Table of contents for February 1, 2016 in Us Weekly

1. Mint chocolate chip is the greatest ice cream flavor. 2. I watch The Boondocks on Adult Swim. The Freemans are my people! 3. I change the colors on all my cars once a month. 4. I can’t eat enough chicken Alfredo. 5. I love exotic animals. I had a tiger! 6. Mr. Chow is my favorite restaurant. 7. Nothing’s better than a freshly baked cake — and a gorgeous girl to bake it. 8. I have a bunch of arcade basketball games in my house to shoot hoops. 9. I’m obsessed with gold. 10. I am currently running four clothing lines: Last Kings, Twelve Jewels, HWBP and Crisp Boxers. 11. I’m a true Scorpio, loyal and passionate, but I also get jealous and stubborn. 12. I could eat chicken…

REESE WITHERSPOON / 39 Tickled pink The mom of three wore head-to-toe Gucci (above). On facing 40 In my twenties, I was scared of everything. I didn’t know what my career was. . . . I was wary of interacting with people. . . . Now I feel like a different person. It’s a great thing, getting older. You are who you are.” JULIA LOUISDREYFUS Clothes call For the cover, the Veep star slipped into a Stella McCartney dress. Why TV rules “Go to the movies. . . . How many good, meaty roles are there for women within those scripts? Not tons of them. Right now, there are so many shows on with strong, complicated, powerful . . . women.” KELLY ROWLAND / 34 Family affair During the fivehour…

Iman can recall the exact moment she fell for one of the most influential rock stars of all time. It was 1990, just a few weeks into her relationship with David Bowie. As she disembarked from a 12-hour transatlantic flight, she was greeted at the airport by the man known for songs such as “Ziggy Stardust” and “Space Oddity,” with a simple bouquet and a smile. “I was coming from Paris and I got to L.A. . . . and the doors open to the plane . . . and I see all these people taking pictures of somebody,” she recalled to New York magazine two decades later. “And he was standing there, flowers in hand, no security. That was when I knew he was a keeper. He didn’t care…

Growing up, Lauren Cohan never played with dolls. “I didn’t like things with a face or that had eyes that could look at you,” she tells Us. But for six weeks this summer, she tossed her fear aside to film The Boy, in which her character takes on a job as a nanny. Except Brahms is actually a possessed porcelain figurine. “He’s charming on the surface,” explains the star of the supernatural thriller (in theaters January 22), “but you suspect him of all this terror that happens.” Soon enough, while shooting, an unnerv ing feeling swept over her. “You can’t make the film without believing this inanimate thing has some sort of spirit,” the Walking Dead actress, 34, confesses. “He started to come alive for all of us!” FRIGHTFEST Though…

Toni Braxton is a superstar with five No. 1 albums — who’s also persevered through bankruptcy, lupus and a divorce. Now she’s sharing her story on the small screen. “It was tough to talk about the pain,” the seven-time Grammy winner and mom of two says of the Lifetime movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart (January 23 at 8 p.m.). “But I’m really proud of my struggle.” The 48-year-old Braxton, who executiveproduced the project, weighed in on every aspect of filming. Except one: “I didn’t want to be involved in finding ‘The Toni,’” she says of casting newcomer Lex Scott Davis, 25. “I thought it would be hard to be objective. But she sounds and acts just like me! I was impressed.”…

MONDAY 1/25 RECOVERY ROAD Busted for boozing at school, Maddie (Jessica Sula) is sent to a sober-living house to deny — then face — some tough truths. Another wrinkle in this new drama: One roommate is a past friend turned foe. (Freeform, 9 P.M.) MONDAY 1/25 AMERICAN DAD Dad’s back! The superpopular animated comedy sees Stan upset about a proposed football arena that would uproot his favorite spot to climb as a lonely youth. Cries Stan: “Don’t kill my Tree Daddy!” (TBS, 9 P.M.) MONDAY 1/25 K. MICHELLE: MY LIFE The Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta spinoff turns serious in its return. The R&B star confronts her ex about the abortion she had, yelling, “This time right now we would have [had] a new baby!” (VH1, 9:30 P.M.) SATURDAY 1/30…

NEW NOVELS FOR A NEW YEAR The Past In Tessa Hadley’s exquisitely written family drama, four adult siblings reunite at their grandparents’ home in the English countryside. As they debate selling the estate, simmering tensions rise. My Name Is Lucy Barton When writer Lucy is hospitalized with an infection, her estranged mother returns. Oprah Winfrey is a fan of author Elizabeth Strout, who offers a poignant meditation on the bonds of family. The Longest Night Paul works on one of the early nuclear reactors in 1960s Idaho; his wife, Nat, feels trapped at home. Andria Williams’ debut hinges on which will combust first — the flawed reactor or the shaky marriage. The Expatriates Haunted by grief and regret, three Americans try to forge new paths in Hong Kong. Despite their…

Nearly 500,000 Making a Murderer viewers have signed a petition to free convicted murderer Steven Avery. But his ex-fianceé Jodi Stachowski isn’t among them. “He’s not innocent,” she said during a January 13 appearance on HLN’s Nancy Grace. Stachowski, 46, said she was moved to speak out as Netflix bingers declared the Wisconsin native, 53, was framed by local police for the 2005 murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Calling him a “monster,” Stachowski revealed he threatened to beat her if she didn’t say “anything good and nice about him” in the series. She also noted that Avery, who had previously served 18 years of a life sentence for a wrongful sexual assault conviction, was capable of murder “because he threatened to kill me and my family.” SEASON 2? Meanwhile, Avery…

Upon the debut of her eighth album, Code Red,Monica is again playing tug-of-war — but not with Brandy. Her tote from NBA-pro husband Shannon Brown has Laiyah, 2, starry-eyed. “She loves purses,” says the Atlanta- based mom, who also has Rodney, 10, and Romelo, 8. “She asks, ‘Is this mine?’” Monica details what belongs to her. CALLING THE SHOTS “I have two iPhone 6+s, in rose gold and silver. One’s for family, one’s for business. There are no games — I try to keep the kids out of my phone!” READ HER LIPS “I’m not a makeup girl because I wear it on stage. But I’ve found this lipstick that I love. It’s a matte that dries in place, called Coloured Raine.” PICTURE THIS “I take my Canon 5D camera…

KORIE & WILLIE Birds of a Feather! Time has flown for Duck Dynasty’s Korie and Willie Robertson. As their January 11 anniversary approached, “we thought, It’s our 25th, we need to plan a trip!” Korie, 42, tells Us. But two weeks before jetting to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, she and Willie, 43, ran afoul of the date. “We were in bed and I went, ‘We got married in ’92. . . . It’s our 24th!’ ” Still, the parents of six enjoyed golf and a private pool for six days. “We have fun together,” she says. “That goes a long way!” JESSICA&ERIC Making Memories The Simpson-Johnson family is always camera ready. As Jessica Simpson stopped for interviews at the YMA Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Awards in NYC January 12, her…

RENÉ ANGÉLIL 1942-2016 Celine Dion has suffered heartbreak after heartbreak. On January 14, the Canadian singer’s husband of 21 years and longtime manager, René Angélil, 73, lost his years-long battle with throat cancer. In 2014, Dion, 47, had taken a leave of absence from her Las Vegas show to care for her ailing spouse, but returned to the stage in August 2015. “René was feeling better lately — that’s what’s so shocking,” a source close to the family tells Us. The parents of René-Charles, 15, and twins Eddy and Nelson, 5, first met when she auditioned for him at age 12. Business associates turned power couple, they worked to make Dion a multiplatinum artist. Two days after her husband passed, Dion suffered a second tragedy when her 59-year-old brother, Daniel,…

Fallon Mercedes As she scarfed doughnuts to go from 125 to 167 pounds, the 5-foot L.A. pro, 30, got migraines. The four-month binge also took a negative toll on her menstrual cycle. Says the star of the A&E show (Tuesdays, 10 P.M.), “I realized how quickly not working out and eating bad food can affect your body.” Adonis Hill For the formerly obese 6-foot-1 Brooklyn pro, 35, slipping into his old 3XL clothing “took me back to that dark place.” But the real shock came when he exercised. “I could barely do two pushups,” says Hill, whose blood pressure skyrocketed as he went from 217 to 286 pounds. Now, he eases clients into challenging moves: “I take my time with them.” Steve Pfiester Consuming 7,000 calories a day made the…

Everest This white-knuckler, about a doomed real-life trek up and down Mount Everest, is a haunting force of nature. In 1996, a group of climbers — including charismatic guide Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) and brash Texan Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin) — must fend for themselves in holy-hell conditions after a blizzard hits. Even on the small screen, the drama is unbearably gut-wrenching. At times, you’re unsure whether to be awed by the majestic scenery or shudder at the horror within it. (iTunes & Amazon, $15) MARA REINSTEIN What I’m Watching SCANDAL EDITION CORNELIUS SMITH JR. Smith’s fellow NYU acting grad Danai Gurira is a big draw on The Walking Dead. He adds: “There are sci-fi aspects, but I love how they ground the show in human interaction.” KATIE LOWES Upon…

THE COMEBACK Abraham (above right) — mom of Sophia, 6 — fired back: “Cause your a parent right? Your videos look like porn.” Minaj (who danced in a thong in her “Anaconda” video) responded, “Learn the difference between ‘you’re’ & ‘your’.” THE COMMENTATOR Self-professed reality-TV lover and expectant mom Chrissy Teigen, 30, weighed in on the socialmedia squabble later that afternoon, posting, “nicki minaj VS farrah abraham is not something I knew I so badly wanted before.” THE INSTIGATOR Next in the ring: Abraham’s mom, Debra Danielsen, (below right) who’s always bumped heads with her daughter. She wrote in a since-deleted tweet: “We love you @NICKIMINAJ! Sophia loves signing [sic] to your videos!” THE SNEAK ATTACK On January 11 (the same day Abraham exclusively told Us she is “no longer…

“I knew I loved him when I met him. He had some hesitations.” On the 12-year age gap between her and boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama, DEMI LOVATO “You have to say something funny, and I tried to and I failed. That’s when you really want to have a British accent, ’cause everything sounds better.” On his awkward Golden Globe acceptance speech, JON HAMM “He was like, ‘Can I kiss you?’ . . . I was like, ‘Yeah, hold that thought,’ and then I ran into my bathroom. I threw up.” On experiencing her first kiss while she had the flu, MEGHAN TRAINOR “Money doesn’t make you happy. Wine does.” On her hypothetical Real Housewives tagline, EVA LONGORIA “Because I haven’t wanted to grow up.” On why he’s still single, RYAN SEACREST “As a child of divorce, I…

Twice as Nice Comedian Tig Notaro, 44, and actress wife Stephanie Allynne are expecting twins. The couple of three years wed in October. Happily Ever After Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 34, and baseball player Cutter Dykstra, 26, wed January 16 after a nearly three-yearlong engagement. They are parents of son Beau, 2. Bundle of Joy Sister Wives stars Robyn, 37, and Kody Brown, 47, welcomed their second child together, daughter Ariella Mae, January 10. Glee-ful News Dianna Agron, 29, and Mumford & Sons singer Winston Marshall, 27, got engaged over the holidays, a source tells Us. RIP Eagles founding member Glenn Frey, who cowrote hits including Hotel California” and Take It Easy,” 18 due to died January complications from rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and pneumonia. He was 67. Royal Editor Duchess Kate, 34,…

● Allison Williams (above) attending the Vandal club opening in NYC. ● Kristen Stewart hanging out with Nicholas Hoult at the Bowery Hotel’s Lobby Bar until 3 A.M. in NYC. ● Calvin Harris, Taylor Swift and her mom laughing over dinner at Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in Beverly Hills. ● A shoeless Maggie Q ordering a tofu salad at M Café in L.A.’s Brentwood neighborhood. ● Jessica Biel checking in on her soon-to-be-opened family-friendly restaurant, Au Fudge, in L.A. ● Viola Davis testing out a range of Marc Jacobs Beauty products at the HBO Luxury Lounge in Beverly Hills. ● Amal Clooney sipping a dirty martini during a date with husband George at Soho House in West Hollywood. ● Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone lunching at Caffé Roma in Beverly Hills. ●…

Chloë Grace Moretz has been a professional ass-kicker since starring in, yes, Kick-Ass at age 11. Now she’s battling aliens in the apocalyptic thriller The 5th Wave (out January 22), based on Rick Yancey’s bestselling series. “I’m not usually a fan of YA novels,” says Moretz, “but this isn’t just about teenagers falling in love. It’s an adult story about human perseverance.” (Still, she does get to share a few kisses with Brit newcomer Alex Roe, 25.) The Georgia native, 18, who will star as Ariel in 2017’s The Little Mermaid, fills Us in. Q: This is a physical film — you run and fight the bad guys. Suffer any injuries? I rolled my ankle and messed up my knee, but nothing too crazy. I was actually pushed emotionally [more…

Just one week after falling off a hoverboard and landing flat on his back, Mike Tyson is still in fine form. “The show goes on,” the former heavyweight champ, 49, told Us midworkout January 6. The father of seven stuck to that mantra while filming the martial arts movie Ip Man 3 (out January 22). During a fight scene with costar Donnie Yen, “I broke my finger,” reveals Tyson, who plays a property developer. “I hit him in the elbow. But we kept going.” ROUND 2 He plans to continue taking jabs at the big screen. “I’d like to direct and dabble in drama,” Tyson, we wed to Kiki, 39, says. “I’m the best fighter I can be. Now I want to be the best e ntertainer I can be.”…

OUT FRIDAY 1/29 Sia This Is Acting Sia’s latest arsenal of empowering pop anthems will have the other artists she originally wrote them for — namely, Adele and Beyoncé — kicking themselves for letting them get away. It swings from the marching “Reaper” to the flying “Unstoppable,” in which she preens, “I’ll win every single game.” Exactly. MY TOP FRANK SINATRA TRACKS! Panic! at the Disco’s Brendon Urie, 28, salutes the inspiration for his band’s sixth disc, Death of a Bachelor, out now WITCHCRAFT “The first time I heard it, a cartoon sword was singing it in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I have loved it ever since.” THE CURSE OF AN ACHING HEART “This one comes out of the gate with guns blazing. I dig the intense pace combined with…