people.monstersandcritics.com: Britney Spears reportedly checked into hospital to deliver her second child by a secret Caesarean section yesterday (07.09.06).
The 'Baby One More Time' singer and husband Kevin Federline have allegedly scheduled an appointment at the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, in California, exactly one week before son Sean Preston's first birthday, according to website Dlisted.
Kevin recently told reporters that Britney was due to give birth in October.
It is common among the rich and famous to give birth by elective C-section approximately four weeks before the baby is due.
The procedure is carried out for cosmetic reasons, as the stomach skin most commonly stretches the most in the last month, so having the baby delivered early limits the possibility of unsightly stretch marks.
The couple have already chosen a name for their baby which is believed to be a girl. Britney is combining her mother and father's names, Jamie and Lynne to create Jailynn.
It was reported last month the pop superstar had ordered nursery accessories off the internet, including a cot, which were pink and suitable for a girl.

contactmusic.com: Aspiring rapper KEVIN FEDERLINE has blamed his shaky start in the music industry on wife BRITNEY SPEARS' huge reputation. Promoting upcoming album PLAYING WITH FIRE, Federline admitted to US talk show host ELLEN DeGENERES yesterday (06SEP06) that the pop superstar was an impossible act to follow. He said, "I would be lying if I didn't say it was tough. "I think the expectation is real high for me. You know, it's like, you see my wife - here she is this huge superstar, everybody loves her, all of her music is just hits after hits - and it's hard to compete." However, despite drawing the comparison, Federline insists he doesn't feel pressure to out-do her, despite critics' harsh reviews: "I don't see it as a competition, you know. Maybe other people are putting it in that perspective but to me it's not a competition."

contactmusic.com: BRITNEY SPEARS and KEVIN FEDERLINE's kids are sure to be road warriors thanks to a gift handed to the wannabe rapper on ELLEN DeGENERES' daily talk show yesterday (06SEP06). The host presented a beaming Federline with a mini chopper and sidecar for his son SEAN PRESTON and unborn baby, expected next month (OCT06), when he appeared on DeGeneres' show. DeGeneres also handed Federline a little leather jacket and baby biker sunglasses for his son and a pink outfit for his new baby, with 'Lil' Fed' printed on the back. She then quizzed the dancer-turned-rapper about the sex of the unborn baby, asking, "Is it a girl? Come on... We're just guessing it's a girl." Polite Federline replied, "We don't know what it is. I swear. I wish I knew." Federline, who performed new single LOSE CONTROL on the show, has been telling reporters that his second child with Spears - his fourth in total - is due on Halloween (31OCT06).

okmagazine: Britney is ready for baby number two, and it’s a girl, OK! has learned. Though her second child is due Sept. 22, Brit’s hoping to deliver the baby via C-section on Sept. 14, the same day big brother Sean Preston was born a year ago! “Britney wants to raise the kids as twins,” a source close to the singer and her husband, Kevin Federline, tells OK!. “She thinks it will be totally cute to have their birthdays on the same day.” OK! also reveals how Britney picked a name for her daughter-to-be… Britney’s mom has flown from Kentwood, La., to help Brit prepare for her new delivery. With Kevin landing a deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment to distribute his first album, and the couple’s wedding anniversary on Sept. 18, it’s going to be a busy month for the pop star mom!

contactmusic.com: Wannabe rapper Kevin Federline is considering trying hypnosis to kick his smoking habit. Britney Spears' husband is interested in attempting to give up his nicotine habit by using alternative means after hearing hypnosis worked for movie star Matt Damon. Federline says, "This is the worst addiction ever. To me, it's probably the equivalent of someone being addicted to heroin."

990am.com: Britney Spears' husband Kevin Federline has scored another acting role on a hit TV series and will guest star on Entourage.
Federline has already shot a guest appearance on CSI:Crime Scene Investigation that will air in October.
Now the aspiring rapper has gotten another acting gig and will appear in three episodes of Entourage playing himself.

contactmusic.com: Britney Spears' husband Kevin Federline recently spent eight agonising hours having a Polynesian tribal belt tattooed on his back. The painful tattoo depicts the creation of life and features a foetus in the middle. Federline says, "It's got the suns and the ocean and then the stars on my shoulders. "It follows my wife-beater (vest) line. You can't see it when I'm wearing a wife-beater... It was pretty f**king painful."

contactmusic.com: Kevin Federline has given his wife Britney Spears permission to drive home with baby Sean Preston on her lap - if she feels the need to race away from the paparazzi. Spears outraged parents when pictures of her driving with her baby son on her lap appeared in newspapers and magazines in February (06) - but her supportive husband insists critics did not know the extent of the story. The pop superstar claimed she was forced to take speedy and drastic action when she was swarmed by photographers after stopping to get a coffee at a Starbucks near her Malibu, California home - and Federline is happy with her explanation. He tells GQ magazine, "What those magazines (that printed the damning photographs) don't tell you is that Starbucks is a minute from the house. "If she feels like she gotta take the baby and put him on her lap and get out of there, so be it. "I'd say she plays mama real well... She's a very good mother." But Britney isn't taking the matter so lightly and, after publicly accepting the incident was a case of poor judgment, the pop star, who is pregnant with the couple's second child is getting serious about car safety - one of the items on her new online baby gift registry list is a car seat.

contactmusic.com: "We get rentals because the paparazzi know our cars." Kevin Federline on how he and wife Britney Spears try to outsmart photographers when they're out and about.

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My video for “Lose Control” will premiere on Yahoo! at Midnight on September 1st (TONIGHT). So after you watch the VMA’s stay up a little while longer and be the first to catch a glimpse of the video. Hope y’all like it and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

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contactmusic.com: Kevin Federline has finally won music industry backing for his much publicised fledgling career as a rapper after signing a deal with record label giant Sony BMG. The much maligned husband of Britney Spears, who previously worked as a backing dancer, set up his own company, Federation Records, recently after being unilaterally snubbed. But the 28-year-old's debut live performance of his first single LOSE CONTROL at America's Teen Choice Awards last month (20AUG06) changed some opinions, reports AllHipHop.com, with Sony BMG signing a deal to back Federation Records. Federline's debut album PLAYING WITH FIRE will hit shops in the US on 31 October (06).

britneyexperts: The basic formula for a paparazzi money shot can be boiled down to the "3 Bs," according to Gary Morgan, co-founder of the Splash News & Picture Agency in Los Angeles: Beaches, bikinis and babies. Consider the astonishing $4 million People Magazine reportedly shelled out for the first exclusive pictures of Shiloh, the pouty newborn of superstar couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
And though Vanity Fair is said to have secured shots of Tom Cruise's as-yet-unseen daughter, Suri, that hasn't stopped celebrity snappers from camping outside Cruise's Beverly Hills manse in the hopes of snagging a shot of the mysterious tyke, a photo some shutterbugs say could top even Shiloh's payday. (Brangelina donated the proceeds of their babies pictorial.)
The feeding frenzy now surrounding not just stars but also their children is owed to the proliferation of tabloid magazines on newsstands, all vying to feed an insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Glossy publications not only compete against one another, but with scads of popular blogs like PerezHilton.com and PinkistheNewBlog.com, which chronicle the comings and goings of the Hollywood gentry.

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