Usher spent Valentine’s Day visiting his wife, Tameka Foster, at the hospital in Brazil where she has been recuperating from the cardiac arrest she suffered during liposuction a week and a half ago.

Tameka Foster went to Brazil to have the surgery just two months after giving birth! I would have to think that no doctors in the U.S. would want to do a surgical procedure like lipo because she was still healing from childbirth which may be one of the reasons why she went so far away, the other reason, wanting privacy about leaving her newborn and other kids back home to have such a superficial procedure done.

Was it vanity or insecurity that she was willing to risk her life and her 5 children’s right to have a mother because she didn’t want to wait until her body healed gradually with exercise and proper diet?

I hope she and other women learn from this and realize that having a child is risky, and ANY kind of plastic surgery is risky as well. It takes 9 months of pregnancy before a child is ready to be born, be at least willing to wait 9 months for your body to recover.

Us and People magazines are reporting that Usher and his wife Tameka are expecting their second child. Their son Usher Raymond V was born November 2007 and is nicknamed Cinco. This will be Tameka’s 5th pregnancy.

The proud daddy to be has had a very busy schedule lately. He spent the summer working with his charity the New Look foundation, as well as a summer camp he ran for teenagers. In August, he told PEOPLE that being a father has made him want to help other kids:

“Having a child just completed the story,” he said. “I already had a giving heart, and I wanted to do something to mentor children.”

Now that his mama is back as his manager, she has him going on a 15 city sweep tour for a Ladies Only series of concerts. Wonder what his pregnant wife thinks about this and if she and the baby and other siblings will be going on tour as one big happy family?

Usher, Keith Urban and Natasha Bedingfield kicked off the NFL season with a free concert that drew thousands to Manhattan’s Columbus Circle Thursday afternoon September 4th for the NFL’s 7th annual football and music festival.

Portions of the pregame broadcast will air live on NFL Network, will be streamed on NFL.com and will be available via NFL Mobile Live only from Sprint.

The Thursday concert lead into the season opener between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins at Giants Stadium (NBC, NFL.com, NBCSports.com, Westwood One Radio Sports, 7:00 p.m. ET).

NBC will air concert highlights as part of the one-hour “NFL/NBC Fall Preview” on Friday, Sept. 5th at 9:00 p.m. Stars from hit NBC shows are scheduled to appear at the Thursday concert event.

The performances and appearances celebrated the kick off of the 2008 season as well as honored the Super Bowl champion New York Giants.

Usher has parted ways with his manager Benny Medina of Handprint Entertainment and has rehired his mother, Jonnetta Patton of J-Pat Management. Zomba Label Group released a statement saying that Usher:

“has dissolved his management arrangement with Benny Medina and has re-engaged Jonnetta Patton as his manager.”

He ended his relationship with his mother’s management company in May 2007 when he hired Medina, who also manages Mariah Carey. Medina helped launch Usher’s latest album “Here I Stand.” The album has sold 948,000 copies in the U.S. making it the No. 8 best-selling album of 2008 so far.

Usher sat down for an interview with Jive Magazine for their July issue. He talked about dissolving his working relationship with his mother who used to be his manager:

“I love my mother — she’s the only one I have,” he said, pausing for a moment before continuing. “I decided to not fire, not get rid of, but to give [my mother] the ultimate compliment — to retire her to be a full-time grandmother. My mother and I decided to change her situation, together. There was a conversation. I didn’t write her a letter or pink-slip her.”

He also talked about the difficult time he went through with his mom regarding his relationship with Tameka leading up to their off then on again wedding:

“I hurt more than anything over these last two years when I felt my mother didn’t really embrace my situation,” he told Vibe. “That really hurt me.”

“My mother is an aggressive person,” he said. “She makes hard decisions, and she caused me to make a hard decision as well.”

“Am I so much of a bad guy because I decided to get married? Am I so much of a bad guy [because once I got in the situation], I decided to stand for something, build a foundation, and think about my future?” he asked. “As a man, you would respect me for not turning my back on it. … It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man — a black man — in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men. Are you not studying the stories? Wake up! Black love is a good thing.”

He also said he appreciates his wife and the values she brings to his life. “[Tameka] will tell me. If something doesn’t look right or she feels like it could look better, she’ll say something.

“The swagger I possess now definitely comes from my wife,” he said. “And my son completes me. He changes my perspective on what life is, and what matters.”

Usher also talked about married life in “Best Thing,” a song he duoed with Jay-Z also a newlywed on his new album, Here I Stand, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart earlier this month.

I guess after all the bad publicity surrounding his soon to be wife, things got a bit heated and the wedding was canceled! I wonder if it will be back on later this month or if it is a permanent thing.