Beyonc� and Jay-Z take an old-fashioned approach to pregnancy

Hollywood was reported to be in an official state of turmoil last night over rumours that Beyonc� Knowles had become pregnant using her own womb, eggs and her husband?s sperm. ?What kind of example is she setting?? asked one A-Lister, who conceived through donor sperm from a university professor who models part time for Prada and can speak six languages. ?Honestly, the cheek of the woman, going around in a functional relationship, having a child within wedlock.?

?I don?t know who she thinks she is,? observed another resident in nearby Beverly Hills, who paid a small fortune to a teenager in Oklahoma to have her twins. ?In this day and age, you can?t just go around flaunting your bump to all and sundry. We?ve all learnt our lesson from Demi Moore. Just look what happened to her career when she appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair wearing nothing but a hand over her belly and her breasts.?

That?s enough joking. What is irrefutable is that on Monday night, Beyonc� turned up at the MTV awards cradling and stroking a noticeable bump, announcing proudly to the assembled press that she and her husband, Jay-Z, were expecting their first child. And all the single ladies ? not to mention the ones who are spoken for, too ? rejoiced at the sight of a celebrity mama who has opted for a retro pregnancy.

Or in other words, one that doesn?t involve expensive fertility clinics, surrogacy, or only having sex standing on your head when the moon is full and Mercury is in the ascendant.

This retro pregnancy is refreshing because celebrities have never been keen to lower themselves to the levels of us meagre civilians. They almost always have to go one better. They purchase their little miracles from impoverished third world countries (see Madonna and Angelina Jolie?s rainbow broods). Or they borrow somebody else?s womb (step forward Sir Elton John, Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman). And if they do actually get pregnant themselves, they must refuse to reveal who the daddy is (in the style of Mad Men?s January Jones), because all publicity is good publicity.

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