Rod Stewart's taking his whole "Forever Young" thing a little too seriously.
Proving that he's not quite ready to enjoy the AARP life, the geriatric rocker announced Wednesday he will become a daddy yet again.
The 60-year-old Grammy-winning rock star is expecting a child with his 34-year-old fiancée, Penny Lancaster, 34. This will be his first child with Lancaster and his seventh overall.
"I am overjoyed and extremely proud to be able to confirm that my fiancée Penny is carrying our baby," Stewart said in a statement. "I count myself blessed to have bestowed upon me the honor of fatherhood again with Penny, whom I love and cherish so much."
Baby Stewart is due in December. Stewart and Lancaster, a model and photographer, were engaged in Paris in March after a five-year courtship. They are planning a spring wedding.
First, however, Stewart needs to clear up the status of his union with model Rachel Hunter, 35. The couple married in 1990 and separated in 1999 but never officially divorced. Hunter filed court papers in 2003 but later withdrew them. Stewart on Thursday filed his own petition in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeking to end the marriage due to irreconcilable differences.
Presumably those differences include getting engaged to a pregnat Lancaster.
News of the couple's impending parenthood broke last week in London's Daily Mirror, which counted backward to determine that Lancaster was preggers when Stewart proposed. But the couple waited to make the confirmation until Wednesday, when Lancaster passed the 12-week mark in her term.
Stewart's brood is quite expansive. In his press release touting his forthcoming kid, the "Hot Legs" singer admits to having five children. Paris Hilton pal Kimberly, 25, and Sean, 24, are his kids from his marriage to actress Alana Stewart. Ruby, 17, is his daughter with former gal-pal Kelly Emberg. And little Renée, 13, and Liam, 10, are his babies with second wife Hunter. Stewart declined to note a sixth child, Sarah Thubron, 41, from a pre-fame teenage romance with art student Susannah Boffey.
Stewart is just the latest rock dinosaur to join the late-in-life daddy club. Paul McCartney was 61 when his second wife, Heather Mills, gave birth to Beatrice in October 2003.
As for Stewart, the baby news tops off what has been a stellar year, career-wise.
His most recent album, Stardust...Great American Songbook, Vol. III, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with the biggest sales week of Stewart's four-decade career. It also earned him his first career Grammy in February, for Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was the sixth-highest earning musician in 2004, taking home $34.6 million, per Rolling Stone. "Maggie May" and "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" were also rated among the magazine's 50 Greatest Songs of All Time.