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People Magazine ( October 28, 2002
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Esta es la foto de Brian y Leighanne que apareción en
una reciente edición de la revista people junto al artículo:
Backstreet Pop!
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Backstreet
Pop!
When you're a pop idol, a simple errand can
turn into a Survivor episode. Last April, Backstreet Boy Brian
Littrell and his wife, Leighanne, stopped by a drug store near
their Atlanta home to buy a $16 pregnancy kit, and the last
thing they wanted was to give the tabloids gossip fodder. "Brian
ducked behind a shelf, and I got in line", says Leighanne, who
panicked when she saw that the object of their quest was under
lock and key. "I babbled to the pharmacist about my sister needing
a pregnancy test", she says. "Then I bought two value packs
to be sure--neither of us wanted to go back."
They won't have to. By September the rest of the world had
learned what the couple had known since their furtive purchase:
A Backstreet Boy is on the way, and fittingly, it's a boy.
The news is yet another sign that the Boys--who sold more
than 65 million records in the 90's--are all grown up. "Some
people think of us as the kids we were back when we started",
says Littrell, 27, of the dreamboat spell he helped cast with
Kevin Richardson, 31, Nick Carter, 22, A.J. McLean, 24, and
Howie Dorough, 29. "We're men now: Kevin's married, A.J.'s
engaged, I'm going to be a daddy--and that's how it should
be."
It hasn't all gone quite as planned. "The first time, when
we thought we were pregnant but turned out not to be, we were
surprised at how disappointed we felt," says Littrell. "So
the second time we were both extremely nervous. I remember
we both walked hand-in-hand into the bathroom to read the
test. We saw that straight line that means you're pregnant
and we didn't know whether to be happy or sad. We werein a
state of shock."
The shock quickly gave way to elation. But when Littrell's
son arrives sometime during the holiday season, it's unclear
whether all the other Backstreeters will be there to pass
around cigars. "There haven't been a lot of calls congratulating
us", says Leighanne, 33. Richardson demures. In teh summer,
'when Brian told us about the new baby at a recording session
we were all very happy for him", he says. Though the other
Boys declined to be interviewed, "we are still together",
says Richardson, "but we also have to give each other space."
Littrell agrees: "We don't see a lot of each other except
when we're working. We all have our own lives now."
Littrell's wife Leighanne Wallace began after he met the actress
on the set of the Boys' 1997 video "As Long As You Love Me."
They soon started dating, and a year later Leighanne was at
Brian's bedside when he had surgery to repair a congenital
heart defect. "Since then", she says, "I never had a doubt
we'd be together." But his bandmates did, she says, after
the couple wed in September of 2000: "Some of them had bets
we wouldn't last a year."
These days some may wonder how much longer Backstreet itself
will last. In recent years the boy band has suffered from
public growing pains. McLean entered rehab for alcohol abouse
and depression last summer. Then, in March, all but Carter
elected to leave The Firm, the band's L.A. based managers.
Jane Carter, Nick's mother, says his independence rankled
the others. "They've pressured Nick to quit the band", she
says. Not so, says Littrell, who contends that they all support
Nick's solo effort--Now or Never, due out this month--and
that Backstreet's youngest member has already rejoined the
others in working on a new album.
Would Littrell ever consider going down his own road? "A solo
album? I supopse I still have that as a goal someday', he
says. A Baptist, he may pursue a Christian-music career. "Brian
sings a lot of gospel music", says Leighanne.
But with a baby on the way, "our priorities have changed",
says her spouse, spreading a blanket for the two of them on
a friend's grassy lawn in L.A. "I've put on a good 20 lbs.
sincve we got pregnant", he says, shaking his head at his
burgeoning girth. "Ive definitely had the pregnant brain,
forgetting everything like crazy."
And putting other things--like music--on hold. Right now,
"I'm just going to be writing lullabies for my little boy",
he says. Not to worry, fans. "He'll always be a Backstreet
Boy", says Leighanne. "Even if he's somebody's daddy too."
--J.D. Heyman --Pamela Warrick & Teena Hammond in Los Angels
and Gary McKechnie in Orlando
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