Sandra Bullock's bombshell PEOPLE cover, in which she revealed that she is not only divorcing Jesse James, but also adopted a New Orleans baby in January, caught everyone by surprise. After the jump, I have 
 
 
 
 Sources tell me that Sandra Bullock's friends were as shocked as the rest of us when they found out that the actress had adopted a little boy three months ago. Bullock wouldn't let anyone come to the house for fittings for her dresses. It was a secretive, perfectly orchestrated reveal. It's not free publicity she's getting. It seemed a little strange at the time, but now we know why." "She's smart in business and smart in handling her public life," he says. After Sandra and her team read that, they knew they needed to move fast and offered an exclusive to PEOPLE," explains a source.
– The paparazzi are confounded: How in the world did Sandra Bullock manage to keep her baby boy a secret, even through months in the spotlight first as an Oscar frontrunner and then as a scorned wife? By using “decoys and dark cars” and refusing to let anyone into her house for dress fittings, reports USA Today in a look at the People scoop. Even so, there were little clues that—somehow—no one noticed. Her makeup artist never understood why she looked so tired and needed “copious amounts of concealer” before events. And when a green baby sock fell out of her bag and onto the red carpet, no one wondered why she might be carrying around a baby sock. Bullock finally decided to break the news to People—and boot Julia Roberts off the cover in the process—after learning Life & Style was about to break its own story, PopEater reports.