Tori Spelling and her new baby are on the cover of this week’s OK! Magazine. Inside the mag are photos of Tori and her stolen husband, Dean McDermott, along with their son Liam, who started out a little iffy in the looks department but is now a bona fide cutie pants. In the interview, Tori admits that she and Dean were not planning for a second child- in fact, she had been on birth control pills.

She’s a miracle,” Spelling tells OK!. “I was on one pill and wasn’t feeling well, so I went off of it. Two days later, the doctor put me on another, and on that one day, we conceived. It was meant to be!”

“My first thought was, ‘My god, she’s so beautiful,’” Tori gushes. “My second thought was, ‘Oh my god, she has black hair! Where did that come from?’ [laughs] Liam has blonde hair and is very fair. She was born with black hair, very tan.”

Tori continues, “I never thought I’d have a daughter. Dean’s first child [Jack] is a boy and then we had Liam and I thought, ‘Because I’m so girly-girly, I’ll have all boys.’ ”

Dean agrees, adding, “When I saw Stella for the first time, I just bawled my face off out of pure joy. I’ve always heard that there’s nothing like that bond between father and daughter. There is nothing like it — you feel it that moment. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Little boys are awesome. They’re just like a little you. But having a little girl is something else. As a man, you just lose it.”

Uh, Tori? We all know you are NOT a natural blond, so who do you think you are kidding with this “Where’d Stella get the dark hair from” bit? Puh-lease. Stella is a very cute baby, but I’m not totally sold on the name. “Stella Doreen.” That sounds rather trailer park-ish. I just picture a girl in cutoff shorts with huge mall bangs. But maybe it’ll grow on me, like “Honor” did.

Thanks to OK! Magazine for the header photo, where there are more pictures of baby Stella.

The pug community has lost one of its great ones day – Mimi LaRue, the beloved 11-year-old pug of Tori Spelling – has passed on to the great Peach Pit kennel in the sky, People reports.

Mimi died from natural causes.

“She was a star and a true lady, and she will be missed greatly,” Spelling told People. “People everywhere knew her by name. I loved when fans wanted her over me. I felt proud!”

According to People, Mimi LaRue passed on at her home surrounded by her entire family. She lived long enough to meet her human sister, Stella, who was born just last week, and to witness the Oxygen premiere of “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” in which she was a central character.

“I’m devastated,” Spelling told People. “I’m convinced she waited around to make sure I had the daughter I always dreamt about before she left us.”

“She was not just a dog, but a fashion icon and legend amongst Hollywood dogs,” Spelling added. “She received fan e-mail on a regular basis, and I often joked she got sent more designer clothes than me!… She was a loving pet and a true diva to the end.”

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Tori Spelling gave birth to her second child, Stella Doreen McDermott, via a planned C-section delivery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. Monday afternoon.

The actress, 35, has a 1-year-old son, Liam, with husband Dean McDermott. She’s the couple’s first daughter.

Stella was born at 3:13 pm EST, weighing 6 lbs 8 ounces.

Spelling – who is signed on to reprise her role as Donna Martin on the new 90210 spin-off in the fall – has frequently gushed about the joys of pregnancy.

“I’m eating whatever my body tells me it needs and wants,” she said in March. “I love my growing belly and the curves I’m taking on.”

What was her big pregnancy craving?

“Rocky Road ice cream and avocado – I figure that is good for the baby,” the actress said.

“During my first pregnancy with Liam, I spent a lot of time worried about my weight and how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards,” Spelling said in April. “But once I wasn’t pregnant anymore, I missed it. I loved being pregnant.”

The actress dropped her baby weight after Liam by using the NutriSystem Nourish program.

Spelling and McDermott, 41, married in May 2006. Their antics are documented on Oxygen’s Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

Following the birth of her daughter, Tori Spelling has received some public well wishes from her once-estranged mother, Candy Spelling.

“There is nothing like the happiness and elation of welcoming a new grandchild!” Candy said in a statement to Access Hollywood. “Of course, I am thrilled about little Stella and now Liam has a sister which is what Tori had hoped for. This is a very happy time for the family and I know [her father] Aaron would have been overjoyed!”

Tori and husband Dean McDermott welcomed daughter Stella Doreen on June 9. She was delivered at 3:13 PM at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and weighed 6 lbs., 8 oz. 

Tori and her mother had a very public falling out following the death of Tori’s father, Aaron Spelling.

However, when the couple’s son, Liam, was born in March 2007, Tori and Candy began to reconcile and have since been cordial toward each other. 

“It was mutual,” Tori told Us Weekly at the time. “We both reached out at the same time by phone in the weeks before I had Liam.”

But what led to the original bout of two-sided silent treatment? 

“Nothing really transpired between us,” Tori added. “After reading so many stories, I think we both thought, ‘Does she hate me? Did I do something?’ We were both scared to reach out to each other. Now that we’re together, we realize that there is no feud.”

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“Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush is launching his Westwood One “The Billy Bush Show” music and talk radio program this week – grateful his voice is back to 100 per cent after a staph infection in his larynx that caused him strained vocal cords last fall, and worsened to the point he was off the air in February.

“I was just busting to get through a day, eating cough drops constantly,” he recalls. “It’s a nightmare for someone who uses his voice as much as I do.” Bush tried acupuncture, a healing session at church, and of course doctors. “I finally met the right one. I heard about this doctor at the Harvard Medical Center who’d helped Dick Vitale, the basketball announcer,” Bush recounts. “I took the redeye to Boston see the guy, Dr. Dr. Steven Zeitels, and he made me do a test, and found out what it was.” With a course of a particular antibiotic, the problem started to clear up in a matter of days.

Now Bush is rarin’ to go as a radio host in addition to his TV job. He maintains, “It’s not going to be a combative show. It’s going to be a fun show. It will take what we do on TV further.” However, “If I have an issue with someone I will say so,” he adds. “Like the Mary Hart thing earlier this year, when I had an issue with how they (“Entertainment Tonight”) presented the Heath Ledger video with Heath in a room full of drugs. It was incredibly exploitive. If someone had handed me that tape I’d have said, ‘No way,’” he insists. “Mary, how could you?”

With his shoot-from-the-lip style, the cousin of George W. Bush is used to having people angry at him, obviously. “If I feel I’m right, I don’t have a problem with it,” Billy says. “If someone comes after me and I see that I’ve done something wrong, I’ll apologize.”

SLAVES TO SEX: “Army Wives” regular Sally Pressman says playing the lead in the Lifetime Original Movie, “Love Sick – Secrets of a Sex Addict” debuting Saturday (04/19) was “probably the most challenging thing I’ve ever done. It’s a heartbreaking story based on an autobiography and it’s also a lot darker than anything I’ve ever done.”

In “Love Sick” Pressman’s plays a woman who “was sexually abused by her father starting at age five and as a result of that developed a sexual disorder. The author came to the set a couple of days and I got to meet and talk to her, which was amazing. It’s very embarrassing for the person. They feel very alone, can’t tell anyone. What was fascinating for me as an actor was that this woman is having a lot of sex, but hates herself more every time she does it.”

Pressman says in reading the book on which the film is based and doing subsequent research she found sexual addiction to be a much misunderstood disorder. “Women who have this sexual disorder just basically get labeled as sluts and that’s not fair at all..It’s an actual chemical imbalance that alters your body so it’s something out of your control.” She adds, “What I loved about working on the piece was it brings consciousness to people that sexual addiction happens far too often in the world, that it’s not okay and you can stop it and help yourself.”

THE VIDEOLAND VIEW: Marlee Matlin, who stars with Jeff Daniels in CBS’s Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of “Sweet Nothing in My Ear” Sunday (4/20), is diplomatic in talking about the different sides of the debate over cochlear implants. And the Oscar-winning deaf actress is pleased that playwright Stephen Sachs “didn’t take sides” on the matter either. “He looked at all sides of it. As for myself, I think that there are too many sides to the cochlear implant issue to take a stance either for or against them. In the end, it’s up to the individual or the family to decide what’s best for themselves or their child.”

SERENDIPITY: Movie maker C. Jay Cox wound up getting Tori Spelling to star in his “Kiss the Bride” film after, “I was flying back from Miami, and Tori and her husband Dean happened to be sitting behind me. I realized she’d be perfect for the character of Alex…Like her, she tends to start off being underestimated by people.” Cox contacted Spelling the next day – not in flight. “I’m a little too shy for that, I guess. She came in and I thought we were just going to do a general meeting, but she was all prepared and did a wonderful reading.”

Tori’s character is called upon to be something special, since she is the titular bride whose groom (James O’Shea) suddenly finds himself facing his high school love for the first time in years in the days preceding their planned wedding. The twist in Ty Lieberman’s drawn-from-real-life screenplay: that love is male (Philipp Karner).

“We shot it in 18 days for a half million dollars,” reports Cox, who had his distribution lined up early into the production. “Going in we were thinking, ‘Okay, we will make this movie for whatever we have to make it for. There’s a reason wedding movies are usually big studio movies. Weddings are expensive! We soon realized we weren’t just planning a movie shoot, we were planning a wedding. We ordered grip equipment, then picked out our color scheme and flowers.” “Kiss the Bride” opens in limited release Friday (4/18).