J.R. Martinez, girlfriend expecting first child

J.R. Martinez is gonna be a dad! The Iraq war vet — who recently won Dancing With the Stars — has announced that his girlfriend, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, is pregnant with the couple’s first child.

“We found out just last week it’s a girl and we are over the moon,” Martinez, 28, says. “Diana has a little baby bump now and it’s the cutest thing ever. With the holidays coming up, this is the biggest and best gift we could get.

“2011 has been full of a lot of surprises and opportunities and ultimately, a lot of blessings.

“Diana and I were just asking ourselves, ‘How is 2012 going to top 2011?’  Well, we have our answer!”

The couple got together when Martinez landed a role on All My Children in 2008. At the time, she was working as an assistant to the soap’s executive producer. The two became close friends, but it wasn’t until last year that the pair decided to take their friendship to the next level.

“We were so good as friends that romantically, we just clicked right away.  There was no adjustment period,” Gonzalez-Jones said earler thus year.