Life without little ones is a ball of fun for a girl. There's no need to be concerned about the price of Huggies, and what money you do have can be spent up large on quality sav blanc and overpriced clothes. Sleepins are par for the course, and there are no little people waking you up in the night, pulling the cat's tail or wiping muck all over your furniture.

But the day comes when, even for those among us who don't have the faintest of murmurings from a biological clock, that you start to take an interest in kids. And after seeing the pictures of Zahara Jolie-Pitt with Daddy Brad in this week's Woman's Day I defy any of you not to feel broody.

Mama Angie Jolie has mentioned before that elder daughter Zahara is a daddy's girl through and through and totally rules the roost in the Jolie-Pitt household. The little girl has some spunk, that's for sure, and her gorgeous photos with brothers Pax and Maddox in a New York park will make you swoon!

I know sister Shiloh is cuteness personified but this little madam's really giving The Chosen One a run for her money.

New Idea has the whole family rockin' it in Central Park, with the shades Maddox and Pax are sporting looking like someone pinched them off the set of Boogie Nights. Brad and Maddox aren't on any sort of fancy schmancy Hollywood diet, loading up on an order of hot dogs from a street cart, without a care in the world for the dodgy body parts within. Live dangerously, lads!

Former Woman's Day staffer Monique Everard's turncoat ways continue, with the first official pictures of she and fiancé Doug Howlett's baby son running in old rival New Idea for a price tag rumoured to have plenty of zeros. But I forgive her, because to not show that baby off in public would be a crime against humanity. He is just gorgeous! Swoon. He's so cute he's almost made me forget how much Doug and Monique look like each other.

I said almost.

New Idea's declaration of a 'World Exclusive' may be a bit optimistic. Sure, they may technically be the only ones with the exclusive.
But somehow I doubt London, Paris and New York were beating a path to the Howletts' door. Little Charles may be a doll, but these three are hardly in the Jolie-Pitt stratosphere.

Having missed out on the Howlett exclusive Woman's Day makes do with trumpeting 'Katie Walks Out' on their front cover. Not entirely true, but I've never been one to let a little embellishing get in the way of a good story.

According to the Day Katie is fed up with Tom Cruise's 'increasingly bizarre demands' with regards to their daughter Suri. Katie can't cuddle her daughter or comfort her when she's crying. Girly, it's Tom Cruise. What did you expect? It'd be like setting up home with Jordan and expecting her not to talk about Peter's nether regions.

"Tom is constantly on her back," says the Day, "telling her 'You could be the best mum in the world, and I know how to do it."

The mind boggles.

But there are two sides to every story and the Woman's Weekly angle is that far from clashing over parenting, Katie and Tom Tom are discussing having another little girl. They know you don't get a choice, right?

Apparently there's no tension between the kooky couple, despite rumours of sleeping in separate bedrooms after only 10 months of marriage. The only thing marring their picture perfect portrayal of the Cruise family was the traumatic incident of Katie - wait for it - slipping over in Paris.

If you've recovered from the shocking thought of Mrs Cruise scraping her knee (surely Stepford Wives don't bleed?), read up large in the Day as an ex-boyfriend of Millie Elder spills which few beans he has about the troubled teen.

It could be time for Suri to move over, as there's a new Scientology baby on the block. Meet Story Elfman, the new son of Dharma and Greg actress Jenna Elfman. He's cuuuuuuuute! She and husband Bodhi can't be accused of rushing into anything, unlike fellow Scientologists Tom and Katie, waiting 17 years to start a family.

"The name has a great meaning," says hubby. "What's better than a good story?" Following that logic, the baby could have also been called Pair of Shoes, Glass of Sauvignon or Two Week Holiday in Thailand.

As if her choice of wardrobe wasn't bad enough, Britney Spears has decided to go back to flashing the flesh. Not her lady parts, which we all got an eyeful of late last year, but girlfriend has an ass riddled with cellulite, and she's not afraid to flash it. It's no surprise considering all the toxins she must ingest.

In another blow for the troubled superstar her old neighbours in Louisiana, once Britney's biggest supporters, have now turned on her after stories of shoddy parenting, rumoured drug and alcohol abuse and those manky manky wigs.

Speaking of cellulite, or a lack of, the Day has a mini mag boasting some of the best celebrity bikini bodies in all their glory, which after four months of winter will either motivate you to the gym or sending you reeling for the Tim Tams.

Somehow I don't think Uma Thurman, Gisele Bundchen or Cameron Diaz got those lanky bods through gym work. Let's be honest. Their body secret is being born lucky cows.

Words almost fail me when I gazed upon the shots of Amy Winehouse on a Caribbean beach. In a case of looking better with your clothes on, a bikini-clad Amy looks like the love child of Bob Marley and Popeye.

Meanwhile in Malibu Paris Hilton spreads the disease, I mean the love, with Pamela Anderson's ex Kid Rock on the beach. While she strikes a pose, he shows his builder's crack. Unsavoury moments all round.

Victoria Beckham's snapped in a green pair of strides which look suspiciously like Origins, Hallensteins budget range of coloured jeans which were all the rage for us kids circa 1993. And she's supposed to be the trendsetter...

Is Joe Cotton sporting a ring on that finger for a reason at the Auckland premiere of Kiwi flick The Tattooist? Wait for an engagement exclusive in one of the upcoming mags. I almost missed the sparkler, so preoccupied was I with the resemblance uber-producer Julie Christie has with Shelley Unwin off Coronation Street.

Did I mention Salma Hayek is my new hero? "If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood," says the foxy Mexican mama to be. "I'd rather be a little heavier, but nice."

And that's all from the mags this week!