Miranda Kerr gives birth to boy in LA

With a gene pool consisting of a Australian supermodel mum and a hunky Hollywood
pirate dad, Miranda Kerr's son will surely be a fine-looking lad.
Kerr, 27, and husband Orlando Bloom, 33, welcomed their bouncing baby boy into the
world on Thursday (local time).
The couple had a false alarm on Boxing Day when Kerr thought she was experiencing
labour pains, but it was the real deal on Thursday when they made a mad dash to a
Los Angeles hospital and their son was born.
Kerr's parents, Therese and John, flew in two weeks ago from Australia to ensure
they would be in Los Angeles to greet their grandson.
The birth fulfils one of the Sydney-born, Gunnedah-raised, supermodel's dreams,
joining fellow Victoria's Secret beauties Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima, Heidi Klum
and Alessandra Ambrosio in the motherhood club.
"For me, family is life," Kerr said in a recent issue of W magazine.
"The decision to start one wasn't complex at all."
While some of her peers were back on the runway within weeks, Kerr is not so sure,
declaring her "career has been wonderful, but it's not my life".
"I don't feel pressure to get back to work," she said.
British-born Bloom, a star of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, first met
Kerr backstage at a Victoria's Secret lingerie fashion show in New York in 2006 and
they began dating in late 2007.
After months of marriage rumours and faux engagement ring sightings, Bloom's
publicist announced in June last year the actor had proposed. They wed in a secret
ceremony a month later and soon after word broke they were expecting a child.
Kerr, who keeps in close touch with fans via Facebook and Twitter, tweeted on
December 10: "My belly is getting so much bigger. Can't wait to see our little one
for the first time".
With his birth in Los Angeles, Kerr's son is a US citizen, but she has said he will
be "an Aussie through and through" so will likely apply for Australian citizenship,
giving him dual status.
Her country NSW hometown of Gunnedah could eventually be home for Kerr, Bloom and
their son, as the model has openly discussed giving up her jetset life-style for a
more sedate one on the land.
"My ideal situation would be to live on a farm in a solar-powered house with a
hammock and a vegetable patch," she told the New York Post's Page Six Magazine in
2008.
"When this (modelling) is all over, that's where I'll be."