Katy Perry and her fiancé, actor Orlando Bloom, have welcomed their first child together.
“We are floating with love and wonder from the safe and healthy arrival of our daughter,” the couple is quoted as saying in a tweet from UNICEF announcing the birth. The two stars are global ambassadors for the charity.
Perry and Bloom named their baby girl Daisy Dove Bloom. No additional details about the birth were immediately provided.
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Posted @withregram • @unicef Welcome to the world, Daisy Dove Bloom! We are honoured to introduce Goodwill Ambassadors @KatyPerry and @OrlandoBloom’s new bundle of joy.⠀ ⠀ “We are floating with love and wonder from the safe and healthy arrival of our daughter,” Katy and Orlando told us.⠀ ⠀ “But we know we’re the lucky ones and not everyone can have a birthing experience as peaceful as ours was. Communities around the world are still experiencing a shortage of healthcare workers and every eleven seconds a pregnant woman or newborn dies, mostly from preventable causes. Since COVID-19 many more newborn lives are at risk because of the increased lack of access to water, soap, vaccines and medicines that prevent diseases. As parents to a newborn, this breaks our hearts, as we empathize with struggling parents now more than ever.⠀ ⠀ “As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors, we know UNICEF is there, on the ground, doing whatever it takes to make sure every expecting mother has access to a trained health worker and access to quality healthcare. In celebration of the heart we know our daughter already has, we have set up a donation page to celebrate DDB’s arrival. By supporting them, you are supporting a safe start to life and reimagining a healthier world for every child. We hope your ♥️ can bloom with generosity.⠀ ⠀ Gratefully-⠀ ⠀ Katy & Orlando.”⠀ ⠀ Please tap the link in our bio to support the most precious gift: a healthy child.
A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry) on Aug 27, 2020 at 12:31am PDT
She is the first child for Perry and the second for Bloom, who has a nine-year-old son with ex-wife Miranda Kerr. Perry and Bloom have been dating since 2016 and got engaged in February 2019.
Perry went public with her pregnancy in March by showing off her baby bump at the end of the video for “Never Worn White." At the time, she tweeted: "OMG, so glad I don't have to suck it in anymore or carry around a big purse.”
The singer revealed the sex of the baby a few weeks later in an Instagram post. In May, Perry shared a sonogram image that appears to show the baby giving her the finger.
“When your unborn daughter gives you a middle finger from the womb you know you’re in for it,” she wrote in the caption, adding the hashtag “#happymothersdaytome.”