Star of Titanic gives birth to baby girl

The baby is the first child for 25-year-old Winslet and her husband, Jim Threapleton. The couple met in 1997 on the set of the British film "Hideous Kinky," in which Winslet starred and on which Threapleton, 26, was an assistant director. They married in November 1998. Mother and baby were due to leave hospital Monday, Garlock said.

He said the choice of the name Mia _ the Italian word for "mine" _ was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

"Kate and Jim had drawn up a list of 10 names, but when the baby was born none of them seemed right," Garlock said. "Then Mia came to them, and it seemed just right."

Winslet, who spent the summer working on "Enigma," a British film about code-breakers during World War II, reportedly is planning to take a seven-month career break.

(klei/AP)