Celeb friends flood Rebel Wilson with support as she shares her happy baby news
SURPRISE! Aussie star, Rebel Wilson welcomed a sweet baby daughter via surrogate earlier this week.
In beautiful baby news, Pitch Perfect star, Rebel Wilson has shared that she has become a mum!
Alongside a sweet image of her newborn daughter the new mum wrote: “Beyond proud to announce the birth of my first child, Royce Lillian, born this past week via surrogate 💗
The 42yo star continued: “I can’t even describe the love I have for her, she’s a beautiful miracle! I am forever grateful to everyone who has been involved, (you know who you are), this has been years in the making…but particularly wanted to thank my gorgeous surrogate who carried her and birthed her with such grace and care. Thank you for helping me start my own family, it’s an amazing gift. The BEST gift!!”
“I am ready to give little Roycie all the love imaginable!”
The Senior Year star, who has long shared her dreams of becoming a mum, is learning on the job. She shared: “I am ready to give little Roycie all the love imaginable. I am learning quickly…much respect to all the Mums out there! Proud to be in your club. 💗💗💗”
As she shared her happy news, Rebel’s celebrity pals have come in out in force, clearly over the moon for the new mum, they have been flooding her post with support and congratulations.
The Fat Pizza star’s girlfriend and business partner, fashion and jewellery designer Ramona Agruma was quick to comment with a simple and supportive “💗💗💗”.
Paris Hilton gushed: “🥹🥰 So happy for you love! Congratulations!!💓💓💓💓” and fellow mum, Melanie Griffith shared four hearts.
Fellow Aussie comedian, Celeste Barber sent a simple: “CONGRATULATIONS MAMA! ❤️🙌” while Kiwi superstar, Taika Waititi jumped in with: “🙌❤️❤️❤️ yes Rebz, congrats xx”
The Australian celebrity contingent was strong, as you’d imagine. Melissa Doyle congratulated the new mum with: “So happy for you xxx❤️❤️” and a thrilled Rebecca Gibney wrote: “WOW! So wonderful. Congratulations honey 🙌💖💖💖”.
The Bachelor’s Laura Byrne shared a sweet sentiment, writing: “❤️ congratulations beautiful. What a special gift. Motherhood is all kinds of wonderful”.
Rebel Wilson’s health overhaul was all about becoming a mum
Earlier this year Rebel Wilson revealed to People magazine the major reason behind her phenomenal ‘year of health’ in 2020 – wanting to have a child.
The actor and comedian told the US title that she didn’t start thinking about the possibility of having children until she was 39 and that’s when she looked into potentially harvesting and freezing her eggs.
With her fertility already complicated by the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), Rebel knew she had her work cut out for her and has described her journey as an “emotional rollercoaster”.
Talking to People in May 2022, the Senior Year star said she went to do a fertility specialist who “looked me up and down and said, ‘You’d do much better if you were healthier’.”
After hearing the harsh words from the fertility doctor, Rebel decided to re-assess her health and revealed that it was “a future child’s needs that really inspired me to get healthier.”
It was on Instagram in 2020 that she caption an image of her exercising on the beach with the words ‘year of health’, and boy did she work hard at it.
Working with trainer Jono Castano, Rebel went on to lose 37kg. And it goes without saying that nutrition played a major role in her transformation. She told People that emotional eating had been a factor in her life and that she dedicated time to deal with “the emotional issues”.
“I would love to have a family,” said the Sydney-born star in the recent interview. “I’m just going for it by myself at the moment because of the biological clock.
The Bridesmaids actor who is dating Ramona Agruma, a successful fashion and jewellery designer (above), said at the time: “If I meet the right person, great, and then they can fit in with whatever happens,” she said. “It’s great that the technology exists. You have so many options with surrogacy and sperm donors.”
