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Saturday, February 3, 2018
Joy-Anna Duggar Cradles Baby Bump, Shotgun Wedding Rumors Won"t Die
Joy-Anna Duggar, her husband and two of her brothers posed for a cute pic this week, but all eyes were on the unborn member of the family.
Check out Joy’s burgeoning baby bump, people!
As always, her belly created an online firestorm.
Talk of Joy-Anna getting pregnant before marriage has circulated since … well, before her marriage, and especially after she got pregnant.
There had already been chatter about them breaking courtship rules, and they started a family in a hurry even by Duggar standards.
Joy announced she was expecting almost exactly 12 weeks after her wedding in late May of last year, and looked even further along.
Was it really a shotgun wedding to Austin Forsyth? We don’t know for sure, and likely never will, but the great due date debate continues.
Some fans say Joy-Anna Duggar’s due date is February 22, based on an online registry attributed to the 20-year-old Counting On star.
The family has only revealed that she’s due in late February or early March, while others insist that they have never officially said anything.
(There’s also a theory going around that Joy already gave birth, though the above photo would appear to have shot that nonsense down.)
In any case, the Forsyths, who share a joint Instagram account, posted the image of Joy-Anna on the far left cradling her growing bump.
She’s wearing a tight t-shirt and a smile, while husband Austin and two of Joy-Anna’s brothers also look to be having a good time.
They captioned the pic, “Hanging with the bros!”
That they are. Though almost no one seemed to think much about the other two guys (sorry, John David) in the comment section.
Joy also raised eyebrows when she remarked that the pregnant Jinger Duggar would be giving birth just six months after her.
That math doesn’t quite match up with the timeline offered by the Duggars and their end-of-February-or-start-of-March claims.
As for the registry date? Assuming that’s her “official” due date, it’s less than nine months after her wedding, but not by much.
The simple fact that she’s pregnant at this moment pretty much disproves the shotgun wedding theory, as we’re now in February.
It’s almost certain that there was no rescheduling of her nuptials, as rumored, although certain skeptics still remain unconvinced.
From a numerical aspect, February 22 is 37 weeks from her wedding night, and a typical pregnancy is approximately 40 weeks.
However, that 40-week date is typically calculated from the date of the woman’s previous period, so it could very well be the case.
In any case, the matter is far from resolved, and the couple has not commented on any shotgun wedding/premarital sex chatter.
Obviously, the only reason this is even a story is the fact that the Duggars pride themselves on their courtship rules and restraint.
There are no full-frontal hugs allowed before engagement, let alone sex; Joy and Austin would be breaking family protocol hard.
Only time will tell if the birth of their first child sheds any light on this debate, or if it remains an ambiguous mystery long afterward.
Uma Thurman Recounts Being Attacked by Harvey Weinstein
It’s been a few months now since all the awful stories about Harvey Weinstein started pouring in …
And what a super depressing time it’s been.
Actress after actress has come forward to accuse Weinstein of everything from sexual harassment to sexual assault to rape, and though these stories have been coming out for so long now, we’ve yet to hear the end of it all.
We know that because today, Uma Thurman finally felt comfortable to reveal what Weinstein did to her.
A little bit of background: Uma has known Weinstein for years and years, ever since she starred in Pulp Fiction.
Back in November, she was asked about all the stories that had been coming out about him, and she explained to the reporter that she didn’t have a “tidy soundbite” prepared.
“I am not a child,” she said then, “and I have learned that when I’ve spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself.”
“So I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.”
She definitely seemed angry then, and she seemed even angrier a few weeks later when she shared a message about Thanksgiving with her followers on Instagram.
After talking about being “grateful,” she wrote that “I feel it’s important to take your time, be fair, be exact, so… Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!”
“Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators,” she added in parentheses. “I’m glad it’s going slowly — you don’t deserve a bullet.”
She advised everyone to “stay tuned,” and we have … and now in a new interview with the New York Times, she’s telling her story at long last.
To start, Uma explains that she began getting close to Harvey and his first wife after filming Pulp Fiction.
“I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,” she says. “He used to spend hours talking to me about material and complimenting my mind and validating me.”
“It possibly made me overlook warning signs.”
“This was my champion,” she continues. “I was never any kind of studio darling. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.”
Later, she says that she had a meeting with him in a hotel room — unfortunately, you can probably tell where the story is going at this point.
As they were discussing a script, Harvey changed into a bathrobe, but Uma says that she “didn’t feel threatened,” that she “thought he was being super idiosyncratic, like this was your kooky, eccentric uncle.”
After that, he told her to follow him as he went to a different room, and he ended up leading her to a steam room.
“And I was standing there in my full black leather outfit — boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ‘This is ridiculous, what are you doing?"”
“And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out,” she says.
Not too long after that, Uma says that she was meeting with Harvey in another hotel when he attacked her.
“It was such a bat to the head,” she recalls. “He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things.”
“But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me.”
She compares the experience to being “like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard.”
“I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.”
The next day, he sent her roses with a card that just read “You have great instincts.”
How horrifying is that?
She went back to the hotel to confront him about what happened, but she says that his assistants tried to pressure her to let it go and to focus on the upcoming film projects she was working on with Harvey.
After finally agreeing to meet with him one more time, she told him “If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you.”
She says that that was the last thing she remembered of that night, but a friend of hers who’d gone with her to the hotel for support says that Uma stayed upstairs in Harvey’s room for a long time, and when she came back down “she was very disheveled and so upset and had this blank look.”
Harvey has already denied everything, beyond admitting that he did make an unsuccessful pass at Uma during that first hotel incident.
What a terrible story that just keeps getting worse, huh?
Rob Gronkowski"s Dad Says Gronk"s Good to Go, Busts Out Some Dance Moves
Rob Gronkowski’s dad isn’t concerned about his son’s head or health heading into the Super Bowl, telling TMZ Sports … Gronk’s fine, focused and ready to go!!! He also put on a one-man dance show with wild friends chanting his name — standard…
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