Kailyn struggled with disciplining her firstborn Isaac on the last episode of “Teen Mom 2.” Now, in the sneak peek below, she’s having more difficulty — this time, with Baby Lincoln.

“He won’t take,” Kail tells her mom Suzi as she attempts to breastfeed her little boy. “Four months of breastfeeding and now he doesn’t want to take it.”

Suzi offers her daughter some encouragement before changing the subject. “How are you liking the whole married life? Kids? And a house?” she asks Kail, who’s been caring for the two children alone while her husband Javi is away for his Air Force commitments and trying, as best she can, to cope with the inevitable feelings of loneliness.

“Being married is not what I thought it would be at all,” Kailyn admits. “It’s a lot of compromise, a lot of things that I’m not used to. But [I'm] trying to get through it the best I can. ‘Cause I do love [Javi] and stuff.”

Kailyn then tries to feed Lincoln again — to no avail. “I’m gonna cry,” she says as the baby howls. “I’m so frustrated!”

Check out Kail and her mom’s entire candid conversation, and be sure to watch a new episode of “Teen Mom 2″ on Wednesday at 10/9c.

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Nicki Minaj and Drake have had a flirty relationship in public for years, and it looks like that legacy is going to continue in the new “Anaconda” video.

Nicki posted a string of photos on Instagram on Monday (August 18) while previewing the video, which is set to drop on Wednesday. In the stills, the Young Money Queen is all over Drake. And though he’s neither smiling nor drooling, we assume he was enjoying himself.

Nicki also previewed the video a few weeks back on Instagram. We’ll get the whole thing in just two days.

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Hey “Harry Potter” fans, in case you got knocked out by a bludger and have been lying unconscious in the hospital wing, know that J. K. Rowling released a new story today. No, it didn’t update us on the lives of Harry, Hermione, Ron, and the other 38 essential main characters we grew to love over the past two decades, but it did tell the story of one of Rowling’s favorite fringe characters, the singer Celestina Warbeck.

Warbeck, whom Rowling describes as one of her “favorite ‘off-stage’ characters in the Harry Potter series,” is given the full biography treatment in the new story, which was released on Today.com via Rowling’s Pottermore site.

We’re floored, naturally, but also getting greedy as a Gringotts robber as we imagine all of the potential Potter fringe characters that should be given the Warbeck treatment. Like these guys, for example:

1. Cuthbert Binns
Binns didn’t appear in any of the “Harry Potter” movies, much like Warbeck, but we’d be fascinated to hear the tale of the most boring man at Hogwarts. (No, seriously, that’s his legacy.)

Binns taught History of Magic until he shriveled up and died of old age — then continued to drop knowledge bombs to the likes of James Potter, Lily Evans, and Sirius Black back in the ’70s and the new class in the ’90s, just as a ghost — but he never managed to lock down a curriculum that engaged his students. Still, we’d be willing to bet that ...

Whether we’re talking the Billboard charts or a sudden case of onstage pants-rippage, the Australian pop-punkers of 5 Seconds Of Summer are pretty much unstoppable right now. Not only did their self-titled first studio album debut at #1 last month, but they’ll be performing at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday.

Related: Are The VMAs Ready For 5SOS?

Speaking of the VMAs, the “She Looks So Perfect” video has earned the band an Artist to Watch nomination at the ceremony, and “Don’t Stop” is up for the Best Lyric Video Moonman. So, yeah — I’d say that now is a pretty good time to count yourself among the 5SOS Family.

Whaddya say, 5SOS Fam? Sit-down dance party on three!

That’s why we felt morally compelled to create this video detailing each and every reason why we love 5SOS more than our own parents. (Sorry, Mom and Dad! You were bound to find out sooner or later.)

Sure, we could have just stopped at “LOOK AT THEM!”, but then we wouldn’t have gotten to obsess over the time that Calum duct-taped his pants back on after they unexpectedly split onstage, or the fact that the dudes all brush their teeth together before every show.

We really don’t talk about these things enough, TBQH.

Just in case you fall in with the fandom of one of 5SOS’ fellow Artist To Watch nominees, don’t worry — we’ve already given a similar ...

Get ready, suckaz — Charli XCX just announced that she’s got a new album dropping soon.

Titled Sucker, Charli’s second major-label album will be released on October 21. As if that weren’t enough, the VMA Pre-Show performer’s first single off the LP, “Break the Rules,” is streaming right now on SoundCloud.

Out on Neon Gold/Atlantic Records, Sucker is the follow-up to 2013′s True Romance.

After the success of Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” which she co-wrote and sings the hook on, Charli is up for Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Art Direction and Best Pop Video for “Fancy” at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. She’s also nominated for Artist to Watch alongside 5 Seconds of Summer, Sam Smith, Fifth Harmony and Schoolboy Q for her solo track “Boom Clap.”

Want for more Charli? Don’t miss the VMA Pre-Show at 8 p.m. ET/PT on MTV before the big show on Sunday, August 24.

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Those of you who were still holding on to hope that Ian Somerhalder might get back with Nina Dobrev (or you) in the near future might want to look away, because the actor did everything but publicly propose to Nikki Reed at the 2014 Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday night.

E! News took on the task of asking the “Vampire Diaries” star about his trips to the farmer’s market with a “special girl” — Somerhalder and Reed have been snapped by paps during many a healthy eating outing as of late — and the actor coyly admitted that things are currently going prettttty well with his latest vampire girlfriend.

“Life is good,” he said. “There’s a lot of support and love from a lot of people. I couldn’t be happier if I tried.”

Now, this might seem like a jump to conclusions if Reed, who hasn’t appeared on television since 2007, wasn’t also walking the carpet. (And if, you know, they hadn’t been seen together in public about a zillion times before then.)

Check out (separate) shots of the couple at the Emmys below, as well as a mandatory picture of a kitten because this news is terrible and the only thing that will help is a kitten.

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On Sunday, Mariah Carey announced that she’d be hitting the road in support of Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse. (Oh my god, I am still not over that truly iconic album title.)

According to a press release on the “You Don’t Know What To Do” singer’s website, The Elusive Chanteuse Show will kick off in Tokyo (“a favorite stop for Carey”), on Oct. 4 followed by stops in China, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.

This tour, her first since 2009′s Angels Advocate Tour — not to mention her first time touring in Asia since 2006′s The Adventures Of Mimi — looks like it will be incredible and all, but does it have to be so elusive? Like, I’m always here for truth in advertising, but I’ll take an American tour date from Mariah over that any day.

As for the set list, the announcement promises: “an exciting mix of her biggest hits, fan-favorite album cuts, never-before-performed selections from her [14th studio album] and many more surprises!” What kind of surprises? “I can’t stop writing songs,” Mimi herself is quoted as saying, “so don’t be surprised if you hear a brand new song that I just wrote the night before the show in your city!”

Brand-new Mariah Carey tracks?

And there’s no chance I’ll be able to witness it live in the U.S.?

Well, at least the Lambs in Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines will have that chance.

During Brody Jenner‘s Hollywood “Hills” days, he typically opted for a clean shave or some scruff when he was hitting Tinseltown with Lauren Conrad and company. But over the weekend, the former MTV star made a complete 180 in the facial hair department — courtesy of a mustache and soul patch.

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Brody, who has been keeping busy on the 1s and 2s lately, hit the red carpet on Saturday during a DJ appearance with William Lifestyle at the Hard Rock Hotel’s Rehab Day Club in Las Vegas. As for the inspiration behind his new look? The notorious ladies’ man, who’s getting serious with girlfriend Kaitlynn Carter, told Us Weekly that he was interested in “switching it up a little bit” and joked that he was taking part in Movember. Alternatively, perhaps he was trying to emulate Tyler Posey‘s biker-gang chic look. Or maybe the title character from “My Name Is Earl.”

+ What do you think of Brody’s facial hair? Sound off in the comments, and be sure to catch Brody on “The Hills” every morning through Friday!

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It definitely feels premature to even talk about “Star Wars: Episode VIII” when “Episode VII” is still more than a year away, but dammit if I’m not already excited to see what Rian Johnson can do in that universe.

To the point, the “Looper” director appeared on the “Girls in Hoodies” podcast (via /Film) to vaguely discuss his experiences so far working on a sequel to a movie that’s still filming, and I’m hanging on every word. Johnson spoke briefly about how the whole process has been more fun than stressful (rub it, why don’t you) and how uncomfortable it was to visit the “Episode VII” set without a job to do.

Related: Why Aaron Paul Needs To Be In ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’

“Visiting a set you’re not working on, though, I always feel kind of uncomfortable,” Johnson said. “Not because anyone makes you feel uncomfortable at all, but if you don’t have a job on the set, it’s a really strange place to be.”

But what the true “Star Wars” fans will want to hear is what Johnson had to say about the use of practical sets and effects in the new trilogy. “They’re doing so much practical building for this one, it’s awesome.” Summing it up, he said, “They’re doing it all right.”

It’s Johnson’s feeling that culture is “coming back around” to more practical special effects, but he also wonders if that’s his generational bias.

“I think more and more people are ...

There are artists who hole up in their tiny studios with blank canvases and paint cans, lazily waiting to be inspired by the outside world. And then there are artists who go balls-out and make s–t happen. Mischa Badasyan, a 26-year-old Russian-born performance artist, is the latter kind.

For the sake of “art,” Badasyan says he plans to have sex with a different person. Every single day. For one whole year. Whoa.

The project, called “Save the Date,” aims to explore the connections between loneliness and hook-ups, specifically as it relates to gay culture. Badasyan was inspired by a wild few days of his own in Glasgow: “I felt very bad, I was crying all the time. I am always sad after these kind of meetings,” he said. Badasyan says he also wants to explore the idea of “non-places,” which he describes as, “supermarkets, shopping malls, airports, motorways… where people lose their identity, there’s no communication. People don’t feel a belonging to somewhere and that causes the loneliness of people.”

Related: Everything You (N)ever Wanted To Know About Condoms

Badasyan plans to start the project in September, and he seems to be more than ready. He says he’s been tested for STD’s and gotten the all-clear. He’s signed up for sex websites and hook-up apps like Grindr. He even has a condom sponsor. Sounds like he’s all set, except for one minor detail: the partners. He only has his first and last “dates” planned–the other 363 people are still ...