Spice Girl Melanie Brown 'thrilled' to be expecting third child

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Melanie Brown and husband Stephen Belafonte are expecting their first child together.

Add Mel B to the list of Spice Girl moms-to-be.

Former pop star Melanie Brown has revealed she is happily expecting her third child - and first with husband Stephen Belafonte.

"We're really thrilled. We wouldn't have planned and waited for four years to have a baby if we weren't excited and ready for it," Brown tells UK magazine Hello!

The singer joins former bandmates Emma Bunton, due in May, and Victoria Beckham, due in July, as the third member of the former girl group expecting this summer.�

Brown and Belafonte, both 35, secretly wed in 2007 and say they can't wait to add to their family. Between them, the couple has three children - Brown is already mom to daughters Phoenix, 12, and Angel Iris, 3, and Belafonte has a 6-year-old daughter, Giselle.

But the former Spice Girl admits her third pregnancy has been her most exhausting.

"The first three months, I was pretty sick and tired, to be honest, which I've never been before," she says.

And as for last year's rumors the couple were planning to split, Brown says the stories couldn't be further from the truth.

"We're really happily married, and we're both very much in love," she gushes.

"We have been married for four years, we have a history together, we're best friends, we're in it together, and he's totally supportive."

Brown says she hasn't decided if she'll find out the baby's gender ahead of time, but for now� she's just enjoying the perks of having a bun in the oven.

"I like the feeling of being pregnant. I like being able to just eat something if I'm craving it," she says. "I definitely do put on weight [during pregnancy] but I think you're meant to when you're pregnant. I think it's healthy."

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