She’s so cute! Looks like she’s ready to pop!

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Natalie Portman, who’s pregnant with her first child, chose to give into her cravings and dropped her vegan lifestyle.

She explained, “I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff. I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of stuff.”

“I know there are people who do stay vegan, but I think you have to just be careful, watch your iron levels and your B12 levels and supplement those if there are things you might be low in in your diet.”

Natalie claims she’s doesn’t regret her decision. “If you’re not eating eggs, then you can’t have cookies or cake from regular bakeries, which can become a problem when that’s all you want to eat. I actually wanted eggs at the beginning and then they grossed me out after awhile.”

It’s been a month since Natalie Portman won an Oscar for her portrayal as a ballerina in ‘Black Swan’. Since then, controversy has erupted over whether or not she performed the ballet in the film. According to her body double, Sarah Lane, Natalie didn’t do much of the dancing herself.

Those close to Natalie quickly supported the actress.

Her fiancé and co-star, Benjamin Millepied, initially spoke out about it, saying, “There are articles now talking about her dance double [Lane] that are making it sound like [Lane] did a lot of the work, but really, she just did the footwork, and the fouettés, and one diagonal [phrase] in the studio. Honestly, 85 percent of that movie is Natalie.”

Aronofsky and Portman’s foil in the film, Mila Kunis, have also been vocal about their support of Portman. However, up until now, Portman herself has remained mum on the subject.

When E! News spoke to the star at her junket for “Your Highness,” she seemed completely content to brush off the chatter. “I had a chance to make something beautiful with this film and I don’t want to give in to the gossip,” she explained. She also noted that she has no further comment regarding the fact that she didn’t give Lane a shout-out in her Best Actress Oscar acceptance speech.

“I don’t remember my Oscar speech at all,” she said. “And I’m actually too embarrassed to watch it.”

While promoting “Black Swan,” Portman spoke candidly to MTV News about the rigors of training for the film, which included months of prep to learn the proper way to dance ballet. “I definitely felt both physical and mental aftershocks from the experience, because it was the first thing I’ve ever done that was this physically demanding on top of an emotionally demanding part,” she said of the “really extreme” training.

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From Entertainment Weekly:

Responding to claims that Black Swan star Natalie Portman didn’t do the majority of her on-screen dancing in her Oscar-winning role, director Darren Aronofsky released the following statement through studio Fox Searchlight:

“Here is the reality. I had my editor count shots. There are 139 dance shots in the film. 111 are Natalie Portman untouched. 28 are her dance double Sarah Lane. If you do the math that’s 75% Natalie Portman. What about duration? The shots that feature the double are wide shots and rarely play for longer than one second. There are two complicated longer dance sequences that we used face replacement. Even so, if we were judging by time over 90% would be Natalie Portman.

And to be clear Natalie did dance on pointe in pointe shoes. If you look at the final shot of the opening prologue, which lasts 85 seconds, and was danced completely by Natalie, she exits the scene on pointe. That is completely her without any digital magic. I am responding to this to put this to rest and to defend my actor. Natalie sweated long and hard to deliver a great physical and emotional performance. And I don’t want anyone to think that’s not her they are watching. It is.”

Last Friday, ballerina Sarah Lane told EW that Portman only danced 5 percent of the full-body shots in the film. She also claimed that one of the film’s producers asked her not to speak publicly about her work during Oscar season. Lane’s comments came after Black Swan choreographer (and Portman fiancé) Benjamin Millepied told the L.A. Times that Natalie did “85 percent” of the dancing in the film. Lane could not be immediately reached for comment regarding Aronofsky’s statement.

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Newly crowned Oscar winning actress Natalie Portman exposed her growing baby bump as she and baby daddy Benjamin Millepied head to a cafe for breakfast in Hollywood. The mom-to-be went from Red Carpet elegance to comfy mom clothes.

She’s just too cute!

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Here are Natalie Portman, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Helena Bonham Carter. I loved Natalie and Sandra’s dresses – but I wasn’t a fan of Nicole’s. What did you think?

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‘Black Swan’ dominated the Independent Spirit Awards last night. Best film, best director and best actress all went to the psychological thriller. Is that an indication of how tonight’s Oscars are going to go?

Could Natalie Portman be any cuter?

According the the NY Mag, the awards ceremony was held on the beach – and everyone absolutely FROZE.

The Film Independent Spirit Awards, held in a beachside tent Saturday during unusually cold Santa Monica weather, were dominated by wins by Black Swan. And for all the travails the nominated filmmakers might have experienced on the path here (lack of funding, last-minute casting, no trailers to protect Nicole Kidman from the paparazzi, as Rabbit Hole director John Cameron Mitchell told us), these troubles seemed overshadowed by the day’s frigid wind. When asked how it felt to win the Best Director award, Black Swan’s Darren Aronofsky said, “F’in cold.” The weather got lots of mentions during the telecast, hosted by Joel McHale, and even more attention as the shivering winners made their way to the billowy press tent. It was so cold that Natalie Portman was seen sporting not one, but two jackets over her knee-length, summer-y dress during the show. “I’m from New York, so I was expecting to come here like, ‘It’s bikini time,’” said Lena Dunham, a winner for Best First Screenplay for Tiny Furniture. “It’s not bikini time.”

See the complete list of Independent Spirit Awards winners here!

Who’s excited for tonight!? I am!!

Pictured: Michelle Trachtenberg, Vera Fermiga, Dana Delany, Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Heche and John Tupper, Melissa Leo, Kate Walsh, Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts, Mia Wasikowska, Mark Ruffalo, Erica Christensen, Eva Mendes, Greta Gerwig, Amanda Peet, Keri Washington, Deigo Luna, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, Rosario Dawson, Amber Tamblyn, Jon Hamm and Jeremy Renner.

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