The famous rapper sits down with Dr. Drew and talks about how he was physically abused as a child by his mother. He goes on to describe how he disciplines his 10 children…

Dr. Drew - “..in your book, I guess you wrote about some abuse…”
DMX - “I think back then everybody got beatings. To a certain extent it made me a better person. Although some were a little extreme.”
Dr. Drew – “How bad did it get?”
DMX – “It got pretty bad…there was plenty of days I couldn’t sit down at school. She used to have these three extension chords that she braided together. Sometimes we would get it with that. THAT was rough!”
Dr. Drew – “Do you have kids?”
DMX - “yep…10.”
Dr. Drew - “Are you involved in everybody’s lives?”
DMX - “Yes I am. Most of them have gotten beatings.”
Dr. Drew – “You beat your kids?”
DMX - “You don’t really have to beat them. That one time…smack them on the a__ with a belt a couple of times and they’ll get the point. It was not continual beating. Anybody you’ve got to beat over and over again, evidently it’s not working.”
Dr. Drew - “More like spanking?”
DMX - “…you give them a spanking that one time. After you explain to them not to do it…”
Dr. Drew – “But with your mom it got out of control?”
DMX – “Yeah. That’s why I talk to my kids first. I sit them down and explain to them what they did wrong. If I see that they are genuinely remorseful about the situation, then I’ll let it go.”

I don’t know how you were raised, but I was raised in a very religious home, and my parents were firm believers in the whole “spare the rod, spoil the child” style of parenting. I’m not saying I was beat, but I was definitely spanked. With a belt, a spatula, hands. I don’t think that what my parents did was wrong, because it worked! I actually feared getting into trouble! I think our kids should fear us to a certain extent. If we’re all equals – then who calls the shots?

On the other hand, I don’t “spank” my kids. I have never taken a belt to them (I did use a spoon to swat them a couple times when they were younger). When they were toddlers I swatted – but not really spanked. It just never felt right – or natural to me.  I know first hand – that spankings don’t always work. If you have a strong-willed child, then I believe spanking will only make things worse. I think there has to be a better way to discipline a child than taking a belt to their little butts.

What’s your take? Are you a spanker? A non-spanker? Why?

Madonna opened up to Harper’s Bazaar in the new December issue, which she covers with actress Andrea Riseborough:

“The fact that I didn’t have a mother helped me in some respect, and that I didn’t have a female role model. I was always very aware of sexual politics, growing up in a Catholic-Italian family in the Midwest, seeing that my brothers could do what they wanted but the girls were always told that they needed to dress a certain way, act a certain way. We were told to wear our skirts to our knees, turtlenecks, cover ourselves and not wear makeup, and not do anything that would draw attention.”

So of course, Madonna said, she did the exact opposite. “I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits,” she tells Bazaar. “I think my behavior and my lifestyle threaten a lot of social norms.”

Darn right — that’s why we love her. But Madonna also is a grown-up, as some often forget, with children to guide. Bazaar inquired into Madonna’s venture with her daughter, their Material Girl clothing line. Madonna noted:

“She loves fashion and style. She helps design the collection. I just stand in the background and watch. I proofread her blogs and edit them and give her a hard time when I think she’s being a lazy writer.”
See? Madonna has figured out how to challenge social norms and be a nagging mom all at the same time.

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Here’s a recap from this morning’s article in which she talked about losing her pregnancy weight.

Six months after welcoming twins Moroccan and Monroe, Mariah Carey has lost 70 pounds (40 of it water weight, 30 with Jenny Craig) - and shows off her now size-6 body on the cover of US Weekly.

“I gained an enormous amount of weight,” the Grammy-winner superstar tells Us of welcoming her son and daughter April 30 with hubby Nick Cannon.

How’d she slim down? Beginning in July, Carey buckled down with a nutritionist and a workout plan from Jenny (formerly Jenny Craig), keeping to a 1,500-calorie-a-day menu and thrice-weekly workouts.

“I feel incredible,” the “Fly Like a Bird” singer tells Us, three months after her body transformation began. She and Cannon, 31, famously struggled to conceive their twins (born via C-section at 35 weeks) after a heartbreaking miscarriage.

“It was a huge blessing to be able to have the babies,” Carey says, “But I felt trapped in my body because I couldn’t move.”

Adds the once-again svelte star: “I’m proud of how hard I worked to get my body back…I had to do this for me.”

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