Ed Sheeran And Wife Cherry Welcome First Child

Ed Sheeran has announced the birth of his first child – a baby girl – with wife Cherry Seaborn.

Revealing the good news on Instagram, in his first social media post since December, the star said his wife, Cherry Seaborn, gave birth to a baby girl last week.

The singer, 29 shared a photo of a pair of sock belonging to their daughter and revealed the adorable name of their daughter as – Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.

In his post, he wrote;

A quick message from me as I have some personal news that I wanted to share with you… Last week, with the help of an amazing delivery team, Cherry gave birth to our beautiful and healthy daughter – Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran. We are completely in love with her.

Sheeran added;

Both mum and baby are doing amazing and we are on cloud nine over here. We hope that you can respect our privacy at this time. Lots of love and I’ll see you when it’s time to come back.

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The Instagram message received more than 500,000 likes – including one from David Beckham – within an hour of being posted, with fans congratulating the couple on their news.

Sheeran, 29, has kept his relationship with Seaborn, 28 out of the spotlight, confirming in 2019 that they had got married but releasing no further information.