It's a boy! Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster welcome baby Aiden into the world

 Rod Stewart has become a father for the eighth time after Penny Lancaster gave birth to their son Aiden.

The rock star, 66, and his wife said they were ‘proud and thrilled’ to announce the ‘long awaited arrival’ of their second child – a brother to their five-year-old son Alastair.

The couple told how they went through three rounds of IVF before Miss Lancaster, 39, finally became pregnant. The gruelling fertility treatment had sent them on an ‘emotional rollercoaster’, they said.

Miss Lancaster revealed that she was expecting last August, saying: ‘I couldn’t believe it. I burst into tears. I called Rod when I was still sobbing.’

‘Rod said, “I’m in the middle of a restaurant in Russia, crying.” I kept pinching myself.’ A spokesman for the pair said Aiden was born on Wednesday weighing 7lb 12oz. ‘Mother and baby are healthy and blissfully happy,’ he said.

Heavily-pregnant Penny Lancaster steps out in husband Rod Stewart's favourite leopard print tights

She might be on the verge of giving birth, but Penny Lancaster showed that imminent motherhood is no bar to fashion when she hit the town in leopard print tights last night.
The model and photographer, 39, was out with rocker husband Rod Stewart, 66  - who has been known to sport animal patterned legwear in his time.



The baby, who is due around the end of February, will be the couple's second son alongside Alastair, five.  
Thrice-married Rod has six other children from previous relationships – Sarah Streeter, 46; Kimberly, 31; Sean, 30; Ruby, 23; Renee, 18, and Liam, 16.