Kelly Clarkson announces she's pregnant with Brandon Blackstock

KELLY Clarkson has announced that she's pregnant and expecting her first child with new husband Brandon Blackstock.

Kelly Clarkson

KELLY Clarkson has announced that she's pregnant and expecting her first child with new husband Brandon Blackstock.

"I'm pregnant!!!" Clarkson tweeted to her nine million followers. "Brandon and I are so excited! Best early Christmas present ever."

Clarkson, who married Blackstock in October, has been effusive on the topic of kids.

"More than anything, next I want a baby. Lots of them!” she told People magazine just prior to her wedding. "My record label is freaking out because all I can talk about now are babies. We're really excited and want to get our family started."

"I'm 31 and we'd like to do it the natural way. My eggs aren't getting any younger!” said Clarkson. "So we're really excited."

Clarkson said she’d also received the OK from Mr Blackstock’s two children.

"[Brandon] has two kids that I love and they are cool with it," she added, referring to her husband's children, Savannah, 11, and Seth, 7, from a previous relationship. "We got the A-okay from them so we are ready to go. That's definitely the next big project we're going to start on.”

Speaking to Jay Leno a couple of weeks ago, Clarkson played coy when he asked if she was pregnant, telling him only that they weren't "announcing anything right now" but were having sex "like rabbits" in the meantime.

"[We want a baby] like now! Practice makes perfect!" she told Leno. "We do, we do. We're trying, trying, trying. We have two kids, and they're so great. And I never wanted kids before, but now I want, like, five."