Actress Drea de Matteo is four months pregnant, a friend of the star happily reveals to Life & Style!

“She’s barely showing but is telling close friends and family how excited she is,” the friend says.

Drea is best known for playing Adriana La Cerva on HBO’s The Sopranos. Most recently, the played a pregnant woman in an episode of Law & Order: SVU. Photos from the set on November 30 showed a very pregnant Drea in character. “That pregnancy bump was just for filming,” says the source. “She hasn’t popped yet.”

This will be Drea’s second child with her fiancé, Shooter Jennings. The couple’s first, Alabama Gypsyrose, is now 3 years old.

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Everyone, except, say Samantha Ronson. Only thing shining on her is the butt of her cig! No wonder Lindsay Lohan finds her so irresistible!

Pictured: Kristin Cavallari, Samantha Ronson, Carmen Electra, Solange Knowles, Mila Jovovich, Rachel Zoe, Kendra Wilkinson, Denise Richards and Drea de Matteo!

Drea de Matteo is leaving Desperate Housewives in May, but series creator Marc Cherry tells Entertainment Weekly that the tabloid talk that the Emmy-winning vet was fired because she wasn’t clicking with the cast is not true. “When I heard that stuff, I was stunned,” confesses Cherry. “We adore her. She is the sweetest gal in the world.”

The reality is that de Matteo’s stint on the show was never intended to go beyond this season, according to Cherry. “Part of the deal when we hired Drea was she was only interested in doing one season,” he explains. “She has a baby and is eager to get back to her life in New York.”

Cherry declined to reveal how her character will exit Wisteria Lane, but he teases that the arrival in April of Torchwood’s John Barrowman as the man she has been on the run from will build to “an explosive finale,” during which “all the mysterious parts of her past will be revealed.”

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Emmy-winning Sopranos heroine Drea de Matteo is joining the cast as Wisteria Lane’s newest vixenish housewife, sources confirm to EW.com’s Ausiello Files exclusively.

De Matteo, who will be a series regular, will play the matriarch of a new Italian family. Casting is underway for her landscape designer husband and their tightly wound son.

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Drea de Matteo burst into tears when she discovered she was pregnant, because she didn’t feel ready to be a mother.

The 36-year-old Sopranos star is now a proud mom to seven-month-old Alabama Gypsy Rose, with rocker boyfriend Shooter Jennings, 29.

But she confesses she was terrified when the pregnancy test first turned blue: “We took, like, 50 pregnancy tests. He was really excited, but I was crying, ‘I’m not ready.’”

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Drea De Matteo reportedly blames her role in cancelled sitcom Joey for ruining her career.

The former Sopranos star signed up to play Matt LeBlanc’s sister on the NBC show, after he continued his famed Friends character for the spin-off following the conclusion of the original hit series in 2004.

But the show failed to win over Friends fans, and was scrapped by the U.S. network in 2006 after only two series.

And, according to New York gossip column Page Six, De Matteo regrets accepting a part in the doomed series – admitting she has been out of work since the show ended.

A source tells the publication, “She was saying Joey completely ruined her career. She called it horrible and said she hasn’t been able to really work since then.

“She said she’s really been out of the business and is trying to get back in.”

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Former Sopranos star Drea de Matteo has given birth to a baby girl, Alabama Gypsy Rose.

The actress, 35, and musician boyfriend Shooter Jennings, 28, welcomed their daughter on Wednesday night, a rep for the actress tells E! Online’s Marc Malkin.

Alabama is the first child for the couple, who have been dating for six years.

De Matteo, who played Adriana La Cerva on the HBO drama and also starred in the NBC sitcom Joey, announced the pregnancy in May.

In June, even before she knew the gender, De Matteo had a feeling she was having a girl. “I use ‘she,’ because I’m getting so fat, I think it’s a girl!” she said at the time.

Jennings is the son of the late country legend Waylon Jennings.

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