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Second Tyke's a Charm for Winslet

First came love, then a secret marriage, now comes news that Kate Winslet's shopping for a baby carriage.

The Titanic star and her new hubby director Sam Mendes are expecting their first child in the new year, her publicist confirmed Friday.

An official announcement is expected later today.

This is the second marriage for Winslet following her split from director Jim Threapleton after just three years together. Mendes, an Oscar earner for directing American Beauty, is a first-time husband.

It's also a second go-around at motherhood for the actress who has a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Mia, from her first marriage.

Winslet and her new beau have maintained that they didn't hook up until after she and Threapleton separated.

They publicly came out as a couple in the fall of 2001 at a premiere for Winslet's flick Iris, just months after she and Threapleton split and a little more than a year after Winslet gave birth to Mia.

In her court petition, Winslet cited Threapleton's alleged "unreasonable behavior" as the reason for the divorce, which became official in December 2001. In tabloid terms: the demands of her career put too much of a strain on the relationship.

Winslet took the plunge again in May, marrying in a private ceremony attended by just three close friends while on vacation with Mendes in the West Indies.

The Hollywood power couple is reportedly on an extended round-the-world vacation but face a busy schedule when they return home.

Winslet, a three-time Oscar nominee (Best Actress for Titanic and Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility and Iris) has a roster of movies to star in and promote. She recently starred with Kevin Spacey in The Life of David Gale and will soon be voicing a part in the BBC's leonine CGI movie Pride. She has also finished shooting on J.M. Barrie's Neverland and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Later this year, she's scheduled to begin work on the Coen brother-produced, John Turturro-helmed musical Romance & Cigarettes, opposite James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken. (Winslet has sung before, lending her pipes to an animated version of A Christmas Carol, which spawned a single called "What If?")

Somewhere in there, she'll also have to find time to give birth.

After making his mark with American Beauty, followed by last year's Road to Perdition, hubby Mendes is back working the stage, serving as director of the Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring Bernadette Peters. Which should leave him plenty of time to change diapers.

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