The ecstatic moms have named the baby Vivienne Rose—nickname: Vivi—after the main character in the book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and O'Donnell's mother, Roseann, who died of breast cancer in 1973. Although the pair won't comment on their plans for legalizing O'Donnell's parental status, Vivi, who was conceived by artificial insemination with sperm from an anonymous donor, bears O'Donnell's last name. "She's a tiny little thing, just like Kelli was," says Safer, 58, who flew up from Baton Rouge to join O'Donnell's three older children (Parker, 7, Chelsea, 5, and Blake, 3) at the hospital.
For Carpenter's family, it was the second eventful Thanksgiving in a row. This time last year her stepdad, Joel Safer, underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery. "This year was much more fun," says Joel, 62, who did not mind that plans for a gathering in Louisiana with Carpenter's 97-year-old grandmother were disrupted by Vivi's early arrival. It wasn't the quiet Thanksgiving the family had planned, says Joel, but "it was a special one that we'll never forget."
Jill Smolowe
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