Beyoncé announces pregnancy at MTV's VMAs

This year's MTV's Video Music Awards turned out to be one massive birth announcement for the first child of Beyoncé and Jay-Z.

"I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me," Beyoncé said, before launching into her song "Love on Top" and giving her belly a proud mama-to-be rub onstage.

The singer, who won for best choreography in a video, confirmed on her way into the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles Sunday night that she was pregnant, MTV said. It was an entrance that topped Lady Gaga's gender-bending opening -- Gaga appeared in male drag, with a expletive-filled, chain-smoking monologue channeling Andrew Dice Clay -- to an audience of seemingly stunned superstars, including Britney Spears and Katie Holmes, before she kicked into her current single "You and I" with Queen's Brian May.

Katy Perry, who led all artists with 10 nominations landed three wins, including video of the year for "Firework" and best collaboration video for "E.T." with Kanye West. Adele also took home three awards - best art direction, editing and cinematography for "Rolling in the Deep."

Gaga ended up winning best female video and "Best Video with a Message" for "Born This Way." Spears also took home two awards - best pop video for "Til the World Ends," which she said was a complete surprise, and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for her career, which had been planned.

The evening also paid tribute to the late Amy Winehouse, whom comedian Russell Brand called her "a genius." Tony Bennett, who unveiled footage of his duet with Winehouse on the classic "Body and Soul," said: "She was a true jazz artist in the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. She had the gift."