{"id":326430,"date":"2011-03-21T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/mel-b-pregnant-singer-announces-she-is-expecting-baby-in-the-summer\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:23:41","slug":"mel-b-pregnant-singer-announces-she-is-expecting-baby-in-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/mel-b-pregnant-singer-announces-she-is-expecting-baby-in-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel B pregnant: Singer announces she is expecting baby in the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"147.237616479\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Andrea+Magrath\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrea Magrath<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Jody+Thompson\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jody Thompson<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 10:23 AM on 21st March 2011<\/p>\n<p>With her former band mates Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton pregnant, perhaps she felt left out.<\/p>\n<p>Mel B has announced that she, too, is pregnant. The Spice Girl is expecting her first child with husband Stephen Belafonte this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We\u2019re really excited. We wouldn\u2019t have planned and waited for four<br \/>\nyours to have a baby if we weren\u2019t really excited about it and ready for<br \/>\nit. Even though you can never really be truly ready,&#8217; the 35-year-old told Hello! magazine.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/0f898a1b354_468x821.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"821\" alt=\"Pregnant: Mel B has announced that she is pregnant\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pregnant: Mel B, pictured at Heathrow earlier this month, has announced that she is pregnant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The couple, who began trying for a baby around Christmas and fell pregnant soon afterwards, say they haven&#8217;t decided whether to find out the sex of the baby yet.<\/p>\n<p>Mel says: &#8216;I haven\u2019t fully decided if I want to know or not. I\u2019m over the first<br \/>\ntrimester, so I\u2019m past the shady three months and on to safe territory.<br \/>\nThe first three months, I was pretty sick and tired, to be honest, which<br \/>\nI\u2019ve never been before.&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stephen, also 35, says he was &#8216;ecstatic&#8217; when Mel told him the happy news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I promptly got a bottle of Cristal champagne and said, &#8220;Baby, enjoy this<br \/>\nglass because you can\u2019t drink anymore!&#8221; I must tell you, she really<br \/>\nenjoyed that glass of Cristal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The news comes just days after the 35-year-old singer spoke of her longing to become pregnant.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/92f19e52460_468x659.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"659\" alt=\"Growing brood: Mel and husband Stephen Belafonte already raise three daughters, Phoenix Chi and Angel Iris from Mel's previous relationships and Stephen's daughter Giselle\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Growing brood: Mel and husband Stephen Belafonte already raise three daughters, Phoenix Chi and Angel Iris from Mel&#8217;s previous relationships and Stephen&#8217;s daughter Giselle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She told last week&#8217;s Reveal magazine: &#8216;I&#8217;m always broody. Hopefully,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to be pregnant by the end of this year, or, if not, next year.<br \/>\nI love kids.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The singer joins band mates Emma, who is due in May, and Victoria, who will give birth in July.<\/p>\n<p>Mel, full name Melanie Brown, and Belafonte raise three children together.<\/p>\n<p>The singer has two daughters &#8211; Phoenix Chi, 12, from her first marriage to backup dancer Jimmy Gulzar, and Angel, three, from her short-lived relationship with Eddie Murphy.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen has a six-year-old daughter Giselle.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Join the club: Mel&#8217;s former band mates Victoria Beckham (left) and Emma Bunton are also expecting<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The couple married on June 6 in Las Vegas and now live together with their daughters in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\nher Reveal interview, Mel mused: &#8216;What&#8217;s the key to a happy marriage? I<br \/>\nmarried my best friend. We&#8217;ve been mates for ten years.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It could turn out to be a busy year for the Leeds-born singer.\u00a0 In addition to her pregnancy, Mel is still hoping for yet another Spice Girls reunion.<\/p>\n<p>While the other girls, including Emma Bunton, have rubbished reports that they are reforming, Mel has admitted she wants the idea to go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d love to get back with the Spice Girls. I&#8217;ve always championed more Spice Girls concerts, DVDs and music,&#8217; she told Contactmusic recently.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c90b30fa29_468x525.jpg.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"525\" alt=\"Happy families: Stephen tweeted this picture with Angel and Giselle yesterday\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy families: Stephen tweeted this picture with Angel and Giselle yesterday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;But we haven&#8217;t had that conversation as a group yet and I can&#8217;t speak on everyone&#8217;s behalf.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Right now, we&#8217;re all talking about the musical Viva Forever, which is coming out next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m not allowed to say anything about it yet though.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mel recently returned to LA from Germany, where she promoted her fitness DVD Totally Fit.<\/p>\n<p><span>Do you have a story about a celebrity? Call the Daily Mail showbusiness desk on 0207 938 6364 or 0207 938 6683. For U.S. stories, phone 310 642 2317.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/0f898a1b354_468x821.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1368333\/Mel-B-pregnant-Singer-announces-expecting-baby-summer.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Mel B pregnant: Singer announces she is expecting baby in the summer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mel B pregnant: Singer announces she is expecting baby in the summer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Andrea Magrath and Jody Thompson Last updated at 10:23 AM on 21st March 2011 With her former band mates Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton pregnant, perhaps she felt left out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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