Curry, Marmite, candy apples...find out what celebrity moms couldn't get enough of during their pregnancies.
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“I’m eating a lot of stuff that I ate in my childhood. Kraft Mac n’ Cheese, Pop Tarts, Cap’n Crunch. Everything’s filled with sugar,” Simpson told Extra! when she was pregnant with her first child, Maxwell Drew. Wow, no all-you-can-eat melon cravings for Simpson? How outrageous for a celebrity.... But wait, she did crave cantaloupe. "But I put salt all over it," she told People. "I can eat a whole cantaloupe in one morning." Gotta love her. Click on for more outrageous celebrity pregnancy cravings!
Photo: Stoianov/FameFlynetWhen Halle Berry was pregnant with her first child, Nahla, Gabriel Aubry (her boyfriend at the time, and Nahla's father), shared her outrageous pregnancy cravings. "She does crave pickles," he told People, ". . . salt and pickles."
To be sure, there's nothing so outrageous about pickle cravings. But, Halle craved pickles so much, she'd drink pepperoncini juice. "I just eat [pepperoncinis] out of the jar," she told The Insider, "and then drink the juice." YUM?!
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Britney Spears reportedly craved dirt when she was pregnant with her boys — also Cheetos and fried chicken. Apparently, this is a legit medical disorder, called "Pica," most often diagnosed in children and pregnant women.
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While pregnant with her second child, Catherine Zeta-Jones craved (ready for it?) Marmite — an extremely salty, sticky yeast extract spread. "I'm craving Marmite which I think is delicious, but Michael [Douglas] thinks it's disgusting" she said. "It's a British thing. I've had it with everything."
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First it was the lavender biscuits, and now everyone's talking about the Duchess of Cambridge's curry cravings! Yes, according to Us Weekly, she's been loving homemade Indian dishes made by Hash Shingadia, whose husband owns a store near the Middletons' home. The Duchess noted the "delicious" smell one day when Shingadia was cooking above the store, and they offered her the curry to take home. She's been a regular customer ever since. Neat, huh?
The Duchess has enjoyed an array of Shingadia's curries. Last month, she took home a dish (for two!) of the mild vegetarian curry (potatoes, lentils, peas, cauliflower and spinach) with some rice and naan bread.
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Kim Kardashian's pregnancy cravings are all over the map. In one night, "She craved French fries, Chinese chicken salad and artichokes," her mom, Kris Jenner, shares.
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When Mariah Carey was pregnant with twins Moroccan and Monroe, she had some pretty wild cravings. "The thing that we would always share together would be Big Gulps Slurpees from 7-Eleven," hubby Nick Cannon says in an interview with Barbara Walters. "The cherry, the red flavour," Carey adds.
But that's not all. Carey also craved...candy apples! "Early on, I had a candied apple thing," she says. But, Cannon laughs, "Where am I supposed to find candied apples at 2 a.m.?" To solve the problem, Cannon actually bought store-bought candy coating, and made the candy apples himself! Funny. Can you imagine?!
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When Pink was pregnant with her daughter, Willow Sage, she loved sour candy. "Sour Patch Kids, or Sour Skittles, sour anything," she told Access Hollywood. "Maybe that’s a testament to myself."
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"I don't know if you'd call it weird, but I'm having ketchup with everything," Beyonce told Britain's Closer Magazine when she was pregnant with Blue Ivy. "I mean, I liked it before I was pregnant, but I now literally won't eat anything without it."
Photo: FameFlynet"I had cravings for fizzy cola, sweets, tomatoes and blackcurrant juice!" Kate Winslet, who's pregnant with her third child, told UK newspaper The People.
Photo: smtmn/FameFlynetLike many ultra-slim celeb moms, Jessica Alba says her stand-out pregnancy craving was fruit. But, the degree to which she craved her favourite fruit is pretty outrageous. "I dream about watermelon. I'm serious!" she told Latina Magazine, when she was pregnant with her second daughter, Haven. "I will go crazy, I'll turn into someone psychotic. Like if you don't give me my watermelon right now, it's bad for you."
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“Steak and frozen yogurt,” Molly Sims tells E! News of her cravings when she was pregnant with her new baby boy. "Everything together."
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"My most intense craving was a waffle with butter and syrup," Kourtney Kardashian tweets. "Weirdest maybe a relish and mayo sandwich, but only once thank god!"
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Haley Overland is a writer/editor at Today's Parent. Our resident celebrity queen, she dishes out all the sweetest scoop on celebrity families at our Celebrity Candy blog. She has interviewed celeb moms like Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba and Jillian Michaels, and has shared her expertise on CTV’s ETalk. Haley also has an award-winning personal blog, CheatyMonkey.com, where she writes about everything from motherhood to yoga, her dog “Betty White” and what it's like to be Clive Owen's girlfriend. Haley has two kids, whom she fondly refers to online as “The Monkey” and “The Rascal.”