People magazine confirms that American Idol Season 3 winner, Fantasia Barrino, gave birth to a baby boy yesterday

Fantasia Barrino called into the Wendy Williams Show today to talk about the rumors swirling around her movie role and pregnancy.

Fantasia reveals that she’s having a baby boy, and is on bed rest right now. She says she hasn’t heard from the family of Mahalia Jackson, who is supposedly upset with her for not revealing her pregnancy before she was cast as the the legendary gospel singer in an upcoming bio-pic.

Season 3 Idol, Fantasia announced at a charity gig today that she’s pregnant. She didn’t namecheck the baby daddy, but rumor has it that it’s Antwaun Cook, the married dude she’s been linked to.  Fantasia took an overdose of pills after her affair with Cook became public.

It was revealed last fall in [...]

UPDATE:  While the NAACP awards were happening, Fantasia was performing at the 27th Annual National Association Of Black Owned Broadcasters Communication Awards Dinner held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC.  Her set list included “Purple Rain” and “Bittersweet”

Congratulations to Fantasia. Her hit R&B song “Bittersweet” from her [...]

This is something I didn’t expect. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Fantasia Barrino will star as Mahalia Jackson in the upcoming biopic Mahalia! but she won’t be singing.

Instead of lending her own vocals to the project, Fantasia will lip-sync to recordings by the famed gospel singer.

Producer [...]

When Fantasia’s manager, Brian Dickens, accepted her Grammy Sunday afternoon for Best Female R&B Performance for her single “Bittersweet”, he said the Season 3 winner was off shooting her new film project, a Mahalia Jackson bio pic.

As it turns out, Fantasia told BET’s 103 & Park yesterday that she decided to stay [...]

Fantasia Barrino’s manager, Brian Dickens, speaks out to squelch the latest rumors that the beleaguered Season 3 Idol winner is pregnant with married lover Antwaun Cook’s child. Dickens tells CNN that “Fantasia’s pregnant with prosperity.”

The recent weight gain is in preparation for a movie role, claims Dickens. He says Fantasia [...]

UPDATE: From Radaronline:

Fantasia Barrino has admitted she got pregnant by her married lover Antwaun Cook and had an abortion around the time of her failed suicide attempt, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

The American Idol winner made the sensational confession in a North Carolina court on Monday during Cook’s [...]

After the jump, check out the premiere of the Fantasia “I’m Doin’ Me” music video.

Fantasia hit the streets of NYC to shoot her new video for “I’m Doin’ Me” from her current album, Back To Me.

Directed by Benny Boom, the video captures Fantasia finally declaring her freedom from an ex-boyfriend. Or does [...]

If Fantasia and her people are shocked that some folks thought her recent “suicide attempt” was a publicity stunt, they are pretty naive.

One look at tonight’s episode of Fantasia For Real, which deals with the  so-called suicide attempt and its aftermath and has the VH1 cameras in Fantasia’s hospital room as [...]

Fantasia recently hit the streets of NYC to shoot her new video for “I’m Doin’ Me” from her current album, Back To Me.

Directed by Benny Boom, the video captures Fantasia finally declaring her freedom from an ex-boyfriend. Or does she?

The video premieres November 1st on the VEVO Network, which includes VEVO.com on [...]

Did anybody watch the Fantasia For Real season opener on VH1 last night?

I did. The episode begins with Fantasia boasting that she’s finally kicked all her relatives out of her house. Now she’s ready to do things “her way” whatever that means. Considering the events of the past few weeks, I [...]