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Hayden Panettiere showed off her burgeoning baby bump on the beach in Miami on Friday, and needless to say, the 24-year-old star looks amazing.

The Nashville star, who’s expecting her first child with world boxing titan fiance Wladimir Klitschko (pictured), stunned in a blue-and-white striped bikini.

The two-piece was accented with a tiny gold whale fin charm (Hayden is a spokeswoman for the Whaleman Foundation, a group which protects whales and dolphins).

Panettiere is expecting a boy – at least we think so, based on her previous baby bump pic – but boy or girl, she tells Glamour she can’t wait for him/her.

“I feel like I was born to be a mother,” she said.

To Hayden, there’s no downside: “Sometimes people speak about [having kids] like, ‘Your life ends … you’re never going to be able to do anything!”

“And I’m like, What are you talking about?'”

The actress, who put her wedding plans on hold because of unrest in Klitschko’s native Ukraine, says motherhood “is the most beautiful, exciting thing.”

 

As for whether the pregnancy will be incorporated into her ABC show … we can’t wait to watch Nashville online this fall and see if they try to weave that in.