NEW YORK:

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is pregnant. She is due to give birth in the spring and doctors think she could be expecting twins, close friends say.

Hollywood.com quoted a friend as saying, “The way the foetus is lying made it difficult for the doctor to tell if there was more than one baby in there.”

Lopez and hubby Marc Anthony received the good news after visiting her Beverly Hills gynaecologist Robert Katz. Lopez had an ultrasound performed in a New York office on September 12.

One insider said, “The test calculated that she was about 12 weeks pregnant.”

The couple has been trying to get pregnant for the past two years, and turned to in-vitro fertilisation. It is not known whether the baby news will interfere with the couple’s upcoming tour da-tes, which begin in November. This will be the couple’s first child together. Anthony has three children from previous relationships.