Celebrity Moms' Top Pregnancy Cravings

Mariah Carey

While Carey is eating for three (she's expecting twins), she curbs her cravings by cooking comfort foods for her man, like smothered pork chops and pecan pie with homemade whipped cream. But to keep the pregnancy pounds from piling on, she cooks the food, takes a taste, and then serves her husband, Nick Cannon. After a few small bites, her cravings disappear, Cannon told People.

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Jessica Alba

Alba got to spend some time in the food lovers' paradise: Paris! While taking in the French culture, she blogged on her Myspace page about her pregnancy cravings. "Every day I have eaten ham and cheese sandwiches; I can't get enough of them," she wrote. "My tummy is getting bigger by the second and the little one must like the food too because it is moving and kicking like crazy. ITS THE BEST."

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Emma Bunton

Though Bunton has been through one pregnancy already, she's craving a big pregnancy no-no: "Got a craving for sushi and I can't have it!!!!!!!" she said via Twitter. Though she'll have to steer clear of raw fish for the next few months, she can satisfy her pregnancy craving with some veggie rolls or cooked sushi for now.

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Victoria Beckham

Beckham's fourth pregnancy (she already has her hands full with three boys!) is really bringing out the former Spice Girl's inner Brit. A source told The Sun that Beckham's got a rather unusual sweet-tooth pregnancy craving: "Victoria's having a lot of tea and toast with lashings of marmalade. She can't get enough of the stuff."

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Alyssa Milano

The Who's the Boss? cutie is all grown up, and expecting her first little one in the fall. Thankfully, baby-to-be is keeping Milano on the healthy track -- she's got a crazy appetite for broccoli. Though she admits to E! Online that it's an odd craving, she says she just can't get enough.

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Jane Krakowski

This 30 Rock star is hooked on fruit juice! And it must be the baby's thirst she's quenching, as Krakowski says she never drank juice before being pregnant. Now, she wants "only good things for the baby," she told E!'s Giuliana Rancic on the red carpet at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Amy Adams

Adams didn't need a pregnancy test to tell her that daughter Aviana was on the way. Her hormones clued her in immediately -- when she saw almond milk, which she'd never tasted, in her fridge, she downed the entire carton in less than 10 minutes. After she had killed the carton, she looked at her fianc? and said, "I think... yeah, I'm pregnant," she told Parade.

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Christina Applegate

This blond bombshell, and amazingly inspiring breast cancer survivor, has earned her new-mom happiness with daughter Sadie Grace. Before she was born, Sadie made her mom crave "weird things at weird hours," especially healthy fats like avocados, Applegate told Entertainment Tonight.

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Pink

With a hard-rocking mom, and a motocross daredevil dad, Pink's baby is sure to be born a rebel, and it sounds like the baby is already showing a sour streak. Pink revealed her pregnancy cravings on The Billy Bush Show: "Sour Patch Kids, or Sour Skittles, sour anything."

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Jennifer Connelly

Third-time mom-to-be Connelly had a rough first trimester, dealing with nausea and morning sickness. So how'd she cope? By giving in to the cravings! She snacked on pretzels dipped in cream cheese, and even revealed on The Late Show with David Letterman that she was constantly stuffing them in her mouth.

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Miranda Kerr

Though this Australian supermodel may seem more like a superhero -- she returned to the runway just two months after giving birth to her son, Flynn -- she had pregnancy cravings just like the rest of us. Fortunately, she went for super-healthy foods, eating lots of tomatoes and oranges, she told Vogue Australia.

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Jewel

With a rodeo cowboy husband, you'd expect this country crooner to be chowing down on some southern soul food. But Jewel has kept her pregnancy diet clean and healthy, and trying to maintain her pre-preggo good nutrition, while satisfying her extra cravings for protein, she told Devna Shukla from CNN's Eatocracy.

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Laila Ali

Ali, who is expecting a daughter in April, told People: "This pregnancy I'm a little surprised -- I'm having cravings. The first pregnancy I didn't -- now I crave sweets, sweets, sweets!" Luckily, the super-fit momma, a former boxing champ and top contender on Dancing with the Stars, can indulge without worrying too much about shedding her pregnancy pounds.

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Rachel Zoe

This fashionista is passing up sweet-tooth treats like chocolate and candy for healthier options. Zoe told People she isn't craving anything really weird. With only a month to go before her due date, she's got a taste for fruits that are sour and tart, like strawberries and grapefruit.

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Jen Schefft

The former Bachelor contestant and star of The Bachelorette craved junk food during her nine months. She feasted on huge meals like two Big Macs and two large fries, or a full pizza all to herself, while baby Mae was getting ready to meet the world. And don't bother adding broccoli or mushrooms as toppings -- she told USMagazine.com that veggies repulsed her while she was pregnant.

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Tiffani Thiessen

This former Saved By the Bell sweetheart has got two new gigs to celebrate -- star on the hit show White Collar and new mom to daughter Harper Renn. Though Thiessen was a vegetarian for many years, her pregnancy cravings overrode her veggie mentality. She gave in and ate red meat during her nine months, she told People at a USA network and Vanity Fair bash in New York.

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Claudia Schiffer

Though Schiffer gave up booze during her pregnancy, her Germanic roots kept calling for her to drink some beer. But, she found a clever way around her cravings -- she curbed her taste for beer by indulging in the non-alcoholic version, she told Vogue UK.

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