Let's see if Jessica Alba can keep topping those 'Most Sexy' lists when she's waddling about on swollen ankles and throwing up every morning – because Jessica Alba is pregnant.

And Jessica Alba is being refreshingly open about being pregnant – her spokesperson has confirmed that in late spring/early summer 2008, Jessica will give birth to a baby fathered by on-off boyfriend Cash Warren. It's a knotty situation for the global army of obsessed male Jessica Alba fans, who now all have to ask themselves if they have the capacity to marry Jessica Alba and raise another man's child as their own if she asked them, before concluding quite quickly that Jessica Alba would probably ask Ian Huntley to raise her children rather than get within a hundred yards of their flabby, lonely sweat-stink for even a second.

As Jennifer Lopez and Christina Aguilera have shown, it's highly fashionable at the moment to be very obviously pregnant but remain silent about it, thinking that you're creating an aura of mystique around yourself without realising that people just think you've been pigging out on bus-sized deep-fried cheesecakes instead.

But Jessica Alba isn't very fashionable – see also how she's shunned the current trend for making films that aren't so terrible that they make people try and blind themselves with their fingertips after about 15 minutes – which is why she's announced that she is pregnant nice and early, before anyone even had time to spread malicious rumours about her sudden weight-gain.

According to her slave Brad Cafarelli:

"I can confirm that Jessica and Cash are expecting a baby in late spring, early summer."

Cash, of course, is Cash Warren – the director's assistant who Jessica Alba met while filming The Fantastic Four. Cash Warren is also the man who Jessica Alba dumped four months ago, possibly because even she kept having to look him up on IMDb just to see who he actually is.

But, hey, it seems like Jessica Alba and Cash Warren are sufficiently back together for him to make her pregnant, so we wish the both of them and their unborn baby all the luck in the world. Especially Jessica Alba, because whatever she might think, her film career is based on three things: 1) how good she looks in a bikini, 2) the prospect of her movie career failing so dismally that one day she'll be forced to gratuitously remove her bikini in a film and 3) the way that Jessica Alba doesn't stagger around with matted hair and bags under her eyes complaining that her breasts are tender and she's long-since lost the ability to control her bladder effectively all the time. When she has a baby, it'll be interesting to see if she can maintain her old sexy reputation.

Actually, we're sorry for that last remark. It's wrong of us to assume that a young woman can lose all trace of her sensuality just because she's got pregnant and given birth to a child. In many ways, pregnancy and motherhood can even enhance a girl's sex appeal. Just look at Britney Spea… oh, never mind.

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