Former S Club singer Rachel Stevens is celebrating the birth of her first child. The 32-year-old and her husband Alex Bourne welcomed the child early Tuesday morning at London’s Portland Hospital.
Rachel’s publicist Liz Matthews said in a statement: “Rachel Stevens and Alex Bourne are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter Amelie. She arrived this morning at 2.05am. Mother and baby are both doing really well.”
Rachel Stevens and her husband Alex Bourne announce they are expecting their first child. “We are delighted to announce that our client Rachel Stevens and her husband Alex are expecting their first child later in the year,” a spokesman for the former S Club star said. Stevens added, “We are thrilled and so excited about becoming parents.” Watch a report from ITN below.
Rachel Stevens, who walked the aisle with actor Alex Bourne last August, is relishing married life. “Our first nine months of marriage have gone so quickly that I just can’t believe it,” the 32-year-old former S Club star told The Mirror. “But it’s lovely and we’re having a fantastic time, we’re definitely still in the honeymoon period. In some ways it wasn’t a huge change because we’d lived together for a year before we got married but I love being a wife. In life you’re everything, you’re a daughter, a mum, a wife, and wife is good for me now. I’m not exactly a Stepford Wife, though. Being a wife sounds all grown up, and I don’t feel that grown up – I’m a missus!”
The Sun reports Rachel Stevens was mugged just outside her London home on Tuesday (June 9), with three men demanding the former S Club star hand over the jewelry she was wearing. Stevens, who is due to marry Alex Bourne in August, handed over the engagement ring, a necklace and Rolex watch. “Rachel did experience an intrusion and is shaken but otherwise OK,” Rachel’s spokeswoman Charlotte Hickson said.
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‘Strictly Come Dancing’ runner-up Rachel Stevens spoke with The Sun about being constantly told by judges she was too shy. “I’m not a shy person, I can’t tell you how frustrating that was when the judges kept saying ‘she’s shy, she’s shy’,” the former S Club star complained. “It was so hard to stand there every week and be told I had no personality. I’m not in your face at all and I’m not a loud person, I admit, but I hate labelling people.”
As for those hoping to hear new music from the 30-year-old, Rachel said, “There’s so much I want to do. I never said I don’t want to do music any more, I just have to see if the right project comes up, and it’s the same with acting. I’m just really lucky to be in this business.” Read more.
In an interview with Fabulous magazine, Rachel Stevens insisted that her fiance Alex Bourne has taken been okay with her ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ dance partner Vincent Simone, revealing the pair actually get along. “Alex and Vincent have become good friends they’ve bonded,” the former S Club star said. “I don’t mind telling Alex how I feel about Vincent I tell Alex everything. When you’re with a guy you trust, there are no secrets. If the tables were turned, however, and Alex was me, I’d feel jealous but Vincent and I are really good friends and Alex gets that. He seems to handle it OK.”
Asked how she deals with having her fiance watch as she dances the rumba with another man, Stevens said, “I had to be connected physically and mentally with Vincent, and at first, it was difficult as a woman to have that intimacy with another guy. But Alex got the whole concept of what Vincent and I were doing. He said if people believed there was something going on with us then we’d done our job right.”
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Former S Club star Rachel Stevens tells the Daily Record of Scotland as she continues her acting career pursuit in Los Angeles, she’s willing to go nude to land a choice role. “I’m with an acting management company. We’re looking at the script for a great romantic comedy play at the moment,” Rachel revealed. “Some of the scripts I’ve read have full-on sex scenes and stuff like that but that’s part of it. You’ve got to go for it.”
The 30-year-old pop singer revealed she enrolled in an acting class to overcome fears of on-screen nudity. “It’s basically about being fully truthful in the moment and putting your attention on to the other person,” she explained. “It taught me that when you are in the moment and take on a role, that it doesn’t matter about these things. You’re not thinking about yourself, so don’t have that awkwardness about being naked in front of all the crew.”
Those hoping for new music from Rachel anytime soon won’t be pleased to learn she’s put her pop career on the back burner. “Although I would love to do more singing at some point, it’s not the right time for me to get back into it at the moment,” Stevens said.
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Sugababes and former S Club star Rachel Stevens were photographed arriving for the Pride of Britain Awards 2007 at The London Studios, Upper Ground on Monday (October 9) in London, England. Check out pictures from GettyImages. Watch a clip of Sugababes presenting an award to Lydia Cross, a brave 6-year-old from Devon who has battled against the killer disease meningitis, but still thinks of others by helping raise crucial awareness of its deadly symptoms, at YouTube.
Former S Club star Rachel Stevens, Kate Nash, Michelle Heaton of Liberty X, Deborah Harry, and Louise Redknapp attended the Vodafone Live Music Awards 2007 at Brompton Hall, Earls Court in London, England on Wednesday (September 19). Check out pictures from ExpoSay and WireImage.
Former S Club star Rachel Stevens attended the Jo Malone new fragrance launch at One Piazza in Covent Garden on Wednesday (September 12) in London, England.