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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker's baby boy is here! As People confirmed on Nov. 4, the couple welcomed their first child together more than four months after Kardashian Barker announced her pregnancy at Barker's Blink-182 concert in Los Angeles on June 16. The Poosh founder revealed the news by holding up a handwritten sign that read "Travis I'm Pregnant" (POPSUGAR was there to witness the exciting moment). A few days later, the couple shared that they were expecting a son.
Ahead of their child's birth, Barker rushed home to California due to an "urgent family matter," Blink-182 announced on their Instagram Story as they postponed their European tour dates on Sept. 1. Hours before the news broke, Barker posted a series of photos on his Instagram Stories of him visiting a prayer room. On Sept. 6, Kardashian and Barker revealed the former had to undergo "urgent fetal surgery" due to pregnancy complications.
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The pair, who wed three times in 2022, have been transparent about parenthood as they've raised their blended family together. Kardashian shares three children - daughter Penelope and sons Mason and Reign - with ex Scott Disick. Barker also has three kids: daughter Alabama and son Landon, both of whom he shares with ex-wife Shanna Moakler, and stepdaughter Atiana, daughter of Moakler and boxing champ Oscar De La Hoya.
Kardashian and her husband have also been open about their IVF journey, part of which has been documented in episodes of "The Kardashians." However, last fall, Kardashian announced that she was "for now done with IVF" due to the "toll on my health and my - just even mentally - the hormones, the medication." She added, "I feel truly, like if it's meant to be, it'll happen."
After meeting through a mutual friend, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine and supermodel Behati Prinsloo immediately hit it off. Though they were on and off for years, the two eventually tied the knot on July 19, 2014. Flash forward several years and the famous couple have two beautiful daughters together, whom they're rather private about on social media, and a son, who was born this past January.
During an appearance on the "Mother Daze" podcast in November, Prinsloo opened up about the "bliss" and "pain" of giving birth to her third child. The model said she chose not to have an epidural or a water birth. "My doctor at a certain point was like, 'I just want to let you know, this is kind of the point, if you were going to get anything.. this is it,'" Prinsloo recalled. "She was like, 'It's up to you... nobody's putting pressure on you, do what you feel.'" She continued, adding, "I was like, 'I feel really good... I think I'm... just gonna go with this feeling right now.'"
"At one point they're like, 'Do you want to get in the water?' and I was like, 'Absolutely not. I cannot think about something worse right now than to be wet,'" Prinsloo continued, jokingly adding, "I was like, 'No way - no water is getting on this body!'"
Though Prinsloo didn't reveal her son's name, she said she felt "so connected" with Levine during their baby's birth. "It was his favorite thing to watch and to be there and to help me through it ... and people telling him what to do to help me too," Prinsloo said. "Like the doula... putting him there where she would have been ... just really making this into such a beautiful experience for everyone."
While Prinsloo confessed on "The Ellen Degeneres Show" in May 2019 that she and Levine can't agree on how many more children they want (he'd prefer to have five while she'd be comfortable sticking with three or four), the kiddos they already have are pretty stinkin' cute.
Read ahead to learn more about the couple's children and get a look at this adorable family of five.
It's not Christmas until Mariah Carey says so. As soon as the clock struck midnight on Nov. 1, the pop star ushered in the holiday season with an over-the-top video, as she does every year.
Her latest festive announcement is quite the masterpiece - we truly have no notes. It opens with Carey encased in a giant ice block as several people wearing Halloween costumes use blow dryers to defrost her. She ultimately breaks free with the power of her high-pitched whistle tone, belting out, "It's time!" to signal the start of Christmas. To the surprise of no one, Carey's ubiquitous smash hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You" plays next while she dances in a Santa Claus outfit alongside her 12-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan.
Such videos have become an annual tradition for Carey. Last year, she took a similarly creative approach: after riding a stationary bike in a latex witch costume, she sang her signature phrase - "It's time!" - and was suddenly transported to a winter wonderland filled with snow. In 2021, she used a giant candy cane to smash a pumpkin, and two years before that, she got a phone call from Santa himself at midnight on Nov. 1.
Carey's Christmas countdown announcements date back as far as 2019, and they've gotten delightfully more extra over time. At first, they were charming at-home videos likely filmed on an iPhone, but now, they're studio-grade productions with special effects and hired actors. At this point, she probably has a whole team dedicated to ideating, filming, and editing the videos. Would you expect anything less from the Queen of Christmas?
Carey will keep the Christmas vibes going this month when she embarks on her Merry Christmas One and All! tour across the US and Canada. She announced the holiday concert series on Instagram on Oct. 2, writing, "Yes, the actual defrosting has begun!" She has since added several more shows to the lineup due to high demand from fans.
Watch Carey's hilarious Christmas countdown video for this year below, and keep reading to relive ones from years past and see how much they've evolved.