This news officially broke on Friday, but I think it’s still worth a mention: Seal has a last name and Heidi Klum has legally filed to take it.

OK, maybe I shouldn’t deliver the news in the order that it registers in my brain. Let’s try again: Heidi Klum, who has been hitched to the singer known only as “Seal” for over four years has never officially taken his last name. Now, I would assume that the delay in taking her hubby’s name was due to the fact that she didn’t even realize he has one (he does. It’s Samuel.), but Heidi claimed on her paperwork that there was only one reason she was changing her name: “Marriage.”

Perhaps she didn’t want to get all personal on her public court documents, but I’m thinking that her legally taking on his last name has to do with a few things: a renewed commitment to their marriage, a celebration of their newest child, and hell, maybe there’s even something having to do with a joint checking account involved.

Heidi’s rep did not comment on whether or not the model would be taking on “Samuel” as her professional name as well, but I’m guessing she’s going to stick with Klum when it comes down to the Project Runway credits.

Considering that a lot of non-famous people probably dressed up like them last night, it’s interesting to see what celebs chose to be for Halloween. I love that Gwen Stefani wasn’t afraid to don a head to toe Jessie (from Toy Story 2) costume to take her kids out trick-or-treating. Gavin gets negative points for taking himself too seriously and not wearing a costume.

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis and his son both dressed as Eddie Munster while Christina Aguilera and son Max went out as a pair of skeletons. James Gandolfini and designer Christian Siriano both looked unintentionally creepy– one because he was wearing a Homer Simpson mask with the eyes cut out, the other because… well… you’ll see.

Enjoy this moment, folks, because it won’t last long. For a brief, shining moment in time, Heidi Klum is without fetus. That’s because she gave birth to her 800th baby, a girl, on October 9. I think it’s funny that her husband is named Seal, because she has the gestation period of a whale. This woman is just perennially knocked up. Seal released the following statement on Monday night. I have added my own notes in parentheses.

It’s difficult to imagine loving another child as much as you love your existing children. [Even the all-white one?] Anyone who has a family will tell you this. [Michael Lohan would tell you he loves Lindsay most, and when Jon Gosselin drinks he admits Alexis is his favorite.] Where will one find that extra love? [Your wife has some room in her uterus now; check there.] If you love your existing children with all of your heart, how then can one possibly find more heart with which to love another? [Once again: Use uterus space instead.] On Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, at 7:46 p.m., the answer to this question came in the form of our fourth child and second daughter. [I hope you gave her a girl name.] Lou Sulola Samuel was born, and from the moment she looked into both of our eyes, it was endless love at first sight. [You did not give her a girl name.] She is beautiful beyond words and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years.

Congrats to the happy family. I’d celebrate by running a photo of a not-pregnant Heidi, but I’m not sure we have any.

A very pregnant Heidi Klum, along with hubby Seal, takes Leni and Henri to LAX. The family’s headed to NYC. My gosh, if I were Heidi, I’d be afraid to fly at this point. She looks like she could pop at any minute — although she’s not due until October.

Heidi Klum was photographed leaving a New York hotel eating — what else? — an apple.  Boy, if that were me it would have been a box of Limited Edition Shrek Twinkies clutched in my hand.  But that’s why Heidi Klum gains approximately eight pounds per pregnancy and I’m still working on losing baby weight after almost three years. 

Anyway, she’s looking healthy and great and might be the only woman I’ve ever seen who makes flip-flops look like a good idea.  I expect her to be on the front of Playboy six weeks postpartum.

Chanel headKarl Lagerfeld doesn’t know when to stop scaring people talking. 

Lagerfeld has implied in the past that Klum is too fat to be a model and now has admitted that he actually doesn’t even know her.  “I don’t know her. Claudia Schiffer doesn’t know her.  She was never in Paris, we don’t know her.”   Gee…what do you think Karl is trying to say?  Do you think he means he doesn’t knowher?  By the way, what his redundancy translates to is:  ”Heidi Klum is too fat for me to acknowledge as a professional or as a human being.”

Anyway, if that wasn’t enough, Klum’s husband Seal wasn’t safe from Lagerfeld’s musings either.  About the singer , who suffers from a condition called discoid lupus erythematosus which causes facial scarring, Lagerfeld said, “ I am no dermatologist but I wouldn’t want his skin.  Mine looks better than his. He is covered in craters.”

Incidentally, Claudia Schiffer may not know Heidi Klum, but she knows where she shops.

There’s just something about Heidi Klum & Seal’s marriage that gives me the warm and fuzzies. In a recent interview with US Weekly, Heidi talked about discovering that she was pregnant for the fourth, and most likely final, time:

“Yeah, I kind of knew. You feel your body change and I’ve done it three times before. Then I got the proof from the doctor and it was wonderful. Seal had the biggest smile. He said, ‘Here we go, one more time!’ Because all this time, we’ve said, ‘Okay, one more and that’s it.’ We said that after Leni and Henry. When Johan was born, I still didn’t feel like I was done. When we looked around the table, it was like one person was missing. So we’ve been, you know, having fun as a couple. And that’s how No. 4 came about. But that will be it.”

Heidi also said that although they’d be happy with either a boy or a girl, they’re kind of hoping for another girl, to be a little sister to daughter Leni, 5.

The due date, in November, is very close to the date of the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show–meaning that unless VC is debuting a new line of maternity pads, Heidi probably won’t be strutting her stuff in her skivvies for this year’s show.

Remember how Heidi Klum was basically wearing eight layers of sweatshirts in these photos? And I said that I’d assume she was pregnant except for she looked relatively bump-less in photos taken a couple weeks earlier???

Well, I guess she’d just recently started to show!

Because Heidi is pregnant with her FOURTH child, and her third with hubby Seal. She’s a little under four months pregnant, according to sources.

Congrats Heidi!

On Monday, Heidi Klum and hubby Seal took their ridiculously attractive children, Leni, Henry and Johan, for a walk in Manhattan.

Heidi is wearing some very loose (and ugly!) clothing here, and a huge sweatshirt. When I first saw these pics, I was like, “Is Heidi Klum pregnant again?” I don’t think she is — based on this photo taken in LA two weeks ago:

But it’s still an odd choice of outfit, even if it is a little cold in New York. I mean, her children look plenty warm, but they’ve done so without looking homeless.

Perhaps you heard about the designer who, last week, said that Heidi Klum was “too heavy” to be a runway model.  Klum issued some dignified response.  Well Wolfgang Joop, the dude in question, is at it again.

I don’t know how Heidi crossed this guy, but I wonder if she’s regretting it now.  His newest tirade directed at the supermodel, is an in-depth critique of Klum’s features:

“She is not a top model, but an ad girl. Who in high fashion has this permanent grin? She doesn’t have a nice mouth even when she isn’t grinning.”

And Joop certainly wasn’t holding back: “She has a large frame, but small facial features. The small nose, her eyes are too close together, she has thin lips – it is all too small for her bulky body.  She has that standard look of perfection – down to the perfectly dyed hair.”

Models are a breed all their own and I never feel that a mortal like me should be analyzing them.  By Joop’s own account, he said she has “that standard look of perfection.”  Apparently, that’s a bad thing in modeling.  I dunno.

Having said that, with my bitterness bubbling to the top, I did pick this picture based solely on the fact that this may be the most unflattering pair of pants that have ever existed.  Ever.

Gossip Girl’s Michelle Trachtenberg was one of many celebs that showed last night for the 2008 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.  She really should have considered a pantsuit.  Or a maxi-dress.  Are those still in?  She’s got big tree trunks…what can I tell ya?  Normally I’d think that she’s probably a nice girl which completely trumps being big-kneed but in this case I don’t think her personality wins any points.  Who goes to the VS Fashion Show and can’t put on some lip plumper?  Wait-maybe she thought the tube said “leg plumper”…hmmm…

There were lots of other interesting people that were there but not together (that’s code for “formerly fucked”) like Sean Combs and Aubrey O’Day (I’m convinced they did the deed because he does like…everyone) and Brody Jenner, Paris Hilton and Kristin Cavallari. 

Every year is the same goddamn thing for this show.  Here’s the gist:  wings, feathers, boobs, $5M bra, tanner, body glitter, hard-ons, feathers, leather, Heidi Klum’s inflated sense of self-importance.  We get it Heidi; you’re head Angel.

Please make sure you look at Shakara on the pink (gag) carpet.  I’ll put her right near the top of the massive gallery.  “Who is Shakara?” you say…I don’t know.  No one knows.  A model.  And the fucking funniest wardrobe choices I’ve ever seen.  She has found a way to wear schizophrenia.

This is her promoting some new bottled water or something. I don’t know – I can’t be bothered with the facts of the matter.