When I read the Daily Mail article comparing pregnant Lisa Marie Presley to her late fat father I was pretty surprised. Even though the journalistic standards for the Daily Mail are lower than American tabloids, and involve making fun of skinny women’s knees regularly, I was amazed to see how rude they were to her. They included a side-by-side picture of pregnant Lisa next to fat Elvis. They did mention halfway down the article that she was rumored to be pregnant, but that didn’t get in the way of trashing her for moderate weight gain. The NY Daily News did the same thing.

The Daily Mail’s article has been removed, but I quoted the NY Daily News in an earlier article, and they were super nasty to her:

Wearing a grungy yellow hoody and sweatpants, greasy hair pulled back, and no makeup to conceal her splotchy skin as she shoveled food into her bloated face, it’s hard to imagine the former bombshell that looked so much like her mother.

The singer and philanthropist, whose ex-husbands famously include Nicolas Cage and Michael Jackson, is rumored to be pregnant with fourth husband Michael Lockwood’s child, which might explain some of the dramatic weight gain.

[Article originally on NY Daily News’ website, which has since been re-worded]

That’s not very nice considering that the National Enquirer reported her pregnant a few days before those pictures came out, and you can see that she has a pregnant-looking tummy. The Daily News has since changed the wording on that article to be a lot more flattering to Presley, saying, “If it looks like Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie, now 40, has had a few too many of those peanut-butter and deep-fried banana sandwiches her father famously enjoyed, it’s because she’s eating for two! Presley is pregnant with her third child, her rep confirmed to People Magazine.”

The misogynistic body critics over at the Daily Mail are getting their asses sued by Presley, though. If only every celebrity would sue the Daily Mail for every stupid article they write, maybe they would be put out of business.

Presley wrote a scathing response to the very cruel articles about her. She blogged on her myspace that it was personally upsetting, and called it “nothing short of irresponsible and disgusting”

After being the target all week of slanderous and degrading stories, horribly manipulated pictures and articles in the media, I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am in fact pregnant.
Once they got a glimpse of my expanding physique a few days ago, they have been like a pack of coyotes circling their prey whilst eerily howling with delight. Starting with a London publication and then New York and Chicago all writing false defamatory degrading stories about all of the dark possible reasons I could be putting on weight.

[From Lisa Marie Presley’s myspace blog]

Let’s hope she gets an apology and a hefty settlement from these assholes. Maybe they’ll think twice about running articles every day trashing people for not staying young, thin and perfect forever.

Lisa Marie Presley is shown at Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party on 2/10/07.

Matt Damon, 37, and his wife of two years, Luciana Barroso, 32, are expecting their second child together. They have a 20 month-old daughter, Isabella, and Matt is the stepfather of Luciana’s 9 year-old daughter, Alexia, from her first marriage. Damon and Luciana were seen out at the Empire Film Awards in London last night, where Bourne Ultimatum won best film. It was obvious that Luciana was pregnant.

People Magazine has a statement from Damon’s rep, who confirms the news, saying “They couldn’t be happier, They’re so excited!”

Last year there was a story at the end of August that Luciana was three months’ pregnant, but that would make her nearly due at this point, and she doesn’t look that far along in these pictures from Sunday.

Congratulations to Matt and Luciana! According to People, Matt is now shooting the thriller The Green Zone in Morocco. He has two other films scheduled for release next year, The Informant, another thriller, and The Human Factor, which is based on Nelson Mandela’s first term as South African President. Morgan Freeman will play Mandela.

Former supermodel and current reality show star Kimora Lee Simmons, 32, is pregnant with actor Dijmon Hounsou’s child. I am glad I only have to spell that name, and not pronounce it.

Kimora Lee Simmons finally has her long-sought-after bun in the oven. The demanding diva has been trying for a child with her lover, Djimon Hounsou, and sources say the two have finally made magic. “She’s pregnant,” a source told us. A rep for Simmons couldn’t get a hold of her client for five days. Simmons already has two children, Ming and Aoki, by ex-husband Russell Simmons.

[From Page Six]

Page Six makes it sound like the wannabe “Baby Phat” designer has been trying for years to get pregnant. It hasn’t really been that long; her divorce with Russell Simmons is barely a year old. Kimora has two daughters with Simmons, Ming Lee, 8, and Aoki Lee, 5 and 1/2, who appear regularly on her show, “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane.” No word on what her due date is, or whether Kimora and Hounsou have plans to get married.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou are shown at the premiere of “Never Back Down” on 3/4/08, thanks to PRPhotos. They have been dating for about a year, and were first linked together in March, 2007.