‎Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey welcome their first baby and reveals her name

Olivia Culpo is officially in her mom era.
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‎The former pageant queen announced on Instagram Sunday that she gave birth to her and husband Christian McCaffrey’s first baby, Colette.
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‎The new mom shared a carousel of black-and-white images of their family of three in the hospital together.
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‎In one photo, Culpo showed one of the infant’s arms and the side of her head as she lay on a fuzzy blanket. In another snap, the new parents and Colette posed together as the adorable baby covered her face with her hand.
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‎“Colette is so lucky to have the best daddy in the world,” Culpo added on her Instagram Stories. “A love like no other.”
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‎The former reality star also shared an intimate photo of herself holding on tightly to McCaffrey during their daughter’s birth.
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‎“The scariest and most rewarding of all experiences. As soon as he came into the room I felt most at peace. Look at the grip,” she wrote.

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‎Culpo and the NFL player have been an item since meeting in 2019.
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‎The athlete proposed to his partner during a Utah vacation four years later.

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‎Prior to the couple walking down the aisle in their June 2024 wedding, Culpo shared her fears about struggling to start a family due to her endometriosis.

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‎“I worry all the time about my timeline,” she said on a 2022 “Culpo Sisters” episode. “I feel like I have to have kids ASAP.”

‎Nine months after her and McCaffrey’s Rhode Island nuptials, however, Culpo debuted her baby bump via Instagram.

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‎“next chapter, motherhood,” the reality star captioned the March maternity shoot snaps.
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‎Later that same month, Culpo explained to E! News why she had “always wanted” to wait to find out the sex of her upcoming arrival.

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‎“Being healthy, that’s all you can ask for,” she said at the time. “I feel like I have a job and that’s to be as healthy and mindful as I possibly can.”

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‎As for McCaffrey, she admitted that the San Francisco 49ers player was “back and forth” on holding out until birth.

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‎“I think I will maybe convince him that it would be really fun to wait,” Culpo noted. “It would be such a nice surprise.”
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‎The former Miss Universe did speculate about whether she had a baby boy or baby girl on the way in a subsequent TikTok breaking down “old wives tales.”

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‎While many signs pointed to a daughter — including the model’s morning sickness and highly-positioned bump — the then-pregnant star’s “intuition” was leaning toward welcoming a son.

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‎Culpo has been a proud aunt for many years to her brother Pete Culpo’s daughter, as well as sister Aurora Culpo’s two kids — son Remi and daughter Soleil.