Pregnant Tweet #2

No. 2 because it's after the initial "we're pregnant" tweet:

@rzrachelzoe: Sunday brunch with my hot baby daddy. @rbermanus perfect day:) xoRZ



Click here to view the original Twitter post. Positively beyond thrilled that she has already taken to referring to Rodge as her baby dady; it's not obnoxious because she is so clearly kidding!

Oh, right - NINE months.

It occurred to me that this is going to take a while. The pregnancy, that is. One does not carry a full-term baby until that baby is, in fact, full term, so until then there is not much going on. I didn't even know that one of my co-workers(ish) was seven months pregnant until about two weeks ago, and I've been working at this place-of-work since September. Who even knows if Zoe is going to be one to show that bump off?! She should, though, she definitely should, because now she can actually wear all of those backless or clingy/low-cut dresses she was afraid to wear on The Rachel Zoe Project because of all the negative/eating disorder commentary she would receive from the press. Our culture is obsessed with MILFs and all pregnant women, so she should just flaunt it. She's already looking more adorable.

In my daily search for Rachel Zoe photographs, I came across this blog via JustJared: Trendmill. I don't know what it covers - trends and the people who wear them/are stylish in general, I guess - but Sarah Morrison wrote a post about how she initially "ignored" the "moral dilemma" that was Season 3 of TRZP, in which Rodger constantly badgered Rachel about having a child and Rachel could not see how she would have time for such shenanigans. Morrison, in disbelief that Zoe was even capable of becoming pregnant, compiled a series of images of her favorite pregnant women, many of them styled by Zoe herself!

Kate Moss. She just looks like she is bulging oddly, or like she is wearing a belted jumpsuit many sizes too small. Nay, I don't like it.

Ashlee Simpson. Totally forgot she had a baby! When was that? In any case, I don't mind the maxi on the right but am disgusted by her flesh belt at left and whatever the fuck that hair band thing is in both. I think I'm just generally repulsed by the idea of her being pregnant, which is why I could not remember this occurring at all.

Ahh yes, our first example of someone whose legs do not get pregnant. Claudia Schiffer is one of approximately ten women whose legs stay that thin. Is Zoe number eleven? We can only hope!

Heidi Klum. She's had so many children by now that her body is just used to this. No different from an altered diet and workout regime before the Angels runway show. So far, she has the best bump.

Adriana Lima. Another Angel. Pregnancy is as good an excuse as any to eat normally, I say. I also say that wearing Alice in Wonderland blue whilst pregnant just makes one look like a fetishized, sexualized child mommy. The sexy pout really doesn't help Lima's argument - if she has one. Sexy children are all the rage in our society, just read my thesis!

Miranda Kerr: are you sure you're pregnant? If so, fuck you.

Giselle Bundchen. I think she has it pat down: just the right amount of sexy, rebel, pregnant momma. She's wearing a leather jacket, skinny black jeans, motorcycle boots, and a big ol' pregnant stomach that seems to dare anyone to coo at her. I love the juxtaposition of punk and Victoria's Secret model and mommy-to-be. Oh right, another VS model! Maybe this was the trend in Trendmill that day.

Gwen Stefani. She's another one who got real skinny all of a sudden, talked about how often she had to work out and starve herself to maintain her "bombshell" physique, and then got pregnant. I mean, if you're loaded, driven to insanity by Hollywood and the omnipresent public eye, have had a boyfriend or girlfriend for longer than 24 hours, and looking for a reason to not starve yourself, then by all means, go for it. Have a baby.

Gwen Stefani being really effing thin, Vogue April "The Shape Issue" 2004. Shot by Steven Meisel.

...on a side note, this was a really great editorial. Will now post some of my favorites from that spread. She did look great, but mainly because Steven Meisel knew how to make her look so classic. OK fine, she looks classic naturally, too. (Caroline and Heather: I know you're scowling at me...)

Such a good photograph. Everyone wants to photographed in Chanel tennis wear, actually participating in the sport.

Ugh, classic. I know she had a son but he's going to want to wear Mommy's couture.

Physically speaking, if Nicole Richie could do it, then so can Rachel Zoe. (And she styled her - look. at. those. tranny. heels.)

I'm very much looking forward to a tranny-heeled pregnancy. I don't think I will be disappointed. Now I have to go get my laundry from the place a block and a half away, and those are long blocks. If I were pregnant, John would do this for me. But, if I were pregnant, both of my male roommates would have jumped ship.

Here is the link to the original Trendmill article by Sarah Morrison; has a great title: http://trendmill.com/editorials/2131-let-s-get-pregnant

We Have Confirmation

Nine hours ago (so I guess 3pm EST, so I guess 12pm PST), Rachel Zoe and Rodge Berman announced to the world, via Twitter, that they were going to be a mommy and a daddy.

@rzrachelzoe: Hey everyone! I want to officially confirm to my loyal friends and followers that I am pregnant...

@rbermanus: Thanks everyone for all of the well wishes. I can't believe I'm going to be a dad :) So excited!!!!

Two of my most hilarious friends had already posted the news on my Facebook because they knew how much of a landmark occasion this is for me. A long time ago, my college roommates/BFFLs, C and H, announced to me that I was Rachel Zoe. I knew she was a stylist in our hometown of LA, that she was super small and anorexic-looking, and that she had a TV show. I did not know that, though she is originally from somewhere in New Jersey, we spoke with the exact same Valley Girl accent and cadence, that she looked just as overwhelmed by her purses and face-consuming sunglasses as I did, and that she would save me from despair on my 22nd birthday. On this particularly shitty day, I had made plans to go to 1020, told a bunch of people, and then canceled once most people had arrived. I hate birthdays and attention (should rephrase: I hate birthday attention) and all I wanted to do was curl into a ball on my circus bed and watch something with C. "We are going to watch this - it will make you feel better." "This" was "The Rachel Zoe Project," Episode 2 of Season 2.

I. Died.

Between Eva and Annie and Tay and Brad and Rodge and Babe, I was enthralled. We sounded exactly alike. We had the same blank stare when listening to people. But she beat me - she had that West LA swagger and aloofness that I had only mildly adapted before I left for New York to leave that all behind. On "The RZ Project," she flaunted it. The baubles, the venti Starbucks in hand always, the flowy peasant blouses and Mary-Kate Olsen hair, the Bottega Venetta oversized shoulder bags...and, of course, the tranny heels, the symbol of WeHo. And, of course, she knew Kate and Demi and Cameron because it was her job to make them bangin'.

More enthralling? Zoe did make them bangin'. Twenty minutes in to this episode, probably revolving around pre-Oscar season, she was referencing gowns on the tip of her tongue like Mendeleev could elements. And the fascinating bit was that she coated all of her knowledge (she did go to George Washington University and majored in sociology/psychology, so I mean, there's that) in her passionless, perpetual-LA-wishy-washy-ennui: "Love it," "That's so major," "That is everything," "Die," "Beyond," and, the notorious "Bah-nanuhs." I just fell fucking in love with her. Her reality show embodies everything that I love (to watch) about LA. Part of me kind of does want everyone not from Los Angeles to think that everyone is like Rachel in that suburb city. No one gives a shit about politics, only movies, clothes, and philanthropy. In essence, we are all blissfully ignorant, and the stress of our lives is preparing for awards seasons. That is everything.

So now Rachel is preggers. What will become of the show, her career? Did she really want to have a baby or did Rodger pressure her into doing this? Can she even carry a baby to full term while that thin? No one knows. No one cares. All we care about is how she dresses with child and that burgeoning BABY BUMP. So here is where the blog begins - with the first pictures from the earlier rumors of Rachel Zoe, The Mother-To-Be.

MOCA's Annual Gala, November 13, 2010. Notice the overlap into that woman's white dress.

Lupus LA's 8th Annual Lupus LA Orange Ball at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons hotel, November 16, 2010. The classic Baby Bump pose: arm-toting-clutch in front of protruding belly. And I thought for a moment that there was a hint of enlarged-cup-size cleavage but it's just a strand of hair. Too soon, too soon.

Shopping at one of the flea markets in LA, November 14, 2010. My favorite picture so far, because there is going to be so much speculation on "is RoDger happy?" It saddens me when the tabloids create deteriorating marriage rumors around a couple. Are they strong enough to defeat the conjecture? One can only hope. Then again, the only reason I'd ever have a child is to save a crumbling marriage. Note, again, the strategically placed purse and black baggy Olsen outfit. But the tranny heels never fail.

Out and about in LA (probably Beverly Hills, from the looks of it), November 21, 2010. Again, it's really hard to tell if anything is showing. How pregnant is she? And since she is so small, will she start showing fairly early on? Once I managed to convince myself I needed to take a pregnancy test because it was possible that, as a 5-foot-tall 90-something-pound lady, I would start showing as soon as two weeks after conception. Obviously it was negative, and I was just especially bloated that day in the H&M dressing room, and now this is an inappropriate story I tell to regale friends and strangers alike at parties, or whenever the topic seems mildly relevant. All I'm saying is, she might show, despite or because of her unspoken eating disorder. And her thighs are never going to look larger because of the heels, or maybe she'll be like Angelina and maintain her same arm/leg/face fat ratio and only get the stomach and the boobs. We have nine months to see.


Same shopping excursion from the 21st. The coat is miming the silhouette of a baby bump, but it's really just an illusion. Mainly this photograph is to show how amazing Rodge's beard is! Flecked with gray, so sexy!