Natalie Cassidy

Natalie Cassidy has discovered the effects of the stress diet.

Your life torn apart and splashed across the papers for all the nation to read, fear for your own safety and that of your daughter is all you need to rapidly lose three stone of baby weight.

Poor Natalie, I know she's not everyone's cup o'cha but I must confess to having a soft spot for her.  She thought she'd found true love with Adam Cottrell but it all went sour a couple of months ago when he turned violent.

"I wanted me and Adam to be a family forever. I wouldn’t have chosen to have a baby with someone if I didn’t think it would be forever," she told the Daily Mail recently.

Adam Cottrell pleaded guilty to assault and criminal damage and is now subject to a restraining order; he still sees his daughter, Eliza, under supervision.

Despite everything that's happened, Natalie feels it's important that her daughter's father maintains a role in her life and upbringing.

Nick Cannon suggests more babies

It's all been a bit quiet on the Mariah Carey front since the twins arrived, but Nick Cannon (Mr Mariah Carey) has recently been speaking about the new additions to their family.

He says that although they're still small, they're already showing their personalities.

"My son Roc lives up to his name. He’s a tough guy. He’s already crawling. And then my daughter, she’s just a diva."

Crawling..? Already? At no more than three months old...?  I don't THINK so!

He also spoke about the possibility of adding more babies to the Carey-Cannon clan.

"I want some, but I think my wife’s done. I tried to say, ‘Yo, let’s go for another round!’ and she’s like, ‘I’ll kill you!"

So that's that then, as we all know who wears the trousers in THAT household!

Whilst Natalie Cassidy post-baby bump has gone down, her love life has gone belly-up!

Poor Natalie; just when it seemed that she had everything all sorted and settled.

She's back to a slim size 10, her career looks to be in good shape too and she was engaged to be married and in her own words 'blissfully happy'.  Now reports in the papers confirm that her fiancee, Adam Cottrell, has been arrested and charged with two counts of assault by beating and two counts of criminal damage.

Apparently he completely lost control during a row on Sunday night, he started smashing furniture and then got physical.  He left their family home in Hertfordshire and Natalie called the police.

This sort of thing makes me so cross; how DARE he!  I don't care what provocation there might have been, there's just no excuse for lashing out and hitting someone - whatever your gender.

Their daughter, Eliza, is eight months old now and Natalie is, of course, said to be devestated by what happened at the weekend.

A friend, has said, "Her main concern is the welfare of her daughter and, for now, she just wants to keep a low profile and get on with her life until this has all been resolved. She doesn’t know what the future holds for herself and Adam."

Whatever it is, I hope Mr Cottrell is suitably punished by the magistrates when he appears before them on 31 May.

It's all go in the world of Celebaby today! Natalie Cassidy wants more kids already and Halle Berry loses her daughter, Nahla.

Natalie Wants Twins Next

So Natalie Cassidy has been well and truly bitten by the baby bug.

It's easy to get sucked into the romance of it all when your first one is a little angel - that's how I've got two with birthdays on the same day a year apart *sigh*

She'd like Eliza to have a brother or sister to play with, "I'd love Eliza to have a brother or sister quite soon to play with. We'd like to have twins next but you couldn't leave one on their own, so I'd have to have four."

Four!? Three's enough, trust me I know!

Nahla...Where ARRRRE YOOOOU!??

Halle Berry has 'fessed that she lost her daughter for a few seconds in a department store.

That's happened to me with my youngest a couple of years ago and it was a heart-stopping minute or two!

Halle revealed this little drama she had with her daughter during an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, "Talk about sweating. And you just freak out for about 30 seconds. I came undone. I think my head projected off my body," she went on to say, "and then all of a sudden, I looked down at a price tag or something, and she toddled off for what seemed like two seconds. The next thing I know, I looked back around and it was like, Whosh! Gone! And I said, 'Nahla? Nahla? Nahla?' Gone."

*Shudder* Even just reading this brings back the absolute panic I felt when my youngest had wandered off in John Lewis.

"My heart just started... I'm like, 'Close the store! Shut the door! My daughter's gone!' "She was right next to me - in a rounder of clothes where the pants were hanging. Right there. And after I became a lunatic and totally embarrassed myself, she stuck her head out and was like, 'Hi.'"

KIDS! Who'd have 'em!?

I've been keeping an eye out for the arrival of Natalie Cassidy's baby - it had to be soon!

I was in Tesco the other day mooching around the magazines when there she was on the cover of one trashy horrible piece of gossip tat with the caption screaming at me that she'd had a little girl.

HOW had I missed this event!?

A quick bit of digging around revealed that I hadn't dropped the ball at all - phew! - rather the news had been kept under wraps for a while until that all important OK! Exclusive deal had been signed and sealed.

The photoshoot has been done and young Eliza Beatrice will be gracing the covers of OK! any minute now, if not already - I'll have a look when I'm out and about today.

Apparently the money deal was just too good to turn down - yeah, I've had a few of those hahahaa!  Hey, not THAT kind of money deal! Wash your thoughts out *sigh*

What do you think of the name Eliza?

I rather like it! It just seems perfect for the daughter of a good ol' 'Landan gerl'.

I can't help but think of My Fair Lady though when Audrey Hepburn (who plays Eliza, if you didn't know) says, "I washed me face an' 'ands before I come I did!"

There isn't going to be a fitness DVD either, Natalie has said, "I want to be the woman who gets the exercise DVD for Christmas, not the woman who's in the DVD!"

In today's Celebaby Natalie Cassidy takes centre stage.

The last few weeks for Natalie

Natalie Cassidy is in the last trimester of her first pregnancy and in the last few weeks she's been popping up in the papers.

I really like her - well, I like what I think I know about her anyway - she seems very down to earth, she's been subjected to more than her fair share of abuse at the hands of the public and the tabloids, but she still comes out smiling.

She doesn't come rolling out of pubs blind drunk, she's transparent when it comes to the struggles she has with her weight, she's got a strong work ethic and a FAR better role model for a lot of girls than other celebrity females I could mention!

She's been having a busy time of it lately, at the beginning of the month she took on the role of DES (designated driver) for her friends when they attended a Kings Of Leon concert at London's Hyde Park.

Some people were less than complimentary about her appearance, but what do they want? Her to be dressed up in high heels and a size 8 despite being 6 and a half months gone at this point? Please!

Last weekend the summer decided to pay us a visit before it ran away again (apparently the 'heatwave' is due to return to our shores next week, hurrah!) and Natalie blazed a trail for summer pregnant women everywhere - she took a trip to the beach and had the 'audacity' to wear just a bikini; shock horror!

But her coup de grace (as far as I'm concerned) and should silence the body critics came when she attended the Karate Kid premier in London this week.

She sashayed down the red carpet looking UTTERLY stunning and totally glam'  in a figure-hugging black dress and high heels. I think she looks fantastic!

On the thorny subject of her pregnancy diet, Natalie said, "I can't get enough of chicken, mayonnaise and sweetcorn sandwiches! But I've been eating healthily - I've not been noshing down four cream cakes in one sitting and claiming I'm eating for two."

And when asked whether there was a post-baby exercise DVD in the offing, she said, "I couldn’t just shove my baby off somewhere because I want to lose weight, I want to be a proper mum."

With just a few weeks left to go, in her usual frank manner, Natalie has revealed that the prospect of giving birth is a scary one, "I'm absolutely bricking it. Adam and I are booked on an antenatal course next month. I reckon they'll tell me absolutely everything and I'll come away feeling even more petrified."

I'm afraid so Natalie, especially if you're shown around the labour unit and hear screaming coming from other rooms like I did!