A baby boy for Britney

Pop singer Britney Spears became a mom yesterday, giving birth to a baby boy in Los Angeles. Declaring itself ''the first media outlet in the world" to report the birth, Us Weekly said Spears, 23, and husband Kevin Federline showed up at the Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center with a police escort shortly before 6 a.m., and the baby was born via C-section just before 1 p.m. (To be fair, the National Enquirer was the first to announce that Spears had been admitted to the hospital.) The couple hasn't officially named the baby yet, but Us Weekly, quoting unidentified sources, said Preston Michael Spears Federline is the early favorite. Then again, UK's Sky News reported yesterday that Spears was considering naming the babe London after the city where her romance with Federline, 27, a dancer and wannabe rapper, blossomed. This is Federline's third child. He has two children -- Kori and Kaleb -- with ex-girlfriend Shar Jackson. Spears (above, on the cover of the October edition of Elle) and Federline (left) were married last year, only months after the pop star's ill-fated 55-hour marriage to childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander. The couple confirmed the pregnancy in April, days before launching ''Britney & Kevin: Chaotic," a bizarre reality series on UPN that virtually no one watched. The birth of Spears's baby was also well timed. Just so happens that Fantasy Britney Spears, the singer's new fragrance, launches today. Beats the smell out of diapers.

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