Sometimes you read something in the news that absolutely turns your stomach, and death threats issued to an unborn baby would have to be one of those things.

Halle Berry has received racist death threats to her unborn baby.

The Oscar-winning beauty - who recently announced she was expecting her first child with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry - has been forced to hire security guards after allegedly receiving several disturbing letters from an anonymous writer.

One note warned she and her child would be “cut into hundreds of pieces”.

A source close to the actress - who has a white father and an African-American mother - told Britain’s Daily Mirror: “Halle does not normally use security but she has taken on a couple of guys to make sure.”

On a lighter note, Halle is only four months pregnant, and already she has partner Gabriel Aubry pampering her feet and satisfying her cravings.

The 32-year-old model told People magazine: “She does crave pickles. And any bread. Doesn’t matter, as long as it’s salt and pickles.”

He revealed: “She loves foot massages. I do all of that stuff.”

Sydney Morning Herald

Halle has also filmed an appearance on Oprah, where she shows off her baby bump, and talks about taking 33 pregnancy tests. She says she knew she was pregnant, but they kept coming up negative. Did she just take 32, and then the 33rd came up positive and she was like ‘yay!’ I would have just kept taking them until they came back negative again. Or gone and got a doctor to do a blood test, but then I don’t have paparazzi taking my picture every time I leave a doctor’s office and speculating on the size of my belly.

Halle also told Oprah that she’d love to have another baby as soon as possible after she has her current baby, and that she doesn’t plan on finding out the gender of her baby until he or she is born. It doesn’t matter whether the baby is a boy or a girl, it is going to be sooooo cute.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Halle Berry is shown on 8/22/07 out in LA.