The Rod Father
Rod Stewart may not be able to stay "Forever Young," but he's keeping his family that way.
The aging yet still virile rocker and his fiancée, model Penny Lancaster, welcomed a son into the world Sunday. The tyke was born at St. John and St. Elizabeth Hospital in London at 2:24 a.m., tipping the scales at 7 pounds, 7 ounces.
The baby was named Alastair Wallace Stewart--Alastair for its Scottish origins (like daddy) and Wallace in memory of Lancaster's grandfather.
"Both Penny and our baby son are gorgeous, healthy and doing well," Stewart said in a statement. "I am so very proud of my girl Pen for the commitment, courage and strength she showed throughout.
"We are celebrating every moment with our beautiful boy, we just can't take our eyes off him," the 60-year-old rocker continued.
Lancaster, 34, delivered the babe naturally; per the family statement, Stewart participated in the childbirth, though the press release was mercifully mum on the details.
"It means so much to Rod and I that we were able to keep to our birthing plan and have our baby naturally," Lancaster said. "It was the most empowering and spiritual experience of my life."
The trio is now back at their home in Epping, England.
This is the first child for Lancaster and the seventh for Stewart, whose brood includes headline-grabbing daughter Kimberly, who in the span of two weeks announced her engagement to and subsequent uncoupling from Laguna Beach's Talan Torriero. (Stewart only cops to six kids in his official bio, leaving out his 41-year-old daughter from a teenage romance.)
Stewart and the leggy blonde Lancaster have been together for six years and they are tentatively planning to marry next spring. She will be making her first trip down the aisle, but her beau is an old pro, having two previous weddings under his belt (to leggy blonde model-actresses Alana Stewart in 1979 and Rachel Hunter in 1990).
The baby news caps off an up-and-down year for the whiskey-voiced Rock and Roll Hall of Famer in which he won a Grammy (his first), lost a $2 million lawsuit over a scuttled Las Vegas show and scored a Top 10 debut with Thanks for the Memory...The Great American Songbook IV.
(Updated Dec. 7, 2005 at 10:15 a.m. PT.)
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