Alicia Silverstone Welcomes Baby Boy

Broadway veteran Alicia Silverstone has welcomed a son, Bear Blu Jarecki, born May 5th. The actress and her husband, Christopher Jarecki, have been married since June of 2005.

Silverstone said last year, "I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother."

She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless (1995) and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997).

In early 2009, Silverstone starred in the world premiere of Donald Margulies's TIME STAND STILL at the Geffen Playhouse LA. The play focuses on a longtime couple and journalistic team who return to New York from an extended stint in the war-torn Middle East. She reprised her role in TIME STANDS STILL alongside Laura Linney in the play on Broadway, which premiered on January 28, 2010, directed by Daniel Sullivan, who described Silverstone as "a breath of fresh air."

Silverstone next appeared in the teen romance "Homework", which received its premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and as the adoptive mother of a 12-year old African American girl who enters a local butter sculpture competition in a small Iowa town, alongside Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde and Ashley Greene in "Butter".