We have rounded up our favorite celebrity moms that graced the covers of magazines for the March and April editions. Snooki shares weight-loss tips on
Us Weekly, while Jillian Michaels reveals parenting is "kicking her butt" on
Fitness Magazine. Kate Hudson on
Glamour, Julie Bowen on
Lucky and Jessica Alba on
Women's Health rounds out our list of celeb mom cover girls.
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Snooki
Jersey Shore star Snooki shows off her 42-pound weight loss on the new issue of Us Weekly magazine. The 4-foot, 9-inch star welcomed her son Lorenzo last August with her fiance Jionni LaValle and told the magazine she loves Zumba for exercise, as well as an exercise class very appropriately called “Buns and Guns.”
On getting back in shape for Jionni:
“Even though I'm busy with Lorenzo all the time, I still want to look good for Jionni, ’cause I don't want him to run away ever from me. So I basically try to go to the gym all the time and train with my trainer and do cardio as much as possible.“
On making time to work out:
“If you can't make it to the gym, you can always work out with your baby. He likes to go up and down. We call him Super Lorenzo so he flies.“
On getting the spark back after baby:
“It's definitely hard to have alone time, as me and Jionni are parents, and taking care of Lorenzo is all about Lorenzo. Hopefully we'll get that spark back.“
On taking care of Lorenzo:
“I love when Lorenzo laughs. When we tickle him, he can just crack up for hours. And that always makes me happy.“
Next up: Jillian Michaels tells Fitness Magazine that parenting is “kicking her butt“
Photo: Us Weekly
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Jillian Michaels
The Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels admitted that parenting is kicking her butt on the April cover of Fitness Magazine. Michaels, 39, is now the mother of two, having welcomed a baby boy named Phoenix with her partner Heidi Rhoades and adopting a 2-year-old daughter named Lukensia from Haiti.
How parenting is kicking her butt:
“I get up at 7 a.m. — after being up all night with the baby — and run around trying to get both kids diaper-changed, dressed and fed. Finally I’ll shower, and before I know it, I’ve got 50 emails to answer, and I need to leave for work. At the end of the day, I come home, and I’m like, ’OK, let me bathe you, change you, feed you, read you books, put you to bed’ — wait, how am I supposed to do all this? Son of a bitch, this is hard!”
On getting her kids to eat healthy:
“Lu knows that Sunday is her treat day, so she can eat ice cream or French fries or something. I don’t deprive her the rest of the week, I just stick to healthier options like sweet potato fries or graham crackers. I’ll make whole-wheat pizza with mozzarella, onions and butternut squash, and to her that’s pizza. I am a genius, a [bleeping] genius. I am so proud of myself because I have fooled her into eating healthy, and let me tell you, that kid is smart!”
On keeping her kids active without being all preachy about it:
“It’s about finding things your kids love to do. Lu loves horses, so I take her to the stables, and she loves dancing, so I put music on and she dances around the house. We run on the beach with the dogs and take her out to ride her tricycle. We just have a healthy lifestyle — we play! The baby is too young, but I have visions of our doing Brazilian jujitsu and capoeira together. Or maybe he’ll want to take ballet, and that’s OK, too.“
Check out the April 2013 issue of Fitness, on newsstands March 12.
Next up: Kate Hudson shares her post-baby fitness tips in Glamour
Photo credit: Fitness Magazine/Justin Stephens
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Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson looked hot on the April cover of Glamour magazine, wearing MiH jeans, Chanel necklaces, a Chrome Hearts thumb ring — and not much else! The actress opened up about how Glee has improved her figure, her fiance and her two kids Ryder and Bing.
On the trick to her “svelte” figure:
“Dancing, Pilates and running after Bing. He’s sprinting! And he’s got a natural mullet, which I’m cutting soon. It’s growing only in the back, so we in the family say he takes after my Gogie — you know, Kurt [Russell] — because Kurt was a mullet guy in the eighties. Bing’s been singing too. He loves music.“
On her son Ryder as a big brother:
“Ryder is the coolest cat — an amazing big brother, so patient and tolerant. Bing pulls his hair, and Ryder just laughs. He’s such a good person. I couldn’t be a prouder mommy.“
On trusting people despite being a public person:
“I choose to. The reason I trust so much is that I don’t feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don’t keep any secrets. I’ve had friends who’ve lied to me, I’ve had friends who’ve done things behind my back, I’ve had people steal from me — and it doesn’t stop me from trusting. The only thing that gets me angry is with [people who invade the privacy of] the kids. It’s the only place where I sort of go, ’Is this worth it?’“
On growing up with famous parents
“There’s a misconception that if you come from famous parents, you’re seeking fame for the sake of fame. I see it as the opposite: Growing up with parents who were in the spotlight — it was almost like, ’Wow, if I didn’t love to create characters, I would run as far away from fame as I could get.’ But I love performing.“
Pick up the latest issue of Glamour, on newsstands March 12.
Next up: Julie Bowen on sharing a stylist with Kristen Stewart on Lucky
Photo Credit: Patrick Demarchelier
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Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen looks chic on the April cover ofLucky Magazine in a pink Tommy Hilfiger jacket. The Modern Family star, 43, and mom of three boys opened up about her onscreen character Claire and how she is trying to update her style.
On sharing a stylist with Kristen Stewart:
“It was a big evolution in style for me to grow up and say ‘I need to take fashion seriously for my job.’ I have a stylist now, and she’s trying to get me to wear more revealing stuff. She’s Kristen Stewart’s stylist. I go there and see all this amazing funky stuff, and I know it’s for her. If I get K-Stew’s castoffs, that’s all right with me.”
On her role on Modern Family:
“All I can say is, thank God for television! Our writers are flexible enough to write to my strengths and open-minded enough to imagine Claire in a car pool and naked in a hot spring. I needed good material. I’m not like Amy Poehler, who can make anything funny.“
On being called beautiful:
“I don’t even know what to say about that, because then, I’d have to acknowledge I was some kind of attractive ideal, and that’s just not the way I was raised. Plus, I feel like I look like the pale girl in some Flemish painting.”
The April 2013 issue of Lucky is on newsstands now!
Next up: Jessica Alba talks about balancing it all in Women's Health
Photos: Ruven Afanador/Lucky Magazine
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Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba was the March cover girl of Women’s Health magazine. The actress opened up about life with her two daughters, Haven and Honor, as well as her favorite exercise tips.
On how parenting has changed her:
”Not that I used to be completely selfish, but there is certainly a selfishness that you innately have when you don't have to think about anyone but yourself. But when there's someone else affected by your actions, who exists because you chose to put them here, it just makes you think twice about everything.”
On her favorite exercises:
”I like doing dance classes. That's fun. Like hip hop class, mixed with like core Pilates-type exercises.”
On de-stressing:
”You know, spending time with my kids kind of does take all the stress away, weirdly. I'm in the moment with them. They make me so happy, they're pure joy. I know they're not going to be little forever, so I really soak up as much as I possibly can with them. That's kind of how I de-stress.”
Photo credit: Women's Health
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