Gwyneth Paltrow Gives Birth to Baby Girl
Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has given birth to her first child, a baby girl named Apple Blythe Alison Martin.
The baby, weighing 9 pounds, 11 ounces, was born in a London hospital Friday after what Paltrow's husband, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, described as "a long labor." Mother and daughter were said to be doing fine.
"We are 900 miles over the moon, and we'd like to thank everyone at the hospital who have looked after us amazingly," Martin said in a statement released by spokesman Murray Chalmers.
Paltrow announced last December that she and Martin, 26, were expecting a baby.
The couple, who have been scrupulous about maintaining their privacy, were wed in December during a private ceremony in Santa Barbara.
The 31-year-old actress, who won an Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love," is the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and the late director Bruce Paltrow.
She hinted during an interview with W magazine earlier this year that she may do as her mother did and put her acting career on hold to raise her child.
"My mother turned down every fantastic movie there was," said Paltrow, who starred opposite her mother in last year's film "Sylvia." "She turned down these amazing things that would have made her a huge movie star."
