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Melissa McCarthy is the latest to make the leap

(NEWSER) - Melissa McCarthy is on top of the world, and now that she's won an Emmy and won over SNL viewers , what's next? The Bridesmaids star, who wanted to be a fashion designer before she ended up in comedy, is launching her own plus-size fashion line. "Trying to find stuff that's still fashion-forward in my size is damn near impossible," McCarthy, who designed her own dress for the Emmys, tells the Hollywood Reporter . "It's either for like a 98-year-old woman or a 14-year-old hooker, and there is nothing in the middle." More»

Victoria Beckham walks 7 miles per day, says source

(NEWSER) - Victoria Beckham is, shall we say, committed to losing her baby weight, a source tells the Sun . After giving birth to daughter Harper Seven in July, Posh Spice started rising at—brace yourself—7am and walking seven miles per day in two treadmill sessions while also doing yoga. “She's had to take it easy,” says the insider, before adding the understatement of the year: “But her definition of easy is different to most people's.” Did it work? Judge for yourself with a photo from Fashion Week . More»

Harper Seven Beckham is the couple's fourth child, first girl

(NEWSER) - The first daughter of Victoria and David Beckham has joined the sweepstakes for odd celebrity child names with her new moniker Harper Seven, reports the Daily Mail . The tabloid seems a little confused by the unusual name, suggesting several theories for its meaning. Maybe Harper is for Harper Lee, or Harper's Bazaar magazine. And Seven, that could be for her father's old soccer number, or maybe it's for the time the girl was born. "I am so proud and excited to announce the birth of our daughter Harper Seven Beckham," wrote Harper's pop on his Facebook page. "She weighed a healthy 7lbs 10oz and arrived at 7:55 this morning, here in LA." More»

Their three boys are 'very excited'

(NEWSER) - You can never really have too many Beckhams, and the world is about to get one more. Soccer star David and his ex-Spice Girl wife, Victoria, are expecting again, the AP reports. "Victoria and I are expecting our fourth child this summer,” David wrote on Facebook today. “The boys are very excited about the arrival of a new brother or sister." A brother, we’re guessing: The Beckhams, married in 1999, have three boys already: Brooklyn, 11, Romeo, 8, and Cruz, 5. Click for more, including Victoria’s thoughts on motherhood . More»

Could you survive on strawberries, lettuce, and edamame?

(NEWSER) - Snooki of the Jersey Shore is going on a cookie diet—which sounds downright yummy compared to some of the other crazy diets she and her fellow celebrities have tried. (In high school, Snooks would “suck on ice cubes for hours” instead of eating, a friend says.) The Frisky found 9 more similarly insane-sounding regimens:

• Mariah Carey: Her purple food diet involves eating grapes, plums, beetroots—and nothing but—for three days each week.
• Victoria Beckham: Insisted the Spice Girls subsist on strawberries, lettuce, and edamame; now, when she goes to lunch with Katie Holmes, they split a small salad—sans dressing.