Pregnant man bares his baby bump on TV for

Oprah ultrasound scan

Last updated at 10:59am on 3rd April 2008

Pregnant man Thomas Beatie has revealed his unborn child to the world after having a scan on the Oprah Winfrey show.

The 34-year-old transsexual set out prove to all who doubted his claim that he really is six months pregnant with a baby girl.

Born Tracy Lagondino, Beatie was filmed looking proudly at his scan and the blurry image of the baby he is going to have with wife Nancy Roberts.

Proud father-to-be: Pregnant man Thomas Beatie smiles as he watches his baby scan

Beatie, who was born in Hawaii, stopped taking testosterone to conceive the child through artificial insemination.

He told Oprah, and US magazine People, that he had been having cravings for soybeans and artichokes.

"I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child," he added in the episode which will be shown today.

"Who hires a surrogate if they are capable of carrying their own child?"

But the father-to-be confessed that not everyone was supportive and even some of his family members have called the baby a "monster".

"We don't need everyone to love us, but just because we're not like everyone else doesn't make you a freak," he said.

Beatie gave an exclusive interview to Oprah where he spoke about his pregnancy

Transsexual Beatie stopped taking testosterone to fall pregnant by artificial insemination

And Thomas added that there was no question about who his daughter would be calling 'Dad'.

"I'll be the father and Nancy will be the mother. Having this baby doesn't make me any less of a man," he told the magazine.

The show goes behind the scenes of the couple's family life and sees pregnant Beatie showing off his muscles one minute and going for an ultrasound scan the next.

A doctor measures his growing baby bump, while he looks up at the screen at an image of his unborn child.

Beatie is now six months pregnant with a baby girl

The couple, who live in Oregon, are also shown looking through baby clothes and toys - including a pink bib which reads "Daddy's little girl".

The couple said they initially tried to keep their unusual pregnancy quiet, because they were worried about negative reactions.

But they said they had every intention of telling their daughter how she was brought into the world.

Thomas said the only downsides of his pregnancy were constantly feeling "bloated" and struggling to find clothes to fit.

"Unfortunately there's no such thing as 'manternity' clothes," he joked.

Beatie lived most of his young life as a woman and even competed in a Miss Hawaii Teen USA beauty pageant.

However, he eventually legally became a man after undergoing a sex change operation - but he kept his female reproductive organs.

Beatie and his wife Nancy Roberts pose in bikinis for a magazine

He says he decided to have a baby after his wife fell ill and was forced to have a hysterectomy.

"If Nancy could get pregnant I wouldn't be doing this," he told People magazine.

To begin their headline-making journey, Thomas stopped taking his hormone injections and used a sperm donor to get pregnant, with a home insemination kit.

The baby is due in July