Emma Bunton Becomes A Mother Despite Much Difficulties

August 12th 2007 01:00 am

Picture from PEOPLE. Emma Bunton, pre-delivery.

Emma Bunton, a.k.a. “Baby Spice,” has become a mother for the first time – of a boy named Beau, PEOPLE has confirmed.

Beau, which in French means “beautiful,” was born on Friday at 11:12 a.m. and weighed a healthy 7 lbs., 15oz. – the same birth weight as his father, Bunton boyfriend Jade Jones, according to Bunton’s London rep, Alan Edwards.

Speaking outside London’s Portland Hospital, Jones said: “He is absolutely brilliant, and both baby and Emma are doing fine. In fact Emma is tucking into some flapjacks and Coca-Cola as we speak.”

The new father added, “We are both absolutely delighted and can’t wait to take Beau home.”

Congratulations to Baby Spice. I’m glad she’s gotten her own baby in spite of the slim possibility of it. She suffered from illnesses that would lower the chances of pregnancy and that must be a hell of a nerve racking experience for a woman hoping to conceive.

Jones, 27, is a former member of the British boy band Damage. He and Spice Girl Bunton, 31, have been together for eight years and moved into a five-bedroom home in her native north London in 2005.

Motherhood for the youngest of the reunion-bound five-piece has been difficult to achieve.

In 2000, Bunton had to have pre-cancerous cells removed from her cervix. Last year, she revealed she’d been diagnosed with endometriosis, a painful condition in which the lining of the uterus begins growing in other areas of the body, making it difficult to conceive.

Less than two months ago, Bunton told PEOPLE: “I’m getting a little feisty now that I am pregnant.”

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Congratulations to Emma Bunton and her boyfriend, Jade Jones. I’m sure they will be great parents!