Cindy Crawford and family hit Starbucks.

Jennifer Garner and Violet at Gelson’s Market.

Don’t forget to have kids!

Bill Maher pens a very interesting article on vaccination for Huffington Post.

Jennifer Garner takes Violet and Seraphina out to lunch.

(In the above photo Cindy was snapped with Presley, 10, and Kaia, 8, earlier this month)

Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber are the latest celebrities to be caught up in an extortion drama involving a bizarre photo of their eight year-old daughter, Kaia.

TMZ reported that a very strange photo of Kaia (taken when she was seven) was stolen from a former nanny by an acquaintance named Edis Kayalar. The photo depicts her “bound to a chair and gagged,” TMZ noted, as part of the nanny’s “cops and robbers game.” (The parents were unaware of this “game.”) Edis Kayalar subsequently threatened to sell the photo, thus beginning a blackmailing plot.

A rep for Cindy an Rande released the following statement:

A criminal complaint was filed today in federal court in Los Angeles by the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI stating that Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford have been the victims of an on-going extortion scheme. This crime has been committed by Edis Kayalar, an acquaintance of a former nanny employed by the family. Mr. Kayalar threatened to sell an image taken of the couple’s then-seven-year-old daughter. There was no previous awareness by Mr. Gerber and Ms. Crawford of the existence of the photograph when they were contacted by Mr. Kayalar. The photo was taken by the former nanny as part of a purported game without the knowledge of the parents. The couple reported the extortion threat to the police and the FBI began a criminal investigation in the matter. Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford intend to pursue any and all available legal action against anyone who aids the perpetrator in the distribution or sale of the photograph of their daughter.

So strange! That sounds like a very strange game for nanny to be introducing a little girl to…ugh! And don’t celebrities have nanny-cams all over the house!?

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Cindy Crawford, 43, was snapped at Cross Creek in Malibu over the weekend with her son, Presley, 10, and daughter, Kaia, 8.

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Cindy Crawford, 43, and daughter Kaia, 7, were snapped out for dinner at Nobu in Malibu on Thursday.

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Cindy Crawford, 43, and daughter Kaia, 7, were snapped out for dinner at Tra Di Noi in Malibu on Tuesday.

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Excellent article on how school is hurting boys.

Cindy Crawford and her children in LA.

Cindy Crawford, 42, was snapped with her son Presley, 9, and daughter Kaia, 7, at the annual Nautica Triathlon in Malibu on September 14th.

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Matthew McConaughey and girlfriend Camila Alves are enjoying sharing their interests with their baby son, who was born on July 7th.

“We took Levi to a John Mellencamp concert,” Matthew told CNN’s House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta for a show airing in two parts on August 9th and August 16th.

Matthew, 38, said that he and Camila, 25, take Levi everywhere so he’s “equipped to be around the sights and sounds of people” – which also makes life better for the new parents.

“Everyone talked about how, oh, you have a kid, life changes, it’s like 180 degrees on a dime full stop, wow,” he said. “And a lot of them had an insinuation under that like, you have to stop living your life as you live it. That hasn’t been the case.”

In fact, the new family stepped out last night for the launch of Camila’s new line of handbags in LA. “Levi was gonna stay home but then he said, ‘Dad, mom, I wanna go support mom’s purses,’” joked Matthew. “At 30 days old he’s talking about stuff like that!”

Keeping Levi on the move “takes a little more prep time to do whatever it is you’re going to do,” Matthew said. “And especially with Camila breastfeeding every three hours, she can’t be away from the child. So she’s got to be there.”

Matthew also said that although the birth took a long time but “it went down perfectly.”

“Even though we went 60 hours to do what could have been done in a few hours, it was a great journey for both of us and her and I now have gone through something that – we call it the best dance we’ve ever had,” he said. “We’ve gone through something that we’re like, I know and you know and only you and I know and that’s good for us.”

Matthew also shared that they stored the umbilical cord (and its vital stem cells) and kept the placenta, which they plan to bury in an orchard, following an Australian aboriginal custom he discovered during a visit there.

“They had a placenta tree that was on the river, and it was for the women, and it was the most fertile land and fertile river,” he said. “And all the placentas of all that tribe, all that clan … went under that one tree, and it was this huge behemoth of just health and strength. And this tree was just growing taller and stronger above the rest of Mother Nature around it. It was gorgeous.”

Wow! I remember Cindy Crawford talking about saving the placenta from her son’s birth as well, and her husband almost ate it!

Cindy delivered Presley at home in 1999 and her midwife placed the afterbirth in the family refrigerator for safekeeping – so that Cindy could have a spiritual planting ceremony upon her recovery.

Rande mistook the labeling on the Tupperware dish and almost ate the placenta. Cindy recalled, “My son was 10 days late so I had someone prepared to cook for us right when I had the baby, but she’d been cooking for us a week already. She’d been labeling ‘Cindy’s lunch’, ‘Rande’s lunch’, ‘Cindy’s dinner’… so, after I had the baby, Rande was hungry… and he goes out to the refrigerator and he sees the Tupperware that says ‘afterbirth’ on it and he thinks, ‘Oh, this is what I’m supposed to eat after birth.’

“He didn’t eat it, but he opened the Tupperware and there’s a big placenta, which looks like a big piece of liver, laying in there and I hear the shriek from the kitchen. I put it in a Ziploc (bag) and put it in the freezer, where it stayed until I finally got around to burying it.”

For some reason this whole placeta-saving and planting seems peculiar, but maybe it is more common than I think. Did you save the placenta after the birth of your child(ren)?

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Cindy, 42, and her gorgeous family were photographed for the Absolutely Fabulous issue of “Hola” magazine (May 21st, 2008). Presley is 9 and Kaia is 6.

And below Cindy, Rande and Kaia were snapped on their way to Nobu on June 12th.

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Cindy, 42, and look-alike daughter Kaia, 6, were snapped out and about in Malibu on May 29th.

And below on May 27th.