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Rebekah Brooks today revealed she is expecting a baby with her husband through a surrogate mother.
The former News International chief executive told how she and husband Charlie Brooks will become parents next February.
However the former News of the World editor, who has been arrested by detectives investigating phone-hacking, said the baby girl had a twin who died during pregnancy.
Mrs Brooks's spokesman said: "Charlie and Rebekah are overjoyed. While the pregnancy has not been without its difficulties and sadness, they hope for a very happy ending after almost five years of trying for a baby themselves."
The couple have been trying for a child since they became a couple. A source revealed they have been consulting fertility experts for two years.
The pair settled on a surrogate parent earlier this year. Mrs Brooks, 43, married her racehorse trainer husband in June 2009.
Mrs Brooks stepped down as head of the Murdoch UK newspaper division in July after it emerged the News of the World hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler when she was editor in 2002.
She has since been arrested by police from Operation Weeting, the investigation into phone-hacking at the defunct Sunday tabloid, and bailed until March.
Once the most powerful woman in British newspapers, Brooks received a £1.7 million payoff -around two years' pay - when she quit and still has the use of a central London office and chauffeur-driven car.
The unusual perks have led many to conclude she will rejoin the Murdoch media empire. She joined News International at 20 as a secretary on the NoW but quickly secured a job as a feature writer on its Sunday magazine, working her way up to edit both The Sun and its Sunday stablemate.
