It's not for naught that a famous skater Irina Slutskaya went to one of the capital's birthing clinics on Tuesday. Yesterday morning, the athlete became a mom!

Slutskaya and her spouse Sergei Mikheev were expecting a girl, but they got a boy. The little one's weight is 2300 grams[1], and he measures 47 centimeters[2]. The skater had a scheduled Cesarean.

Slutskaya joked that she’ll be giving birth live on the “Ice Age” show which she hosts. However, the project organizers did after all send the celebrity on maternity leave.

The athlete herself is well. She is in the ICU following the birth, but is being transferred to a separate room today. Due to the newborn’s low birth weight, he will probably spend some time in the ICU. Irina has not yet chosen a name for the baby.

On Tuesday, Irina visited the clinic, and went to the shooting of “Ice Age”, where she felt great, and briskly moved around the MosFilm corridors. However, Irina didn’t take part in the filming of that episode. On Tuesday, the show organizers did a New Year’s Eve that will only be shown on screens on the very eve of the holiday. That evening had to be special, so it was decided to switch hosts for one episode. Anna Semenovich swapped in for Irina; otherwise, it would appear that Slutskaya were still pregnant on screen, while she was no longer so in reality.

November 16, 2007

Irina Slutskaya, a two-time Olympic medalist, two-time World champion, and a seven-time European champion of figure skating, is preparing to conquer the new and most important task in her life - this Fall, she'll become a mom. Unfortunately, the joy of the 28-year-old Muscovite and her husband Sergei Mikheev is marred by the yellow press gossip. In particular, Irina is alleged to have had an affair with a famous actor Konstantin Khabenski. What's more, the actor is even said to be the father of Slutskaya's baby. Finally, the famous athlete has talked to OK! to dispel the rumors once and for all.

It's all the journalists' cheap fantasies, says Irina. Each of those newspapers is more yellow than the next, really disgusting. I'd like to close the subject once and for all. Our paths with Khabenski never crossed, we hardly even know each other. At most, I saw him in a play. But I go the theatre a lot; I have many friends among actors. Heck, hearing tales about my life is nothing new – they said that billionaire Donald Trump kissed my hand, and that I bought a house on Rublevka for three million… Can you imagine what it must have been like for Kostya Khabenski's wife to read all that?