Emily in Paris star Lily Collins welcomes first baby

Emily in Paris star Lily Collins has welcomed her first baby through surrogacy.

The actress, 35, shared the information in a joint message on Instagram with husband, movie director Charlie McDowell.

“Welcome to the centre of our world Tove Jane McDowell,” the pair wrote.

“Phrases won’t ever specific our infinite gratitude for our unimaginable surrogate and everybody who helped us alongside the way in which.”

The publish was accompanied by a photograph of their child daughter sleeping alongside a blanket along with her title on it.

It ended by saying: “We love you to the moon and again once more.”

The announcement got here a day after Collins posted a tribute to her father, musician Phil Collins on his birthday.

“From a west coast star to the West Finish stage and all over the place in between, I am so grateful to be by your facet and for the assist, experiences and love we now have and can proceed to share,” she wrote on Instagram.

She accompanied the publish with footage of the pair collectively, together with one at her father’s Hollywood Stroll of Fame induction ceremony in 1999, when the actress was simply 10 years previous.

Born in Guildford and raised in Los Angeles, Collins began performing at a younger age.

In 2020, she took on the position of American advertising and marketing govt Emily Cooper within the hit Netflix romantic comedy collection Emily in Paris.

The present follows Cooper’s life as she works at a agency in Paris. In season 4, which got here out final 12 months, Emily strikes to Rome to open a brand new workplace.

The hit collection has been renewed for a fifth season, however the location for filming has but to be introduced.

Final 12 months, Collins made her West Finish stage debut in Barcelona.

The romantic thriller noticed Collins play an American vacationer who has a one-night stand with a good-looking Spaniard, performed by Cash Heist’s Álvaro Morte.