Island Girl.

Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan
May 13
Approx. 6 lbs.

No need to ask: Helen Hunt is mad about her little girl, Makena Lei Gordon Carnahan, born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. on May 13. Arriving nearly four weeks early, Hunt's first child--named after a town in Hawaii where Hunt liked to vacation and her father, TV director Gordon Hunt--is healthy, if a bit travel weary. Hunt spent the first part of May in Hawaii with her TV producer-writer beau of three years, Matthew Carnahan, 43, and flew back to L.A. to avoid air travel in her last month, as doctors recommend. Soon after, she delivered her not-quite-6-lb. daughter and is, says a source, "doing great."

As she has been throughout her pregnancy. The star of TV's Mad About You was three months pregnant when she began shooting A Good Woman in Italy last year. She was so much her slim, energetic self that "no one knew," says producer Alan Greenspan. Hunt stayed fit with yoga and gained just 25 lbs. Already, says one witness, "she's got her body back." And her hands full. Luckily, Carnahan is, says Woman producer Steven Siebert, "warm and easygoing." Just the guy for midnight diaper duty.

PHOTO (COLOR): "To have her first child at 40 is a wonderful thing," says A Good Woman producer Steven Siebert of Hunt.

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Contributors Greg Adkins; Marisa Wong; Jennifer Wren; Vickie Bane; Alexis Chiu; Tom Cunneff; Mark Dagostino; Sean Daly; Colleen DeBaise; Alicia Dennis; Kathy Ehrich,; Todd Gold; Matthew Graham; Makeba Scott Hunter; Zorianna Kit; Kwala Mandel; Gail Nussbaum; Karen Schneider; Frank Swertlow and Michelle York