By The Associated Press
Arizona Daily Wildcat
April 17, 1996
NEW YORK - Imagine life as Madonna's wee one. Cone-shaped baby bottles? Baby togs by Jean-Paul 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 yesterday 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. She does, however, have that well-known maternal glow.
''Her eyes look very sparkly. She's very happy, very happy,'' Rosenberg said. ''It's something she's wanted for a very long time.''
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 the London tabloid The Sun.
''They are both ecstatic about this,'' the publicist said, although Da-donna was not traveling with Ma-donna. ''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.
The baby, exact due date not given, has not interfered with the filming of ''Evita.'' ''An enormous amount has already been shot,'' the publicist said. ''They're just about finishing up in Budapest and all that's left is close-ups, so I don't think it will affect anything.''
So will the ''Like a Virgin'' singer try natural childbirth? ''She hasn't really mentioned that,'' Rosenberg said. Does the woman who put out an X-rated book called ''Sex'' want to find out the baby's sex before it's born? ''I assume she'll find out at some point in time,'' the publicist said.
How about marrying the man who made her baby dream come true? ''I just don't know the answer to that question,'' Rosenberg said.
Stay tuned.