Mel Gibson's girlfriend gives birth

Mel Gibson may be a father for the eighth time: His girlfriend, musican Oksana Grigorieva, gave birth to a baby girl, according to reports circulating on the Web.

PEOPLE is currently attempting to confirm the news. The baby, who was due in December, arrived Friday, says RadarOnline.com.

Gibson, 53, has seven children (six sons and a daughter) with his estranged wife Robyn, while Oksana has a son, Alexander, with her former boyfriend, actor Timothy Dalton.

'I have a 12 year old, so I've been a mother for 12 years - and of course, there is no first time mother's trepidation as such,' Grigorieva, 39, said on a British TV show in September. 'So naturally it's more relaxed, and I'm very dynamic so the pregnancy falls into my work schedule.'

In terms of her relationship with the actor-filmmaker, she said, 'Actually we have no plans to marry whatsoever. I haven't thought about it - we haven't spoken about it.'

In April, the actor's wife of 30 years, Robyn, filed for divorce. Later that month, he and Grigeorieva made their first public appearance together as a couple.

John Travolta and family healing through religious counseling

Speaking publicly for the first time since their 16-year-old son, Jett, died on Jan. 2 after hitting his head on a bathtub during a seizure, John Travolta says that coping with the devastating loss is a daily struggle.

‘We've been working very hard every day as a family to heal,' Travolta said in an interview with USA Today.

Among his and wife Kelly Preston's coping tools are daily religious counseling sessions. Travolta, 55, a Scientologist, says he broke his silence to focus on his daughter, Ella Bleu. Ella, 9, costars with her parents in her feature-film debut, the comedy Old Dogs, which opens Nov. 25.

‘We decided it was okay to come out and promote, to introduce her to the world and to give her a beautiful future in film,' Travolta said.

Friends, Family Faith


Preston, 47, said that the grieving process is always evolving.

‘It's a tricky thing,' she noted. ‘Sometimes, something that's right for the moment is not right the next day. Being with people who are important to you, being with people that you love, I think that's what has primarily helped us the most. Sometimes, being alone, too.'

‘The outpouring of love from, really, worldwide has been extraordinary,' she told the newspaper. ‘It's been our friends, our family, our church. We partake in spiritual counseling pretty much daily.'

Above all, Travolta senses some progress as the family moves forward.

‘We have our own way of doing it,' he said, ‘and it has been helping.'

A friend of the actor tells PEOPLE, ‘What's gotten them through? Their counseling, their love for each other, the love they've gotten from their friends ... but have they healed? No. You never get over it.'

Brooke Shields recalls suicidal thoughts after giving birth

Brooke Shields has been open about her struggles with post-partum depression, but in revealing new comments she expresses the true depths of her suffering.

Shields, 44, spoke movingly about the stigma of depression and her experience battling the disease on Monday while receiving an advocacy award from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation in Manhattan.

'We think and we feel that we should just be able to handle it on our own,' said the actress, who is mom to two girls, Rowan, 6, and Grier, 3.

'I've always been strong enough to get through every single difficult situation in my life. I grew up in an addictive household. My mother [Teri] had acute alcoholism. It's in my blood. I was never going to be the one to succumb to it.'

After a miscarriage and seven IVF attempts, she gave birth to daughter Rowan in 2003 with her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy.

'I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her,' she said of the depression she felt.

'I couldn't hold her and I couldn't sing to her and I couldn't smile at her ... All I wanted to do was disappear and die.'

In her deepest moments of despair she said, that the disease led her to believe, 'I should not exist. The baby would be better off without me. Life was never going to get better - so I better just go.'

Shields was prescribed medication, though she stopping taking it one point, thinking she didn't need them.

'That was the week I almost did not resist driving my car straight into a wall on the side of the freeway,' she told the crowd.

'My baby was in the back seat and that even pissed me off because I thought she's even ruining this for me.

'I just wanted to drive into the wall and my friend stayed on the phone with me and made me safely get home.'

She later called her doctor to ask for more help, and was eventually diagnosed with a chemical imbalance.

'I learned what was going on inside my body and what was going on inside my brain,' she said.


'I learned I wasn't doing anything wrong to feel that way. That it was actually out of my control.'

Looking back, she said, 'If I had been diagnosed with any other disease, I would have run to get help. I would have worn it like a badge ... I didn't at first - but finally I did fight. I survived.'

Nadine Coyle is planning to try her luck on the US music scene

You've got to hand it to Nadine Coyle: she's certainly gutsy.

Fresh from her humiliation in the UK charts and the news that Cheryl Cole is headed for US stardom, the Girls Aloud escapee is planning an assault on the American music scene - as a country singer.

Nadine, 25, has told her friends that the reason her debut album and single, both called Insatiable, flopped is because the British public ‘don't get' her.

So she's planning a new album with a country feel for the American market.

‘Nadine's refusing to give up on her dream,' a friend of the Coyle family tells Now.

‘She reckons she'll have more chance in the States, where talent and singing ability count. Her life's in America now and she'd happily never return to the UK after such a hostile reception.'

Nadine's even told pals she'd like to be as big as Taylor Swift.

Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan is coming home for the holidays - and her family is putting her to work!

Although Lindsay usually gets VIP treatment, while in Long Island, N.Y., with her family - including mom Dina, sister Ali, and two brothers - the Mean Girls actress will be busy in the kitchen.

'Lindsay is making the garlic mashed potatoes. They are amazing!' Dina Lohan told PEOPLE while taking a break from serving a Thanksgiving lunch to autistic and special needs community members at the Harbor Links Country Club in Long Island, N.Y. on Tuesday.

As for how her daughter her is doing, Dina says, 'Lindsay is doing great right now. She's happy and very busy working. She works a lot and so we're excited to have her home for Thanksgiving.'

And Lindsay isn't the only member of the family who will help with the day's feast.

'Ali is doing the stuffing and I'm doing the turkey and making sure nothing burns,' says Dina.

Once the meal is prepared, the family will celebrate a sweet tradition. 'We go around the table and say what we are thankful for,' says Dina.

'I grew up with it and it's just a Thanksgiving tradition we have going on at our house that we grabbed onto ... We are so blessed and it's important to share what we are thankful for, and not to take things for granted.'

Taylor Swift has been nominated for 8 awards

No one else may be surprised by her strong showing at the Grammy nominations Wednesday, but Taylor Swift certainly is.

‘I started freaking out and jumping up and down,' Swift, 19, tells the Associated Press.

‘I honestly never would have predicted this, eight nominations - I'm ecstatic, and blown away and so, so thankful.

'With eight nods, Swift was second only to Beyoncé, who had 10, and ahead of Lady Gaga, with five.

Swift is up for album of the year for Fearless, as well as song, record and country album of the year.

The soon-to-be birthday girl was in an Los Angeles hotel room with her mom editing home videos when her producer texted her the news: ‘AAUUGGH!!!!!'

‘To be recognized by the Grammys is the ultimate honor, and all I know is that when I write about this in my journal tonight it will be in all capital letters and underlined four times, and there will be lots of exclamation points in this entry because I never imagined I'd get to write this kind of journal entry,' Swift says.

Swift's been nominated before, but never won. She finds out if she'll take a statuette home on Jan. 31. 

‘The thought of that absolutely is something that you daydream about,' she says.