Lily Collins and Husband Charlie McDowell Welcome 1st Child

Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell. Courtesy of Lily Collins/Instagram
Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell are formally mother and father! The couple stunned followers on Friday, January 31, by saying the arrival of their first child through surrogate.
“Welcome to the middle of our world Tove Jane McDowell,” Collins, 35, wrote through Instagram on Friday, sharing a photograph of the toddler in a bassinet. “Phrases won’t ever specific our countless gratitude for our unbelievable surrogate and everybody who helped us alongside the way in which. We love you to the moon and again once more …”
Previous to her daughter’s beginning, the Emily in Paris star was open about how her want to begin a household helped her overcome her consuming dysfunction and get assist.
“Everybody has a distinct type of restoration. I by no means had an ‘aha’ second,” Collins solely advised Us Weekly in July 2017. “My purpose to lastly begin speaking about [my eating disorder] was the second I noticed I wished a household. I wished youngsters. I didn’t need this to be one thing I carry into that.”
The U.Ok. native and McDowell, son of actress Mary Steenburgen and stepson of actor Ted Danson, met on the set of his movie Gilded Rage in 2019. Sparks rapidly flew between the couple and the twosome made their relationship Instagram official in August 2019.
“At all times acquired your again…,” Collins captioned a collection of images of her and the director in Paris.
In September 2020, the To the Bone star took to Instagram to announce that she and McDowell have been formally engaged.
“I’ve been ready my lifetime for you and I can’t wait to spend our lifetime collectively,” Collins wrote alongside a kissing photograph of the couple.
The award-winning actress confessed in an interview on Reside With Kelly and Ryan in October 2020 that she knew that the Los Angeles native was The One immediately.
“I used to be very stunned as to when and the place it will occur, however it was a type of conditions the place I knew the second that I met him that I wished to be his spouse at some point,” Collins shared on the time.
She went on to elucidate extra particulars about how the proposal went down.
“It was all very a lot pre-planned,” Collins advised Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest. “He did a self-timer video, which we have been then in a position to then later get display grabs. However he set the entire thing up with out me understanding, clearly. … I used to be very, very stunned by it, however it’s precisely what I might’ve wished, and he knew me so effectively.”
Almost one yr after their engagement, the duo tied the knot in September 2021.
“I’ve by no means need to be somebody’s somebody greater than I do yours, and now I get to be your spouse. On September, 4 2021 we formally grew to become one another’s ceaselessly. I like you past @charliemcdowell,” Collins wrote alongside a photograph of the marriage through Instagram.
McDowell shared an equally candy message through his personal account: “I married probably the most beneficiant, considerate, and exquisite individual I’ve ever recognized. I like you @lilyjcollins.”