Short Takes : Cher: Maybe Baby, But No Hubby

Cher says she would like to have another baby but would not necessarily marry a third time.

“I was with one man for 11 years, and it wasn’t that much fun,” the 44-year-old actress and singer said of her marriage to Sonny Bono. “I can’t see staying in there to say, ‘I’m a martyr; what a good job I did.’

“If I’d stayed with Sonny, I wouldn’t have Elijah, wouldn’t be an actress, wouldn’t be a woman. God, I’d be dead,” she said in the Jan. 21 issue of People magazine.

Cher has two children: Chastity, 21, with Bono, and Elijah, 14, with musician Greg Allman, to whom she was married from 1975 to 1977.

She most recently played a flighty divorcee in the movie “Mermaids” and has written a book, “Forever Fit,” which will be published this month.