Hi and welcome to Celebrity Body Gossip! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Call off the dogs! Apparently, turning 40 isn’t the worst thing ever anymore. Now that a number of our favorite female stars have turned forty and are still finding work, it’s easier than ever to rationalize being honest about your age. And it gets better! You can even feel good about yourself beyond the big 4-0.

Mariah Carey just did it — do you see her crying?

Of course not. Husband Nick Cannon — 12 years her junior — just whisked her off to Barbados and Miami for the big day. The songstress still showed she could party like her 20 something counterparts at Cabana One in Coconut Grove until dawn.

Jennifer Aniston did it too — in February. With the wheat blond hair, trim body and crinkle-free baby blues, the actress looks better than she did in her Friends days. There’s an air of victorious sophistication that’s settled in now. Her face tells a story: I’ve married and divorced Brad Pitt, been publicly humiliated and still emerged as American royalty.

Cindy Crawford recently used Allure as some kind of comeback vehicle. Seeing her 43-year-old naked body swathed in nothing but shaving cream was cause for celebration. Forget furniture, start hawking lingerie.

Fellow ’80s supermodel Linda Evangelista, also 43, improves with time. Can a face get any more chiseled?

And the queen of the sexy 40-somethings — new mom Halle Berry, 42, just bared (almost all) in a beach-side photo shoot for her new eponymous perfume. Nice wet T-shirt. Are you sure you didn’t have a surrogate deliver your kid? Halle-lujah! [Source]

So forty is the new twenty, which means that I’m still in diapers. Goodie. Now if someone could just point me towards my bottle.

Photo Credit: Fame Pictures

Jennifer Aniston is continuing her quest to become a mommy but according to Life&Style magazine, the ex-Friends star is planning to do it sans male procreation apparatus.

Following her breakup with John Mayer, Jennifer Aniston is prepared to do the unthinkable: Become a single mom. Though the mag is not sure whether she’ll conceive naturally, use artificial insemination, or adopt, Aniston obviously has babies on the brain because her new $15 million six-bedroom mansion “has more than enough room for a nursery.” [Source]

Other reports have Aniston swearing off marriage but that doesn’t necessarily mean she wants to go all petrie dish with her pregnancy. I don’t agree that being a single mom is “unthinkable” (and I’m hoping Life&Style was using the word with some measure of sarcasm) but I have a bit advice for Jen if she wants to get knocked up: go on get yours girl!

Go forth, Jennifer Aniston and have lots of sex with lots of dudes. You could probably use it anyway since you’ve been looking a little bunched in the face lately. Make sure your guys are disease free first, stop taking the pill and enjoy yourself. Or, you can keep breaking up with people and start making regular trips to the sperm bank. Whatever you want, baby-mama. It’s your womb.

So it looks like Jennifer Aniston has decided to spill the beans on her “obsessive exercise regimen” before John Mayer has the chance to spill them for her. Aniston gave the details to US Weekly recently. Drum roll please:

1. Yoga once every two days for two hours. She said that she seems to grow taller as yoga helped to straighten her spine.

2. She jogs everyday at 6am.

3. She never splurges on anything other than a few chips with salsa each night.

4. She does 20 minutes on the elliptical machine or treadmill at 5.7 mph at a 1.5 incline.

5. During “Friends,” she ate the same salad everyday for ten years. Now she’s on a “common sense diet” portion control, no processed foods and lots of lean protein, fruit and vegetables.

Now, we have heard for years that Jen is an anxiety-ridden wreck and a serious chain smoker. So those cancer sticks may be helping her control her weight as well, but we cannot recommend it! [Source]

Sounds like she works really hard to stay totally miserable. Still though, the workout keeps her working.

Photo Credit: Fame Pictures

Not quite sure who the bigger loser is here: John Mayer for threatening to spill all of Jennifer Aniston’s intimate beans in a tell-all book or Jennifer Aniston for allowing this fool to dump her twice.

“John just can’t keep his mouth shut,” a pal tells Star, “and he’s telling friends that he’s thinking of going public with all their juicy secrets.”

So just what embarrassing info could John reveal? For one, Jen made a slip of the tongue calling John “Brad“… while they were in bed! He also knows all about her obsessive exercise regime, embarrassing TV viewing habits, devotion to astrology and numerology and has witnessed the actress throw fits! [Source]

The silly thing is we already know that Jen works out obsessively. She does it because she wants to stay employed, John. As for the TV viewing habits, hello, cable is a tax write off for the ex-Friends star. And so what she likes reading her horoscope every day? Who doesn’t? My question is this: was Jennifer Aniston John Mayer’s first girlfriend? Cuz he seems to think that her habits come as a shock and as far as I’m concerned she sounds like most of my BFFs.

Now this is interesting: we all thought Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt split because Angelina Jolie entered the picture, but according to Dr. Helen Fisher, an American scientist whose research indicates that romantic compatibility is based entirely on our chemical makeup, Angie was only part of the problem.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were never a match made in heaven because their chemical make-up clashed…Brad and new partner Angelina Jolie are a perfect match.

Dr Fisher’s theory states that a person’s body chemistry makes them either an Explorer, a Builder, a Negotiator or a Director - or a mixture of different elements. Explorers, like Brad and Angelina, are mostly influenced by the brain chemical dopamine, and are novelty-seeking, risk-taking and spontaneous. But Dr Fisher claims Jennifer is a Builder, whose brain is ruled by serotonin, making her “calm, conscientious, loyal and cautious”.

Explorers are chemically matched to other Explorers, but not to Builders, according to Dr Fisher. [Source]

Consider this the next time you hit Match.com for a potential mate. The guy might look cute on screen but who knows how your chemicals will mix offline?

Photo Credit: Fame Pictures

Well, it’s finally happened. After years of talking about how badly she wants babies and how equally desperate she is to maintain her post-Friends career, Jennifer Aniston is ready to take the plunge. Reports in Life & Style magazine have the “Marley and Me” star visiting celebrity baby doc, Mary C. Kerr.

According to Life & Style magazine, the “glowing” former Friends actress - who recently celebrated her 40th birthday - has been seeing fertility doctor to the stars Dr. Mary C. Kerr, and Mayer is “over the moon” he is to become a dad.

“She’s been seeing Dr. Kerr,” an insider tells he mag. “She’s seen her in the past, when she and Brad Pitt were together and there was talk of them trying to have a baby.”

“I think Jen got the same advice that most Hollywood women on the skinny side get,” adds the insider. “Beef up, relax and give it your best.”‘

Aniston has previously spoken of her desire to have children. “I want to have children. That’s my plan,” she said. [Source]

I guess weight gain isn’t such a big thing to Aniston these days, despite her protests to the contrary earlier in the week.

No, sorry, that’s wrong - Kate Hudson is into paddle-boarding. Whoops. Big difference. According to People magazine, Hudson is the last in a long line of stars who have taken to the water for a work out.

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette and Jennifer Garner have also dabbled in the sport, a form of surfing that requires a longer and wider board and a paddle. Not only is paddle-boarding a full-body workout that targets building a strong core, but you don’t need to catch a wave to do it. Flat water – even a stream! – will do, too. Learn more about water workouts on Health.com. [Source]

I’m sure it is a great workout but shouldn’t these stars be wearing life jackets? Or would that make it look even more ridiculously nerdy than it already does? You decide.

Jennifer Aniston’s red-carpet hairstyle which could be achieved with a decent pair of straightening irons, has cost the actress 40,000 pounds!

The sky-high bill came because Aniston insisted her hairdresser Chris McMillan accompany her on a week-long trip to Europe. According to a source:

“He flew with Aniston from Los Angeles to London in first class last week, at an estimated cost of 14,400 pound. McMillan was treated to an all-expenses-paid stay at several top hotels for the seven-day visit at a cost of 10,000 pound.

“It is said that he charged up to 1,500 pounds a day for his expertise, pushing up the bill by another 10,500 pound. He also accompanied the Hollywood star on a private jet trip to Paris for a premiere of her latest film “Marley & Me“, racking up another 4,000 pound bill.”

However, it is unclear whether McMillan, who is a close friend of Aniston, was paid personally by her or by the film’s production company, Fox. Earlier, Jennifer had vowed never to use botox, as it made women look much older than they actually are.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures