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Singer Sheryl Crow Adopts a Baby Boy

Friday May 11, 2007
Just in time for Mother's Day, singer Sheryl Crow has adopted a new baby boy. Earlier this week, reports claimed that Sheryl was in the final stages of adopting a baby of her own. Sheryl has spoken publicly about her love of children and was said to be quite close to Lance Armstrong's kids during their time together.

It looks like her dream came true as she adopted a two-week-old baby and named him Wyatt Steven. Perhaps Sheryl is taking a trendy cue from Hollywood moms such as Meg Ryan and supermom Angelina Jolie. Sheryl, a breast cancer survivor, seems to have a good head on her shoulders and I think that she'll make a fantastic mother.

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May 8, 2007 at 9:42 am
(1) JC says:

Sheryl certainly deserves to become a mom. I hope the rumor is true. Congratulations Sheryl!

May 11, 2007 at 9:16 pm
(2) Lance says:

oh my gosh. I feel sorry for that baby. She’s only going to wipe his butt with one sheet of toilet paper.

May 12, 2007 at 6:38 pm
(3) Eric says:

Celebrities and adopted children is the new thing now. Everybody’s doing it. It’s like Kaballah. Breaking news – Sheryl Crow adopts a baby. Aww Sheryl, I’m so happy for you and your baby boy.
But did you really adopt out of love – Lady?

It seems to me nowadays that Hollywood is living up to the name “Hollyweird”. Nowadays the people in hollywood have been trading in the poodles and high priced puppy’s for little orphan children.Oh, thats the new fad. its the “in thing to do”. But what the world fails to realize is that these people are actually doing it out of selfishness.

Lemme break it down for you!

Sheryl “Can” have children, But she won’t becouse she doesnt want to destroy that good ol body that she has kept up for so much years. God forbid she gets a stretch mark. She copies everyone else in the biz with the whole adoption thing. Usually celebs who pull a stunt like this, Are actually going through a low point in their careers and they want to adopt so the papparazzi can be all over them again and the rumers start again and Sheryl Crow will be all over the news again. She’s not doing it becouse she loves the child, She’s doing it out of selfishness.

When she’s away on a tour for 3 months or something, The nanny will just raise the child. These people are never home! But she’s rich so the nanny will pick up the slack. Thats why you notice that all these celebs who adopt actually adopt a child out of the country or privatly, Becouse they know that if they go to an agency (which they are supposed to do), The agency will first ask them, How can you raise this child when your’e never home?

I see through all that garbage and i have learned (from working with them L.A.) that celebs are really losers who are extremly selfish and only do things for their own personal gain and they do not care who they hurt in the process.

i know this all too well. I once was a poor black kid from brooklyn who grew up across the street from a lady who kept a household of adopted kids becouse she wanted the money from the city. So i know what this is from the jump.(Sheryl) doesn’t want the city’s money (Of course not) but she wants money in other ways and an adopted child would be the next tool to do so. But keep in mind that adopted children grow up to be adults who will sooner or later recognize the real reason why they were adopted in the first place.and you will pay the price.

Raising a child doesn’t have anything to do with how much money you have (look at how Paris Hilton and others were raised). Are you gonna be home to read a book to them? Can you cook a decent homemade meal for them? Can you walk and talk with them on a lazy sunday afternoon? Will you be able to teach them family values,respect and love? Or are you gonna be out late taking flicks from the papparazzi and out on long trips to amsterdam for 3 months at a time or filming a movie way out somewhere?

Yall really dont know what youre doing and this is not a game. You cant just give it back when youre done.
But hey – That’s just my views on this matter. And who am i to judge? I’m just a regular guy from brooklyn. But Sheryl’s nanny has a big job ahead of her for the next 18 years (LOL).

Shout out to Steven Speilberg who adopted way back in the 70’s. He did it genuinely. Even when the big boys in Hollywood told him that if he did it, His career would be finished. He still did it! We know who’s real and who’s not!
Peace,
Eric Higgins

P.S. – A junky once told me “Yall are looking for the onliest thing that doesn’t even exist”.

May 13, 2007 at 2:12 pm
(4) Megan Romer says:

How do you know that Sheryl Crow can have children? She’s 45 years old and has gone through cancer treatments… if she is lucky enough to still be fertile, her age would make her pregnancy somewhat high-risk (increased risk of diabetes, miscarriage, placenta previa, and dozens of genetic disorders for the developing fetus).

I find it somewhat hilarious that you (Eric) are making Sheryl into some sort of selfish villain, just because she adopted a kid. You don’t know her motivations, and even if she’s never ever home and simply leaves the baby with a nanny every second, that kid is likely STILL better off than it would be in an orphanage or string of foster homes.

But I have a feeling she’ll be a perfectly lovely mother. Congratulations to her!

May 14, 2007 at 9:53 pm
(5) Callie says:

Sheryl is extremely annoying when she is in the press. She just wants more attention and has to jump into the baby pic pile. Now we’ll hear about recycling kids diapers. Can’t she just get lost somewhere?

May 14, 2007 at 9:58 pm
(6) Terrence says:

Can’t stand that freakin hag. Wish she’d shut her piehole about the environment because she is STUPID. Another adopted kid raised by a nanny, HOLLYWOOD…. HOORAY HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD….

May 14, 2007 at 10:03 pm
(7) Rita says:

Hilarious Terrence…. you are sooo right. The nannies are raising these poor kids. Next up at bat for babydom…Jennifer “Arsehole” Aniston and her nanny….(her mother)!

May 14, 2007 at 10:06 pm
(8) Toni says:

We need to create a new organization:
SAVE OUR CHILDREN, NO MORE CELEBS ALLOWED TO ADOPT, CAN ONLY DONATE MONEY.

May 16, 2007 at 2:44 pm
(9) gina says:

Clearly a ploy for more publicity. She needs to shut her hypocritical mouth. I like how she criticizes American Idol for being “too commercial,” but I see her ads for Revlon Colorist hair color on tv and in magazines every day. (Are haircolor chemicals environmentally friendly? I didn’t think so)

May 25, 2007 at 2:04 am
(10) WFP says:

I work for the World Food Programme (http://www.wfp.org) and I think what
she is doing is great. She should be congratulated for it. More people die
of hunger related causes than HIV aids, malaria and tuberculosis combined!
The World Food Program is currently feeding over 20 million children each
year however thousands more still die from hunger every single day. We need
more help like this

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