British supermodel, Naomi Campbell has on Tuesday, May 18 announced the arrival of her first child — a baby girl.
The 50-year-old actress shocked her Instagram followers on Tuesday as she shared a picture cradling her newborn daughter and announced she had never felt a ‘greater love‘.
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Alongside a picture of her baby girl’s feet, she penned;
A beautiful little blessing has chosen me to be her mother. So honoured to have this gentle soul in my life there are no words to describe the lifelong bond that I now share with you my angel. There is no greater love.
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Campbell, who will celebrate her 51st birthday on 22 May, did not disclose further details, such as her baby’s name, when she was born or the father of her child.
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The supermodel has spoken about motherhood in the past. In 2014, she told designer Diane von Furstenberg she “definitely” wanted children no matter what her relationship status would be in the future.
She later told ES Magazine in a rare interview in 2017 that she thought “about having children all the time”, adding: “But now with the way science is I think I can do it when I want.”
Then in a 2019 interview with WSJ Magazine, Campbell said she wasn’t quite ready for motherhood at 49 years old. “Not yet — I’ll see what the universe brings me,” she said at the time.
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However, the Vogue cover girl insisted that she did not want to be a single parent so would find a suitable partner first.
She made the statement shortly after she broke off a fling with One Direction star Liam Payne, 27.
The same year she was also forced to deny claims she had adopted a child after fans got the wrong end of the stick when she posted a picture cradling a newborn baby on Instagram on Mother’s Day.
Despite the outpouring of congratulations, Naomi’s representative revealed that she hadn’t adopted and the picture had been taken when Naomi visited an orphanage for abandoned children in Lagos, Nigeria.
While so many within the industry and throughout Campbell’s charitable work already look up to her as a mother figure, it’s evident that her new role is in a league of its own.
The supermodel’s fans, celebrity friends and family flooded her social media with messages of congratulations and well wishes.
Her mother, Valerie Morris Campbell, said in a post on Instagram alongside the same picture;
Congratulations to my daughter Naomi on the birth of her daughter, I’m beyond thrilled as I’ve waited a longtime to be grandmother.
Prior to dating boyband singer Liam, Naomi was in a relationship with grime artist Skepta, 38.
The couple reportedly dated for around five months in 2018, with the rapper even referencing her in the song Interlude, claiming she wore sexy underwear for him during a video call.
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Whilst Campbell is notoriously private about her love life, she has been linked to a string of high-profile men in the past.
In 2017, she was linked to billionaire Hassan Jameel, but this short-lived romance quickly fizzled out and he went on to date Rihanna.
Campbell was also famously linked to Gerard Butler in 2007, P Diddy in 2002 and Leonardo DiCaprio in 1995.
Her longest public relationship was with Russian billionaire Vladislav Doronin, who she dated for five years until 2013.
Campbell also dated Robert De Niro in the early Nineties, and Mike Tyson in the late Eighties, with both relationships clearly ending on good terms.
Congratulations to Campbell on being a mother.
