Mr. Ripley might be talented, but he's is also getting grossly outnumbered by the fairer sex in his household!

The addition of a new daughter to the family means Matt Damon will now have to negotiate with four women in order to get a little time in the bathroom: wife Luciana, stepdaughter Alexia, two-year-old Isabella, and newborn daughter Gia Zavala.

Little Gia was born on Wednesday. Damon's rep reports that the newest Damon girl is healthy and beautiful and that she and her mother are doing well.

As for Matt Damon, the sexiest man alive doesn't appear to mind living in an estrogen-filled environment in the least. "[I'm] taking the rest of the year off," he told USA Today. "I'm just hanging out with my family."

Now that's some sexy talk right there!

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Matt Damon is the next celebrity to invest in some good old fashioned charity work, this time by working on his children's charity. The Departed star, who recently piled on 30 pounds for The Informant, is taking the summer off to lose the weight and get the charity rolling.

The charity is to be called the One X One Foundation. Its mission is to support, improve and preserve the lives of children in Canada and around the world. According to Damon, singer Sheryl Crow is set to play at one of the Foundation's events. Earlier this year pal Ben Affleck (and daddy) recently hosted an inaugural event.

Says Damon, who is a daddy himself, making calls for the Foundation are "...easy."

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Hand-me-downs are a beautiful thing. The bane of a younger sibling's existence can be a financial lifesaver for economy-minded parents. While the practice of passing an older child's things down to a younger child might be motivated by fiscal responsibility and a desire to reuse what is still usable, here's another reason to love hand-me-downs: you can get great stuff with a celebrity connection and support a good cause at the same time.

That's the idea behind Johnson's Celebrity Hand Me Down Auction. Famous parents like Matt Damon and Elisabeth Hasslebeck are passing on their child's outgrown things to the highest bidder in support of charities such as the March of Dimes, Save the Children, Zero to Three and Baby Buggy.

The auction runs from April 29 to May 9 on eBay and will feature items such as Matt Damon's diaper bag, an Adidas track suit worn by Mariska Hargitay's son, Julianne Moore's high chair, Elisabeth Hasslebeck's car seat and more. Sign up now to receive email notification when the auction begins.

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Well it looks like somebody has been doing something with Matt Damon!

The current Sexiest Man Alive and wife Luciana have announced via rep (and a public appearance where Luciana had an obvious belly) that they are expecting another child. The baby will be the third child in the house: daughter, Isabella will turn 2 in June, and Alexia, Luciana's daughter from prior marriage, is 9 years old.

I find the married, family man Damon even more charming than the Hollywood bachelor version when he was dating woman like Winona Ryder and Minnie Driver. How about you?

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I was trying to explain to a childless friend how much less protective society seems to be in keeping childhood separate from adult situations and humor and than it was when we were kids, but was struggling to find a good example. I have it one now: the dueling Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel videos.

When I was in junior high, the most obscene thing around was Madonna's "Like a Virgin" song and we weren't even sure what a virgin was. We knew it was bad and possibly sex-related because our parents forbade us from all things Madonna for a while, but she seems downright quaint after the "I'm F$%$ing Ben Affleck and/or Matt Damon" songs, easily accessed by anyone on YouTube.

Sure, these originally aired on late-night television, but not that long ago (and before the era of Tivo or YouTube) it would have been considered too risque to show them at that hour.

I admit, I find them both songs funny, but I find it very disturbing that I'm sure a survey would find a lot of kids who know all the words to those catchy little numbers.

Nothing is off-limits anymore. And while it's liberating for adults to not have the societal obligation to curb their language or edit their T-shirts (we took our kids to a parade downtown and found ourselves standing next to a guy in a shirt that said "F*&^ you, you f#$%ing f#$%!" We went to a different spot. ) or bumper stickers, I wonder what happens when kids are raised in a hip society where anything goes, nothing is off-limits, and even Hooters restaurants have booster seats and crayon activity packs for the kids.

My theory of why People magazine waited until now to name Matt Damon 'Sexiest Man Alive': becoming a dad made his hotness impossible to ignore any longer.

Damon became a step-father to seven-year-old Alexia two years ago when he married her mother, Luciana Bozan Barroso. Baby Isabella joined the family a year ago, and family man appears to be the role Damon relishes the most, as evidenced by his adorably modest refusal of the title.

"You gave an aging suburban dad the ego boost of a lifetime," he says in a letter published in the magazine. "My 9-year-old stepdaughter now thinks I'm cool - well, cooler."

The Bourne star humbly continues, " this is a mantle I wasn't meant to hold. Don't get me wrong, though. I was really shocked and happy (Lucy said I actually blushed) when I heard the news. So I can't thank you enough for that."

Proving that fatherhood only makes a man sexier, celebrity dads: Brad Pitt, Patrick Dempsey, Johnny Depp, Will Smith, and Ben Affleck also made the list this year.

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On screen, he's an ultra-tough, international assassin -- constantly on the run from big, scary dudes that want him dead. But in real life, the only person putting Matt Damon in physical danger is his 14-month-old daughter.

Apparently the 36-year-old father arrived in Berlin this week (for the German premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum) with a pinched nerve. He barely made it through the movie with four acupuncture needles in his ear, and had to skip the after party due to the pain. Rumor has it Damon left Germany in a neck brace.

So what happened?

The actor told a German newspaper that he injured himself while feeding his daughter, and holding her while she slept.

I may not know the pain of crashing through fourth-story windows while being chased by trained CIA killers, but I completely understand baby-related neck injuries.

In a small way, I think this makes me an action hero, too.

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A cartooned-up Matt Damon will be a special guest star in PBS' animated show "Arthur" tentatively airing September 3rd.

The Oscar-winning star will be promoting a Project Greenlight-ish contest and encouraging children to submit their videos to the show's "Postcards from You" segment.

The Ocean's Eleven and Bourne Ultimatum star became a step-dad to daughter Alexis in 2005 and welcomed baby daughter Isabella to the family in 2006.

I wonder if they'll find their daddy fantastic or frightful as a cartoon aardvark?

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Matt Damon, Dad to six month old Isabella, (and also my pretend celebrity boyfrient - Matt is to me like Farah Fawcett in her bikini was to teenagers in the 80's) says that fatherhood "defies description, actually."

The new Dad says that he doesn't know how to talk about the experience of being a Father, because he feels "like I got made a member of a club that I didn't know existed."

This really resonated with me, because I remember wondering why no one had ever fully explained the breadth of emotions I would feel with a newborn of my own. I could not believe that no one had ever described that my heart would feel like it was wrapped in an elastic band every time I looked at my son's face. I didn't know about the Secret Smiles exchanged between Moms at the mall or on the street as they gripped their children. It does feel a little like a secret society, one I'm so glad I accidentally stumbled upon.

Leave it to my pretend celebrity boyfriend to come up with such an ingenius description.

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