Drew
Lachey, Wife Lea Have Baby Daughter
Friday Mar 24, 2006 11:10am
EST By
Stephen M. Silverman
Drew Lachey and wife Lea, both 29, welcomed
their first child, a daughter, today in Los Angeles, PEOPLE has learned
exclusively.
Isabella Claire Lachey weighed in at 7 lbs., 2 oz. "Mom,
Dad and baby are all happy and healthy," says a rep for the couple.
Last
month, Lachey and dance partner Cheryl Burke won the second season of ABC's
Dancing with the Stars. The former 98 Degrees singer and younger
brother of Nick Lachey credited Lea, a dancer and choreographer, with "helping
me with my posture, my feet" during the competition, he told PEOPLE.
After his victory, Drew told said he couldn't wait to kick up his heels
with his new girl. "In a couple of years my daughter will be cutting a rug
around me," he said at the time. "I'll hold her hands, and she'll be dancing on
my feet. I'm looking forward to that."
Cheryl Burke tells PEOPLE her
former partner will be a model dad. "He's going to be a great father," she says.
"He will not spoil his child, that’s for sure. But he's so loving and he’s going
to love his baby like no other."
On April 21, Lachey will cohost the
Miss USA pageant in Baltimore with Nancy O'Dell of Access
Hollywood.
• Reporting by MONICA RIZZO and CYNTHIA
WANG
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