Actress Monica Bellucci, who is married to French actor Vincent Cassel, has given birth to a baby girl. Dailystar.co.uk reports that the Italian star gave birth to daughter Leonie Friday in Rome. According to a close friend, both mother and child are doing "marvellously".Bellucci and Cassel, who got married in 1999, already have a five-year-old daughter Deva.
Actress Monica Bellucci, who is married to French actor Vincent Cassel, has given birth to a baby girl.
Dailystar.co.uk reports that the Italian star gave birth to daughter Leonie Friday in Rome. According to a close friend, both mother and child are doing "marvellously". Bellucci and Cassel, who got married in 1999, already have a five-year-old daughter Deva.
Here's a look at some of the hot mommies both in Hollywood and Bollywood.
Pretty woman Julia Roberts, who won an Oscar for Erin Brockovich has three kids - five-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and a three-year-old Henry Daniel Moder. The actress is relishing marriage and motherhood - "We are happy as clams," she said - and works only when she wants to. "I am fulfilled by my own life on an hourly basis. Every little moment is amazing if you let yourself access it. I learn that all the time from my kids; children are so filled with wonder. My youngest son" - Henry, almost three - "woke up at 5 a.m. the other morning and said to me, It's a beautiful day, Mama! What s more precious than that?"
Australian supermodel Elle MacPherson claims life as a single mother is "full of laughter" and she doesn't mind raising her two children alone. The 45-year-old who has sons Flynn Alexander, 11, and six-year-old Aurelius Cy Andrea with her former partner Arpad Busson, has said she has no qualms bringing them up alone because she gets to spend a lot of quality time with them, reports gossip.ie.
Here's a look at some of the hot single mommies both in Hollywood and Bollywood.
"There is a lot of laughter in our lives. I believe children's lives are made up of experiences, not of materiality specifically. It's not the toys they remember, but the time we spend together learning to ride their bicycle or camping trips or toasting marshmallows," Elle MacPherson said.
Earlier this year online dating websites Date.com, Matchmaker.com, and Amor.com, polled its members to see who they think is the sexiest celebrity single Mom. Male and female singles, voted Sharon Stone and Pamela Anderson the sexiest single Mom. "I've tried to remarry – move on – like any other single mom. I've tried to create a healthy example for my kids always," Anderson, who has two sons Brandon Thomas Lee (b June 6, 1996) and Dylan Jagger Lee (b December 29, 1997) from her marriage with Mötley Crüe drummer. According to the actress and glamour model, the father of her children "has been in their lives in a productive but small way over the years."
Sharon Stone, 51, has three adopted sons - Roan Joseph Bronstein, eight, Laird Vonne Stone, who is almost four, 3-year-old Quinn Kelly. This is what the 'Basic Instinct' star told 'People' magazine: "The most surprising part of being a mom is that I can actually accomplish it all every day. And get them all under the blankets every night." She admitted that while it was hard work to care a family on her own, it was ultimately worth it.
Despite splitting from her husband Chris Robinson in 2007, Kate Hudson says she doesn't feel alone. "Being a single parent can be difficult, but I don’t feel I am one," the 30-year-old actress told 'InStyle UK' magazine. "Chris and I are co-parenting." The couple have a 5-year-old son Ryder Russell Robinson.
Reese Witherspoon met American actor Ryan Phillippe at her 21st birthday party in March 1997. They have two children: a daughter named Ava Elizabeth, born September 9, 1999, and a son Deacon Reese, born October 23, 2003. The couple split in 2007. In an interview to 'People' magazine, the Oscar winning actress insisted she wasn't unlike other single moms. "It isn't anything I chose in life, it just sort of happened that way. We all just do the best we can. We're all just people trying to get through life however we can... I'm thrilled to be any sort of inspiration to anyone!" she was quoted as saying.
Denise Richards, who has two daughters - Sam J (born March 9, 2004) and Lola Rose Sheen (born June 1, 2005) - from her marriage with actor Charlie Sheen, admitted she was left worrying about her finances after her divorce. "I'm like any single mom. I have bills to pay like anyone else," she was quoted as saying. She even did a reality show based on her life as a single mom called 'Denise Richards: It's Complicated'.
Actress Liv Tyler and her husband British musician Royston Langdon got divorced in 2008 after five years of marriage. The couple have a 5-year-old son Milo William Langdon. According to the 'Armageddon' star, she is enjoying the quiet life as a single mom. "I don't want to surprise or shock. And I don't have any urge to run naked along a beach or get drunk at a party. I live quietly in New York, out of the public eye. I don't go out much. My favorite nights are staying in watching TV or going to a movie and eating popcorn," she was quoted as telling Britain's 'Cosmopolitan' magazine.
American singer-songwriter and musician Sheryl Crow, 47, adopted a two-week-old boy named Wyatt Steven Crow in 2007. According to Crow motherhood has given her life a purpose. "I don't think I had any expectations about being a single mother, but I’ve had my family around a lot, so he's not being entirely raised by a single parent. Whether it's been easy or hard, it's been a lot of fun," she was quoted as saying in an interview.
British actress and singer Minnie Driver described being a single mother like an "insane earthquake." She gave birth to boy named Henry Story Driver in 2008, but chose to keep the father's identity private. "I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. There's no amount of hassle that could be bigger than my love of Henry," the 39-year-old star reportedly told the 'Parade' magazine.
'I, Robot' star Bridget Moynahan gave birth to a baby boy, John Edward Thomas Moynahan in August 2007. The father is NFL quarterback Tom Brady who Moynahan dated from 2004 to 2006. In an interview to 'People' magazine, Moynahan admitted she had never planned on being a single mom. "I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this. For a moment, it was hard for me to accept that this was the way I was going to have a family. I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, 'I want to be a single mom,'" she was quoted as saying.
Britney Spears has two sons - Sean Preston and Jayden James Federline - from her ill-fated marriage with Kevin Federline. With rumours of her growing intimacy with agent/boyfriend Jason Trawick, the children may not be without a father for very long. This is what Jason's friends were quoted as telling 'Us Weekly': "(Jason) treats the kids like they were his own. He is absolutely fantastic with the boys. When you see him with them, you wouldn't think for a moment that he wasn't their dad."
Supermodel Kate Moss has a daughter, Lila Grace Moss, born on September 29, 2002, with 'Dazed & Confused' editor Jefferson Hack. Moss currently lives with her daughter Lila in a £9 million townhouse in St John's Wood, North London. Tabloids and gossip magazines frequently report on her status, and since Doherty, Moss has been dating Jamie Hince, guitarist for The Kills.
Actress, former fashion model, beauty queen and...single mom. One of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood, Halle Berry gave birth to her first child, a girl named Nahla Ariela Aubry, on March 16, 2008. She is currently in a relationship with the father, French-Canadian supermodel Gabriel Aubry, nine years her junior. Although Berry has indicated that she did not intend to marry again, she does want a second child.
While on the topic of hot single moms, how can we not talk about our very own Sushmita Sen. The former Miss Universe and successful Bollywood actress had a few relationships, but marriage was clearly not on the cards. That did not stop this courageous young lady from fighting a legal battle to adopt a baby girl, Renee. The court recognised her right to adopt a child as a single parent in 2000 and since then the Bengali beauty and her daughter have been quite inseperable.
Urvashi Dholakia is one of the most talented and beautiful stars on Indian television today. Few know that she's also a single mother of two teenage boys. She was married at 16, had twins at 17 and went through a divorce one-and-a-half years later. "I am happy today. I don't regret anything in life. I am a proud single mother," she was quoted as saying in an interview.
