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Wait, when was Lily Collins pregnant?
Emily In Paris star Lily Collins and director Charlie McDowell are a profitable leisure trade couple.
Now, this pair of married nepo infants has welcomed a child of their very own.
Congratulations!
Director Charlie McDowell and Lily Collins attend the “The Summer Book” Particular Presentation in the course of the 68th BFI London Movie Pageant at The Curzon Mayfair on October 12, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Joe Maher/Getty Photos for BFI)
Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell are dad and mom!
“Welcome to the center of our world Tove Jane McDowell,” 35-year-old Collins wrote in a caption, as you possibly can see beneath.
“Words will never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate and everyone who helped us along the way,” she affirmed. Collins then expressed: “We love you to the moon and back again …”
Tastefully, neither Collins nor McDowell appear to be in a rush to broadcast their new child child’s face. As a substitute, the photograph exhibits Tove’s title way more prominently. The bassinet makes their little one look so, so small.
And no, Lily Collins was not pregnant. The couple welcomed Tove through surrogate. And, should you learn the caption thanking the surrogate (or maybe gestational service), you already know that.
For individuals who didn’t learn the caption, the blissful announcement got here as a shock. As you possibly can see on this photograph from December 2024, she was very clearly not pregnant fairly lately.
Charlie McDowell and Lily Collins attend “The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical” World Premiere on the Dominion Theatre on December 01, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photos)
Lily Collins has spoken about how the need to turn out to be a mother or father remodeled her life
Again in 2017, Lily Collins spoke to Us Weekly about how a part of recovering from her consuming dysfunction was focusing upon her want to sooner or later turn out to be a mother or father.
“Everyone has a different form of recovery. I never had an ‘aha’ moment,” she acknowledged on the time.
“My reason to finally start talking about [my eating disorder] was the moment I realized I wanted a family,” Collins defined. “I wanted kids. I didn’t want this to be something I bring into that.”
In September of 2020, Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell went public with their engagement. They married a 12 months later, in September 2021.
Each Collins and McDowell are within the leisure trade. Each have ties to the UK. And, as we acknowledged, each are nepo infants.
Lily Collins is the daughter of drummer Phil Collins. Charlie McDowell, as you might have immediately seen from his face, is the son of actor Malcolm McDowell. His mom is actress Mary Steenburgen, and he’s the stepson of actor Ted Danson — to whom Steenburgen has been married for about 30 years.
Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell attend the “Emily In Paris” Netflix Photocall at La Samaritaine on September 12, 2024. (Photograph Credit score: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photos)
Congratulations to the brand new dad and mom!
Some would possibly criticize Lily Collins for having a baby with out being pregnant herself. Surrogacy in any kind, together with gestational carriers, might be controversial.
The reality is that we have no idea precisely why Collins and McDowell elected to welcome their child through surrogate. It might be for well being causes or for comfort or something in between. This matter is actually not our enterprise.
What’s our enterprise is how blissful we’re for this blissful couple and child Tove.
