So I finally got the chance to read Oksana Grigorieva’s full Hello! Magazine interview (with the first baby pictures, minus Mel), the one that was previewed on Monday. In the preview, Oksana told Hello that little Lucia did, in fact, come one month early, and that she and Mel Gibson were not expecting her so soon. She also claimed Mel is “hands on” with the baby, and that he’s “very doting and nurturing.” Oksana said she’s already “speaking Russian and English and singing lullabies in both. She has been an inspiration already. I’m composing a children’s song book.” There’s some even more interesting pieces of information in the full Hello piece!

First of all, Oksana gave birth without Mel. He was in New York, and he didn’t make it to LA until after Lucia was born – and Oksana was in labor for eight hours. Let’s see… a flight from New York to LA would take five to six hours. Alright, I could see how he missed the birth if you’re taking into account extra flight time and getting to the airport and all of that. Still, considering he missed the actual birth, it would have been nice if he had asked for a few more days off from work, but instead he was back in New York the following Monday. Here’s more:

“I was at home than I got ruched to hospital and, eight hour later, I could look at her beautiful face,” Oksana says, smiling. “Mel came just a few hours later because he had to fly from New York.”

Oksana insists that she wasn’t disappointed not to have him by her side during the natural birth. “Lucia is healthy and I think that’s the most important thing.”

Mel’s filming commitments meant he had to return to work two days later, but Oksana’s 12-year-old son Alexander has been more than happy to spend hours gazing at her daughter’s perfect features while Mel has contented himself with speaking daily on the phone.

“He is ecstatic. He is very much in love with her already,” coos Oksana. “She just wins people’s hearts, she’s so beautiful and tiny.”

Regarding the “endless press speculation”, Oksana says: “When the fabrications began it was hard, but it was just sad, really… I didn’t even know most of the people who came out and started talking about me intimately.”

[From Hello! Magazine, November 16, 2009, print edition]

Hello goes on to paint a rosy picture of Oksana and Mel’s romance, claiming that Mel and Robyn had been “formally separated since 2006” and that Mel met Oksana “18 months later”. Let’s see… what else? When Hello asks who Lucia resembles, Oksana bites her tongue, wanting to say “cash money” and says instead: ““It’s hard to tell at the moment. She sort of resembles both of us. She’s very cute.” Also, Lucia was born weighing 6 pounds, and she’s already gaining weight steadily. Oksana says she “can’t let go of her, she’s so adorable.” The baby is named after Oksana’s grandmother (Lucia) and Mel’s mother (Anne). When asked if Oksana hopes Lucia will meet her half-siblings, Mel’s older children, Oksana says “I hope so but I don’t think I should be discussing that out of respect for Mel.”

Oh, and when asked if the baby has brought her and Mel closer (obviously not physically closer, since he flew back to New York after two days), Oksana actually says this: “We’ve always been very spiritually connected and emotionally, too. We’ve always been very close.” Oksana also has plans to teach Lucia to play the piano because Lucia has “beautiful long fingers”. Seriously? Don’t newborns have tiny little hands and tiny little fingers? In addition to teaching her the piano, Oksana has plans to take her to Russia and teach her “the Russian language so she can read Tolstoy and Gogol in the original.” I was going to mock that with a “every baby should learn Tolstoy” joke, but I kind of get what she means. And growing up in a bilingual household is a great step up to learning new languages and general educational success. So… yeah. I still think this bitch is crazy, but she’s growing on me a little.

Oksana is shown out on 9/4/09. Credit: Fame Pictures