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Bad weight loss and good weight loss stories make it into this week's Woman's Day, which reveals fresh worries about Victoria Beckham's diminutive frame and Tyra Banks' triumphant diet overhaul.
Posh Spice is now thought to be a bad role model for Ginger Spice as Geri Halliwell aspires
to the same tiny frame.
Brad Pitt, meanwhile, is worried about Angelina's plummeting weight, and photos indeed suggest she may have over-identified with Africa's poverty issues.
Mary-Kate Olson continues to concern, and Courtney Love is pictured looking like a right bag of bones.
But Tyra Banks looks fabulous after shedding 12kg, prompted by unflattering beach shots, although she still treats herself to a bowl of icecream every Saturday.
The magazine tells us Shannen Doherty spent most of her three week-stay in Auckland hiding in her trailer while filming Second Chance, and speculates that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are planning baby number two.
But it is definite in reporting that our own celebrity couple, America's Cup hopeful Dean Barker and his wife, Mandy, are pregnant with their second child.
Lion Man Craig Busch's former partner, Karen Greybrook, gets a big write-up; she is upset at the verdict on the lion tamer's assaults on her.
Dancing with the Stars contender Megan Alatini 'fesses up that she rather fancies her dancing partner, Jonny Williams, and felt like a naughty little schoolgirl with a crush.
Fortunately her husband, Pita, is understanding and while he feels a bit out of step seeing his wife cosying up with another man on national television, says his good communication with Megan remains the key to their trust.
But in case you forget where DWTS can land you, the New Idea has a huge splash with its cover story about the water-birth of a baby for a former dancing couple.
Over six pages the magazine displays cooing photos of Shane Cortese and Nerida Lister's new baby boy Kees.
Nerida describes the birth, in which she delivered the 7lb 9oz (just over 3kg) baby with no pain relief, not even Panadol.
In an unusual present the grandparents got together to pay for Kees' cord blood to be banked as biological insurance should he develop some serious illness such as leukaemia.
Less concerned for her child's safety, it appears, is Men in Trees star Anne Heche, who is accused by her former husband Coley Laffon of being a crazy and unfit mother.
He claims Heche "did a Britney" by not strapping her five-year-old son into a car seat, providing unhealthy lunches and using profanities.
Worse, he alleges, she lets the boy sleep in the same bed as her new lover and co-star James Tupper.
Heche retaliates by calling Laffon a jobless bum.
A couple who survived through many troubles is Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, who admit each has tried to kill the other, usually while drunk.
As a result, they have hitched themselves to the abstinence wagon.
Prince William and Kate Middleton remain a "couple" that the magazines can't quite face is over.
Principled Kate (emphasis on the "prince" bit) has apparently turned down multimillion-dollar offers to appear on TV shows in Britain, not wanting to risk embarrassing the royal family.
But what really drives her, it is suggested, is her hope for an eventual reconciliation and the pair are reportedly still planning a holiday together in August.
What Prince William thinks about all this may be revealed on American television.
The palace is said to be in a tizz after a US newsman questioned Will about Kate despite being told it was a "no-go" area.
A battle looms over whether the prince's response will be broadcast.
The New Zealand Woman's Weekly tells us that William and Kate speak to each other often, and and are on very good terms.
The magazine says they are going together to the wedding of one of Kate's cousins.
And even warring Paul McCartney and Heather Mills are said to be calling a truce, worried about the effect their rows are having on three-year-old daughter Beatrice.
They are pictured waving and smiling in the street over little Bea.
But we learn that for DWTS contender Suzanne Paul, little offspring in the streets used to send her dashing off in the opposite direction.
Such was her pain at not having a child that Paul had to side-step prams.
But now she has formed a special bond with a two-month-old baby at the National Women's Hospital in Auckland.
Tiny Melody, born three months premature, gave Paul the courage to carry on when she danced with a fractured rib and torn thigh muscle in the third week.
The money Paul raises in DWTS goes to the Starship Foundation so it can buy more incubators for similarly premature or sick babies.
