Table of contents for 26-Sep-16 in Us Weekly

Natalie Portman is expecting another tiny dancer! The Oscar-winning actress — already mom of Aleph, 5, with New York City Ballet soloist turned choreographer BenjaminMillepied, 39 — “is several months pregnant,” reveals a close insider. And showing: The 35-year-old debuted her bump in a sleek Dior gown at the September 8 Venice Film Festival premiere of her period drama Planetarium. “She was rubbing her tummy in front of everyone,” says an onlooker of Portman, who is also promoting her Jacqueline Kennedy biopic, Jackie. A close source says Portman is excited to share her news. “Everyone is thrilled!” says the source. “She loves her life and her family and is happy to add to it.” HER BIG BOY Portman is already wistful about motherhood. “Time goes exponentially fast as a parent,”…

Piper Perabo is not fancy. Most days, the star of ABC’s Notorious (premiering September 22 at 9 p.m.) carries a Friends of the Library canvas tote. “I love that it’s washable,” she says. “If I spill green juice or coffee on it, I toss it in the machine.” The actress, wed to actor-director Stephen Kay, comes clean about its contents. UP IN FLAMES “I have these Palo Santo natural wood incense sticks. I light them everywhere with matches from Jack’s Wife Freda restaurant in New York. I’m an investor.” TOP SCENT “I did a movie in Rome this spring, and I bought this Byredo hair perfume my gorgeous Italian hairdresser would spray in my hair. It’s so amazing!” OG GPS “Recently I was in Santa Cruz, California, with my husband,…

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Sophie Turner (above) attending a film festival event at the PalazzinaG hotel in Venice, Italy. Ben Higgins and fiancée Lauren Bushnell riding the Matterhorn at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Gerard Butler walking hand in hand with love Morgan Brown through NYC’s Gramercy Park Sasha Pieterse sipping Aquahydrate water during Drake and Future’s tour stop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Sarah Silverman brunching with boyfriend Michael Sheen at Succulent Cafe in Solvang, California. Nina Agdal deliberating which Instagram filter to use at the Flying Cock Pub in midtown NYC. Leslie Jones sampling Kenan Thompson’s steak during her birthday dinner at Ocean Prime in NYC. Robert Pattinson checking out an art show at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown L.A. Christina Milian grabbing a McDonald’s McGriddle sandwich at the…

TRIBECA LOFT Frankel’s Manhattan marital pad, which she purchased for $5million in 2011, was at the center of her divorce battle. “I think homes hold energy, and I would like to close that chapter,” she says of the 3,400-square-foot three-bedroom she won back from Hoppy and plans to put on the market. “It will sell. Jay Z and Beyoncé live in the building!” SOHO APARTMENT After hotel-hopping for months, Frankel shelled out $4.2 million for this two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath loft-style dwelling, to give Bryn a room (above) with “beautiful things she knows are hers all the time, rather than temporary.” Frankel describes moving into the 2,392-square-foot downtown NYC spot in 2015 as “empowering.” HAMPTONS ESCAPE “I really do spend a lot of time hiding in the Hamptons,” Frankel admits of the…

Color and Character 1.When Christie Brinkley bought her Sag Harbor, New York, five-bedroom 18 years ago, the kitchen became home to two grape-theme chandeliers she’d previously hung in separate rooms. Says the 62-year-old, “My aesthetic is bohemian, world traveler, eclectic.” 2. Her vintage Decauville car inspired the wall and cabinet color: “I drove it around the back and said, ‘This is the paint color I want!’” 3. The mom of daughters Alexa Ray, 30, and Sailor, 18, and son Jack, 21, recently used her Viking range to sauté a fish caught by Jack. “I poured on too much olive oil and started a grease fire,” she tells Us. “I had to use a fire extinguisher. That’s cooking with Christie!” 4. The floors feature wood once used for interior walls in…

The Regulars When it comes to looks, Evie, Willow and Krista are average. Then they find a potion that makes them gorgeous — like, Gisele gorgeous — and their lives turn into beautiful disasters. Jessica Biel called Georgia Clark’s debut “fabulously irregular.” Behold the Dreamers Cameroonian immigrant Jende lands the gig of a lifetime: chauffeuring an exec at Lehman Brothers. But when the company collapses, he desperately fights to keep himself afloat. Imbolo Mbue examines the pitfalls of the American dream. The Dollhouse Spanning more than half a century, Fiona Davis’ mystery is packed with lies and deceit. Journalist Rose moves into NYC’s Barbizon Hotel and befriends Darby, a tenant since 1952. Soon, she learns her new pal had a hand in an infamous murder. Another Brooklyn Before the million-dollar…

ALEXIS ARQUETTE Legacy of a Pioneer Transgender activist and actress Alexis Arquette died in L.A. September 11 surrounded by siblings Rosanna, 57, Richmond, 53, Patricia, 48, and David, 45, as David Bowie’s “Starman” played. She was 47. Born Robert, the star, who documented her transition in 2007, “refused to play roles that were demeaning or stereotypical,” Patricia posted September 11, and taught her family “tolerance and acceptance . . . what real love is.” HIS MEA CULPA Bad blood wasn’t what he came for. Rehashing his June breakup with Taylor Swift in October’s British GQ, Calvin Harris voiced regrets about his July 13 Twitter rant. After Swift, 26, revealed she secretly wrote the lyrics and melody for his hit “This Is What You Came For,” he tweeted that she should…

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JohnMayer is trying to click with a special someone on members-only dating app Raya. “His profile is a slide show of photos set to a Neil Young song,” a user tells Us of the Montana-based 38-year-old (right), last linked to Katy Perry. Other celebs approved by an anonymous committee to tap the app aimed at creative types: Chelsea Handler, Jeremy Piven and Matthew Perry!…

Haylie Duff needs a toddler dictionary. “Ryan has a couple of words, like mama and dada,” says the actress, 31, of her 16-month-old daughter with fiancéMatt Rosenberg. “But mainly it’s tons of blabbing. We call her ‘the Minion!’” The host of Haylie’s America (Cooking Channel, Thursdays, 10 p.m.) dishes more with Us. Q: What has been a challenge for you? Food poisoning knocked my milk out at seven months. It was awful. I finally gave her a bottle of formula, and there was no turning back. You shouldn’t be ashamed to formula-feed. Q: Is there too much judgment about parenting choices? Moms do so much comparing: This one works, this one has a nanny. Lighten up! We’re all doing our best. Q: Do you feel working-mom guilt? Being away from…

Locking lips while dancing in a crowd of 20,000 was just the start of Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s PDA-filled evening September 9. After leaving Drake’s show at L.A.’s Staples Center, where “they were hugging,” concertgoer Michael Torres tells Us, the pair met up with Khloé’s mom, Kris Jenner. To document their fun on Snapchat, Khloé posted a group selfie adorned with a giant heart. Consider it her way of letting fans know the NBA star has captured hers. After a month of talking — and a romantic trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in early September — the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and the Cleveland Cavaliers center, 25, “are officially seeing each other,” says a close family insider. The 32-year-old, who has had dalliances with NBA All-Star…

OPENS FRIDAY 9/16 Bridget Jones’s Baby Dear diary: So relieved. The third Bridget Jones film is v. delightful and v. funny. Now 43, the lovably flawed British singleton (Renée Zellweger) is a TV news producer but stuck in a dating rut. That soon changes: She has a onenight stand with a dashing mogul (Patrick Dempsey), drunkenly stumbles back in the sack with her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), and then becomes pregnant. Who’s the daddy? Actually, the answer to that trite Jerry Springer Show–like plot device doesn’t matter. In fact, Firth looks ready to bolt for a pedigreed period drama after the ultrasound. What’s truly important is that after a 12-year absence, our heroine remains true to herself. Whether she’s tripping into a mud pit or delivering a eulogy, Bridget…

GAIAS ARK BAG Traditional Japanese picnic baskets inspired the design of these bamboo clutches, available in two sizes. Jessica Alba is obsessed with hers! ($88 to $98, cultgaia.com) ILES FORMULA Alexa Chung uses these vitamin E–rich products from hairstylistWendy Iles. The shampoo, conditioner and serum repair damaged tresses. ($116 a set, ilesformula.com) GNASH The 23-year-old L.A.-born singer’s pop single “I Hate U, I Love U” (feat. Olivia O’Brien) impressed Ryan Seacrest, who raved about it on The Tonight Show. ($1, itunes.com) BLANKIE TAILS Little Women: LA’s Briana Renee got the plush mermaid blanket for her daughter Leiana and Instagrammed the verdict: “She loves it!” (From $35, blankietails.com) ‘LOVE’ BUTTON Spread good vibes with these pins that ChrisMartin proudly bears to promote inclusiveness. Keep some; share the rest! ($10 for 10…

SUNDAY 9/18 THE CASE OF: JONBENÉT RAMSEY An eerie full- scale replica of jon-Benét Ramsey’s home — including the 6-year-old pageant queen’s trophy-filled bedroom — aids experts revisiting her unsolved murder. This three-night series tracks the effort. (CBS, 8:30 p.m.) WEDNESDAY 9/21 SURVIVOR Mother Nature has spoken! In its 33rd season, the reality staple experiences a first when a cyclone hits Fiji. Host Jeff Probst and the contestants — 10 millennials and as many Gen X–ers — must evacuate! (CBS, 8 p.m.) THURSDAY 9/22 CHICAGO MED Let the gurneys roll for season 2: The team races to treat a pregnant woman after a car accident. Hearts also race as Torrey DeVitto’s widowed doc gets closer to a med student (Chicago Fire’s Jeff Hephner). (NBC, 9 p.m.) FRIDAY 9/23 TRANSPARENT Trans…

50 CENT VS VIVICA Rapper 50 Cent, 41, posted a meme 1 September 6 comparing ex-love of a year k Vivica A. Fox to a transgender Florida woman who had cement injected into her face. His caption: “I don’t know why people would want to cross me.” (The Empire actress, I 52, had questioned ' his sexuality on Watch What Happens Live last year.) She replied, “When they go low we go high. #unbothered.” JUDGE MILIAN RULES “They’re both losers. Stop acting like middle schoolers!” MEL VS BEN At least Mel Gibson didn’t call Ben Affleck “sugar tits”! Promoting his World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge (budget: $53 million) September 6, Gibson, 60, dubbed the Affleck-led Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (a reported $250 million) “a piece of s--t,” griping, “Real superheroes…

“Maybe she won’t go through that. Maybe she’s the one that doesn’t go through it.” On her reaction to parents’ warnings about the terrible twos as daughter Esmeralda neared age 2, EVA MENDES “People I respected . . . just looked me in the eyes and said, ‘Life’s too short for this s‑‑ t.’ I’m still earning my way back.” On his career suffering due to public outbursts, SHIA LABEOUF “I was getting my style tips from Vanilla Ice and the Coreys [Haim and Feldman].” On his fashion regrets from the early 1990s, ADAM BRODY “It’s the chicken or the fish. You gotta pick one if you wanna eat.” Encouraging people to vote in the 2016 presidential election, KATY PERRY “Your Uber is outside.” On the worst thing someone can…

LIEV & NAOMI NYC, 2005: When Liev Schreiber left a club after failing to ask Naomi Watts out, “she chased me outside and said, ‘Don’t you want my digits?’” revealed the actor, 48. Of her move, Watts, 47, said: “I’ve never said those words before in my life and never since.” BEN & AMY Inside Amy Schumer’s v a cation: After she and Ben Hanisch, 30, made their red carpet debut at London’s GQ Men of the Year Awards September 6, they jetted to Paris. Two days later, Schumer, 35, shared this snap of the pair, quipping, “Jerks in Versailles.” KYLIE & TYGA Kylie Jenner and Ty ga believe in Yeezus. Despite NYC’s heat September 7, the E! star, 19, and the rapper, 26, cuddled during Kanye West’s fashion show.…

OPENS FRIDAY 9/16 Snowden U.S. government whistle-blower Edward Snowden already told his story in the Oscar-winning 2014 doc Citizenfour. So a dramatized biopic — even one that stars the great Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role — seems superfluous. Snowden is a computer whiz working for the National Security Agency when he learns of shocking surveillance techniques. Angered by the mass privacy invasion, he decides to expose all. Oliver Stone directs with a compelling manic whirl, but there’s only so much tension to be extracted from Snowden typing furiously on a keyboard. And a lame subplot involving an exasperated girlfriend (played by a miscast Shailene Woodley) fails to humanize him. No wonder the divisive man himself appears in the final moments. MR…

After playing the same character for 18 seasons, Mariska Hargitay knows exactly who Olivia Benson is. “She’s the mama bear, the lioness,” the actress says of her driven detective on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU (returning September 21, 9 p.m.). “She is going to protect you at all costs.” Hargitay, 52, who has three kids with her husband, Younger star Peter Hermann, 49, tells Us what keeps her going after all these years. Q: Why does SVU still resonate? It respects its audience. You feel listened to. Olivia’s combination of heart and justice makes you feel safe. Q: Ever caught one of your 389 episodes and not remembered it? It just happened to me! I was watching something and an old rerun came on. I was expecting it to jar…