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Lily Collins is absolutely embracing her new function as a dad or mum after welcoming her first child earlier this 12 months through surrogate.
“Mother mode …” the 35-year-old actress wrote through Instagram on Thursday, February 6.
Collins gave followers a glimpse at her dwelling life with child woman Tove, sharing an intimate picture of the mother-daughter duo nesting. Within the snap, the Emily in Paris star appeared lovingly down on the new child as she held her in her arms.
Collins’ candy snap was posted lower than an hour after her husband, Charlie McDowell, shared his personal image with their child woman.

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“Dad mode ❤️,” he captioned the picture, which confirmed the brand new dad holding Tove in his lap and enjoying along with her arms. Collins couldn’t include her happiness over their little household, writing within the feedback part, “Love you a lot ❤️.”
Collins and McDowell, 41, shocked followers one week prior after they introduced in a joint social media submit that their daughter had arrived.

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“Welcome to the middle of our world Tove Jane McDowell,” the couple wrote through Instagram on Friday, January 31, sharing a photograph of the new child in a bassinet on the sofa. “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 …”
Celebrities together with Amanda Seyfried and Sarah Hyland despatched the household of three love shortly after the information broke. “That is excellent. So so glad for you 4 😍,” Seyfried, 39, wrote within the feedback part, including the pair’s canine to their headcount.
Hyland, in the meantime, replied, “I’m sobbinggggg 😍😍😍.”
Lily’s brother Nic Collins additionally gushed about his latest member of the family, writing through his Instagram Story on Friday, “Welcome to the world, Tove. [I’m] already so proud to be your uncle.”
Whereas the feedback have been largely constructive, some customers questioned why Lily and McDowell — who tied the knot in September 2021 — went the surrogacy path to broaden their household.
McDowell was fast to clap again at haters with a poignant social media response, writing within the feedback, “Thanks for all the type messages and love. We’re overjoyed and really grateful. Regarding the unkind messages about surrogacy and our path to having a child — it’s OK to not be an knowledgeable on surrogacy.”
The director defined, “It’s OK to not know why somebody would possibly want a surrogate to have a baby. It’s OK to not know the motivations of a surrogate no matter what you assume. And it’s OK to spend much less time spewing hateful phrases into the world, particularly with reference to a lovely child woman who has introduced a number of love into folks’s lives.”
He ended with a joke, writing, “That’s all for now as a result of she simply pooped, and I want to vary her diaper.”
After settling in with their infant over the weekend, McDowell returned to Instagram to present followers a peek at their new day-to-day life.
McDowell shared a photograph of his spouse pushing a stroller through his Instagram Story on Monday, February 3, with two purple coronary heart emojis. Lily reposted the image, writing, “Utter bliss.”