As a celebrity-watcher, I’m always thrilled to learn more about the real lives of stars we see on the screen. The famous, it seems, are not so different from you and me. They go to sleep at night (usually) and get up in the morning and put the coffee on (okay, sometimes other people do it for them). And just like us, many of them are aunts to their sisters’, brothers’ or friends’ kids. In this new column, we celebrate these celebrated aunts!

One young Auntie By Relation (ABR) is a mama, too! And now, it seems she's becoming an Auntie By Choice (ABC) to Governor Palin's eldest daughter's pending baby. Jamie Lynn Spears showed some teen solidarity when she sent a set of embroidered burp clothes by Plain Mary to Bristol Palin this week.