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Madonna With Child Her Personal Trainer Is Also Child’s Father

Associated Press

Imagine life as Madonna’s wee one. Cone-shaped baby bottles? Baby togs by JeanPaul Gaultier? X-rated first words? We’ll see, since the Material Girl has gone Maternal. Madonna is expecting her first child in November.

“She is pregnant,” her publicist Liz Rosenberg said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Budapest, Hungary, where Madonna, 37, is filming the movie version of the musical “Evita.”

The father is Carlos Leon, Madonna’s 29-year-old personal trainer-boyfriend.

Rosenberg said Madonna is “a few” months pregnant, but doesn’t look it. And she hasn’t really suffered from typical first-trimester symptoms, like throwing up at the sight or smell of just about anything.

The world was informed of Madonna’s ticking biological clock when she joked last year that she desperately wanted to have a baby and might even take out an ad to find just the right daddy.

Turns out she didn’t have to look past her own home gym.

Leon, who helped sculpt the Material Girl’s well-toned body, has been doing double-duty as Madonna’s lover the past year, according to a London tabloid.

“They are both ecstatic about this,” the publicist said. “He’s back in the States.”

Madonna, who has been single since her 1989 divorce from Sean Penn, has had several flamboyant relationships since then, dating “Dick Tracy” co-star Warren Beatty and basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman. There has also been gossip about an alleged fling with John F. Kennedy Jr.

How about marrying the man who made her baby dream come true? “I just don’t know the answer to that question,” Rosenberg said.