<![CDATA[Jezebel: births]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: births]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/births http://jezebel.com/tag/births <![CDATA[Loose Lips]]> Ricky Martin is now the father to two twin boys. The children were born via a surrogate mother and are now under Ricky's full-time care. Congrats! • Tom Arnold has just gotten officially divorced from his third wife, Shelby Roos Arnold. Shelby will get $15,000 a month in spousal support for 25 months. Wait, Tom Arnold has that kind of money? • [Perez Hilton, TMZ]

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<![CDATA[Welcome To The World]]> Photojournalist Mariana Bazo traveled to Cuzco, Peru for a story about vertical birthing. Her tale — and photographs — are chilling, vivid and breathtaking. "The fact of me being a woman and a mother too was like an invitation into their world, even though I had never felt the same pain of birth that they were feeling," Bazo writes. "They always asked me if I had a child, and that opened the door for me." The mothers-to-be in the clinic receive no anesthesia. "The women scream out their pain, lying on the floor or pacing. They suffer, endure and survive in spite of not receiving anything for the pain." After she left the clinic, she visited some of the new mothers. "I had only planned to take pictures, but they invited me into their houses, gave me food and beverage, and had me hold their babies... It’s for stories like these that I became a photographer." Click here for much more. [Reuters]

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<![CDATA[Thomas Beatie Gives Birth • Pro-Choice Doctor To Receive Canada's Highest Honor]]> Pregnant man Thomas Beatie gave birth to baby girl today via Cesarean natural birth! Congrats! • Two prominent female activists from the group Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise have been detained for 6 weeks for peacefully protesting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. • A Canadian doctor and Holocaust survivor who fought to legalize abortion in Canada will receive the country's highest civilian honor despite condemnation from anti-choice advocates. • A new art exhibit aims to break Western depictions of Muslim and Arab women by highlighting female artists (Muslim and non-Muslim) from the Islamic world.

Australian crime victims are demanding that convicted rapist Mike Tyson be barred from entering Australia and "totted out as a celebrity, like some kind of Mother Theresa." • Former Indian septic-tank cleaners and other female "untouchables" put on a fashion show at the U.N. honoring a for-profit organization to help untouchables. • A teen girl in Colorado is sentenced to 18 years in prison after killing her half-sister in a "Mortal Kombat" fight reenactment. • Bob Dylan's ex-girlfriend and muse (and the woman pictured with him on the iconic cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) breaks her silence in a new memoir about the '60s. • Victims of a peeping tom case in Seattle are blamed by the peeper's wife for "putting on a show" because of their broken blinds. • Two more teens videotaped themselves beating up a fellow classmate and putting it on the internet. One word for these girls: idiots. • Gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace continues to run rampant in Bangladesh. • Game makers attempt to woo young girls with a new game that is essentially a lamer version of Guitar Hero.• Could the HPV vaccine cause teen paralysis? • Deliriously cute Leftovers video: ducklings in a bathtub!

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<![CDATA[Babies Maybe?]]> According to reports about reports coming out of France, Angelina Jolie has given birth to twins. Sources say Angie and Brad welcomed their bébés at a Catholic clinic in the country's Aix-en-Provence on Sunday. Why would we just be hearing about it today??? OK! magazine says: "Be warned that you may want to take this news with a grain of salt. After all, remember those prematurely 'confirmed' wedding reports in March that claimed the couple had wed in their adopted city of New Orleans?" Our source at In Touch says: "Not yet. False French rumors." [WENN via ABC News, TheImproper, HollyScoop, Hollywood.com, OK!]

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