Hilary Duff and her husband Matthew Koma welcomed the newest member of their family last week: baby Townes Meadow Bair.
The former Disney Channel actress and “How I Met Your Father” star announced the arrival of her fourth child, her third with Koma, in an Instagram post shared Tuesday. Duff posted photos of what appears to be a water birth at home. The black and white images show the “Lizzy McGuire” star and her husband hugging her newborn.
“Now we know why he made us wait so long,” Duff captioned her photos. “She was perfecting those cheeks!”
Duff said her daughter was born on May 3, five months after she revealed in a December Christmas card that she was expecting another child. “Buckle up, Buttercups, we're adding one more to this crazy bunch,” read the Christmas card that also teased the newborn's name.
The “Younger” actor married musician Koma, 36, in 2019. The spouses share daughters Banks Violet, 5, and Mae James, 3. Duff is also mother to son Luca, 12 years, whom she shares with her ex-husband. and former hockey star Mike Comrie.
In the caption of her Instagram post, Duff, 36, wrote to her newborn about how she's “been dreaming of holding you in my arms” for months. Since her daughter's arrival on Friday, Duff said “the last 5 days of meeting you, looking at you and smelling you have been moments of pure magic.”
“We all love you like you were here all along,” he added.
Koma touted Duff as a “literal warrior goddess of a wife” in her Instagram post on Tuesday, which also shared the emotional home birth photos. She described her newborn daughter as “happy, healthy and chunky” and joked that she “doesn't look like anyone in our gene pool.”
“If anyone knows of @hilaryduff's whereabouts approximately 9 months to date, please request a cash reward,” Koma said.
