Halle has first baby; mother and infant ‘doing great’

NEW YORK – Halle Berry doesn’t just play a mom in movies anymore.

The 41-year-old actress had a baby girl on Sunday, and “is doing great”, her publicist Meredith O’Sullivan told People.com, the Web site of People magazine. It is her first child.The father is 32-year-old model Gabriel Aubry.The two met while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles two years ago.Berry told Oprah Winfrey on her show last year that playing a mother in her latest movie, ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’, helped convince her that motherhood was for her.”I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother,” Berry said.”It let me know that I must be a mother.”Berry won the best-actress Oscar for 2001’s ‘Monster’s Ball’.She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for 1999’s ‘Introducing Dorothy Dandridge’.Berry had said she and Aubry don’t plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.Nampa-APIt is her first child.The father is 32-year-old model Gabriel Aubry.The two met while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles two years ago.Berry told Oprah Winfrey on her show last year that playing a mother in her latest movie, ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’, helped convince her that motherhood was for her.”I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother,” Berry said.”It let me know that I must be a mother.”Berry won the best-actress Oscar for 2001’s ‘Monster’s Ball’.She also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for 1999’s ‘Introducing Dorothy Dandridge’.Berry had said she and Aubry don’t plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other.Nampa-AP