Jennifer Hudson: Gives birth to baby boy

Jennifer Hudson: Gives birth to baby boy

Grammy and Oscar-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson and her fiance David Otunga have welcomed a baby boy, named David Daniel Otunga, Jr. The boy is their first child.

Lisa Kasteler, Hudson's publicist, said that the baby weighed in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces when he was born on Monday.

Kasteler said, "The baby is beautiful and perfect. His parents are ecstatic".

This year, the 27 year old Hudson won a Grammy Award four months after the murder of her mother, brother and nephew in her Chicago home town.

In 2008, Hudson met David Otunga. Six months later, David Otunga proposed marriage to Hudson on her 27th birthday. Since then she has been engaged for almost a year to actor David Otunga.

Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for her performance in the 2006 film "Dreamgirls".