• Paula Patton is expecting a baby boy with husband Robin Thicke.
• Leelee Sobieski had a baby girl on Dec. 15. [PopEater]
• Madonna loves Jimmy Choos more than sex. [OK! UK]

Alex Rodriguez is amassing a pile of three-strikes-you’re-out puns after a report that he hit on an all-legs blonde at his favorite Miami restaurant, only to be ignored by her three times in a row. This is just days after his highly publicized split from Kate Hudson, and less than a year after his even more publicized divorce from wife Cynthia. [NY Daily News]

Now we know that as a talented, rich, good-looking man, A-Rod is totally entitled to keep on keeping on in the romance department. But he knows that the media is watching his every move, so you think he’d keep it under wraps for, oh, at least a week. After the jump, let’s take a look at some other celebrity men who show us how not to get back on the horse.

“I tried to lose my virginity when I was seven years old. I was on top of a girl who was nine or 10, but it didn’t happen—so everybody doesn’t have to bug out. My mother and the babysitter whipped my ass, but it didn’t knock me off my mission ... When I was 13, and I felt like I was a porno star because I’d been watching porn for so long ... I’m proud to say I love sex. You might catch me in a porn store at any given moment—it ain’t nothing I’m ashamed of. If they start sending freaks to jail, I’m guilty as charged.”

—Sean “Diddy” Combs tells Playboy about losing his virginity in the January/February issue. [PopEater]

If you’d asked me to guess which actress’s films grossed the most in the 2000s, my first thoughts would have been Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock or someone like that. Nope, that award would go to Emma Watson. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Emma, who has been working pretty steadily for nine years (nearly half of her life), is the highest-grossing actress of the decade. Good for her, I say, but honestly, this news really snuck up on me, even though a Forbes Magazine article placed Emma sixth on its list of the “10 Most Valuable Young Stars” earlier this year. Sure, she’s been in all six top box-office “Harry Potter” films, but somehow, it didn’t occur to me that Emma’s role as Hermione, along with her work in “The Tale of Despereaux,” had grossed $5.4 billion so far. In 2008, her films were said to have grossed nearly $754 million each, on average, beating Keira Knightley and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.

... Playing with her eight new toys instead of the six old ones. [Jezebel]

“I don’t mind being called [a stripper] because that is what I do, but I don’t understand why there is such a taboo attached to it. Basically what I do is like an actress that has nude scenes in a movie, it’s part of the role and its part of what my show is. It’s not really any different. I think it’s just too easy for people to criticize.”

—Dita Von Teese, whose not-at-all-revealing offstage outfits support this reasoning [Fox News via Cele|bitchy]

• Jessica Simpson isn’t happy about being thrown into the Tiger Woods mistress mix by Star. [PopEater]
• Reese Witherspoon ended it with Jake Gyllenhaal because she felt marriage pressure. [Starpulse]
• Jon and Kate Gosselin‘s divorce probably won’t happen until next year. [E! Online]

• Elin Nordegren reportedly plans to divorce Tiger Woods. [People]
• Snooki of “Jersey Shore” wants to star in a “Snookin for Love” reality show. [Jezebel]
• Kate Middleton, Prince William‘s girlfriend, is reportedly moving to the Big Apple to study portrait photography. [Guest of a Guest]

After Courtney Love lost custody of her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, she aired her grievances on Facebook. Yes, really, she lashed out at 17-year-old girl for choosing to live with her paternal grandparents. Here’s what she wrote:

“I hate to sound cold but any kid of mine who pulls this s**t has lost her position… she was deceptive, she lied and she’s lying to herself… My daughter is not always honest ... She thinks she has all this money. The point is I have all the money she has ... Frances is clearly deluded that she can buy her grandmother a small house in la. I’d love to see how that works. They’ll incubate her til shes 18 and then have her sign all the indnemofications.”

Gee, I wonder where Frances Bean picked up these alleged nasty habits? Instead of pointing the blame at her daughter, Courtney should have taken a more realistic look at the situation and examined how the custody battle came about. But she’s not the only celebrity to attack their child publicly. Find out who else has a problem controlling their anger and keeping their traps shut, after the jump.

At least that’s what this Self cover featuring Carrie Underwood is screaming at me.

“Women like to see another kind of sex symbol that doesn’t fit into the blonde, tanned, California beach babe beauty. I can never fit into that role, so I think there are other women like me that say ‘no, me neither’...You can put on red lipstick and put on black gloves and you can curl your hair and play dress-up. Then if you’re tired of it you can just get rid of it. It is not like you have to go to a tanning salon and do all these things to make yourself a certain way, it’s something you can try on and leave.”

—Burlesque star Dita Von Teese, while promoting her new book, Dita Striptease [Fox News]

Catherine Zeta-Jones or Sarah Jessica Parker? I think Ms. Fashionista, SJP, really dropped the ball here, but she was only dropping her son at school. [NYC, 12/16/09]

In yet another “isn’t she too young for that” moment in the Cyrus camp, the littlest gal in the superstar family, Noah Cyrus, is the center of attention now that a video of the 9-year-old suggestively singing and dancing to Akon’s sexually charged “Smack That”—as sister Miley and a circle of others watch and cheer her on—has hit the internet. Watch the video!