Mel Gibson wife-to be: "Mel is fantastic with kids"

Feature by Cover Showbiz | 05 Nov 2009

Oksana Grigorieva can't wait to marry Mel Gibson. The professional musician gave birth to the couple's first child together, Lucia, on October 30, and she is now looking forward to tying the knot with the Hollywood star. She told Glamour magazine: "I would like to get married. Right now we are just so happy together. It is great because Mel is fantastic with kids. He had seven of his own children already, so he understands the dynamic of parenthood very well. He is a big kid himself, really - a practical joker. We laugh so much." Oksana - a songwriter-and-pianist, who is signed to Mel's Icon Records label - adds the couple were thrilled to discover she was pregnant. "I think it is a wonderful blessing and so does Mel - a real miracle of life." The 39-year-old beauty, who was born in the Ukraine, says Mel warned their relationship would attract a lot of public attention when they first began dating. Mel, 53, is a strict Catholic and his wife of 28 years, Robyn, filed for divorce earlier this year. Oksana said: "He did warn me, but you can never be prepared for it. I don't even know what can be so interesting about me - all I have done in my life is play piano for 10 hours a day. "Of course it was very upsetting, but I also understand that it comes with the territory because Mel is so famous."