Singer Cheryl Cole, 33, has welcomed her first child with One Direction's Liam Payne, 23.
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The former Girls Aloud singer made the announcement on Instagram ahead of Mother's Day in the UK (March 26), posting a snap to her 3.1 million fans of Payne cradling the baby boy.
"On Wednesday 22nd March Liam and I became parents to an incredibly beautiful, healthy baby boy, weighing 7lb 9 and looking like a dream," Cole captioned the pic.
She added that the baby didn't yet have a name, but "he is already stealing hearts."
"We are all madly in love and overwhelmingly happy with our little arrival. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers around the world. A day that now has a different meaning to me forever," she wrote, before signing off with a heart emoji.
A post shared by Cheryl (@cherylofficial) on Mar 25, 2017 at 1:25pm PDT
Payne also shared the photo to his own Instagram account, writing that he was "speechless".
"I'm incredibly happy to welcome our new baby boy into the world, it's a moment that I will never forget for the rest of my life and my favourite memory I have so far."
Payne also paid tribute to Cole, writing that he was "completely in awe" of her. "[S]he's really made my dreams come true," he said.
The pair first met in 2010 when Payne auditioned for The X Factor, on which the former Girls Aloud singer was a judge. The pair later reconnected and went public with their romance in February last year, weeks after Cole split from her French restaurateur husband Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini.
The couple kept the pregnancy a secret for much of the pregnancy, with Cole confirming the pregnancy with a photoshoot for L'Oreal in which she cradled a baby bump.
Fairfax Media