Jessica Simpson Gives Birth to Son, Ace Knute Johnson

Jessica Simpson gave birth to her second child, a boy named Ace Knute Johnson, yesterday, Us Weekly reports. The name is pronounced "Ace Ka-nute," and he is fourteen months younger than sister Maxwell Drew Johnson. Ace and Maxwell's father is former NFL tight end Eric Johnson.

According to the Social Security baby name registry, Ace was the 524th most popular name for newborn American boys in 2012.

Knute was last popular in 1893. Update: Knute "honors Johnson's Swedish grandfather." It has also come to my attention that Ronald Reagan was in a football movie called Knute Rockne All American during his acting days.

If you're still feeling haughty about celebrity baby names, read this article and repent.

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Sarah Jessica Parker Working on Shoe Collection

After stepping down from her creative director role at Halston two years ago, Sarah Jessica Parker hasn't included "designer" in her many slash-jobs for some time now. But that's changing: come 2014, she's launching what Vogue deems "a serious shoe collection" (not a joke, apparently), with Manolo Blahnik CEO George Malkemus as her business partner. Named "SJP," the range will consist of shoes and sandals for $200 to $300, bags for around $700, and trench coats, sold exclusively at Nordstrom. 

Parker, who has clearly come a long way since the days of her Bitten line for Steve & Barry's (memories!), tells Vogue that much of her footwear experience comes from ... yes, Carrie Bradshaw: "I got to play that role, I wore a lot of shoes ... and by default I learned an enormous amount." An education that can be boiled down to one word: Manolos.

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