American actress Halle Berry has become a mother for the first time at the age of 41, after giving birth to a girl.
The Oscar winner reportedly delivered the baby at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles on Sunday morning.
The father is 32-year-old Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, Berry’s partner of two years. The pair met while shooting a Versace advertisement in Los Angeles in 2005.
After announcing her pregnancy last September, Berry told Oprah Winfrey that she and Aubry tried for a baby unsuccessfully for some time, but one negative pregnancy test followed another, "and finally, after about 35 tests, we finally got a positive test."
The actress, who won an Academy Award for her role in the bleak 2001 film Monster’s Ball, has said she has no plans to marry Aubry, having previously wed and divorced twice.
She was married to former baseball player David Justice in 1992 and singer Eric Benet in 2001, but has said she feels “more married” to Aubry than she ever did to her former husbands.
Before meeting Aubry, the actress was frequently described as “unlucky in love,” after rumours swirled of infidelity during her marriage to Benet and she revealed she had suffered domestic abuse at the hands of a former partner.
Berry won the 1986 Miss USA World contest and worked as a model before becoming an actress.
She first rose to prominence in Spike Lee’s 1991 film Jungle Fever, and went on to star in blockbusters X-Men, Cat Woman, and Bond film Die Another Day.
