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29
May 2006
Geri
Halliwell Besotted With
Baby
Bluebell
Geri
Halliwell
has named her baby girl
Bluebell
Madonna.
The
former Spice Girl said
she was "besotted" with
her daughter, who was
born weighing 5lbs 12oz.
But in a 19-page
interview with Hello!
magazine she made no
mention of Bluebell's
father, Hollywood
scriptwriter Sacha
Gervasi.
Explaining
the unusual choice of
name, Geri Halliwell
said: "As I walked round
the park in the last few
weeks of pregnancy, I
seemed to see bluebells
everywhere."
She
continued: "But what
really clinched it for
me was my mother telling
me that the bluebell is
increasingly rare - so
it's a precious flower,
which seems just right
for my
daughter."
There
is also a family
connection, as Geri
Halliwell's paternal
grandmother was a member
of a risque Parisian
dance troupe called the
Bluebells. And Geri
Halliwell took further
inspiration from her
heroine Scarlett O'Hara,
who named her daughter
Bonnie Blue in Gone With
The Wind.
She
described being a mother
as "like having my own
little doll."
"It's
just overwhelming - the
biggest life-changing
experience that's ever
happened to me. No
success, nor all the
money in the world could
match being a mother
with Bluebell in my
arms," she
said.
Geri
Halliwell is said to
have "frozen out"
Gervasi, 40, after their
affair ended. In the
interview she referred
to herself as a single
mother. Asked if there
was a man in her life,
she replied: "No, and to
be honest I don't really
care."
The
former Ginger Spice
posed for a series of
pictures with Bluebell
at her home in north
London. Bluebell was
delivered by Caesarean
section in a "traumatic"
birth. Geri Halliwell 's
sister Natalie was at
her bedside.
The
singer said she had no
idea that she was
expecting a girl. She
now plans to settle in
England and have "loads"
more
children.
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