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Beyonce announces pregnancy at VMAs

It will be first child for singer, 29, and husband Jay-Z, 41

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Beyonce and husband, rapper Jay-Z, expect their first child next spring.
updated 8/28/2011 9:55:32 PM ET 2011-08-29T01:55:32

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Beyonce made a huge announcement outside L.A.'s Nokia Theater at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards: She's pregnant!

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The Grammy-winning superstar, 29, covered up her bod in a gorgeous, loose-fitting red gown by Lanvin -- and announced her huge news to photographers. (The singer's rep subsequently confirmed the pregnancy to Us Weekly. )

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It will be the first child for the singer and Jay-Z, her husband of three years.

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Indeed, the couple has had babies on the brain for a while. "I always said I would have a baby at 30," Beyonce teased on a June 27 appearance on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. The "Best Thing I Never Had" singer turns 30 September 4.

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She and rapper-mogul Jay-Z (real name: Shawn Carter), 41, tied the knot in NYC in April 2008.

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""He is amazing," she gushed of her guy, adding that he was a "good man."

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