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US rapper Kanye West (left) and Kim Kardashian (right) arriving at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala benefit in New York. Image Credit: AFP

Los Angeles: Reality television star Kim Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday, her first child with rapper boyfriend Kanye West, news reports said.

Kardashian, 32, was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills five weeks ahead of her due date and delivered a baby girl, the entertainment news website TMZ.com reported.

Representatives for Kardashian and West could not immediately be reached for comment.

The website said West was present at the birth and had cancelled an event to promote his new album late Friday after Kardashian had complained of feeling a “little off.”

US Magazine quoted a hospital source as saying the Kardashian and her daughter were “doing great and amazing!”.

“Kim had her baby,” the source was quoted as saying. “She’s five weeks early. Kim got sick last night and had the baby early.”

Kardashian announced her pregnancy on New Year’s Eve last year following her whirlwind romance with West.

“Looking forward to great new beginnings in 2013 and to starting a family. Happy New Year!!! Xo,” Kardashian wrote in a blog.

Kardashian shot to notoriety in 2007 after the emergence of a home sex video featuring her and her then boyfriend, the singer Ray J, filmed several years earlier.

She later became the star of the reality series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”, which centred around the lives of her and her Los Angeles-based family. She has a clothing line and several product endorsements and was the most-searched person on the Yahoo! in 2012.

Two months ago Kardashian and her second husband, Kris Humphries of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, announced they had reached a divorce settlement. They had split 72 days after their August 2011 wedding.

Humphries had first sought an annulment, alleging that Kardashian, who cited irreconcilable difference when filing for divorce, had no intention of keeping to the marriage, which was filmed as part of her reality show.