TIME has a way of throwing a few surprises our way when it comes to their person of the year, and 2012 was no different! On Dec. 19, TIME’s Managing Editor Rick Stengel revealed that this year’s person of the year was President Barack Obama!

Rick said that Obama winning his second presidential term by a huge margin, as well as appealing to minority groups is a huge reason he was named person of the year for 2012.

“He’s creating a new allignment, a kind of a realignment that Ronald Regan did a few years ago,” Rick said on Today.

Rick has also had the opportunity to interview the president, and revealed his overall attitude is productive and optimistic — and will mean a positive progression for America.

“He feels like he has this new political capital now, and I think that we will start to see him talking from the heart,” Rick added.

This isn’t the first time TIME has chosen a president for their person of the year — George W. Bush was named person of the year in 2004, also following a successful reelection campaign. In 2001, TIME kept with the political theme when they chose Rudy Giuliana as person of the year for his work as mayor of New York City during the September 11 terrorist attacks.

TIME’s Person of the Year — The Magazine’s Past Ten Picks

2011: The Protester
2010: Mark Zuckerberg
2009: Ben Bernanke
2008: President Barack Obama
2007: Vladimir Putin
2006: You
2005: Bono, Melinda and Bill Gates
2004: President George W. Bush
2003: The American Soldier
2002: The Whistleblowers
2001: Rudy Giuliani

What do YOU think of Barack being named person of the year HollywoodLifers? Do you think he was the best choice?

– Christina Stiehl

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Some celebrities — ahem Jason Biggs — have taken the Time magazine feature on the “attachment parenting” phenomenon as a joke, while others completely embrace it. Alanis Morissette has admitted that she’ll be breast feeding her 16-month-old son Ever until he’s finished.

“I’m an attachment parent,” the singer told Access Hollywood on May 17. “I breast feed and I’ll be breast feeding until my son is finished and he weans,” the 37-year-old mom explained.

Alanis has a son with rapper husband Mario “Souleye” Treadway.

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“I think it affords the child, when he grows up, to have a lot less therapy to go to,” she added. “For me, I protect his safety and his well-being and his attachment. That stage of development is a very important stage.”

Alanis also said to host Billy Bush that she plans to let her son share their bed: “We’re definitely skin-on-skin connected as much as possible.”

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Gotta love her honesty about a very controversial topic.

What do you think of Alanis admitting she’s an attachment parent, HollyMoms?

– Lorraine Chow

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After Time magazine cover seen ’round the world made its splash, Jason Biggs and his wife Jenny Mollen have taken to social-media to mock the cover!

Biggs tweeted the pic and wrote: “Are you wife enough?”

The Instagram pic shows Jason, 34, kneeling on a chair with his wife’s breast in his mouth, while Jenny, 32, stands in a similar pose to Time’s breast-feeing mom, Jamie Lynne Grumet.

Cute? Awkward? What do YOU think of the pic, HollyMoms? Vote below!

– Lorraine Chow

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During Jamie Lynne Grumet‘s appearance on the May 10 TODAY show, she admitted that she’s such a proponent of Dr. Bill Sears‘ theory on “attachment parenting” that she’s planning on nursing her nearly 4-year-old son Aram for another year!

“I’m hoping our fourth year is probably going to be our final,” said the 26-year-old blogger.

During her interview, Jamie said that she wasn’t expecting the wild response but knew what she was getting into and added, “I understand some of the breast feeding advocates are actually upset about this.”

The mother also breast feeds her adopted 5-year-old son, Samuel. She said: “It’s not right for everybody… you have to do what is right for your baby.”

What do you think of her plans to breast feed another year, HollyMoms? Check out the of Jamie video below!

When the explosive Time magazine cover of blogger Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her nearly 4-year-old son Aram hit stands on May 10, it spurred intense debate all over the country. Is the idea behind “attachment parenting” too much?

More that 122,00 people responded a TODAY poll with 27 percent answering “It’s great”, and 73 percent saying “I don’t really want to see that.” Here are some expert reactions to the cover.

• “It’s immediately shocking, and it’s meant to be shocking,” said Harvard sociologist Levey Friedman to New England Cable News.

• “When you give a child the feeling that the whole world revolves around them, it’s not good training for the real world because the whole world doesn’t revolved around anybody,” said psychologist Robi Ludwig to the TODAY show on May 10.

• “The idea of a mother breastfeeding a grown boy is both outlandish and disturbing, which is also a good way to characterize what Time magazine has become,” said Dan Gainor of the Cultured Media Institute said to Radar Online. “But people have to realize this is biologically normal. It’s not socially normal. The more people see it, the more it’ll become normal in our culture. That’s what I’m hoping.”

• “We understand that Americans are uncomfortable with [the Time cover], but in cultures where babies wean themselves normally, usually somewhere around age 3 or 4, it is perfectly acceptable,” Bettina Forbes, co-founder of Best for Babes, a group dedicated to educating moms about breast feeding, to TMZ.

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What are YOUR thoughts HollyMoms? Check out Jamie’s video, and tell us what you think!

[RadarOnline.com]

– Lorraine Chow

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After Jamie Lynne Grumet bared a breast to nurse her 3-year-old son Aram on the cover of Time magazine, we all can’t stop talking about it — celebs included! Find out what Hollywood had to say about the shocking image!

• “Time Magazine’s cover is pretty ballsy or tittsy. The kid looks nourished. Wonder if they call that the yum yum chair,” wrote funny-man Dane Cook in a tweet.

• “@Time no! You missed the mark! You’re supposed to be making it easier for breast-feeding moms. Your cover is exploitive & extreme,” tweeted actress Alyssa Milano, who had a baby last year.

• “Can’t wait to read Time story on ‘God of Cricket!” tweeted comedian Seth Meyers on the cover’s other touts.

• “Time magazine cover is pretty disturbing! Breast feeding a 3yr old is wrong! What’s wrong w ppl!” model Joanna Krupa tweeted.

• “i am going to bat about this TIME cover photo for all of the amazing women who helped me be the mother i was meant to be. this is for you, La Leche League International and for every lactation consultant and fellow mama warrior who held me while I cried. this is not easy, to try and speak for all of us, but i will do my best to make you proud.” wrote actress and breast feeding proponent Mayim Bialik of The Big Bang Theory on her Facebook.

• “‘That’s great, Jimmy, now spit it into Alicia Silversone‘s baby’s mouth,’ Time magazine photographer,” tweeted Modern Family producer Danny Zuker.

• “Improving Time’s cover: Replace the mother with a Statue of Liberty… and you’ve got the Obama platform. #rushbabes,” tweeted shock-jock Rush Limbaugh.

• ‘Time’ Breastfeeding Mom Is Nuts Like Other Extreme ‘Attachment Parenters’! says Bonnie Fuller

Which celebrity reaction was your fave, HollyMoms?

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– Lorraine Chow

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The controversial Time magazine cover of blogger Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her nearly 4-year-old son Aram has spurred intense debate all over the country. So what did Jamie have to say?

Jamie said in a May 10 Today Show interview that she wasn’t expecting the wild response but knew “exactly what we were going to get into,” and added, “I understand some of the breast-feeding advocates are actually upset about this.”

The cover touts Dr. Bill Seers‘ theory on “attachment parenting” that says moms and their children should extend their love and care as long as possible.

Time Magazine ‘Are You Mom Enough?’ — Are You CRAZY Enough?

Naturally, Jamie is a strong believer in this practice that includes like breast-feeding and co-sleeping through the toddler years, saying “I think that it gives my children a strong bond.”

“It’s not right for everybody,” she said, “You need to do what’s best for your baby and for your own family.”

Her son Aram, Dr. Bill Seers, and Time‘s science editor Jeffery Kluger also made an appearance on the Today Show on May 10.

Dr. Seers weighed in on the issue: “It’s not extreme. If you were on an island and you had no mother-in-law, no psychologists, no doctors around, no experts, this is what you would naturally and instinctively do to give your baby the best involvement you’ll ever get.”

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Check out the video below!