By Mark Gray
8:52am PST, Feb 9, 2018
Online furor
Kim Kardashian West angered many on the Internet this week (for the umpteenth time) for posting a topless picture to Instagram… a picture that was taken by her 4-year-old daughter, North West. The image, posted on Feb. 8, was taken from behind as Kim looks in the mirror. Her bra is unfastened in the back and she's covering her breasts. The fact that North (who can be seen in the photo) took the photo is what got the Internet so fired up. Kim was called "disgusting," "distasteful" and a terrible role model. Some supported her, but the majority of commenters were not pleased.
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Be careful, girl! Cardi B received death threats on social media from the Crips after she posted a photo to social media and appeared to diss the notorious gang. On Feb. 5, the rapper posted a photo of herself wearing a blue coat. "I hate wearing Flue but this coat was too poppin," she captioned the shot. The word "flue" is a big slap in the face to the Crips gang, as blue is their color. By failing to write "blue," Cardi opened up the floodgates. She took down the caption after the threats started coming in, but the photo stayed up. Cardi has openly associated with the Bloods gang, the Crips' longtime rival.
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Name game
Kylie Jenner is officially the mother to a newborn named Stormi Webster. The reality TV star announced her daughter's name on Instagram on Feb. 6 while sharing an image of Stormi holding Mom's thumb. After a very secretive pregnancy, Kylie gave birth to Stormi — whose dad is rapper Travis Scott (real name: Jacques Webster) — on Feb. 1 but didn't announce it until Feb. 4, just a few hours before the Super Bowl (because the Kar-Jenners aren't afraid of overshadowing anything). In announcing the birth in an Instagram post, Kylie said, "I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions. I understand you're used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world. I knew for myself I needed to prepare for this role of a lifetime in the most positive, stress free, and healthy way I knew how. There was no gotcha moment, no big paid reveal I had planned. I knew my baby would feel every stress and every emotion so I chose to do it this way for my little life and our happiness. Pregnancy has been the most beautiful, empowering, and life-changing experience I've had in my entire life and I'm actually going to miss it. I appreciate my friends and especially my family for helping me make this special moment as private as we could. My beautiful and healthy baby girl arrived February 1st and I just couldn't wait to share this blessing. I've never felt love and happiness like this I could burst! Thank you for understanding."
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Splitsville
It's curtains for Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen. The couple of four years has split up, she announced on Twitter, using humor to do so. "The great @michaelsheen & I consciously uncoupled over Christmas. I mean, not 'over Christmas' – like that wasn't the fight that ended it. No fight. We just live in different countries & it got hard. Felt we should just tell y'all so u stop askin, 'How's Michael/How's Sarah?,'" she wrote on Feb. 5. She later realized that she revealed the split news on Michael's birthday. "The joke here is I just realized I posted our breakup tweet on his actual birthday and I can't believe what a d— I am," she wrote before joking, "Can u believe it?? He said I wasn't THOUGHTFUL. Jerk… Anyway, Happy Birthday, Michael…"
Just add Spice!
It's all happening! The Spice Girls are reuniting and going on tour, according to a detailed report published this week. TMZ claimed on Feb. 7 that the women — Victoria Beckham included — will reunite this summer for a tour that will see them performing in England and the United States. There is no plan for them to record new music, and there is no plan for a Las Vegas residency show, as many have claimed, TMZ said. The planning is in the early stages, but "the tour is going to happen," the report said. The group's original manager, Simon Fuller, is back to handle this reunion too. Oh, happy day!
First-time parents
Aaron Paul has a new title: dad. The actor and his wife welcomed a baby girl, he revealed on social media on Feb. 8. "My heart," he captioned a photo of his daughter's foot. His wife, Lauren, shared two images of the beautiful girl. "There are no words that will ever be able to explain what just happened to my heart," she wrote. It's the couple's first child. Congrats!
(New) hip man
Alec Baldwin is just so hip these days. The actor underwent hip replacement surgery on Feb. 7. His wife, Hilaria, revealed the news on Instagram: "Thank you for your kind wishes. I know many of you are anxious to hear how he is doing. We have been here since very early…All went well in surgery and I am with him in recovery." It was only a day earlier that she revealed that he even needed surgery, shocking many of his fans who had no idea he was hurting. "It's been a day…jury duty, crabby kids, vet, meetings, pancakes that went oh so wrong…but I'm ending it with an amazing experience watching Alec interview Michael Wolff for #heresthething …and now we rest because tomorrow morning we are in the hospital bright and early for his hip to be replaced. Think good thoughts for us. We are gonna eat lightly, relax, and take deep breaths #WeGotThis2018," she wrote.
Case dismissed
Mark Salling's child pornography case was dismissed on Feb. 7, which was merely a technicality due to his suicide death a week earlier. A U.S. District Court judge officially dismissed the former "Glee" star's case without prejudice. Mark was awaiting a prison sentence after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography before he took his own life.
Denied
Moments after the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl, they were being awarded the championship trophy on a makeshift stage. Kevin Hart, a Philly native, tried crashing the stage, only to get denied, and it was all captured on national TV. The moment has become one of the most viral moments of the year thus far. Kevin later dropped an F-bomb while live on the NFL Network. He admitted that he was drunk too. Later, he explained his viral moment in a drunken Instagram post (he admitted to still being "a little tipsy" in the video). His wife, he said, told him not to try to crash the stage. "When alcohol is in your system you do dumb stuff," he said. "Me trying to go on stage with the trophy is definitely in the top two stupidest things I've ever done, but who cares! The Eagles won the Super Bowl!"
Baby girl!
He's a girls kind of guy! Jack Osbourne and his wife have welcomed another child, a daughter. The couple now has three girls. The former reality TV star announced on Feb. 5 that his third daughter was born on Feb. 3. Jack and his wife, Lisa, named their newest bundle of joy Minnie Theodora Osbourne. "Hey everyone meet Minnie! She's the newest member of my girls only squad," he captioned a snapshot of the adorable baby. His wife captioned the same image, "The final member of my little girl squad. Everyone, meet the angelic miss Minnie."
