorm.
I’m also including photos of some of the other attendees at the event, including the lovely Carole King, the lovely Sara Bareilles (I think she’s very talented), Lady Gaga looking like a lady who lunches, Gloria Estefan (ageless beauty – do you think she’s had work done?) and Yoko Ono (don’t make fun of her – she’s 80 YEARS OLD!). In this group, I think Gaga is the odd woman out, right?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN.
Nah, it’s the weird knot below the boobs. Ediot looks as thrilled as ever.
Agree. The dress is just unflattering from the side. Ediots eyes just squint with joy.
Hope you’re right. Some people should not procreate, at least not before serious therapy.
Agreed – if she had a bump it would have shown in the black dress she wore a few days ago. She probably intentionally picked this dress knowing that it would get people talking.
+1
She’s standing sideways like that cuz she knows she looks pregnant. Countdown to the “oh those dang rumors!” tweets.
Exactly. Or even worse, she could be wearing a fake bump. People haven’t been talking about Wewe as much recently. She hates that.
It’s Brandi Bait!
That’s very likely true; additionally, I wouldn’t put wearing a small prosthetic belly beyond her shenanigans, either. I really think she’s *that* twisted.
Ediot’s face looks like he smells something that stinks. Badly.
I love Yoko Ono.
I love Yoko in old age especially. She took a lot of unnecessary shit from Beatles fans. I think she looks adorable in her outfit and there are far worse red carpet fashions during this whole awards season.
I also say that the leann workout photo was an embellished one and that she hadn’t lost all of her Xmas weight gain. I also think she’s enjoying the bump speculation.
Adore her.
I was at a music seminar a few years ago. Marianne Faithful, Yoko Ono, and others were on a panel. Marianne was so drunk she fell out of her chair. An audience member stood-up and reproached Marianne for being a sloppy drunk. Yoko stepped in. She was so kind and empathetic to Marianne, who clearly had a problem. She gently and respectfully helped Marianne leave the auditorium. She came back and never uttered a word about what just happened. That told me everything I needed to know about Yoko.
Great story! Thank you for sharing it!
That’s a great story!
she’s one tough little lady <3
I don’t much care for Yoko, but that is one fabulous outfit!
I love her twitter. It’s equal parts inspirational, avant-garde poetry, and telegraphs from a cloudcuckoolander, and it makes for a soothing read at the end of the week.
I love Carole King. Tapestry is one of my favorite albums ever. That is all!
Me too!!!! I know every word of every song!!! Love Carole King!!!
There is a Broadway show about Carole King that they are promoting the hell out of lately.
Tapestry is the bomb. One of the best albums ever by a female.
Me, too. If I had a dime for every time I listened to Tapestry…good memories.
agreed! she is amazing and I love Tapestry! am listening to Carole now! Thanks for the beautiful pics!
nah. she’s not. there were pictures of her in a leather dress recently and she had no bump. plus she looks like she lost weight not gained.. still hideous and Eddie is still skeevey and she def sucked all the youth out of him…lol
Well her husband’s “career” is dead, he’s got to make himself useful. Actually I don’t think so, just a badly cut dress.
I don’t know.. they look good. I love that purple color with her hair. I have seen lots of women wearing gowns in that color pallet.
I love the short white dress and the shoes.. very simple and elegant.
“I have seen lots of women wearing gowns in that color pallet.”
We’ll be seeing a lot more of it too; it’s been selected as the Pantone color of the year – radiant orchid.
Make fun of Yoko??? She is killing it!! She looks great!!!
LeAnn looks beautiful in these photos. I too think it’s the cut of the dress. Who knows with her.. She’s been abnormally quiet?
I think she has been unusually quiet because she & Eddie are dunzo. In these photos it looks like she has been crying.
@Cecilia I think so too. At this point I think Eddie is getting paid per appearance with her. What other source of income does he have?
I think this is probably the best she’s ever looked…but God help that baby if she is pregnant (which I think is just an ugly dress). She doesn’t need to procreate at this point in her life, and it’s probably the only likeable thing about her right now. But God–I could see Eddie making a baby with her, if only to get child support. But that also depends on how much money she’s got left–which probably isn’t all that much.
She isn’t pregnant. In the DM there are pictures of her in her performing dress and it is tight and had lace up cut outs at the side. The article has tons of pics of her and Ediot and they looked really happy, to be honest. The other dress was grey and sparkly. I really don’t see all this unhappiness with them, they still look like two happy pigs in shit to me. I swear I think they are in it for the long(ish) haul.
I actually think she looks really great here. Yep, I said it. But yeah, definitely NOT pregnant.
Virgilia, the rumor’s been out there for quite a while that Ed’s been snipped. I agree with you, the fact that she hasn’t foaled yet is one of her few admirable qualities.
I don’t see beautiful at all when I look at LeAnn. She might look good as opposed to her usual, but I still think she’s just plain unattractive. Part of it is her face but the other part is everything I know about her – it just makes her an ugly person, that makeup and hair can’t hide.
I think this blog post, and others asking the same question, are the whole point of the gown.
That dude is snipped. She’s crazy and apparently desperate to fake, and then ‘lose’, a pregnancy.
#scuttlebutt
I think Yoko is actually the winner here. The look is fairly flattering with a splatter of zany that seems completely natural and not forced.
Leann’s face looks really pretty. The make-up wasn’t overly dramatic and the purple was a very nice complementary color for her complexion. The knot is pushing the dress out at the waist. She doesn’t wear head to toe spanx, like some people, so she might have been caught, from the side, not sucking it in.
This is dress does make her look pregnant, but the skin tight black dress she wore to perform shows she’s not pregnant.
It’s the dress. In other photos from the event, when she performed, she’s wearing a completely figure hugging dress, and her stomach is as flat as can be. Of course, she could still be in her first trimester and not showing yet. Also, I would expect her to announce her pregnancy as soon as she’s at the end of the first trimester – she wouldn’t wait until the showing point, which would be much further in.
Have to agree, in the black dress she wore the same evening her tummy is completely flat, not pregnant just a bad shaped dress!
You’ve clearly never been pregnant, because women typically start to show their pregnancies at 8 weeks.
Nope, sorry. I don’t believe that’s typical at all. For both my pregnancies, I didn’t show at all until I was 18-19 weeks (and I’m built fairly small). I believe that’s more typical, considering the fetal development stages.
Um, no. Everybody is different, but 8 weeks certainly is not typical. I didn’t start showing till I was 16 weeks, and actually nobody I have known personally has started showing as early as 8 weeks.
No women I’ve known IRL. Interesting.
Actually, I’ve been pregnant twice. At 8 weeks the fetus is the size of a pea, so what exactly would you be showing then? My friends who have carried twins didn’t even show then.
If a woman is showing at 8 weeks which is 2 mos+ The baby hasn’t fully developed until 12 weeks or 3 mos. If any woman is showing it is not a baby bump but bloat.or fat.
Yeah…no. I didn’t look pregnant AT ALL, until I hit 20 weeks and it was like I grew a belly basketball pretty much overnight. My sister didn’t show until 15-20 weeks with both of her kids, too. It varies, obviously, but 8 weeks? You do realize that at 8 week the fetus is, at MOST, about the size of a raspberry (and I just googled to make sure I had that right)? It’s almost impossible to be showing then. The majority of women are just realizing they’re pregnant…and seeing as how many women wait until the 1st trimester is over to announce it, they obviously wouldn’t be showing then.
I was a freak and showed at 6 weeks. Of course any material that touched my stomach area made me vomit so THAT might have been it…
I have to disagree with you. Even with my twins, at eight weeks I couldn’t close my pants, but that isn’t really “showing” as I would define it. While the definition of showing could be subjective, most women imagine a clearly rounded belly. For me that didn’t happen with my singleton till after 4 months- and she was almost seven pounds, nearly 22″ long.
I had to go out and buy maternity clothes at 6 weeks because I was showing that early, and I was definitely not fat.
Geez I hope it’s the dress those 2 should not breed! Yoko looks the best and Gloria looks really great but the dress is giving me a 90s vibe. Carole King can do no wrong I absolutely love her I grew up with her music !
It’s a poorly cut dress. No news here in my opinion.
Aside from the dress belly, this is the best I have ever see Leann look. She actually looks amazing here.
I know, she looks great. The hair, the color of the dress. It is all working here.
I agree. Leann’s look is lovely. Much better than the leather and dark lipstick look.
I have no idea if she’s deliberately pulling an Aniston. I think it’s just the angle. Her stomach looked flat in the tight leather dress.
+1000
LeAnn usually looks bad to me, whether it’s the hair/makeup/dress, or the whole combo. She looks fantastic, though the dress cut is unflattering.
She actually looks really beautiful. I just don’t think she’s pregnant because we would have heard about it by now.
Much ado about nothing. The purple dress just has an odd, loose cut in the front. There are photos of her in a gold dress, very form-fitting, from the same evening as she sang with Tyler.
Eddie took time to get his hair dyed, I see.
She actually looks good here. And I don’t think she’s pregnant. At least I hope not.
Carole King and Sara Bareilles. Two of my favorites. Blah to Leanne and Eddie. Although she does look very pretty here.
I don’t think she is pregnant just a bit of a belly
I think it’s just a trick of the fabric. She does look nice in that color. I LOVE Sara’s outfit, I think Gloria is a vampire, I actually think Yoko looks great and I want Gaga’s sunglasses–they’re very steampunk!
Yoko and Sara look amazeballs. (My daughter hates when I use that word but I totes love it…)
I’m surprised no one said anything about her lost boobs in that dress. Did she tuck them under her arms?
Not pregnant. But she looks fabulous….hair, makeup flawless. Dress color is great on her. The cut just isn’t flattering.
I agree…best I’ve seen her look!
You know, everyone in these photos is looking fabulous.
Leann’s hair and makeup are really pretty. Lady Gaga’s dress is awesome–dramatic yet pretty–and I like the beaded belt a lot. Sara’s look is classic and flattering. Gloria looks amazing and sexy. Yoko is rocking that suit and looking fabulous doing it.
Agree. I never expected to see a post where everyone looks great.
fertility issues run in Leann’s family so I doubt she’s pregnant it took her mom 12 years to conceive her probably with some IVF help. she has said though that her and Eddie definitely want children but that she doesn’t know when it will happen
Are all the other women pictured here single? Or is everyone else confident enough to walk the carpet without clinging to a human security blanket? If she left him backstage just once would he clumsily trip and fall into another woman?
“Would he clumsily trip and fall into another woman?”
We all know the answer to that one
She could be pregnant, but I think its just the unfortunate knot right there. Kind of like how Cate Blanchett’s dress at the SAGs made her look pregnant thanks to all the extra fabric right there. Knowing Leann she probably chose that dress on purpose so people would speculate.
It reminded me of Cate’s dress also…I wonder if that is a new style…having that front hanging bib…
This is what she wore an hour later to perform with Steven Tyler at the event, a skin-tight gown. So I don’t think she had an ulterior motive in wearing the purple gown on the red carpet other than two different looks.
http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/3039780/leann-rimes-steven-tyler-performers-at-musicares-gala-01/
Boy, LeAnn looks actually pretty here. She’s not pregnant because she performed in another gown, very tight. That dress looks soft and pretty from the front., and I love the color on her. She just never should have turned for side poses and photos. At that angle the dress is shapeless.
This is the first time I have ever said comparing Brandi and LeAnn around the same time frame that LeAnn looks prettier. Brandi has overdone her fillers and botox and that juvenile, budget, outfit shopping for photo-ops and then her outfit barely longer than her a s s on Arsenio a few weeks back, LeAnn looks prettier for this outing. I love her hair like that and her makeup.
LeAnn’s hair and face look really pretty here. I don’t think she’s pregnant. She wore another very tight dress that night or the next and her stomach was flat. It’s just this dress.
LeAnn is so much prettier when she isn’t overdoing it–take that however you want, overdoing it on fillers, makeup, Brandi cloning, sexifying, being a biotch.
God, I hope she’s not pregnant. She seems nowhere near mature enough to have a child.
What is wrong with her eyes? Are they just really squinty? That being said, I love the color of her dress but not the style of it.
Not preg. If she hears of these rumors though, she will either lap them up like a starving kitten getting its first milk or go full-on into an eating disorder. Toss of the coin which it will be. I also wouldn’t put it past her to purposely wear a dress which would start those rumors. Gotta keep people talking, right? But yeah, I seriously doubt she is preg. Actually, my gut tells me she never ever will be.
So why wouldn’t you include pictures of the other gown she wore that night — the skin-tight, sheer gown that she performed in? The gown that showed zero bumb? You totally wasted your time analyzing her ‘bump’ – all you had to do was look at all the pictures from the event bc the other dress was tight and the sides were sheer and there was zero bumb.
I wondered that too! There’s zero bump in the side lace up dress. Now you just know that Leann will be lapping up all this speculation and enjoying every single minute of it :(. Don’t feed the trolls CB, don’t feed the trolls!
Exactly.
Wasn’t there an article here a couple of weeks ago w/ a photo of her bare abdomen during a supposed work-out session & not looking pregnant? I think it’s the knot in the dress & that she didn’t get it custom-fitted to her body.
That picture was from her anorexic days even though she tried to make us believe it was current. If anything the pictures from the last few days totally prove just how old that pic was – bc her body is larger now. It’s especially noticeable in her arms.
What the heck is that line going down her cleavage in one if the pics where shes holdin Eddie? It looks like a ginormous vein but the location is unnatural & freaky lookin!
On another note, best she’s looked in awhile. Both body languages suggest neither is super happy at this moment in life.
I wonder if their kids eyes would be permanently shut at birth??
Why is Leanne’s eyes so squinty? And who is Eddie and what does he do?
Leanne’s hair an makeup look fine, but that dress is polyester curtain fug. The color is nice but otherwise? Wtf?
I think she has a fake bump in there to get people talking.
Gloria looks amazing and I love her dress! I think she’s Botoxed but that’s it. I want her secret. lol
The color of the dress looks much better on Brandi. I’ve seen Brandi in that color recently. Maybe on the cover of her new book Drinking and Dating?