Halle Berry stepped out of an appointment in LA yesterday still looking perfectly summery in her dress and short haircut.

Halle is still ignoring rumors that she and Gabriel Aubry have baby number two on the way, but she’s plowing forward in her career regardless.

She’s apparently in the final stages of signing on to star in Dark Tides, a thriller from the producers of Twilight.

It’s set to start shooting in South Africa later this year, which could mean some exciting world travel for Halle and Nahla soon.

Halle Berry and little Nahla brought flowers and a gift box to a friend’s house in LA yesterday.

The actress is getting back into her relaxed Hollywood routine after her family vacation in Florida.

Halle often goes on girls’ playdates with her daughter, but she also knows how important it is to prioritize couples time with her hot man Gabriel too.

Halle Berry began ”frantically screaming” when her dress got caught in an escalator on Tuesday (Jan 20, 2009).

The brunette beauty was on her way to the Western Ball to celebrate US President Barack Obama’s inauguration when her flowing frock got stuck, causing widespread “panic.”

A source said: “Halle was on her way to the ball, but she was looking lost and confused in the crowd of people.”

“She stepped onto the escalator and the long train of her dress got caught, causing a scene of panic. She began frantically screaming and security had to hit the emergency brake.”

A shaken Halle eventually managed to pull her gown free, and continued on her way to the party.

Halle was not the only celebrity to cause an upsetting scene in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.

Singer Usher and his wife Tameka Foster left a young fan distraught when their bodyguard refused to allow her to get an autograph.

A source told the New York Post newspaper: “The shopping mall was practically empty, and a young girl went up and asked Usher for a photo.”

“His bodyguard very meanly refused, and Tameka laughed in the girl’s face. After they left, the little girl was crying.”

Usher representative said: “Usher took as many photos as possible while in Washington. He was there to witness a great moment in history. It’s absurd that people would try to ruin it.”

Halle Berry likes to ”initiate” sex.The “Monster’s Ball” actress – who was named the Sexiest Woman Alive in the November issue of Esquire magazine – enjoys “intense” love-making and has “much better orgasms” now she is in her 40s.

She said: “I’ll tell you this – I’ve learned my tricks. I know what I like.”

“I do not wait around. I initiate. And I’m not all about frequency. I favor intensity.”

“There have been some men in my life who have been wickedly sexy and have taught me much about sexual pleasure.”

“There are a few men I should thank, and others I need to forget.”

The 42-year-old star – who has a six-month-old daughter Nahla Ariela with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry – also revealed a glass of wine helps her relax before sex.

She added to Esquire magazine: “Sexiness is about knowing what’s sexy to you.”

“To me, spaghetti is sexy, especially when it’s served off the tips of a man’s fingers.”

“I like that. And I think wine is sexy, just before sex. It relaxes me.”

“Sexiness is a state of mind a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.”

Halle Berry has finally offered a public glimpse of her daughter.

Little Nahla Ariela Aubry smiled, danced and took a brief snooze on her mom’s shoulder while touring the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday.

The 5-month-old is Berry’s first child with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry.

Nahla has been seen in public before – but only from behind. Berry threatened to press charges against a paparazzo who photographed the actress with her daughter in the family’s backyard in July.

But Nahla wasn’t the only thing the “Things We Lost in the Fire” star showed off this weekend.

Although she’s sworn she’ll never marry again, Berry was photographed wearing a sparkling band on that special finger on Friday and Saturday.

“I never want to be married again,” the twice-wed actress said on “Oprah” in October 2007. “I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone’s wife. I don’t feel like I need to be validated by being in a marriage.”

Berry, 42, and Aubrey, 31, have been a couple for three years.

Her publicist had no comment on Sunday.

J.Lo and Aguilera received big bucks for there newborn, but Halle berry, who had her baby in March, is still shopping her baby pics. The baby has yet to make any appearances in the pages of any celebrity weekly.

One magazine editor said that “photos are being shopped, but nothing’s been settled,” so we’re left to wonder if Berry will bring Nahla to the Halle Berry Celebrity Golf Classic on April 27. At the very least, the actress will be revealing her post-baby body.

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Halle Berry has finally chosen a name for her baby girl – Nahla Ariela Aubry.

In an interview with Access Hollywood’s Nancy O’Dell, the 41-year-old actress spoke to about the important task of naming her baby.

“We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital,” the actress told Nancy. “For us it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her.”

Berry gave birth to Nahla on Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Weighing 7 pounds and 4 ounces, the baby is doing great and is now home together with her mother.

Nahla is the first child of the actress and her boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. The happy couple met in November 2005 but still have no plans to tie the knot. But in an interview at The Oprah Winfrey Show, Berry confirmed that she and Gabriel are fully committed to each other.

“I feel more married, in a way, than I ever have in two marriages before…He really understands the spiritual connection is so much more important than the paper and the pomp and circumstance and the ceremony.”

Pregnant actress Halle Berry – who won an Oscar for her role in the 2001 Marc Forster film ‘Monster’s Ball’ – as well as a Golden Globe for TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge; and has a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, has revealed her proudest moments.

On her proudest moment, Halle, 41, said “I’ve had many in my career. I have an Oscar and now I’ve a star on Hollywood Boulevard. I kissed it and then someone told me crackheads and drug addicts shoot up and do their drugs on the sidewalk. I was like ‘Do you have to remind me? I’m having a moment.”

In September last year, Berry – who confirmed that she was three months pregnant and expecting a boy, also revealed what wining an Oscar meant to her “It just meant on that day my industry said ‘You did good’ if I don’t ever win another one, it wouldn’t mean I wasn’t good,” she said. “You have to it with a grain of salt . That’s why after winning, I resisted the feeling of: ‘Now I only have to do great parts.’ I got here by wanting to learn and grow and have fun. In Monster’s Ball I went nude, which was really scary, but I took the chance to try something new and I want to keep that approach to my career.”

When asked if she likes who she works with now, the ‘Perfect Stranger’ star, said: “I still want to work with Denzel Washington. I’m hoping that one day the right script will come along and Denzel will give me a call.”

And Halle – who played ‘Catwoman’ in the hit 2004 movie of the same name, spoke about her feelings towards the movie: “I thought it was one of the best movies ever,” she said. “Well, it was definitely different from any other I had seen. It was about a woman feeling empowered. I thought that we needed a better villain, but I was outnumbered in that area. You just never know how people are going to respond. I thought that Monster’s Ball was going to end my career. And look what happened. You just never know.”

And on her relationship with her mother, Berry added: “I’m extremely close to my mother even though I left home when I was 17. She now lives a few blocks away from me in LA, which is great because it means we can have coffee together in the morning. If I’m going on a trip, I can just run over and pack her bag so she can come with me.”

Oscar winning actress Halle Berry has opened up about her troubled childhood and said she had to endure watching her father beat her sister and mother.

The actress says she is guilty she couldn’t do anything to stop that, mirror.co.uk reports.

She said: ‘It was the worst year of my life. The hard part for me was that he never abused me. I felt like a coward because I didn’t do anything and couldn’t do anything.’

Berry grew up in Cleveland with her mother and father until her parents divorced when she was four. But her father moved back when she was 10 because her mother thought she needed a father figure.

During the latest taping of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno , Halle Berry, 41, showed Leno images of herself on Photo Booth, a MAC computer program that distorts images.

“She introduced the first photo by saying, ‘Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!’” The New York Post’s Page Six quoted an audience member as saying.

The picture showed Berry with a huge, distorted nose.

No one laughed.

Leno, The Post reported, then chimed in: “I’m glad you said that and not me.”

According to The Post Berry phoned the paper Monday “near tears,” saying, “I so didn’t mean to offend anybody – and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did.

“What happened was I was backstage before the show and I have three girls who are Jewish who work for me. We were going through pictures to see which ones looked silly, and one of my Jewish friends said [of the picture], ‘That could be your Jewish cousin!’”

She continued, “And I guess it was fresh in my mind, and it just came out of my mouth. But I didn’t mean to offend anybody.”

The Oscar winner divulged that Aubry has already started speaking his native language to his unborn child.

“I have the pressure now to learn French because we want this kid to be bilingual,” the Sun quoted Berry, as saying. The ‘Monster’s Ball’ actress also revealed that she’ll learn French the way Aubry learnt English.

“French is hard, especially when you’re over 40. I’m putting Post-It notes all around the house because that’s one way that Gabriel learned English,” she said.

“You see it every day and it’s supposed to permeate into your brain, and there you go,” she added.

Hollywood actress Halle Berry once went without a bath for a month in order to play the role of a crack addict convincingly.

Berry starred alongside Wesley Snipes and Samuel L. Jackson in director Spike Lee’s 1991 movie ‘Jungle Fever’, and decided the best way to prepare for the role would be to appear as unwashed as possible, reports conatactmusic.com.

She said: ‘That was my first acting job, so that was the only way I knew how to do it was to try and be it. And I went to a real crack den with an undercover police officer.

‘When they put the bullet-proof vest on is when I should have said, ‘Ok, no I’m not going to do this’. But I had no idea what this world of crack cocaine was, what this life was, so I had to go in and see it because I don’t think at that time it was anything you could read about. So yeah, I didn’t bathe for really about a month.’

Expecting mum Halle Berry has revealed that she will not marry boyfriend Gabriel Aubry.

The Oscar winning actress, who has suffered two failed marriages, admitted that becoming a mother has not changed her decision in favour of marriage.

“What Gabriel and I have decided is that we will just redefine marriage for ourselves,” Contactmusic quoted Berry, as saying.

Meanwhile Berry has hired security guards after she received racist threats to harm her unborn baby.

The actress, who was born to a white father and an Afro-American mother, got anonymous letters that said her baby would be ‘cut into hundreds of pieces’. A source close to the star said that Berry doesn’t hire security, but after the threats she has roped in two guards.

Halle Berry took 35 pregnancy tests before finding out that she was going to be a mother.

The Oscar-winner said that she had believed she was pregnant, but the tests kept coming up as negative.

Halle Berry took 35 pregnancy tests before finding out that she was going to be a mother.

The Oscar-winner said that she had believed she was pregnant, but the tests kept coming up as negative. Berry finally got a positive result with the 35th home pregnancy test.

She added that she’s hoping to give the baby, a brother or sister to play with soon.

Berry confirmed her pregnancy earlier this month after revealing that she and her 31-year-old model boyfriend will become proud parents in 2008.

“Yes, I am three months pregnant. Gabriel and I are beyond excited, and I’ve waited a long time for this moment in my life. Now, the next seven months will be the longest of my life!” she said at the time.

Halle Berry and her model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry are expecting their first child, the Oscar-winning actress told celebrity TV show “Access Hollywood” on Tuesday.

“Yes, I am three months pregnant,” Berry wrote in an e-mail to the program. “Gabriel and I are beyond excited, and I’ve waited a long time for this moment in life. Now the next … months will be the longest of my life!” “Access Hollywood” said Berry, 41, met Aubry, 31, in 2005.

Celebrity news Web site TMZ.com reported that producers of an upcoming film starring Berry, “Tulia,” have postponed production of the movie, which was scheduled to begin in October. Representatives for the film’s distributor, Lionsgate, were not immediately available for comment.

The film also was to feature actor Billy Bob Thornton, who co-starred with Berry in “Monster’s Ball,” the 2001 movie that earned Berry an Academy Award as best actress.

Berry’s marriages to baseball star David Justice and Singer Eric Benet ended in divorce.

Halle Berry is to shave her hair off.

The Oscar-winning actress has to lose her locks for new movie “Nappy Ever After” and admits she is “scared to death” about the prospect of being bald.

She said: “In the course of the story something bad happens to my character’s hair and she shaves it all off.”

“I’m scared to death but that’s what I must do. Though I suppose going bald could be a little exciting too. So we’ll probably film the process from beginning to end.”

Britney Spears recently shocked the showbiz world by shaving off all her hair off during a visit to a Los Angeles hair salon. She has since been seen wearing a number of different wigs in the wake of her drastic decision.

Halle isn’t the first actress to shear her locks for her art.

Natalie Portman shaved off her hair for her role in “V For Vendetta,” while Demi Moore sported a cropped style for 1997 action film “G.I Jane.”

Halle Berry lived in a homeless shelter when she first left home.

The Oscar-winning actress has revealed her mother refused to support her when she ran out of money aged 21 – leaving her homeless.

Halle, 40, told Reader’s Digest magazine: “But a girl had to do what a girl had to do.”

“You can do that when you’re 21 and ambitious and your eyes are this big and you don’t want to go home. I became a person who knows that I will always make my own way.”

“When I moved to Chicago, she drove me there, but I don’t think she ever thought it would pan out. After a month or two, I ran out of money and called her.”

“I said, ‘Mom, I hate to ask you this, but could you send me some money? I just have rent money, I can’t eat this week.’”

“And she said no. She said, ‘I’m not going to start this calling home asking mom for money. No, figure it out or come home.’ I was so mad. I didn’t speak to her for a year-and-a-half.”

The “Perfect Stranger” star has forgiven her mother and believes the experience made her stronger.

She said: “I’m actually grateful she did that, because it taught me how to take care of myself and that I could live through any situation, even if it meant going to a shelter for a small stint, or living within my means, which were meager.”

Meanwhile, friends of Halle claim her boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubry, is about to propose.

A source told the New York Post newspaper: “They’ve moved in together in Los Angeles, and although they have separate residences in New York, they always stay in the same place and are together constantly. I wouldn’t be shocked if Aubry proposed soon.”

She participated in a mock SAT exam, and endured a lampooning of her famous unclad Vanity Fair cover pose. But the blonde actress kept mum when asked to make an analogy between director Woody Allen, in whose films she has appeared, and fashion designer Issac Mizrahi, who groped her breast on the red carpet at the Golden Globes last year.

She was gleeful, though, in accepting the award.

“Thank you so much for this fabulous golden pot. It’s been such a wonderful day. This is the closest I’ll ever get to a Harvard degree for sure,” Johansson said. “It’s a real honor and I can’t wait till later tonight when we party.”

Before the roast, Johansson led a parade through Harvard Square, sitting in the back of a silver Bentley convertible, flanked by Harvard students in drag. Johansson, 22, has appeared in films including “Lost in Translation,” “The Girl with a Pearl Earring,” “Match Point,” and “The Black Dahlia.” Ben Stiller is to be crowned Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year on Feb. 23.

The awards are given to performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment” by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe.

Last year’s honorees were Halle Berry and Richard Gere.