Amy Adams was spotted outside Good Morning America yesterday with her fiance, actor and artist Darren Le Gallo, and their nearly seven month-old daughter, Aviana. I think we’ve seen Aviana before, but I just can’t get over what an adorable baby she is – and she has her mom’s gorgeous red hair!

Adams is promoting her role in The Fighter, out December 10, in which she plays Mark Wahlberg’s girlfriend. She told Robin Roberts on Good Morning America yesterday (video below) that she took boxing lessons to prepare for her ‘feisty’ role but that her experience as one of seven siblings also gave her experiences to draw on. They showed a clip from the film and it looks incredible. There’s Oscar buzz around this film, and Amy has of course already been nominated for an Oscar this early in her career. She’s certainly made some excellent film choices and she’s one of my favorite actresses. I love how low key and normal she is without making a point of it.

On motherhood, she told Robin “it’s really really good, it’s fantastic. Aviana is here actually. She comes with me everywhere.” She also explained that she didn’t want her career to affect her daughter at all “I want her to feel that she has her own identity, and her identity isn’t caught up in what I do. That’s really important for me.” You know, we see so little of Amy when she doesn’t have a film to promote that it’s a real treat to watch her interviews. She’s always impressed me.

Here are more photos and Amy’s interview. Doesn’t she look so much like Mariah Carey in that one photo below? I think it’s her hair and sunglasses, plus she’s making an expression like Mariah always does.

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

Didn’t it feel like Amy Adams was pregnant for more than a year? It really seemed that way to me. I could have sworn that she was pregnant (and showing) at this time last year. In any case, the gestating is over and Amy finally gave birth! She and her fiancée Darren Legallo welcomed their daughter on Saturday in LA. They’ve named the little girl Aviana Olea Legallo. My Lord, that’s a mouthful. It also sounds very birdlike, probably because of my association of “Aviana” to “avian”. Birdy McItalian.

Baby makes three!

Amy Adams and fiancé Darren Legallo welcomed 7-lb. daughter Aviana Olea Legallo on Saturday in Los Angeles, her rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

“Mom and baby are home and doing great,” says Adams’s rep. “Everyone’s healthy and happy.”

Shortly after announcing her pregnancy in December, the actress said she and Legallo planned to find out the sex of their baby on the way.

“I thought about waiting and I just don’t think that’s really my personality,” Adams, 35, said.

With nine months to prepare for baby, the Julie and Julia star also made sure to take care of her own needs.

“It’s been good for me,” she told USA Today. “I’ve benefited a lot from taking some downtime and working on friendships and really reconnecting with my fiancé.”

[From People]

Congratulations to the happy family! Later this year, Amy will be promoting The Fighter, that film where Christian Bale lost a lot of weight (again) and began looking like a crackhead (in his defense, he was playing a crackhead). She’s also got four projects lined up, including the sequel to Enchanted. The studios have probably been holding all of these projects for a while (a year?), waiting out Amy’s pregnancy. So… you know what I’m saying? Amy has to go back to work very soon. I hope she enjoys her maternity leave while it lasts (not for very long).

Lovely Oscar-nominated actress Amy Adams, 35, is expecting her first child with fiance Darren Legallo. Amy told Allure Magazine this July that Darren was ready to get married and have kids but that she was content to focus on her career “I think he was patient for the first nine months, but that we have been engaged for a year, he’s sort of, you know, ‘This is going to happen, right?’ He understands I’m busy but he’s ready. He’s much more ready for kids and stuff than I am.”

It looks like Amy and Darren are going to start their family soon. People Magazine is reporting that she’s pregnant. Does this mean that she’ll get married before the baby comes?

Amy Adams and fiancé Darren Legallo are expecting their first child together, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

The couple, who have been together seven years, met in acting class in 2001 and became engaged in July 2008.

Adams, 35, will next be seen in the romantic comedy, Leap Year, which hits theaters on Jan. 8.

[From People]

I love Amy Adams and really admire how professional and hard working she is. She’s not controversial and has a low-key personal life so we hardly hear about her at all. She shows up when she has something to promote and is kind of a breath of fresh air in Hollywood. I find her very normal, genuine and likable, and yet she’s so glamorous on the red carpet. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a paparazzi photo of her that wasn’t taken on set, but I did a quick search and she was photographed outside Barney’s shopping once a year ago and then out getting ice cream with Darren in June. She looked pretty annoyed to be photographed. Somehow I doubt we’ll be seeing a glossy magazine spread of her with her new baby. Congratulations to Amy and Darren on their happy news!

Update: Here’s a cute video of Amy talking to Entertainment Tonight about her pregnancy. She says that she wants to find out the sex of the baby so that she can prepare.

Amy Adams, 34, doesn’t get enough press. She quietly shows up to work, does a phenomenal job, promotes her films when they come out, and then disappears until awards season. We probably don’t hear much about Adams because she leads a low-key lifestyle with her fiance and doesn’t say things to the press for shock value. I remember seeing her on The Tonight Show earlier this year and she told a cute story about driving down Hollywood Boulevard in a UHaul with her boyfriend on a Friday night. The Oscar-nominated actress was moving her own stuff, and it even struck her as funny once she stopped to consider it.

Amy isn’t a cookie cutter beauty, but she is gorgeous and looks strikingly different from your average starlet with her lovely red hair and pale skin. On the red carpet, Amy sparkles in dresses that flatter her coloring and are fashion-forward and bold, and her makeup and hair are usually perfect.

Given how lovely and well styled Amy usually is, I’m disappointed that someone at Allure chose feature a cover photo of her in red eyeshadow with light brown too-thick eyeliner. Her cover shot looks geeky and kind of amateurish, like a high schooler experimented with her makeup for the junior prom. Maybe the small photo of the cover (below) doesn’t do the image justice, as it doesn’t look as bad on the photo from Allure’s website (above). Inside the magazine, Amy isn’t particularly quotable but she’s honest. She says she’s been engaged for a year and her fiance is losing patience with her. She’s not quite ready to make it official and start having children right away, and considering how well her career is going you can’t blame her:

Don’t ever confuse Amy Adams for a bridezilla. The actress has been engaged for a year and she still hasn’t even locked down a wedding date.

“I’ve been really busy, and I feel like a horrible fiancée that I haven’t gotten swept up in the whole idea of a wedding,” Adams, 34, tells Allure in its August issue. “But I just haven’t.”

Luckily for the star, her fiancé, actor Darren Le Gallo, isn’t pressuring her to rush down the aisle.

“He wants to be married,” Adams says. “I think he was patient for the first nine months, but that we have been engaged for a year, he’s sort of, you know, ‘This is going to happen, right?’ He understands I’m busy but he’s ready. He’s much more ready for kids and stuff than I am.”

One reason Adams has been so busy: She had to learn how to cook a lot for her role in her latest film, Julie & Julia, which costars Meryl Streep as famed chef Julia Child. Adams learned how to poach an egg – “a talent that comes in handy,” she says – and tackled more complicated kitchen tasks like trussing chickens, boning ducks and making bruschetta.

Cooking aside, Adams says she identifies with her character in the film, Julie Powell, a real-life, 30-something author who wrote a memoir about trying to cook all of the recipes in Child’s landmark cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. “Thirty was a big deal for me,” Adams says. “It was the age where I reevaluated everything – how I approached life and how I thought about myself.”

“When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I’ve wasted trying to find the right man,” she says. “But the truth is, once you have a great man in your life, it allows you – or at least for me – to look at yourself and grow as an individual. And gosh, if I had known I was going to find this, my 20s would have been completely different.”

[From People]

Amy’s last sentence in that excerpt – that she wasted a lot of time looking for a guy instead of trying to work on herself, is something a lot of us struggle with. I know when I was in my 20s I went through something similar, but I do feel like I was able to have a great time while I was single and wasn’t exactly pining for a guy. It doesn’t sound like Adams ever was, either. Maybe she’s just not ready to get married, or maybe she feels deep down that her fiance really isn’t the one for her.

Allure has more photos from Amy’s shoot and it looks like they’re going for a kind of elegant romanticism with the photos, which feature some elegant dresses and historic pieces. In one photo Amy even is seen holding her chest as she poses topless in a white gown. She looks beautiful in the other photos, and it’s a shame they chose that kind of unfortunate gummy-looking picture for the cover.

The stars were out to support Meryl Street at the Film Society’s Tribute to the two-time Oscar-winning actress at Avery Fisher Hall in NY last night. The Film Society’s website says that the evening honored Streep’s “remarkable career with selected film highlights, onstage salutes by friends and colleagues and personal remarks by Meryl Streep.”

The night featured a “Cocktail Buffet” and “Supper Dance” along with the tribute to Streep. Proceeds went to the Film Society.

I love Amy Adams and think she looks gorgeous here. She really was lovely at the Oscars and her look is both classy and playful.

Other luminaries at the event included Uma Thurman in a black wrap dress with a subtle silver chain belt, and Glenn Close in a floor length navy gown with an elegant button down jacket. I’m not too fond of Streep’s dress and think the cut is not flattering for her, but the night was all about her so she gets a pass.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.