Brandy And Sy'rai's Sketchers Ad

Singer Brandy and her 6-year-old daughter Sy’rai have teamed up with Sneaker brand Skechers for the ‘Nothing Compares to Family’ ad campaign. The ad campaign,which features other celebrity families, is slated to run in 2009:VIA SKECHERS:

The SKECHERS USA, Inc. “Nothing Compares to Family” promotion, slated to run through 2009, stars some of today’s popular celebrity families and benefits children’s charities with ads breaking in celebrity weekly magazines and other fashion and lifestyle glossies.SKECHERS plans to rotate a variety of different celebrity families throughout the campaign, featuring mothers and small children and adult celebrities with their sisters, brothers, parents and grandparents. At the heart of the campaign is Skechers’ commitment to family. Each ad will be tagged with a charity of the celebrity’s choice, ones that are family-related, such as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International or Habitat for Humanity, which builds homes for families.

Monica's And Boys 2

Monica Has the most HANDSOMEST boys I've seen by far and had to post pics of them... :)

Singer Monica,who recently announced her engagement to her boyfriend rapper Rocko Da Don(Rodney Hill jr),is pictured with her two sons three-year-old Rodney and 18-month-old Romelo. The 27-year-old singer has a new album to be released next year as well as a reality series called, “The Single: Monica”,which premieres in August 5th. The portraits were shot by none other than celebrity photographer Derek Blanks.

Diddy's Day Out...

Sean P. Diddy Combs(Daddy Diddy),his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter(Mommy Kimmy), spent time with their 19- month old twins D’lila Star and Jesse James over the weekend. Diddy’s sons Christian,10, and Justin,14, were also along for the fun. Watch the video of Diddy and his kids at Central park on Saturday.

OBama Family

The Obama family recently sat down with People magazine to talk about their family life. In a snippet of the interview below, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and wife Michelle tell People how they raise their girls in the public’s eye.

PEOPLE: Someone told me today that you don’t do birthday presents.

Michelle: No, because we spend hundreds of dollars on a birthday party and movie tickets and pizza and popcorn …

Barack: That sleepover is enough. We want to teach some limits to them. And their friends bring over presents.

Michelle: They get so much stuff that it just becomes numbing. Malia believes there is still a Santa Claus even though she’s a little wary because some of her friends are non-believers. But Malia says, “Ma, I know there is a Santa because there’s no way you’d buy me all that stuff.” [Laughing]

PEOPLE: So what does a slumber party at the Obama house look like?

Barack: They’re pretty noisy.

Michelle: The older they get, they just talk a lot. But they’re at the age where they’re pretty self-sufficient. [For Malia's birthday] we’re going to go swimming, see Wall-E, make pizzas, have sundaes.

Barack: I usually go for the swim but this time I want to go to the movie just because Wall-E has gotten great reviews. I find actually that children’s movies are the best movies these days. But I’ll probably, after that, peel off until the cake.

Michelle: [Laughs] “Peel off.”

PEOPLE: What does discipline look like in your house?

Barack: Mommy raising her voice.

Michelle: It’s usually a lecture. It’s a lot of conversation. Or it’s separating them. Or it’s saying if you guys can’t decide nicely what program to watch, then you don’t get to watch anything. It’s sort of pulling away a privilege. But in all honesty, we don’t have to discipline –

Barack: If you ask them to do something, they’re like any other kid …

Michelle: They’ll whine a little bit.

Barack: They’ll test boundaries. But if you say, “Guys, this is what we need to do …”

Michelle: An example of this is one night I was going out, I had to do a fund-raiser, and I told Malia, “You guys really need to have an early bedtime because you’ve got to get up tomorrow and have a busy day.” So my mom was there, and my mom doesn’t adhere to bedtime. She’s kinda, “Well, maybe you wanna start taking your bath…” But that night, she said she sat down to watch TV with them and they both got up, turned off the TV and left. And my mom was like, “Where are you going?” And they said, “We have got to go to bed early today, Grandma.” And they went downstairs, took their baths and went to bed, and my mom was just stunned.


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50 Cent Say's His Babymama Is Holding His Son Hostage

Rapper 50 Cent says that his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins is holding his 11-year-old son hostage. The rapper was recently given visitation rights to see his son but says that since the court battle over their long island residence,Shaniqua has fled with their son. In a new interview with Sister 2 Sister magazine,50 a.k.a Curtis Jackson gives us insight as to how the battle between him and his ex began:

The rap star insists the war of words began when he insisted on finding his son a better home and improving his education.He tells the publication, “It wasn’t important before the beginning of last year because he (Marquise) was being home schooled… I was paying a teacher $60,000 just to teach him by himself.“He was learning slower because it was just him and the teacher. So he needed to go to where he had the best possible schooling district and I found a house in the area that was, like, $1.5 million.”
But 50 claims Tompkins started receiving bad advice from friends, insisting on more child support to match her new situation.The battle led to the rapper winning a court order to evict Tompkins from the home he’d bought for her: “Her lawyer decided to present to the public that 50 Cent is kicking his son out of the house.”Since the fire, Tompkins has fled with the rapper’s son, as she battles custody and child support.
He adds, “Now they done kidnapped my first one (son). My son’s mother got him, holding him hostage.”

Michelle On How Her Children May Turn Out

“There are the small worries, micro-worries, about whether we’re doing all we can to let them be fully themselves, trying to make sure they have the space to be who they are and that they feel loved and supported. Then, there’s the macro worry about, ‘Okay, if we do our jobs and they turn out well as individuals, what kind of world are they going to be in?’ ~Michelle Obama’s thoughts on her kids (Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7).

Monica Talks About Her Boys And Engagement

Singer Monica recently sat down for an interview with StraightFromTheA.com to talk about her kids and her engagement to the father of her two children. In the interview,Monica mentions that her fiance Rocko Da Don a.k.a Rodney Ramone Hill proposed to her on Christmas Eve:

“It was Christmas Eve at midnight, we were home alone in the bedroom and he said ‘close your eyes and listen.’ He put the ring on first. I knew what was coming next so I did what I was asked. He proceeded to talk about our history together, the kids. He and he very directly just popped the question. I automatically said ‘yes!’

Monica says that her older son Lil Rocko,3(not pictured), is not at all jealous of his baby brother Romelo Montez. “I included [Lil Rocko] in EVERYTHING during the pregnancy…except naming the baby of course.I let Rodney choose the first name and his middle name is my brother’s.” The singer also adds that she takes her kids everywhere and that she would never move her children away from her family in Atlanta:

“I would never separate my children from my family.Also, my entire crew is from Atlanta and I couldn’t imagine separating them from their families.Rodney and I have looked into vacation homes but my main home will always be Atlanta. If you are from the A, [then] you know that Atlanta artists are extremely supportive of one another.”

Chris Rock Fathered My Child And I'm Writing About It!

A lady named Kali Bowyer says that actor Chris Rock is her baby daddy,even though a judge ruled otherwise in 2007. Kali has written a new book titled “Hollywood Child” in which she alleges that Chris Rock fathered her 13-year-old son. In addition,Kali says that getting pregnant with Chris’ baby helped her to leave her drug-filled world behind:
The courts have ruled in Chris Rock’s favor, but one Georgia woman refuses to let go of her claim that the comedian fathered her child, and is even moving forward with plans to write a book detailing her alleged relationship with Rock.
In the press release Kali Bowyer circulated for her upcoming book “Hollywood Child,” Bowyer claims her past included “a hot affair with racy comedian Chris Rock.” Her life, according to the release, “started crashing down all around her,” until “getting pregnant with Chris’ son saved her life.”
Rock’s attorney John Mayone had not received the press release, but says, “I assume this is a publicity ploy for her alleged book.” On the subject of paternity, Mayone reiterated the decision of the Georgia court that concluded that Rock was not the father of Bowyer’s son. “There is a final judgement. This is not Chris Rock’s child. It’s been fully litigated, and that includes DNA testing.”
So why is Bowyer moving ahead with her book? She says she wants to continue fighting the paternity question in California. Mayone dismisses that possibility. “The time for appeal has long since passed,” he says. As for the book (no publisher is listed in the release, and Bowyer did not respond when asked about it), Mayone says, “I’ve not seen this (press release for ‘Hollywood Child’), but I’m sure that Mr. Rock will respond accordingly.”

Rude Customers

Now I use to be an customer before..and still is but now I wonder; 'Was I that bad?!' I mean...people can be really rude! I know first hand. Trust me. And it aint easy sometimes. I mean, we as employees makes mistakes but so does the customers. My first tip would be to all the customers out there that love to shop and especially like bargains...PLEASE.....please make sure that what your looking at IS 50% off or on sale because once going to check-out, 9x's out of 10, the cashiers DOES NOT know whats going on the floor where things are being stocked. It will save a lot of energy in getting mad at the cashier for sales that he or she is not aware of.

I've had quite a few customers that would come in the store like right after the sale is over and will be ready to chop your head off if the sale is not valid anymore. I mean, before leaving the house, did you not look at that same sales paper and notice that the date was indeed 2 to 3 days ago?! probably not because I wouldn't...LOL! but seriously though, after being in the shoes of a cashier and knowing what they go through..I felt a little bad for my behavior. Just for a minute. I'm working this job because I need it. But putting up with them customers is work indeed. Not only do you have to go back and forth with them to explain that if it does not come up in the system as 50% off that it's not 50% off...you have to go through actually locking and leaving your register to go to the floor to PROVE to them that the item they wish to purchase is not on sale anymore. Then they want to talk about false advertising. It's not false advertisement if you know what your buying!

Lost Children In Stores

Now, to all you parents out there. Lets agree on some things here; If you go to the Grocery store, Department store, Outlet store.....or ANY KIND of store for that matter. Make sure that you know that your children are close to you!

Don't go into an store and just let your child run freely without your supervision. Anything could happen to them. Someone could openly walk out of the store with your child you not knowing nothing! I work in a department store and a lady and....no two ladies and two little girls(whom looked to be atleast 10 and 11 years old) Came to my register asking if I seen 2 little children......boys, running around the store. The adult didn't ask me if I seen any little boys...one of the little girls asked me....smh and I'm wondering if the lady who was present was the mother of one of the children or either she only knew how to talk or understand so much english and what she understood could not have been much.

So I asked what was the children's name. She gave me the names and I went over to my Supervisor and notified her that 2 little boys were lost in the store. While standing at the counter and listening to my Supervisor call the attention of the shoppers in the store and warn the children to come to the service desk, I glance over at the woman(whom I assume were the parent) and she's over there laughing!!.... *sigh* Now was I missing something? How can you laugh about your child missing???

So I tell my Supervisor, how can she be laughing and her child is lost??....smh ignorant. Keep a hold on your children when out shopping. Or if you know that you will be in the store for quite some time, leave your children at home so that'll way, you wouldn't have to worry about your child wandering off or playing in the store like they are at the park or something and you'll know they are safe at home. Hell, if they are too young to be kept at home, have someone in the family or a close friend to watch them. Don't bring them to the store and let them get lost!

But eventually, they found the children.