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Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher are expecting a baby girl

The comedian has revealed his girlfriend Paige Butcher is expecting a baby girl.
Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher

With his ninth child on the way, Eddie Murphy couldn’t be happier to welcome his sixth daughter!

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The 54-year-old comedian stepped out with his girlfriend for a coffee run in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, where he revealed the big news exclusively to x17online.com.

“It’s a little girl,” he explained to x17online.com when asked about the gender of his unborn child.

The 36-year-old Aussie meet Eddie over a decade ago on the set of Big Momma’s House 2.

While this is Paige’s first child, it will no doubt have a huge support in its eight half-siblings from Eddie’s side, with his children, aged between eight to 26, from four previous relationships.

Watch Eddie tell x17online.com his big baby news in the player above!

It looks like Paige is ready to pop!

The actor, also has a child with former Spice Girl Mel B, is worth an estimated $85 million, but admits he doesn’t like the Hollywood lifestyle.

Eddie chatted to The Washington Post, revealing why many people think he is “reclusive”.

“You know why they think I’m reclusive?’ I don’t do the Hollywood stuff. I’ve never been on the circuit.”

Before explaining he is happiest when he is “hanging out at home with Paige and when his other kids visit, write and work on new songs in his recording studio”.

The Hollywood star, who will now have nine children, has five kids with his former wife of 12 years, Nicole Mitchell.

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