Jennifer Aniston 'not pregnant'

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston married last July

Celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are not expecting their first child, despite reports to the contrary in a German magazine.

The German edition of Marie Claire magazine features an interview with Pitt, in which he is reported to have said he and Aniston are about to have a baby together.

The couple were married last July in an outdoor ceremony in Malibu, California.

Her publicist Steven Huvane told BBC News Online: "Jennifer is not pregnant."

'Fabricated quote'

In the magazine Pitt is quoted as saying: "Number one is already on the way. Now we're just hoping that everything goes well."

But Mr Huvane said: "It is a fabricated quote. We are trying to get to the bottom of this story."

Last week the couple filed a $50 million lawsuit against the Italian maker of their wedding rings, saying it had breached an agreement never to reproduce them.

The complaint said that Damiani International had obtained "the kind of publicity that money can't buy" by replicating the rings and selling them on the internet and at shops in Nevada and California.

Pitt designed the distinctive rings himself.

Rumours of a pregnancy have circulated for months and recently the Daily Express newspaper reported that script editors on Aniston's sitcom Friends were having to re-write future episodes.