With Bolly’s most-talked-about ‘celebrity baby’ finally here — t2 turns the spotlight on holly kids who were thrust into the limelight even before they were born

Babyonce

Popstar Beyonce’s August announcement — that she was expecting her first child, already nicknamed Babyonce by the tabloids, with husband Jay-Z — at the MTV Music Awards broke the record for “most tweets per second recorded for a single event”. The social networking site was bombarded with 8,868 tweets per second! The Dangerously In Love hitmaker’s announcement at the awards ceremony helped it become the most-watched broadcast in MTV history, pulling in 12.4 million viewers. Also, data from Google has shown that the most-searched-for term from August 29 to September 4, 2011, was ‘Beyonce pregnant’. If that wasn’t enough, the pregnancy has resulted in an increase in sales of Beyonce’s music albums!

Suri Cruise

Holly heart-throb Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes sold the first pictures of baby Suri to Vanity Fair. The issue became the publication’s second-best selling issue of all time, with more than 700,000 copies. Suri, now five, is one of the world’s most photographed kids and has a series of fashion blogs dedicated to her sartorial choices.

Shiloh, Knox & Vivienne Jolie-Pitt

They have a brood of six, but the birth of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s three biological children — five-year-old Shiloh and three-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox — sent the world into a tizzy. People magazine paid $4.1 million for the North American rights of Shiloh’s first pictures, while Hello! obtained the British rights for $3.5 million. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of

Two-month-old Shiloh, marking the first time an infant was recreated in wax by the museum. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for a reported $14 million. The most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken!

Harper Seven Beckham

Her name triggered a Twitter frenzy. Now four months old, David and Victoria Beckham’s only daughter is already being hailed as a future fashion diva. The trendy tot — who mom Victoria carries around as a fashion accessory — has a wardrobe full of designer brands. There are blogs devoted to her style too. Watch out, Suri!

Max & Emme Anthony

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s three-year-old twins have been celebrities from the hospital crib. Hounded by the paparazzi and lauded by the swish set for their keen fashion sense, Max and Emme are also the faces for the kids clothing line from Gucci.