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'Idol' winner Fantasia expecting second child

'American Idol' winner Fantasia Barrino has overcome last year's bad patch, and announced to fans at a charity event she was expecting her second child.
/ Source: Us Weekly

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"American Idol's" season-three champ Fantasia Barrino confirmed during a charity event in Jacksonville, Florida over the weekend that she is expecting her second child, JustJared reports.

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"You are the first persons that I share this news with," the singer, 27, told the crowd. "And I share this with you because I can relate to you. And for a while I walked around figuring out what will they say and what will they think about me. But now I tell you I don't live my life for folk."

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It's the second child for Barrino, whose daughter Zion turns 10 next week. The star hasn't yet confirmed the identity of the father of her baby-to-be. Last August, she admitted that she was having an affair with a married man, Antwaun Cook, and overdosed on aspirin in a suicide attempt.

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"I think I was just overloaded with everything, with carrying six years of so much," she admitted of the rocky period.