Supermodel gives birth to a boy

Supermodel Linda Evangelista has given birth to a healthy baby boy in New York.

The 41-year-old Canadian beauty, who has never publicly revealed the identity of the baby's father, named her new son Augustin James Evangelista.

During her pregnancy she said she was not worried about the effects of pregnancy on her figure.

"I'm not freaked out at all," she said. "I embrace it. I believe I'm doing everything to go through this as smoothly as possible. I'm either doing yoga or exercising every day.

She told Vogue she has used Botox in the past but stopped when she learned she was pregnant.

She also said she was not planning a "comeback" because she was not going anywhere.

"I decided when I was 12 that modelling is what I wanted to do," she said. "I know how to be a good model. And I don't have a Plan B in place."

This is the first child for Evangelista, who suffered a miscarriage in 1999 when she was six months pregnant by her then boyfriend, French footballer Fabian Barthez.

In July her agent, Didier Fernandez, told the New York Post he was "speechless" over a rumour that she became pregnant by artificial insemination.

Evangelista has been married once, to Elite Model Management founder Gerald Mari from 1987 to 1993, and was involved with Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan from 1992 to 1998.

She was most recently linked to Formula One racing driver Paolo Barilla and Canadian singer Bryan Adams.