Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are celebrating the birth of their first child

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ actress is believed to have given birth at Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai hospital yesterday (25.01.11), Spanish newspaper El Pais has revealed.

The sex or name of the baby is not yet known.

For 41-year-old Javier, the child came on the same day he was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Spanish drama ‘Biutiful’.

Penelope, 36, started dating Javier after they worked on ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ in 2007, and the pair – who had been friends for over 12 years before they embarked on a relationship – married in a low-key ceremony in the Bahamas in July 2010.

Although the pair have always been keen to keep their private lives away from the public eye, she has previously admitted she was looking forward to have children, even if it meant adopting.

She said: “I’d love to have kids. Maybe I’ll adopt about 20 children – that’s been my dream since I was a little girl. I want to have my own kids, but also adopt. For a while I’ve had the feeling that my life won’t be complete if I don’t adopt.

“I think I would be a perfect mother. I love babies.”

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Gwyneth Paltrow was “really classy” on the set of ‘Glee’.

The Oscar-winning actress has begun filming her guest spot for the musical TV show and her co-stars were very impressed with her performance and attitude.

Harry Shum Jr. – who plays Mike Chang – told E Online: “We shot some stuff with her. She’s been great.

“We kind of just showed up on set and were like, ‘Oh, hi Gwyneth Paltrow.’ She’s really sweet, really classy. You look at someone who’s an Oscar-winning actress and you think they’re going to act a certain way and she’s just a regular person.”

The show’s creator Ryan Murphy has previously said it was a “dream come true” for Gwyneth to appear in the show.

He said: “Gwyneth Paltrow is going to come and do an episode soon, which is amazing. Having her come on the show is pretty much a dream come true – she’s always been one of my dream guests.”

As well as Gwyneth, ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ actor Javier Bardem and Britney Spears are also set to make cameo appearances in series two.

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Penelope Cruz

Penelope Cruz says winning an Oscar was like getting the best toy ever.

The ‘Nine’ star scooped the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress last year for her performance in ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ and admits receiving the gold statue was one of the happiest moments in her life.

Penelope is proud to show off her prize at her home and once even took her Oscar to the beach.

She said: “My Oscar lives in my house, but it changes rooms all the time. I’m looking at it in different places to make the final decision. I even took it to the beach one day. It’s like being five when you finally get a toy you’ve been asking for.”

Since winning the prestigious prize, the 35-year-old actress insists she doesn’t feel any extra pressure when making her films, because she has always worked hard.

Penelope – who is believed to be engaged to Javier Bardem – added to Stylist magazine: “I’ve always felt under pressure and had a lot of insecurity, so that doesn’t change and I don’t want that to alter. I don’t want to get to the set and feel too secure. I’ve worked for so many years feeling a lot of respect and healthy fear of the work and I don’t feel I can change that now.”

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The ‘Basic Instinct’ actress says she struggles to put on weight and has to fight hard to maintain her size six/eight frame.

She said: “I have to watch not getting too skinny. I’m a mover. I’m not one of those people who can survive on salad. I love a big steak dinner and I’m obsessed with finding the perfect hamburger.

“They do one at the Tower Bar here in Los Angeles which come son an English muffin with arugula and brie, and they serve it with French fries and truffle oil. That really sends me.”

As well as eating a lot so as not to get too thin, the 51-year-old star – who has adopted children Roan, nine, Laird, four, and Quinn, three – makes sure she exercises regularly to stay in shape.

She added to Tatler magazine: “I do pilates. I bike, I canoe, I walk. I try to take the stairs more than the elevator and I chase my children.”

Sharon is not the only star to confess to a love of the calorific food.

‘Nine’ actress Penelope Cruz recently reveals she eats fast food every week and even stopped off for a snack  before winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ last year.

She said: “I ate an In-N-Out burger and then I went to the red carpet. What’s so surprising about that? I do it, like, once a week or once every two weeks. It’s my little treat for myself. I love the Double-Double with fries.”

During her second pregnancy, Nicole Richie – who has 23-month-old daughter Harlow and son Sparrow, three months, with Good Charlotte star Joel Madden – regularly made the rocker make late night trips to buy burgers for her.

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The slender star doesn’t follow a strict diet and indulges in her favourite fast food treats regularly – even stopping off for a calorific meal before winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ earlier this year.

She said: “I ate an In-N-Out burger and then I went to the red carpet. What’s so surprising about that? I do it, like, once a week or once every two weeks. It’s my little treat for myself. I love the Double-Double with fries.”

The actress also revealed she relies on her iPod to get her through working on a film.

The ‘Nine’ actress always creates a soundtrack to help connect with the character she plays in all her movies and only listens to a limited selection of songs to help keep focused on what she is doing.

She explained to Parade.com: “It helps me very much to have my iPod. It’s always with me on the set. Music is very important to me because it goes directly to your heart. I always have, like, 20 songs that I pick for the character, and that’s all I listen to while I’m making the movie. I try to stay in the zone and not let my attention be distracted.”

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The Spanish actress – who won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award earlier this year for her role in ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’ – has revealed she has no recollection of the evening because she felt faint with tension.

She explained: “I feel frustrated that I can’t remember, because it was beautiful how your family and your people can feel so happy for you. I felt I was on the border of passing out from tension. That I can remember very well.”

However, the brunette beauty can recall tucking into 300 canapes, crying for half and hour and being confused about what was going on.

She explained to Britain’s The Times newspaper: “I remember thinking, ‘What am I doing here? How did this happen?’ ”

Despite her glowing movie career, the 35-year-old starlet still has problems with her self-esteem.

She explained:  “I don’t want to like myself too much in my work, because if the camera sees that, it’s the thing it will hate the most, seeing an actor that likes himself too much.

“I have always been very self-critical. It’s one of those things I don’t feel I should try to change. I think you need that to keep growing and improving.

“It is in my nature to worry, about anything. I have always been like that, but now I try to control it and to be more positive. But I worry a lot.”

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