Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard have confirmed that they are expecting another child. Kristen just had daughter Lincoln in March of last year, so this news is definitely surprising. Their rep told Entertainment Tonight that “I can confirm that Kristen and Dax are expecting their second child and a sibling for Lincoln. The whole family is beyond excited.”
This makes me wonder if their second baby was planned or if it was unexpected, not that it matters! It sounds like they’re very happy at the news. If Kristen is about three months pregnant (unknown, but I’m assuming) that would mean that she got pregnant again just around a year after her daughter was born. Lincoln will have a little brother or sister less than two years younger than she is.
Kristen did a recent interview with Redbook, predating her pregnancy announcement. She talked about the “no kids” paparazzi photo policy that she and Dax have advocated for. Kristen said many celebrities have told her that it made a difference to them and their families:
On the no kids policy
It’s affected us quite a bit, actually. We simply aren’t followed anymore. We have peace, quiet, and the ability to be a normal family out and about in the suburbs of Los Angeles.On what other celebrities have told her about the no kids policy
I’ve had quite a few people say it’s quite literally changed their day-to-day lives because their child isn’t as paranoid, since they’re not being followed by groups of strangers. It’s also impacted them for the better, because they’re finally allowed to be normal during the day. Michelle Williams has told me it’s made quite a difference, which makes me very grateful because I think she’s gotten the brunt of a lot of it. Jennifer Garner has said it’s made a difference. Hearing those kinds of things and knowing how much worse their kids have gotten it makes me very happy.On if she’s raising her daughter vegetarian (Kristen is vegetarian)
No, she’s still a baby, so we don’t know what she eats yet. But I don’t plan on raising her in any specific way. I plan on letting her make her own choices.On the controversy over breastfeeding in public
Get over it! They’re just boobs! Calm down. They’re under our shirt whether you’re looking at them or not.On if she takes selfies
I don’t, actually. Selfies make me very uncomfortable. I took one for this [the #EveryDayMoments event] because I wanted to participate, but I don’t take them on a normal basis because I feel… It feels so narcissistic to me.
Kristen will speak her mind, you can definitely give her credit for that. In terms of the no kids policy, Kristen softened her stance a few months ago to say that it was ok for celebrities to give permission for their child to be photographed. (Her husband, Dax, disagreed with that in an essay he wrote for The Huffington Post.) I like how candid and outspoken she is, particularly when she’s talking about breastfeeding and about raising her daughter. You can tell she’s a very concerned, involved mom. It did rub some people the wrong way when she and Dax spoke out against the paparazzi, but it sounds like it made a difference for the celebrity children who were most affected by it, and that’s what matters. Congratulations to Kristen and Dax on their happy news!
Kristen is shown out with Dax on 3-1 and 3-3-14. I bet that’s right around when she got pregnant. She’s also shown out hiking with a friend on 6-18-14. What kind of dog does she have? Is that a corgi mix? It’s so cute! Photo credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet
Love her so much. She always sounds thoughtful and down to earth.
I dont find this surprising at all. She’s part is the mommy celebrity set now. And having siblings ~2 years apart is hardly shocking. Prob just wanted to get the diaper phase over in one go, and siblings to be close to each other growing up. They seem like good parents so much congratulations to them.
Congrats to them, but I’m rolling my eyes at Jen Garner because we all know that pap stroll with Ben Affleck and their daughter a couple of weeks ago at the jewelry store was orchestrated to divert from his gambling problem.
Really, it was? It couldn’t be because some pap wanted to make a buck off Ben buying her a “sorry I screwed up” present? Or photographing them because their names sell right now?
Sounds like a stupid plan since gambling stories will always be bigger than shopping stories, and buying jewelry just calls attention to the Ben screwing up factor. I don’t know if she calls paps or not (and neither does anybody else), but a lot of you seem convinced a pap was called EVERY time a pic of them shows up.
I am convinced yes,especially when I read write ups like this in People which not only adresses the gambling but deflects with details like this. It’s pretty clear it was orchestrated. An exclusive shop in BH would be hyper aware of a customers privacy, could even close the shop if it was their desire. These details almost certainly came from a publicist.
“Ben was very cute with his daughter and carried her around so she could look at all the jewelry,” a store source tells PEOPLE. “She especially liked jewelry with diamonds and wanted her mom to have diamonds. She was definitely in charge of the purchase, and Ben let her take her time. She was very sweet and happy about being out with her dad.”
http://www.people.com/article/ben-affleck-daughter-seraphina-shopping-jennifer-garner
When I saw those pics and that story about buying Jennifer jewelry all I could think about was how Jen said in an interview a year or so ago how Ben always knows when to swoop in with a grand gesture like jewelry to appease her. I only makes her loon like an idiot with zero self-respect. Kick him to the curb already.
Yes it was. Ben affleck is widely known for scheduling his “candid” pics with his family to better his career. He’s not the only one obviously, but the most obvious these past couple years..most photos in celeb mags are planned that’s just the way it is.
I agree, MSW. To paraphrase one of my favorite quotes in a short story I read: ” When gossip is validated with the phrase ‘well, everyone knows it,’ it really means no one knows anything.”
Paparazzi don’t hang out on shopping streets in Beverly Hills. The store employees call the cops on them constantly because they’re “bad for business”. If a photographer was there just as Affleck was coming out of the store, it’s because they were called and everyone knew what was going on. Plus the store employee gave quotes to the magazine about their little excursion. Beverly Hills is a town built on *discretion*. There’s no way a shopgirl in a store like that would do such a thing unless expressly instructed to, and that would only happen with Affleck’s participation.
Also, I don’t think they call paps every time they go out. But I do think they go places, frequently, where they know paps hang out, like the Brentwood Country Mart.
I’ve always assumed that Affleck was the one who sets up photo ops in that family – they’re certainly always at times that benefit him and his career. For example, him going to B arney’s to go jewelry shopping? And the money shot with him, tight t-shirt, happy kid on his shoulders, and a sparkly gift?
also, when celebs are photographed with name brands [on bags, coffee cups, etc] facing towards the photographer, in a very obvious way, they are probably being papped and paid by the brand. Starbucks, Neiman Marcus, jewelers, etc. It’s like movie product placement-except on celebrities/actors in day to day life.
That Ben and daughter outing had the mark of paid endorsement, as well as clearly being a PR set up.
Totally! I’m with Lainey on how many of these celebs use photo ops with their kids. And ben and Jennifer are example number one.
My kids are 20 months apart too. Congratulations to them!
She seems smart and down to earth, I like her. As for her pregnancy, maybe they thought it might take a while to conceive, it happened to me. After I had my first, people kept telling me stories of how hard it was to conceive their second so I thought we should get busy and plan for it to take a while. It did not take a while and my kids are 19 months apart.
Having grown up with a sibling 5 years younger than me, I have loved seeing my boys be closer in age and have more in common. Congrats!
Congrats to them — I would never have the stamina for this. I like babies, in theory. I like kids, in theory. I love MY kid and I will love my next child (due imminently), but I needed those 4 years off to learn how to do anything at all with parenting.
I’m the same! My first two are 2 years apart and then I waited another 4 years for the third. I MUCH prefer the larger gap than the smaller. My oldest two are constantly at each other now and when they were little it was a lot to manage a 2 year old and a newborn. I worried they wouldn’t be close with our youngest, but it’s the opposite – they’re super close with her, despite the 6 & 4 year age gaps.
I really think the sibling thing is a crapshoot unless you’re following the ancient Chinese art of conceiving at certain times/years to align personalities and whatnot. People are born who they’re going to be, approximately! I’m 5 years older than my middle sister, but we are complete opposites. We enjoyed some closeness until I was about 13 and it all went out the window until recently. I’m 11 years older than my youngest sisters (twins) and I’m close to them, but it’s more a motherly thing. In retrospect, I probably should have paid closer attention to conception times. My two daughters will be exactly 5 years apart, both Leos. FML.
I think it has a LOT to do with personality. My two are 17 months apart and pretty good friends. Yes, they fight. All kids do. But they also joke around a lot and share similar interests even though one is a boy and one is a girl. They have always been like that. Their personalities complement each other very well.
But I don’t understand how divide your attention with a 4 year-old and an infant? I mean I know it is common and had been done since the Dawn of time but I have a 3 year-old and I am out chasing her on her bike for hours on end and I don’t know how I could do that if I had a baby also.
My brothers are only 14 months apart and very close friends. Unfortunately I came along 5 years later and female so they couldn’t have cared less. It’s nice they have a good relationship but I don’t have much of anything with them. I always have a little laugh at parents saying they have siblings so their kid has a friend, as demonstrated just in my family it can work very well or very poorly.
I just really love them both. I’m biased because they’re from Michigan, and Michigan people are insane with the state love.
But they both seem to enjoy their work and somehow maintain very down to earth attitudes. I love Dax Shephard’s blog, too!
Gigi–you should’ve met my English teacher from eighth grade. He actually created a class called ‘U.P. Topics’….about fifteen or so years ago. It was even on the news. It was a boring class though–only two interesting parts…..the day that we got to go eat pasties (after reading about their origins in the mines), and when we got to watch ‘Anatomy of a Murder’–based on the book that was written by a local. Other than that, it was all bridges and mining.
One of the most interesting facts I learned was that Michigan only got the U.P. because Ohio wanted a strip of land at the bottom of Michigan–so they traded it for the U.P…..which turned out to be a good deal because of all the copper.
Yay, Michigan! Seriously. We’re nutters. I’ve lived all over the world and I’ve never met people as passionate about their place as Michiganders. I’m heading Up North this weekend (only as far as Mackinac, though) – I’ll wave to you!
Sharing the Michigan love. Born and raised here, and while I love to travel, this will forever be home to me. With the exception of the economy here, it is such a great state.
Heading up to the U.P. for some camping over the holiday weekend and can. not. wait.
Where are you camping? You might be near me. There’s a really popular camping ground about half an hour away from where I live–it’s always packed during the summer.
Also a Michigander here and I so miss the pasties especially from Roy’s.
@Kryssitnya
Oh wow–that’s where I get them. Roy’s just moved closer to the waterfront, but their pasties are good. I hate the ones from Festival’s because they always always burn the bottom of the pasty.
Virgilia, I will be up in Marquette, at the cabins near Harlow Lake. My bestie and I attended NMU and we have been going back every year (for the last 10 years!) to catch the Lower Harbor fireworks. It is my absolute favorite city/place/area on the planet.
Water bottle placement is giving me the giggles. What am I… twelve?
Yes, lol. But staying young at heart keeps you looking young.
I laughed too #fellow12yearold
Congrats to them! I love KB. I bet they are great parents.
I’m the opposite. If someone gets pregnant soon after having a kid I assume they planned it.
My third baby is a 6 month old and I would jump off a bridge if my birth control failed right now.
But just a 3 foot foot one because I wouldn’t want to hurt the baby. 😝
I’m not suprised. She’s in her 30’s (which I know is not old, but let’s be honest, fertility starts to decline then), and if she liked being a mom, it makes sense to have another now. A lot of parents like their kids to be close in age, too. I am jealous but I wish her and Dax well.
I may not always agree with what she says, but she’s consistent and she has the courage of her convictions, so props for that. And of course, I will always love her for being Veronica Mars, no matter what else she does.
I like her very much, and Dax too (especially after reading his blog entry about his father’s death). My first two were 18 months apart and I managed, even with no nanny. Once into the diaper / feedings / no sleep / stepping on Legos / conversations about Easter bunnies stage, you may as well do it all at once. It was nice for my daughters, growing up, to have a sister so close in age. My third was almost 7 years after the second (several miscarriages) and it was like doing it all for the first time again, they’d even invented disposable diapers during my hiatus.
I like Kristen and Dax – they seem happy together and with their growing family. All the best to them! 🙂
I love Kristen and think she is super talented and seems really sweet. With that said, it seems like she really respects privacy but she had no problem taking jabs at Beyoncé/Jay/Solange elevator disaster when she hosted an awards show a few weeks back. It’s obviously different (Bey/Jay/Solange CHOOSE to be in the spotlight), but I still found it a little hypocritical.
I didn’t hear the comments she made about Beyonce/Jay/Solange, so I am speaking extemporaneously here – but in her defense, she hasn’t criticized the paparazzi for following stars in general. Her whole campaign has always been about leaving kids alone. She’s even said that parents sign up for this, but children don’t (implying she doesn’t have an issue being photographed by herself). So I don’t think this necessarily implies hypocrisy on her part.
I agree unless she mentioned Blue Ivy in the joke
I could be mistaken, but I don’t think Kristen commented on the Jay Z/Solange fight. Are you sure you’re not confusing her with another petite, blonde actress, Sarah Michelle Gellar? I know SMG made a joke about it on twitter. In any case, it’s apples and oranges. Her campaign was about protecting innocent children, not adult celebrities who chose to be in the spotlight.
Oh never mind. I just googled and saw that Kristen did do a spoof of the fight at the CMT awards. But again, it’s completely different than photographing children.
this kind of dashes my hopes about that 2nd Veronica Mars movie…I was at least hoping it would be revived on Netflix.
Well she did do the first VM movie very soon after having her daughter, so never say never.
Personally, I would like to see a TV season of VM on Netflix. I think it’s the perfect venue for it.
My sister and I are barely over a year apart. My mother and her siblings were spaced far apart in age, and she never felt close to them until adulthood. She wanted her own kids to be close and it worked because my sister is my best friend. I followed in my grandmother footsteps, my kids are all seven years apart!
We didn’t plan it, but my twins & my son are a little less than 2 years apart and it was HARD for awhile. However, now that they’re older (6 & 4) they play together and they really get along. I love it!! I’m done with kids now, but I love that they’re close in age and have a great sibling bond. Good for Kristin!! I like her, think she’s cute & think she seems like a good and loving mom. She’ll do great with another one! 🙂
So happy for them, I wonder how they’ll call this baby!
“She’s still a baby, so we don’t know what she eats yet.”
Perfect. Answer.
You can want your kids to eat how you eat with all your little heart, and they probably aren’t going to – not 100% of the time, anyway. I’m thrilled that my parents pushed fresh, unprocessed food as the be-all-end-all, but I still went a bit crazy with soda and junk food as a teenager.
When you have your first kid and you’re already over 30, it just doesn’t make sense to space them out 4 or 5 years apart. For most of us the “prime” child bearing years are between 30-35, and if you want 2 or3 kids you don’t have the luxury of too much spacing.
Great news for them. I love them both for speaking up and out and for the most part leaving the PR speak to somebody else.
The age gap they’ll have seems perfectly normal. Between my siblings and I to my own kids we’ve got everything from a five year gap to 362 days (the 362-day one being two of my siblings…. I wouldn’t be so….. so….. accommodating?) You make everything work.
Awe, congrats to them! I think she’s just the cutest thing ever!
Now if only we could get her to stop using that dumb #pedorazzi tag…
“We simply aren’t followed anymore”. Ummmmm were you guys ever really being followed in the first place? You guys were very rarely papped to begin with, don’t make it out to be like your precious policy changed that.
Not only that, but they advocate for the privacy of their children, and then go to an entertainment media outlet to announce the pregnancy? How does that work exactly?
They aren’t followed and they live in a non-celebrity zone. Paparazzi don’t hang out in their area. Also, a photographer I know who works red carpets for a news outlet (so like, half a paparazzi?) told me recently the pap community was taken aback by her stance because she had been photographed while pregnant and several times after her baby was born and never said anything. They actually thought she was one of the “nice ones” because she’d just let them get their shot and go. She didn’t take offense the first time she got pap’d with her baby, but then earlier this year, when she happened to have a movie coming out, suddenly it was a whole thing. Totally a coincidence, I’m sure.
I really hate this argument that she was somehow using this to promote a movie. First of all, her movie didn’t exactly need the publicity — the Veronica Mars movie got a TON of press because of the Kickstarter angle, way more than she got from the paparazzi campaign. Second, I think the timing is pretty clear — she had the baby, she was pap’d with it a few times, and she really didn’t want that to happen to her child so she started this campaign. The fact that she didn’t scream at paparazzi and instead started this campaign is to her credit, I think. She’s not trying to be a drama queen or abuse photographers, she just wants them to leave her kid alone.
Yes. She was fine with paps until she needed to have her face out there for her movies. That was obvious. And now that she’s been told by stars bigger than her to back off, she’s okay with parents giving permission. Isn’t that magnanimous?
Am I the only one that finds it weird that she talks about privacy for her family, and then makes an official announcement about her 2nd pregnancy? And really, how much demand is there for photos of the 4th lead on Parenthood and the girl from that show that was on for a few seasons almost a decade ago?
Haha! So true. They weren’t high value stars. No one cared about their engagement or their marriage or their kid tbh, until they started their campaign.
This. I had almost forgotten about them until their anti papped campaign came out.
2 under 2… Shudder! But if you have regular nanny help it’s probably OK!
Good for them! My 2 boys are 13.5 months apart and are now 2 and 1. 2 under 2 wasn’t as hard as 2 mobile young toddlers is now – especially without any nanny or family support as they’re in another state!
I was really put off by some bloggers (namely Lainey) trashing them for their anti-paparrazzi campaign. Of course the incestuous relationship some celebrities have with paparazzi fuels much of the problem, but I also don’t think it is a fair choice to have to either live a life of seclusion and rarely go out to popular places in public, or to be trailed by photographers. I can imagine that it is damaging to some kids to have the circus around them. While it is helpful to address the problem by identifying those that arrange these shoots, it also helps the problem for the public to be aware of the collateral damage that can come from the pictures they enjoy flipping through while they get their hair done.
1) these people are HANDSOMELY rewarded for their choice of career. I don’t feel bad at all. And there’s this myth that celebrities cannot possibly have any privacy any more.
2) pedorazzi? She should have been trashed for that. It’s so disrespectful to children that have actually been victims of crime.
3) even People magazine very politely let it be known that their crusade was ridiculous.
pedo = children. Do you also get offended at the term “pediatrician’?
I’m aware that it’s a nonsensical term, but it’s fairly obvious what Bell’s intent is when using the term – to equate a paparazzi with a pedophile. And while I’m sure many of those photographers are unpleasant, that doesn’t make them child molesters. How is using the term #pedorazzi very different from when someone tries to equate paparazzi taking their pictures with rape? Cause we all know how well that goes.
I agree that children never asked for that life, and that there should be better laws, I mean its disgusting that some grown ass man can call Suri a bitch, but I hate when celebs are hypocritical. (Especially since many obviously call the paps, themselves). There are many bigger stars out there, that you never hear about (or at least rarely do). Its not hard to stay out of the limelight if you want it.
Also, whats really going to stop a bunch of fans from taking photos and leaking them onto various social media websites? There’s no way to 100% control a picture of your child being leaked, forever.
My mother- God rest her soul had three in diapers – her first two irish twins – sis and I are the same age for one month of the year – the third child a couple of years later.
Nothing to say but congrats!
Yeah, congrats on the bub and all that, but you lost me with your anti-immunisation crap! Influence+ill-informed=idiot!