Oh Baby! Halle Berry Pregnant with Second Child

Life & Style magazine is reporting that Halle Berry and her partner, model Gabriel Aubry, are officially expecting their second baby. The actress is said to be three months pregnant, with her baby due next spring.

Reportedly, the couple is said to be "overjoyed" about the news, after struggling with unspecified fertility issues. The magazine states that Berry and Aubry were forced to resort to numerous attempts via in vitro fertilization to conceive their first baby in 2007. Berry, who turned 43 this past month, endured over 30 negative pregnancy tests before she became pregnant with daughter, Nahla Ariela Aubry, born in March, 2008. To conceive their second child, the couple allegedly turned to artificial insemination.

Life and Style claims to have broken this exclusive story, less than a week after pictures depicting Berry out and about town in a loose shirt, with what appears to be a baby bump, were circulated on the internet. Berry's rep did not comment about this matter on the record.

Berry and Aubry met at a modeling job for Versace and began dating in late 2005, initially attracting public interest due to Aubry being nine years younger than Berry. The couple has also garnered notoriety for their adamant decision to remain unmarried, even after the birth of their daughter, a choice made public by the twice-married-and-divorced Berry's frequent statements that she will never again enter the marital state.

Berry, an Oscar-winning actress with a long list of acclaimed performances, has been absent from public view for much of the time since baby Nahla's birth. Prior to her first pregnancy, she was a much sought after talent in Hollywood. Berry has portrayed a wide range of characters: from quintessential, vampy sidekick, Jinx, in the James Bond flick, Die Another Day, to supernatural crimefighter in the X-Men series, to a more serious role in the television adaptation in Oprah Winfrey's production of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. She won an Academy Award for her 2001 role in Monster's Ball, and became the first woman of African-American descent to accept the honor.

Berry recently completed filming on Frankieand Alice, a drama about a woman who struggles to live with the sometimes violent effects of her multiple personality disorder, due in theaters in 2010. She is rumored to have an additional four movie projects in the works, though confirmation of a second pregnancy may alter those plans.

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Sources:

Life and Style: http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/2009/09/halle-berry.html

Oli Simpson, Digital Spy, "Halle Berry Pregnant with Second Child"

http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a175125/halle-berry-pregnant-with-second-child.html?imdb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1221208/