Last week, Cynthia Nixon and her partner, Christine “Rojo Caliente” Marinoni announced that Christine had been pregnant all this time and had just given birth to a son. They really kept the whole thing under wraps, but now that little Max Ellington is here, Cynthia and Rojo have no problem sharing their joy. They released this wonderful photo that is so full of ginger, it should be against the law. Max is going to look like Prince Harry, you know it.

Baby in the city. Cynthia Nixon, 44, and fiancee Christine Marinoni released the first picture of their son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni, yesterday.

Marinoni, 43, gave birth to the babe last Monday, and the couple, who began dating in 2004 and announced their engagement in 2009, have not made public any details of the baby’s biological father.

Nixon has two children — Samantha, 15, and Charles, 8 — from her previous relationship with Danny Mozes.

“Maybe I’m just lucky, but I feel like Christine is so amazing with our kids — because they’re our kids,” the Sex and the City star told The Advocate last year. “I feel like falling in love with her is part of being amazed at how she makes our family so much better.”

[From Us Weekly]

Congratulations to the happy family! I kind of like the way Cynthia and Rojo did it – keeping the pregnancy quiet, but being open about the baby when he came. It’s nice.

Additional pics by WENN.

At this point, Michael K’s name for Christina Marinoni is so ubiquitous, I can only think of her as Rojo Caliente. Anyway, Cynthia Nixon and her partner, Rojo, have welcomed a son into their family. Apparently, Rojo got pregnant and she gave birth yesterday. Did anyone know that she was pregnant? I had no idea. They really kept that under wraps. Cynthia and Rojo named the boy Max Ellington… a nice little hipster name.

It’s a boy for Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni!

Marinoni gave birth to the couple’s son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni, on Monday, Feb. 7, Nixon’s rep confirms.

“Christine and baby are doing great,” her rep tells PEOPLE.

Nixon, 44, and Marinoni, 43, began dating in 2004 and announced their engagement in 2009. The Sex and the City star has two children, Samantha, 14, and Charles, 8, from her previous relationship with photographer Danny Mozes.

[From People]

Congratulations to Cynthia and Rojo! Miranda was always my favorite – the most realistic of all of the Sex and the City characters. And Cynthia played her perfectly – although I think leaving her male partner and hooking up with Rojo (who was Cynthia’s jumpoff, if you remember) probably meant that Cynthia’s public image took a hit. I remember the promotional rounds for the two Sex and the City movies – Cynthia barely spoke, barely gave any interviews. It’s like if “mainstream America” realized that Cynthia was romantic with Rojo – to the point where they’re raising three kids together now – would kill the romance of SATC. Dumb! Cynthia is a really cool chick, and I’m betting that Rojo is pretty awesome too.

UPDATE: CB wanted me to point out that it’s not that Cynthia was “hiding” her relationship with Rojo – she wasn’t, and she did give a few interviews, including a major one to The Advocate, during the SATC 2 promotional rounds. My take was just that it seemed like Cynthia was kind of pushed aside and passed over in favor of the heterosexual SATC ladies, at least as far as media went.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Cynthia Nixon was always my favorite on Sex and the City. I identified with Miranda – mostly because she always seemed like the most realistic, grounded character, and because our caustic, stubborn personalities were similar. During the television series, Nixon left her long-time male partner and began dating and living with Christine Marinoni. That was six years ago, and now Nixon is The Advocate’s newest cover girl, and she talks about her relationship with Christine more candidly than I’ve ever heard. The full Advocate piece is here, and here are some highlights:

For years, people on the street have been calling her “Miranda,” the cynical, type A lawyer Cynthia Nixon made famous on HBO’s Sex and the City. Six years later, now that she’s come out as gay, survived breast cancer, and stepped up as a marriage equality activist, her fans now recognize her for her.

In her new interview with The Advocate (www.advocate.com), Nixon talks about her slow coming-out after she began dating her now-fiancée, Christine Marinoni. After the couple had spent many months together, the press started speculating about their relationship. Nixon hired a publicist who warned her to stay out of the headlines. Uncomfortable with that route, Nixon soon turned to Kelly Bush, an openly gay publicist. Bush suggested Nixon confirm the rumors, and that is just what she did.

“I was like, ‘Really, we can just confirm?’” Nixon tells The Advocate. “So that’s just what we did. It was so fantastic.”

Freshly out, and with two children from her relationship with Danny Mozes, Nixon integrated Marinoni into her life and her family.

“She’s like a short man with boobs,” Nixon says of Marinoni. “A lot of what I love about her is her butchness. I’m not saying I fell in love with her in a sexually neutral way. I love her sexuality — it’s a big part of what I love about her — but I feel like it was her.”

Nixon’s children also quickly adapted to the new relationship, not that her son’s processing started at school. “His teachers were just so great about it,” Nixon notes, “because they were the first people that started referring to ‘Charlie’s moms,’ which is so lovely, and we really hadn’t done that yet. So Charlie came home one day and he said [to Marinoni], ‘You’re my mommy too!’”

With a healthy family life and having overcome breast cancer, in 2008 Nixon opened up about her battle and her first big-screen nude scene. Showing her breasts, in a big way, was not a political response to the cancer battle.

“They didn’t know about it at the time. Generally, my thoughts are, if they ask me to do [a nude scene], I’ll do one,” Nixon proclaims. “I mean, I won’t do anything, but I feel like if Michael Patrick [King] wants me to do it, there’s a reason he wants me to do it.”

[From The Advocate]

Bless her heart. And I mean that in the honest, go-ahead-girl way, not in the condescending way. Even though I think Sarah Jessica Parker was always more than cool with Cynthia coming out, I always got the impression that other people involved with Sex and the City really just wanted to shove Cynthia in the corner and hope that mainstream America wouldn’t realize that Cynthia was suddenly out of the closet. It’s interesting that Cynthia was allowed – by SATC producers and publicists – to do this Advocate cover interview. I wonder if she’s going to be hidden away for this publicity tour?

Regarding the whole “She’s like a short man with boobs. A lot of what I love about her is her butchness.” I breathlessly await Michael K’s take.

Photos courtesy of The Advocate.

It’s true love between Cynthia Nixon and her partner Christine Marinoni. Cynthia confirmed that the two are planning to get married, most likely if and when New York passes its gay marriage bill. Cynthia confirmed the news during a gay rights rally in New York, where she and Christine were supporting Gov. Patterson’s proposed gay marriage bill, which most politicos believe will pass through the New York legislature within the next few months.

Cynthia and Christine have been together since either late 2003 or early 2004, right after Cynthia rather unceremoniously dumped her longtime partner Danny Mozes, father of her two children Samantha and Charles. Regarding her sexuality, Cynthia only said that she happened to fall in love with a woman, and didn’t see as any big deal.

Looks like wedding bells will be ringing for one of the ladies of Sex and the City: E! News reports that Cynthia Nixon announced her engagement to girlfriend Christine Marinoni this weekend in NYC.

Her rep confirms the engagement, which Cynthia revealed to audiences during the Love, Peace and Marriage Equality rally. Cynthia and Christine are currently involved in supporting the new gay-rights bill proposed by NY Gov. David Paterson to achieve equality for same-sex unions.

The couple have been together since 2003, shortly after Cynthia split with longtime companion Danny Mozes.

Congratulations!

[From OK! Magazine]

I’ve always been a huge fan of Cynthia Nixon – I considered her the best actress on Sex and the City, and her career outside of that hit show has been varied and challenging, showing her range as an actress playing everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt in a television movie to her Tony Award-winning role in Rabbit Hole. She is an ambassador for breast cancer awareness (through the Susan G. Komen Foundation), a public school advocate, as well as an environmental and gay rights activist. If they’re in love, then more power to them, I think they would make a lovely married couple. Congratulations!

Cynthia Nixon’s romance with her girlfriend of four years caught a lot of people by surprise. And it’s no wonder – Nixon had been with her boyfriend for fifteen years, had two kids with him, and had never before been with a woman. But when you fall in love, you fall in love. Nixon says that while she never had any desire to marry her boyfriend, she’d marry girlfriend Christine Marinoni if she could do so legally.

“If it becomes legal, I think we would,” Cynthia tells The Mirror. “It’s something my girlfriend is interested in and it was not something my boyfriend ever was. I think that to get married to her would be a little act of rebellion. It’s like if you’ve never had the vote and then you get it you’re going to run out there and vote.”

Always “very wary” of marriage, the 42-year-old admits she consciously avoided exchanging vows with Danny Mozes, her boyfriend of 15 years and father of her children, Samantha, 11, and Charles, 5, because “I felt like it was potentially a trap. People sometimes want the party, the gifts and the public celebration of this big love – they’re excited about that rather than about the lifetime commitment,” Cynthia says. “So I always steered clear of it.”

She continues, “I had been with men all my life and I had never met a woman I had fallen in love with before. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange. “I don’t define myself. I’m just a woman in love with another woman.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Cynthia also said she never felt the need to come out of the closet, because she never felt that she was in a closet. The way she says it is a little unclear in terms of her orientation, but the way she speaks openly about love is really beautiful. She notes, “I met this woman and I fell in love with her. In terms of my sexual orientation, I don’t really feel that I changed. I don’t feel any different than I did before.”

It is interesting that she says she’d probably want to marry, but phrases it, “It’s something my girlfriend is interested in…” instead of saying it’s something both she and Christine are interested in. The phrasing makes it sound more like it’s something her girlfriend wants to do, and Nixon’s okay with going along with it. But obviously if she’s talking so publicly about it, one would assume she’s pretty into the idea. That could make for a pretty interesting reality “Sex & the City” show.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Cynthia Nixon, Christine Marinoni, and Cynthia’s children Charles and Samantha are shown at a fundraiser at Central Park Zoo on 6/12/06. Cynthia Nixon is shown at the London Sex and The City premiere yesterday, thanks to WENN.