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Jamie Otis doesn’t understand why people have become “sensitized” to breastfeeding.
“The amount of people who get offended by a breastfeeding mom will forever shock me,” the Married at First Sight alum, 38, wrote via Instagram on Friday, May 23, alongside a video of her pumping (with a hands-free breast pump) in her car. “A woman FEEDING her baby — however she can — should be supported. No questions.”
Otis shares four children with husband Doug Hehner, including 8-month-old twin baby boys — Hawkins Tyler and Huxley James — whom she is currently combo-feeding. (They also have daughter Henley, 7, and son Hendrix, 5.)
“Breastfeeding is the most natural and primitive way to care for your infant, but yet I guarantee I’ll get comments about how inappropriate it is to pump my breastmilk out in car line pick up or nurse my twin babies in public,” she continued. “And honestly, the reason society feels so strongly about a woman not breastfeeding in front of people is bc they don’t see enough of it. A hundred years ago there would be no issue at all bc that’s was the only way to provide nutrients for your baby.”
Otis claimed that the rise in popularity of formula contributed to how people view breastfeeding today, despite it being “the most natural thing a woman’s body is made to do.”
“And just to be clear, I breastfeed AND supplement with formula so this definitely isn’t a knock on formula. I’m soo thankful for formula! I nurse my twin babies when my breast have breastmilk and I mix formula for my babies when I run out of breastmilk — no matter where I am. But yet, I feel a little shy to nurse out in public bc I know society is so judgmental about this,” she wrote. “But I believe the only way we can change this stigma surrounding breastfeeding is to normalize it in public. So here I am, showing up publicly on my own social media page trying to do my part to help desensitize the most primitive, natural way a mommy can feed her baby.”
She concluded: “I know some people will definitely come at me, but I believe with my whole heart that a mom should be able to feed her baby anywhere and anyhow — and she should not be judged or shamed for it. …so I’ll take the backlash in the hopes of helping society see breastfeeding for what it is — feeding and nurturing our babies.”
Otis was supported by fellow parents in the comments section of her video post, which she titled, “Pumping my breastmilk out at car line pick up … nothing to see here.”
“Amen! You’re doing amazing, Mama!!,” one commenter shared with another adding, “Lol. I use a cover but I breastfeed anywhere and everywhere.”
Otis met Hehner, 41, on season 1 of MAFS in 2014 after appearing as a contestant on season 16 of The Bachelor in 2012. She has been open about her difficult journey to motherhood, sharing her and Hehner’s experience with multiple miscarriages and the loss of their first child, Johnathan Edward, at 17 weeks in 2016.
“I’m a labor and delivery nurse, so I’ve envisioned the day of having my baby more than I ever envisioned ever getting married or anything, really,” Otis said during a 2019 episode of their former “Hot Marriage Cool Parents” podcast. “I never, in my wildest dreams, would’ve envisioned that I would be delivering a 17-week-old baby who went immediately to be in heaven. Not only did he go to heaven, but when we looked at him, he was perfectly formed — he had all 10 fingers, all 10 toes. He had a little button nose. He was a perfectly formed baby who just couldn’t look at us, who couldn’t cry to let us know that he needed us. He couldn’t communicate to us and we couldn’t protect him.”
The couple has now been married for 11 years, with Otis writing via Instagram on Saturday, May 24, “There is absolutely no one I’d rather live this life with. I love you, @doughehner! Thanks for always being so loving, kind, and PATIENT with me.”
Nikki DeLoach is ready to make some more special memories with her Hallmark family.
“I actually have a movie coming out,” DeLoach, 45, exclusively shared with Us Weekly earlier this month at the Children’s Heart Foundation’s Congenital Heart Walk in Los Angeles. “I’m doing a movie called Home Turf that comes out in the fall. I filmed it in Utah and wrapped it about a month ago. It’s great.”
According to DeLoach, the upcoming TV movie has everything fans expect from Hallmark films, including love and laughs.
“It’s football, it’s romance, it’s college campuses, it’s multi-generational, it’s funny,” she teased. “Warren Christie is my costar again. We’ve been reunited from Christmas. And I gotta tell you, I have not had this much fun on a set in a really long time. I am so excited about this movie!”
DeLoach and Christie, 49, last starred together in Our Holiday Story. The film, which premiered in November 2024, showcased a couple who recounted their Christmas love story to their daughter’s boyfriend.
It’s one of the many Hallmark projects DeLoach has been a part of over the years.
Nikki DeLoachCourtesy of Nikki DeLoach / Instagam
While every film has its own special set of memories, the actress said Five More Minutes and a Gift of Peace — two movies that explored grief and healing — hold special meaning to her and many viewers.
“I always say I am our audience,” she explained to Us. “I’m that mom that has spent months and months and months in a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit looking for hope. I am a daughter who was a caregiver to her dad with dementia. I have watched my dad take his last breath. I am our audience, and I’m always looking for that thing that is hopeful, and it’s going to make me feel like in the end, everything’s going to be OK.”
DeLoach continued, “I know what our movies give people because when I’m in them, they give me the same thing. … I think it’s just such a gift and a blessing to be a part of people’s lives in that way.”
When she’s not in front of a camera providing both entertainment and comfort to fans, DeLoach is using her platform to raise awareness about congenital heart defects.
Traci Hays, Nikki DeLoach and BennettMike Diaz of Diaz Photography
According to the Children’s Heart Foundation, congenital heart defects are America’s most common and deadly birth defect, with nearly 40,000 babies born with a CHD each year in the United States.
“My son Bennett is a heart warrior, and he was born almost eight years ago,” DeLoach shared with Us. “He had four congenital heart defects and without immediate intervention, he was not going to survive. At five days old, Dr. Vaughn Starnes at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles — one of the world’s top pediatric heart surgeons — saved his life.”
After two additional heart surgeries, Bennett is now thriving in life as he enjoys piano, soccer and other activities with his peers.
Looking towards the future, DeLoach hopes she can use her family’s story to push for more heart checks at hospitals when babies are born.
“I hope by the time I take my last breath in this world that it will just be a part of the screening of every newborn,” she said. “When they are born, they get their ears checked, their eyes checked, everything else and their hearts. It sounds like a no-brainer to me.”
Tatyana Ali is sharing a troubling story from her past.
The actress and singer, 46, revealed she was allegedly bullied on the set of 1999’s Jawbreaker, and that her costar Rose McGowan stepped in to help, via an Instagram post shared on Saturday, May 24.
“These are from Jawbreaker (1999),” Ali captioned the post, which featured a series of photos. “I was the only one actually in high school when we shot this, and I dealt with a little bullying on set from one actress in particular. But one day, she tried it in front of everybody… and @rosemcgowan told her to stfu in front of everybody! I will always love her for that!”
Ali did not share the name of the actress who she claimed bullied her.
McGowan replied to the post, writing in the comments section, “I’d do it again” alongside two heart emoji. McGowan also refrained from sharing the person in question’s name.
Ali and McGowan costarred in the 1999 movie alongside Julie Benz, Rebecca Gayheart, Judy Greer, Marilyn Manson, Ethan Erikson,Pam Grier and Chad Christ. McGowan, Greer, Gayheart and Benz portrayed a group of best friends who try to cover up a fifth friend’s murder after what is supposed to be a birthday prank goes horribly wrong.
Ali has kept a relatively low acting profile in recent years, focusing the majority of her professional time into her baby quilt company Baby Yams, of which she is a founder. She shared the backstory for the brand in 2024, revealing that she made a lot of the decor in her own children’s nurseries so launching the brand was a natural extension of that hobby.
“During both of my pregnancies I did a lot of sewing and made most of the items in our nursery. I’m glad I shared my story about what happened during my first birth, because it helped me find the Reproductive Justice Community and my midwife,” Ali wrote on Instagram at the time. “While expecting my youngest son, I made him a quilt with Ankara Fabric and got so many compliments on it that I thought others would like it as well. I found answers. I found power. And, I want to share this feeling with other parents.”
Ali added that the proceeds from the sale of each blanket are “given to the birth workers uniquely positioned to give our families the care we need.”
Bindi Irwin is on the road to recovery after undergoing emergency surgery.
“Healing,” Irwin, 26, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, May 25. “Thank you for your incredible words of support and kindness. The reason I share my health journey is because more girls and women desperately need answers to their undiagnosed pain.”
Irwin, who explained that she’s “battled with endometriosis” for more than 12 years, shared a carousel of snaps of her smiling for the camera. In one image, Irwin could be seen laying on a hospital bed in a hospital gown, while in another, a quote read: “Today is a good day to be proud of all the silent battles you’ve won…”
“This disease is crippling and can make you feel incredibly isolated. We need to raise awareness and change the narrative for women’s health,” she wrote. “I see you, your pain is real, and you deserve answers and genuine health care. For more information visit @endofound.”
“She’s going to be OK, but surgery — out of all the things we were ready for, that was not one of them,” Bindi’s brother Robert Irwin told People at the time. “She’s just come out the other side of endometriosis and now the appendix goes. Health is so important — it really is.”
Bindi and Robert’s mother, Terri Irwin, was also absent from the event to take care of the Dancing With the Stars alum.
“[Bindi] was ready to come to the gala, put on a brave face in a lot of discomfort and a lot of pain and said, ‘Nope, I’m just going to tough it out, I’m going to go for it,’” Robert, 21, said. “But the surgeon said, ‘No, your appendix is going. That thing’s gotta come out.’ Health has to come first. She’s very sad. She’s devastated that she and Mom can’t be here, but I know she’ll make a speedy recovery.”
Days later, Bindi shared an update on her condition in an Instagram video and explained that she “just got out of surgery about an hour ago.”
“I had my appendix removed. I also had 14 new endometriosis lesions [that] had to be removed, and they kindly stitched up my hernia as well,” she said. “I’m sorry if I’m a little out of it in this video, but I just wanted you to know that I’m on the road to recovery, one step at a time. And I’m so lucky to have so much love in my life.”
In the caption, Bindi noted that the surgery was a “success” and explained that doctors repaired “a large hernia” she acquired when giving birth in 2021 and removed 14 endometriosis lesions. (Bindi and husband Chandler Powellshare daughter Grace.)
“I have so much love for dear Chandler & sweet Grace. Thank you to Mum for being there with me every step of the way,” she concluded. “And rest assured, I’ll see you at the next Steve Irwin Gala in Brisbane this November. One day at a time. Time to heal now. Sending my love to you all.”
Before her emergency surgery, Bindi opened up about her health struggles in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly earlier this month. “If you have good health you can do anything,” she shared, “but when you’re feeling unwell it’s impossible to function in life.”
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When it comes to dating, Danica Patrick has seemingly learned from her past — even when that past was allegedly painful.
“You never know how much you could be loved unless you give someone the opportunity to dislike you for something you’re scared about being disliked for,” Patrick, 43, said on a recent episode of theSage Steele Show podcast. “Basically, you’ll never know how much you could be loved until you give somebody something to not love you for — and they still love you. It shifts your orientation. You learn to accept it in yourself and everything levels up, like, the love deepens and the confidence rises.”
Patrick also made sure her friend Steele, 52, followed similar lessons when she introduced her then-new boyfriend.
“Well, there was so much optimism a couple months in. I’m like, ‘We all have that, darling,’” Patrick quipped. “Everyone [thinks they are] going to marry someone after three months, 100 percent, but I was only cautioning you for your heart, and so you wouldn’t get it broken or test it at least. If you’re going to go fast, throw it in the deep end [with a joint vacation].”
As for Patrick, she seemingly learned that realization when she broke up with NFL star Aaron Rodgers in 2020, which she told Steele was her most painful experience.
“It was sudden [and] it felt like it was my life,” she recalled. “You know, when you live with somebody and it’s, like, your whole life. It’s your dentist appointment, it’s your hairdo, it’s your clothes, it’s your mailing address. It’s, like, everything.”
Danica Patrick and Aaron Rodgers attend the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports in July 2018.Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images For Nickelodeon
The retired NASCAR driver further alleged that the “nature of the relationship was emotionally abusive” and “wore [her] down to nothing.”
“Someone that people could never imagine that I would lack any confidence or belief in the simple things about who I am. Yeah, everything was down to bits,” Patrick alleged. “He leaves a trail of blood. I don’t think I’m saying too much earth-shattering stuff after there’s been enough out there. [The breakup] gave me the greatest gift, which was myself. I was, like, ‘Wow.’ It gave me the greatest gift of how much I needed to show up for myself and take care of myself.”
Rodgers, 41, has not publicly addressed Patrick’s accusations. Us Weekly has reached out for comment.
After her two-year romance with the quarterback ended, Patrick dated Carter Comstock from 2021 to 2022.
“I’m like, ‘Is my judgment the best?’ I don’t know,” Patrick exclusively joked to Us in May 2022 of the breakup. “I think that you just have to follow your heart and trust your intuition.”
She added, “I think that’s something that increasingly over time, I’m doing a better job of. So just trust that intuition, look for … like right, if there are red flags at the beginning, like trust that [and] don’t just brush it off. I think those are the things that I’m beginning to realize are really critical. … I have no doubt that it’ll come along and [at the] perfect timing.”
As for Rodgers, he revealed on the Pat McAfee Show last month that he is in a “serious relationship” with a currently unidentified woman.
90 Day Fiancé’s Colt Johnson continues to keep his distance from estranged wife Vanessa Guerra.
“We’re divorced or working on it, but yeah, we’re not really talking,” Colt, 39, exclusively told Us Weekly at Us’ 90 Days: Hunt For Love party on Monday, May 19. “We’re not communicating. It makes me sad, but things happen I guess.”
Colt’s relationship with Vanessa, 35, was first introduced on season 5 of 90 Day: Happily Ever After? in June 2020. At the time, he was in a relationship with Jess Caroline and claimed Vanessa was just a “best friend.”
During the show’s tell-all episode, however, Colt admitted to getting romantic with Vanessa during his relationship with Jess.
This summer, Colt is trying to leave any drama in the past and receive a second chance at love when he competes on 90 Days: Hunt for Love.
“I’m recently divorced, so I really just wanted to try something new and just put myself out there,” he explained to Us at Gitano in New York City. “I’m feeling pretty good. Got some new glasses. I feel pretty good.”
Colt JohnsonDave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Us Weekly
In 90 Days: Hunt for Love, eight singles from the 90 Day universe will embark on a new quest for love as they travel to Tulum, Mexico, for a unique opportunity. Joined by fresh faces and romantic hopefuls, these love-hungry alums will create must-see TV as they jump back into the dating game.
While Colt couldn’t share too much about his experience, he did admit there were a couple of people he was surprised to see on the show.
“I would say Cortney [Reardanz] because I never met her before, but I saw her before,” he shared. “Then Chantel [Everett] obviously took [me] by surprise. She looked different. I haven’t seen her. I saw her years ago, so, yeah.”
90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days’ Tim Malcolm, Jennifer Tarazona and Usman Umar are also part of the cast, alongside 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way alum Tiffany Franco and 90 Day: The Last Resort’s Rob Warne.
One person extra excited to watch Colt’s new show is his mom, Debra Johnson.
“She’s happy,” Colt teased to Us before the premiere. “She always wants me to put myself out there, try new things. So yeah, she’s very supportive.”
90 Date: Hunt for Love premieres on TLC Monday, May 26, at 8 p.m. ET with episodes streaming on Max. Hunt for Love: Between the Sheets after show airs following every new episode.
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