Halle Berry Gives Birth To Baby Girl

NEW YORK — Halle Berry doesn't just play a mom in movies anymore.

The 41-year-old actress had a baby girl Sunday, and "is doing great," her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told People.com, the Web site of People magazine. It is her first child.

The father is 32-year-old model Gabriel Aubry. The two met while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles two years ago.

Berry told Oprah Winfrey on her show last year that playing a mother in her latest movie, "Things We Lost in the Fire," helped convince her that motherhood was for her.

"I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother," Berry said. "It let me know that I must be a mother."

Berry won the best-actress Oscar for 2001's "Monster's Ball." She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for 1999's "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge."

Berry had said she and Aubry don't plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.

Comments

[CoulterIsASuccubus]

Halle is great actress and seems to be a nice person. I wish her every happiness.

[dawlishgal]

Good for her and best wishes to her child.

I remember years ago when it was announced that Susan Sarandon was pregnant at (I think) 41 . I was having lunch with a bunch of women in their 40's and 50's, and when somebody brought up the subject, everybody went , "yechhhhhhhhh" because most of them had teenagers. Then somebody else said the father is 29 and every one of the women raised her glass of wine and cheered.

[RayZarukkus]

Big congrats to Halle and Gabriel. Wish them the absolute best of health and happiness.

[Loisebby]

Congrats on the new addition. I just hope Ms. Berry does not exploit her pregnancy and newborn to market a film. Oops! To late for that... I wonder if she has already made a deal to sell the photos of her baby? Oops! To late for that too... ...best of luck - really

[jpshotwheels]

I can't believe the first comments here, people are so hateful in this Country. You should be excited for her and thankful she is okay, the baby is okay, instead of attacking this women.

Congratulations Halle Berry, I am happy for you, the father, and the baby. You will be good mother.

[SlippingInTheDip]

yeah...hes commited to her for the next 18 years...pl­ease...no pics of another illegitimate kid.

[Mattie]

what is your problem!

[slow2]

SintheD,

Small correction. NO CHILD IS ILLEGITIMATE.

Children are born to either unmarried, or married parents.

It is much more respectful of another human being, though he/she is smaller than you are in many ways, to speak in terms of their being legitimate, as all of us are. That infant/chi­ld/teen/ad­ult did not ask to be born to unmarried parents.

[WRPrintz]

Well said.

[ColetteG]

Another one stuck in the fifties state of mind. Illegitimate child? what exactly is illegitimate about that child?
And do you really think married couples are more committed than unmarried ones?

[LeftVetPatriot]

You poor ignorant bastard.