What's with all the celebrity babies popping out of mothers all of a sudden? It seems like everyone's at it lately, including star of the Bourne films and that rubbish one about co-joined twins, Matt Damon.
Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Bozan are the proud parents of a baby girl with – get this – a normal name. Isabella Damon was born on Sunday, and can look forward to a life of being slightly less interesting but vaguely more commercially viable than Violet Affleck.
If we had better business brains, we'd have seen this coming and given up this blogging lark to go and sell overpriced babywear in Hollywood. And Namibia, too – although we'd have probably just sent the sandwich lady over there. Because just about every famous person you've ever heard of has had a baby in the last few weeks, and we're nothing if not shamelessly opportunistic mercenaries.
Seriously, look at the evidence. Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow have Moses, then Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have Suri and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have Shiloh Nouvel. And those are just the A-list babies; also pumping out sprogs like some nightmarish flesh factory have been Gwen Stefani, Rachel Weisz, Geri Halliwell, Brooke Shields and Woody Harrelson. Well, Woody Harrelson's wife. We think.
And now Matt Damon and his wife's rampant whirlwind of getting pregnant and then getting married is over, with little baby Isabella Damon adding to the tally of celebrity babies out there. All that's been revealed about baby Isabella so far is that she was born in Miami and everyone is "wonderful, fine."
But why so many celebrity babies, and why now? The answers lay in the calender – nine months ago it was October 13, 2005 – the first day that the HN51 strain of bird flu was confirmed to have reached Europe through Turkey. And what celebrity wouldn't want to celebrate that occasion with a bout of sweet, sweet insemination?
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It's a girl for Matt Damon, wife – MSNBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]