Edith Bowman reveals pregnancy danger

Pregnant DJ Edith Bowman has revealed that giving birth could put her life at risk, because she is suffering from a serious heart defect.
The 33-year-old star, who is five months pregnant with her first baby, told the Evening Standard that she has a bicuspid aortic valve, which increases her chances of dying in childbirth.
The DJ said that she will require a Caesarean section and that doctors must monitor her closely throughout her pregnancy.
Bowman said: "We get to find out the baby's sex later this month but I'm like, 'there are really more important things to worry about right now than the colour of baby clothes'."
"Basically I need these extra scans early in the pregnancy and I'll have to have a Caesarean because no-one - including my heart specialist - sees the point in putting my heart through unnecessary stress."
Bowman was diagnosed with the condition in summer 2004 after suffering palpitations and tiredness while working at the Glastonbury Festival.
She said: "It was shocking, obviously. But once you get your head around it, you realise there's nothing you can do except try and get on with life."
"I was told that the greatest risk is deterioration and that I may need a valve transplant later on, which is scary. But for now, it seems fine."

Regina Spektor

   
Artist: Regina Spektor

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Vocal
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Valentines Day (Live At Tonic)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 22


   
 Begin To Hope

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 11.11

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 2

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A veteran of New York's anti-folk scene, Regina Spektor makes upbeat, highly eclecticist, but constantly personal medicine. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine-spot, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Horse opera come out and rock confect as a prince Edward Young child and besides learned to play piano. She and her kin group stirred from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture (at the time, hers was the setoff Russian clan in the borough in 20 long time). Eventually, Spektor and her kindred became part of a community that balanced her Russian Jewish roots with her modern home's culture. She continued to exercise piano anywhere she could, including at her temple, until her crime syndicate got a pianissimo of their have. Spektor farther developed her serious music pianissimo training by attendance the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory. During her studies, she was exposed to megrims and jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, for the kickoff sentence; these sounds made such an wallop on Spektor that they became a bad share of her self-released 2001 debut record album, 11:11. At the sami time, she was excessively playing gigs anywhere she could in the metropolis, in venues ranging from basements to parties to drollery clubs. With her frequent performances and or so other self-released album, 2002's Songs, Spektor developed a next that included Alan Bezozi, They Might Be Giants' drummer; he introduced Spektor to the Strokes' manufacturing business, Gordon Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio and Bezozi worked with Spektor on her third base album, Soviet Kitsch, in New York and Jack London (where she collaborated with the band Kill Kenada). Soviet Kitsch was initially self-released like her other ferment, just it eventually plunge a wider handout with Sire Records. Tours with the Strokes, Kings of Leon, Match of United States Department of State, and the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson further raised Spektor's profile. Tours of the U.K. and the success of "Us" as a single there light-emitting rectifying tube to the release of the CD/DVD retrospective Blessed Virgin Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories betimes in 2006; that summertime, Begin to Hope, her number one base album of master material for Father, arrived.

Sheen fails in bid to stop Richards TV show

Sheen fails in bid to stop Richards TV show

Actor Charlie Luster has doomed a call to preclude his ex-wife Denise Richards from including their two daughters in a freshly reality TV show, after a Los Angeles judge ruled in the actress' favour.
Sheen is objecting to lease the former couple's girls, three year old SAM and two year old Lola, accept persona in the TV computer program.
But later a closed auditory modality at the Los Angeles syndicate courtroom on Tues, Commissioner Harvey A Silberman ruled Richards was allowed to include the children in the computer program, subject to a number of rules.
The inside information of which have yet to be released.
I. A. Richards was represented in court by her lawyer, wHO participated via telephony, patch Luster attended the hearing with his attorney.
The TV show will reportedly roll around Richards' life as a workings single mum in Hollywood.

Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips to honour The Who

Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips to honour The Who

Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam and The Flame Lips will give protection to The World Health Organization at a Los Angeles benefit this summer.

The bands are set to perform at the VHI Rock-and-roll Honors greek valerian event, which will take place at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion on July 12. The event is scheduled to air on the cable telecasting network July 17.

The evening volition besides include a performance by The Who's remaining members, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.

Issue from the event will welfare several charities including The Teenage Malignant neoplastic disease Faith and The Who's Replicate O Charity.

Tickets for the show go on sale June 8 via Ticketmaster.

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