Danica McKellar and her husband of one year, Mike Verta, are expecting their first child this fall.

“I’m nearing the end of my first trimester and I’m so excited — I’ve been bursting to tell people,” said Danica, 35. Danica played Winnie on “The Wonder Years.”

She originally put off confirming her suspicions. “I was in the middle of a really intense deadline for my book,” explained Danica, whose third book, “Hot X: Algebra Exposed,” comes out in August.

“I wanted to put off the [pregnancy] test because I didn’t want any distractions. That only lasted a day — I couldn’t stop thinking about it and I caved! You can’t try to put that off.”

At first, Danica couldn’t believe the news. “When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn’t quite seem real,” notes the mathematician and mom-to-be. “But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it’s so incredible.”

“Me and Mike looked at each other and we could not stop the tears,” she said. “We are so happy.”

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(In the above pic Jeff and Ingrid are pictured with their daughter Ella Sofia) 

Jeff Gordon shared the exciting news that he and his wife are expecting a son on his official website! The new addition will join big sister, Ella Sofia.

“I’ll speak with the media here in Talladega in a few minutes, but I wanted to let all of my fans on JeffGordon.com know first that Ingrid and I are having a boy!”

~JG

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In July 2007, Rielle Hunter says she learned she was pregnant. Though John Edwards said he would support her, “on some level, he was hoping I would get an abortion,” Rielle says. “He wasn’t happy about the timing. Which is understandable. He was married and running for president.”

Rielle says John has been a “sweet” and “very loving” father, adding that their daughter “calls him Da-da. She’s always known who Da-da is. Yeah. She’s never had Da-da missing from her life … He very much wants to be in her life full—time, and he doesn’t want to hide.”

Now that John Edwards and Elizabeth have separated, she says she has “no idea” if they’ll wind up together. “I do know that I will love him and that love is till death do us part, and probably beyond,” Rielle says. “We have a child together, so at the very least we will be co-parents together.”

For the entire GQ interview with Rielle click here!

Matthew McConaughey and family in LA.

Rebecca Gayheart and Eric Dane have welcomed their first child, a baby girl, a rep for the couple has announced.

The baby was born Wednesday in Los Angeles.

“Mother, father and daughter are doing great,” shared their rep.

The baby’s name was not released.

Rebecca, 38, and Eric, 37 — who wed in Las Vegas in 2004 — never formally announced the pregnancy, but Rebecca stepped out last September with a baby bump.

“I’m very curious what this next phase of my life is going to be like,” Eric told Us magazine at the 8th Annual World Poker Tour Invitational in L.A. “It’s exciting. I feel like I’ve been sort of thumbing through the last page of the same chapter for a long time now and am ready to kind of get on with it.”

Asked if they have the nursery ready, Eric said at the February 20th event, “Oh yeah! And we are packing the bag tonight!”

He previously said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he planned on being in the delivery room for the birth.

“I’m going to stay close to my wife and make sure that she is all right,” he said.

He said they even settled on a baby name, but “Rebecca wants to wait until she sees her before we give her the name.”

Of their baby’s name, Eric told Ellen DeGeneres, “We went straight down the middle with this one.”

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Jenna Elfman, 38, and husband Bodhi Elfman welcomed son Easton Quinn Monroe Elfman early Tuesday morning (March 2nd) in Los Angeles.

Jenna announced the happy news via Twitter Friday, writing, “He’s an impressive sleeper (thank god!)& I’m his biggest fan. Thank you all so much for your kind words and congrats. We really appreciate it.”

This little boy joins big brother, 2 1/2-year-old Story Elias.

Jenna told E! News in October that Story was excited to meet the new baby and be a big brother.

“I’m not sure if he gets the whole boy or girl thing exactly, but ‘baby’ he gets,” Jenna said. “He’s awesome. He gives my tummy a kiss and gives it a bottle and puts the blankie over my tummy and goes, ‘Baby, night-night.’ “

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Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools are expecting their fourth child in September, their rep has confirmed.

Jamie, best known in the U.S. for his ‘Naked Chef’ TV show, couldn’t contain his excitement and messaged his Twitter fans: “Guess what…..I’m going to be a dad again!!! We’re expecting, so happy, feel very lucky.”

The latest addition will join big sisters Poppy Honey, 8 this month, Daisy Boo, 6 1/2, and Petal Blossom Rainbow, 11 months. Jamie and Jools wed in June 2000.

“Oliver has spoken in the past of his desire for a boy in his brood. He has joked how he needs another male in the home as ‘back-up’ when he gets bossed around by the girls,” the Press Association reported.

In his online biography, Jamie says he’s never been busier in his life. “The only thing I wish I had more time for is my family — my lovely girls. Although we now have a place in the country to spend our weekends at, so I really look forward to Friday nights when we can pack up and spend the weekends together. That’s what it’s all about!” he writes.

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As both Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke seek treatment for their addictions, insiders opened up to Us magazine about the pair. The couple have been in the headlines since the Christmas Day incident when Charlie threatened to kill Brooke.

After checking out of Malibu’s The Canyon rehab facility last month, Brooke Sheen, 32, is being treated at home for addictions to alcohol and drugs — including crack cocaine, sources have confirmed to Us magazine. Charlie, meanwhile, checked into rehab last week for “preventative measures,” according to sources.

Brooke is home with her 1-year-old twin sons, Bob and Max. A family friend says that Brooke’s relapse to drugs began shortly after the twins’ birth. Born severely underweight, young Max was hospitalized for weeks. “It was a really scary situation for a new mom — for any new mom — and at that point she went back to her comfort zone…she resorted to the way she handled stress in the past.”

Meanwhile, 44-year-old Charlie — who spent time in rehab in 1998 — has “slipped” back into drinking, a friend said. “He’s been depressed, drawing the shades and watching TV by himself,” the pal shared. “His idea of sobriety is ’slipping’ less than twice a month.”

And the couple, married for about two years, “stir up each other’s worst demons,” a friend said. They break out in fights over something small or some little paranoia.”

“One time, Brooke threw a Kleenex box at him because he looked at her the wrong way,” a source recalled. “He went crazy and threw an expensive plate. It was nuts!”

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Singer Keyshia Cole, 28, and Cleveland Cavaliers player Daniel Gibson “are proud to announce the birth of their beautiful baby boy, Daniel Hiram Gibson Jr.” It’s the first child for the R&B star.

The couple’s son was born Tuesday at 11:54 p.m., weighing 7 lbs. 3 oz. “Both mother and baby are doing great,” she added.

“The proud couple would like to thank everyone for giving them privacy during this special time. Keyshia would also like to give a special thank you to her fans that have been with her since the beginning sharing in her growth as a woman and an artist.”

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Michael Douglas opens up in the new Vanity Fair about the mistakes he made with his son Cameron, and how he is trying to do a better job with his family with Catherine Zeta-Jones.  Cameron faces at least ten years in prison for trafficking meth.

Michael told Vanity Fair that the situation facing his 31-year-old son, Cameron “is one of those worst-case scenarios.”

“Anybody who has a relative or child in substance abuse has some idea of what this feels like,” Michael said. “It will ultimately be a painful lesson and very expensive as far as time is concerned. I don’t wish it on anybody, but then, you know, look, everybody’s got difficult things in life.”

Michael can’t help but see his own role in Cameron’s fate. “My priorities were very similar [to my father's],” he said about Cameron’s formative years. “Career first.”

During Michael’s own childhood, his father, the actor Kirk Douglas, was distant and volatile to his young sons. “He was a very intense, talented survivalist,” Michael said. “He was consumed with clawing out and making something of himself, and he probably was a little early in his career to have children. Certainly didn’t get a chance to enjoy them until later in life.”

About himself, not Cameron, who also pursued acting, Michael said, “The history of second-generation actors isn’t great in our industry. It’s kind of a tragic road, actually.”

When Kirk suffered a stroke, in 1996, five years after he’d survived a helicopter collision that took two lives, he decided God was trying to punish him, and with the encouragement of his wife he started studying Torah, was Bar Mitzvahed, and began, as he put it, “an audit of my life.” Michael said that he and his father, who is 93, have never been closer, and that the stroke was the best thing to happen to him. “He’s doing scarily well,” Michael said.

Michael’s relationship with Catherine Zeta-Jones gave him the chance for a do-over at marriage and fatherhood. Catherine said their courtship “was nine months of telephone calls and surprise flowers and a dinner here and a drink there.”

Their wedding, in 2000, was greeted with snarky remarks about the 25-year age difference, Michael said: “It was thrown up at you constantly. I felt bad for her.”

Michael said that he has learned a great deal about what makes marriages work: “We always tend to be kinder or make more of an effort to strangers than we do to the person closest to us.”

For Michael, fatherhood is now a source of joy and not guilt. Catherine said that the couple is determined that their kids not be raised by nannies, and that “they need to have a consistency and schedule in their life just like every other kid. They need to form friendships, turn up on their out-of-school curriculum, do their Scouts, and their ballet, and their hip-hop.”

Of Michael’s relationship with their children–Dylan, 9, and Carys, 6, Catherine said, “I’m sure if he could breast-feed, he would have. He has more time to spend with them and to focus on them.”

The April issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on March 3rd and nationally on March 9th.

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