Nicola Roberts has given birth! (Picture: Instagram)
Girls Aloud pop star Nicola Roberts secretly gave birth to a sweet baby girl ‘a couple of weeks ago’.
The singer, 40, announced on Christmas Day that she and her partner, footballer Mitch Hahn, were expecting their first child. Nicola was five months along when she shared the news.
And now, they are officially a family of three.
Taking to Instagram this weekend, the Sound of the Underground hitmaker shared an adorable series of snaps of their newborn, including a selfie of her sleeping on Nicola’s chest and being carried out of the hospital by her dad.
‘Our beautiful baby girl is here,’ her caption read.
‘We haven’t stopped staring at her perfect little face or kissing her softest little head.’
The pop star shared the cutest snaps of her daughter’s tiny hand (Picture: Instagram)
…and she’s already got an impressive head of hair! (Picture: Instagram)
Nicola added: ‘She arrived healthy and content a couple of weeks ago at 38 weeks weighing 6.5lbs and is thriving.
‘It’s heaven on earth with her and we can hardly believe she’s ours 🥺💕💫✨’
The new parents are yet to reveal the little one’s name.
It didn’t take long for messages of congratulations to flood in from fans and famous pals, with Katie Piper commenting: ‘So happy for you both ❤️’
‘Congratulations darling ❤️❤️’, wrote Jess Wright.
Her announcement comes shortly after Nicola revealed she had undergone surgery to ‘keep the baby in’ at 22 weeks.
Nicola has been in a relationship with Mitch Hahn since 2022 (Picture: Instagram)
She confirmed her pregnancy at the five-month mark on Christmas Day (Picture: Instagram)
She wrote on social media underneath a carousel: ‘Some pics I took this week.. Hasn’t it been so nice to really feel spring..
‘I’ve been under instruction not to do much since I had the surgery at 22 weeks to help keep baby in.
‘Hitting that 34 week mark was a big relief. I now only have a few weeks left. Safe to say, this last bit is not the easiest is it?!
‘In one breath, it will be nice to feel more comfortable again but I will also really miss my bump and having this tiny little thing in there.’
When she revealed her pregnancy publicly over the festive period, Nicola debuted her bump and wrote that it had been ‘the most magical Christmas Day sharing the most precious news with our families’.
‘We’ve been keeping a secret. We are five months pregnant! We can’t wait to meet our little one in the spring 🤍x’, her caption said.
Nicola rose to fame in 2002 when she was put into Girls Aloud with bandmates Kimberley Walsh, Nadine Coyle, Cheryl, and Sarah Harding (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)
The members have remained close following Harding’s death from breast cancer in 2021 (Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Perfect X AMI)
Fellow Girls Aloud member Kimberley Walsh commented, ‘Best news ever 😭💫❤️🥹’, with Rochelle Humes, Rylan Clark, Perrie Edwards, and Keisha Buchanan also sending love.
Kimberley was also present at Nicola’s baby shower in April, after which she said she was ‘savouring this last little bit as much as I can’ as she didn’t ‘have long left’.
Nicola, who rose to stardom on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, has been dating businessman and semi-pro footie player Mitch since 2022.
They secretly got engaged after two years together, with The Sun reporting that he popped the big question on holiday in the south of France in July 2024.
‘Nicola has met her soulmate in Mitch. She couldn’t be happier,’ a source said at the time.
‘The couple first made their relationship public when seen together at a Sir Elton John concert in 2022, but tend to keep their romance away from the spotlight and social media.’
Giving birth now makes Nicola the fourth mum of the group, as bandmate Kimberley has three sons with husband Justin Scott, Nadine Coyle has daughter Anaíya with American footballer Jason Bell, and Cheryl has nine-year-old Bear with late ex-partner Liam Payne.
Girls Aloud’s beloved fifth member, Sarah Harding, died from breast cancer in September 2021 at age 39. The surviving members have remained close since and have fundraised numerous times in her memory.
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