‘Heroes’ star Ali Larter and husband Hayes MacArthur are expecting a baby, PEOPLE reports. “Ali and Hayes are thrilled to be expecting their first child,” her rep told the magazine. The baby is due this winter.

“Ali is ecstatic. She and Hayes are absolutely over the moon about it. They have wanted a baby for what seems like forever and now their dream is coming true,” a family friend told Star.

The friend adds, “It’s going to be even more special because their baby is due on Christmas Day! They don’t know what sex it is yet but Ali is definitely planning on finding out – hopefully at her next doctors visit!”

Larter and MacArthur wed last August in Maine after meeting several years earlier on the set of ‘National Lampoon’s Homo Erectus.’

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“Heroes” Ali Larter signs autographs outside of the Calvin Klein party she attended on January 28, 2010 in West Hollywood.

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Ali Larter is over the top ecstatic to be getting some free time for a visit to a nail salon in Beverly Hills yesterday.

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Heroes star Ali Larter will soon be off the market!

She and her fiancé of more than a year, actor Hayes MacArthur, plan to tie the knot in a small ceremony in Kennebunkport, Maine, on August 1.

They will say their vows at Hayes’ family property in front of their closest friends, including Ali’s best pal, actress Amy Smart, and Hayes’ school pals.

“Hayes is really excited to spend time with a lot of his old buddies that he played football with at Bowdoin College in Maine,” says a source close to the couple. “Ali wants a dream wedding and for everything to be perfect.”

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Pictured: Nicole Richie & Joel Madden, Emmy Rossum, Ali Larter, Lucy Liu, Nicky Hilton, January Jones, Elisha Cuthbert & Marisa Tomei.

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Pictured:  Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, Hayden Panettiere, Debra Messing, Ali Larter and Selma Blair.

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Ali Larter was once treated like an outcast on a film set after discovering how cruel Hollywood can be to an actress who gains weight.

The sexy star admits producers and directors stopped talking to her after she piled on the pounds while shooting a film on location.

She tells the new issue of Allure magazine, “The faxes went out from the producers and the director to my agents to my manager to call me and ask me to lose weight. I just remember sitting in my trailer hysterically crying from the embarrassment I felt about myself, my body – and that no one could talk to me directly.”

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