'She's Got His Eyes and Jaw Line and Lips'

Not only that, the baby can channel dead people and spends an inordinate amount of time grooming.

Other than that, she looks nothing like John Edwards.

Disgraced ex-presidential candidate John Edwards secretly rekindled his steamy affair with his campaign videographer after confessing his infidelity to his cancer-stricken wife, according to an explosive new report.

In admitting their affair to ABC on Friday, Edwards said his "short" romantic relationship with Rielle Hunter began only after Hunter was hired in July 2006 to produce videos for his campaign, and ended that year.

He said he then confessed the relationship to his wife, Elizabeth.

But the National Enquirer is reporting today that Edwards restarted the affair after coming clean to Elizabeth, and that Hunter, now 44, got pregnant shortly afterward.

Meanwhile, Hunter's sister said yesterday that the mistress' 6-month-old love child unmistakably "looks like John Edwards. She's got his eyes and jaw line and lips.

"The most shocking thing was watching him on TV [last week] giving these half truths, these half-baked answers. I wish for everyone involved that he'd have come clean," Hunter's sis, Roxanne Druck, told "Entertainment Tonight."

Despite recent denials in an ABC News interview, Edwards knows he's the father of Hunter's daughter, Frances Quinn, the Enquirer is reporting.

Sources have also told the weekly paper Edwards and Hunter orchestrated her public rebuffing of his offer of a paternity test.

"She's still protecting John because she loves him and thinks they may eventually have a future together," an Enquirer source said.

Baby composite via Lundesigns.

Edwards Brought Girlfriend on Presidential Announcement Tour

Bob Herbert sees phallic symbols

You'd think this moron would have at least attempted to get his story straight before going on national television and lying through his teeth.

Then again, he built a career doing that in court.

Photographs distributed by wire services and posted online by technology blogger Robert Scoble show that former North Carolina senator John Edwards took his mistress Rielle Hunter with him on the plane during his late 2006 presidential campaign announcement tour. As can be seen in this Dec. 28, 2006 photo (that's Hunter in the jeans and jester hat, as can be seen more clearly in this side-profile photo), Hunter stood off to the side of the national press corps filming Edwards as the former Democratic vice presidential nominee announced his second bid for the presidency in New Orleans.

Here she is drinking from a cup as Edwards is interviewed by the press. More photos of her at Edwards's presidential campaign kickoff can be found here and here, where she's shown laughing with Edwards's young staffers.

Writes Scoble on his Flickr site under a photo of Hunter he uploaded Dec. 30, 2006, "I was hanging out with John Edwards and crew as he announced he was running for President of the United States. This photo was taken in New Orleans as Edwards gave press interviews on the lawn of a house that was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina."

Scoble blogged Friday about the four-day presidential announcement trip, after Edwards admitted the romance with Hunter. Wrote Scoble, "I had no idea that when former Senator John Edwards invited me to come along on his plane back in December of 2006 that I would have had a front-row seat to a sex scandal."

"I never saw them behave inappropriately in front of me," he added. Scoble was traveling with the campaign as part of a blogger contingent invited to ensure the event received online attention.

Edwards said in a statement that his romance with Hunter ended in 2006. "With my family, I took responsibility for my actions in 2006 and today I take full responsibility publicly. But that misconduct took place for a short period in 2006. It ended then," he said.

Meanwhile, Hunter's previous incarnation as Lisa Druck is gaining more attention.

Hunter has had other famous boyfriends, including author Jay McInerney, who has said he based the promiscuous character in his 1988 novel, "Story of My Life," on Hunter. Boosted by the scandal, the novel is out of stock after shooting up to No. 470 on Amazon.com's best-seller list - prompting its publisher to print another 2,500 copies.

Also getting renewed attention is a November 1992 Sports Illustrated article about a series of killings of thoroughbred horses. The brutal murders were committed for insurance purposes by a hit man who learned his trade from Hunter's late father, James Druck.

Druck, a Florida lawyer, in 1982 taught Tommy "The Sandman" Burns how to rig wires to electrocute Druck's prize show jumper, Henry the Hawk, for a $150,000 insurance payout, the magazine reported.

Doug Ross has more.

'She Used To Be a Real Party Girl'

That's back in the 1980s. But now she's a real Silky Girl.

The inexorable march toward full media exposure continues, as the New York Post dares to note some background on the mother of John Edwards' love child.

RIELLE Hunter - the woman reported by the National Enquirer to be John Edwards' mistress and mother of his love child - is no stranger to fans of Jay McInerney. The novelist dated the blonde for a few months in the late 1980s and based his book "Story of My Life" on her.

Hunter was known as Lisa Druck when McInerney met her at Nell's in 1987. "She's a nice girl," the author told Page Six. "She used to be a real party girl.

"When she wasn't out at nightclubs, she was taking acting classes. We dated for only a few months, but in that period, I spent a lot of time with her and her friends, whose behavior intrigued and appalled me to such an extent that I ended up basing a novel on the experience," McInerney recalled.

"It was narrated in the first person from the point of view of an ostensibly jaded, sexually voracious 20-year-old who was inspired by Lisa. I certainly thought of Alison Poole as a sympathetic and ultimately endearing character."

McInerney said he lost track of Hunter after she moved to California. He was unaware she had moved back to Manhattan and was making videos for the Edwards presidential campaign last year, before the supermarket tabloid reported she was the former North Carolina senator's mistress.

Edwards and Hunter flatly denied the Enquirer's report. "It is completely untrue, ridiculous," Edwards said. "I've been in love with the same woman for 30-plus years." His wife, Elizabeth, is battling cancer.

One of Edwards' staffers, Andrew Young, a married father of three, claimed he was the child's dad. But no father at all is listed on the birth certificate for Frances Quinn Hunter, who was born Feb. 27.