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Supermodel Niki Taylor and her husband, NASCAR driver Burney Lamar, welcomed their new daughter into the world – the day before Niki’s birthday.

What a present! Born on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in Nashville (near the couple’s home in Brentwood, Tenn.), Ciel Taylor Lamar weighed in at 7 lbs., 8 oz.

“Everyone is doing amazing,” says Lou Taylor, Niki’s long-time manager, who is no relation to the supermodel. Taylor, 33, is already mom to 14-year-old twins Hunter and Jake.

She shared her struggle to get pregnant again in an interview with PEOPLE earlier this year. “I am so happy and ready,” Taylor said after successfully conceiving again. “I am in such a wonderful place in my life that I can really enjoy it all.”

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Springtime will bring a whole new blossom into the home of supermodel Niki Taylor and her NASCAR husband Burney Lamar: They’re expecting their first child together, Taylor’s rep announced to PEOPLE Thursday.

“Burney and I are very excited with this stage of our lives,” says Taylor, who is due in March. “We’re thrilled.”

Taylor, 33, met her husband while the duo was paired together to sign autographs at a charity event, and were married in December 2006. In lieu of wedding gifts, the couple asked that donations be sent to Victory Junction Gang Camp, a camp for chronically ill children where they continue to work raising money and awareness.

Taylor, who most recently hosted the Bravo series Make Me a Supermodel, is already mom to 13-year-old twin boys Jake and Hunter.

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Watch this Thursday at 10PM – Bravo’s newest series “Make Me A Supermodel” with Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor. This week all the models get make-over’s and hair-cuts. This in itself can be traumatizing for the long haired contestants. Also, see who America voted off in the first round.

Check out a clip of this Thursday’s episode:

Niki Taylor

Niki Taylor filed a federal slander lawsuit against E! Entertainment for alleged intentional infliction of emotional distress with its profile of the model in the new series “Blvd. of Broken Dreams.” The U.S. District Court suit, filed Friday, also alleged fraud, breach of contract and invasion of privacy claiming E! Entertainment representatives falsely claimed the show would focus on Taylor’s current life.

The cable network allegedly told Taylor and manager Lou Taylor, no relation, the show would feature current professional endeavors, including her signature fragrance, clothing line, upcoming cosmetics line and charitable foundation, the suit said.

Instead, the suit said, defendants E! Entertainment Television Inc., E! Networks Productions Inc. and a producer focused on Taylor’s past hardships and characterized her as a celebrity “who risked everything … and lost.”

The E! synopsis of the show on its Web site describes “Blvd. of Broken Dreams” as, “In a place between heaven and Hollywood, dreams turn tragic and fame goes sour fast.”

“My life is far from a ‘boulevard of broken dreams,’” Taylor said in a statement.

Last week’s premiere episode of “Blvd. of Broken Dreams” was repeatedly shown on the cable network despite demands from Taylor’s lawyers that it be pulled from the lineup, Taylor attorney Caroline H. Mankey said.

“They neglected their journalistic obligations to report truthfully and accurately; they violated express promises they made to the plaintiff, supermodel Niki Taylor; and they demonstrated a reprehensible disregard for the substantial harm their actions would cause to Ms. Taylor,” the complaint said.

Telephone voicemail and e-mail messages to E! Entertainment spokeswoman Sarah Goldstein weren’t immediately returned.

Taylor and race car driver Burney Lamar married on Dec. 27 at the Grande Colonial Hotel in the La Jolla area of San Diego. Taylor, 31, and Lamar, 26, met at a charity event in January 2006, her publicist Lesley Burbridge-Bates said. They live in Nashville.

It was the first marriage for Lamar and the second for Taylor, who has 11-year-old twin boys, Jake and Hunter Martinez, from her previous marriage to former football player Matt Martinez.

The Newleyweds Burney Lamar and Niki Taylor

Kyle Petty and wife Pattie

Supermodel Niki Taylor married Nascar driver Burney Lamar in an intimate ceremony in San Diego, California on Wednesday.

The former CoverGirl spokesmodel, 31, walked down the aisle in a Vera Wang dress at the Grande Colonial Hotel in the La Jolla area of the city.

Taylor wed Lamar, 26, after a whirlwind one year romance. The pair became engaged in September.

It’s the second marriage for Taylor, who divorced NFL player Matt Martinez in 1996 after a two-year marriage. The couple have twin son Jake and Hunter, 11, together.