There's only so many glowing mothers-to-be and adorable tots that we can tolerate before we start chewing our wrists off with boredom. It's partly their own fault . . . they've raised the pregnancy bar so high that every civilian mum has a bugaboo and springs back to pre-pregnancy weight a nano-second after giving birth. So how can celebrities find that crucial point of difference to keep them newsworthy and us renewing our subscriptions to US Weekly? Here are some suggestions.

Deny/refuse to confirm it Is she, isn't she? Has she had a massive lunch or is she three months' gone? Every interview Jennifer Lopez has conducted in the last three years has included a pregnancy denial but it now it looks like she really might be with child, and her ex husband and Marc Anthony's ex wife are confirming it.

She's still saying nothing.

Christina Aguilera: totally pregnant, keeping schtum.

Eva Mendes: Leaving prenatal yoga classes in voluminous garb, says she isn't.

Have a baby with someone ridiculously good looking You knew that someone like Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale were going to produce something cute; you reckoned that Violet Affleck had a good chance with her gene pool (Ben and Jennifer Garner).

But when the two most beautiful people in the world, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie get it together, we can only be but fascinated by the result, Shiloh. Can't wait to see how Halle Berry and model Gabriel Aubry's child turns out either.

Go large We're not interested in the ones who exercise right up until it's birthing pool time and only put on 8lb. Give us the likes of Naomi Watts, who quadrupled in size; Isla Fisher with her absolutely ginormous and slightly terrifying bump and best of all Milla Jovovich, the epitome of model thinness for most of her career and who has now put on five stone in seven months by often eating two whole coffee cakes in one sitting. She's only massive and we love it.