Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell: First insights into the family happiness

Actress Lily Collins (35) and her husband, director Charlie McDowell (41), Sinf in absolute family happiness. A week after the couple announced the birth of their daughter Tove Jane via surrogate mother, the newly baked parents now give the first insight into their new life.

that shows him with his newborn daughter on the sofa. He carefully holds the arms of his little to4 that lies on a blanket on his lap. “Dad Mode” (in German “Papa mode”), McDowell commented on the intimate snapshot. Collins promptly shared the picture in her Instagram story and added crying and heart emojis.

A little later, the “Emily in Paris” star himself posted his own photo with his daughter. , while you hold baby to4 lovingly in your arms. “Mom Mode …” (in German “Mama mode”), she simply wrote.

Only last Friday, Collins and McDowell announced the birth of their daughter. “Words can never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate mother and everyone who helped us in this way,” they wrote to a photo of their daughter in a baby bed.

However, the joy of birth was overshadowed by critical voices on social media. After the couple announced their daughter’s arrival via surrogate, they were faced with hard allegations. “Seiling shares harmful to the center” or “You are not a mother, you are a buyer,” were some of the hurtful comments. The couple also suggested that they could have adopted a child instead.

The father then took a clear position. “It is okay not to be an expert in surrogacy. It is okay not to know why someone needs a surrogate mother to get a child,” he wrote in an emotional statement in the Instagram comments. He appealed to the critics of spending less time with “putting hated words into the world, especially when it comes to a beautiful little girl who has brought so much love into people’s life”.

The couple did not make the exact reasons for deciding on surrogacy. Collins, the daughter of the musician Phil Collins (74), had spoken openly about her previous eating disorder in the past and already addressed her fears regarding a family start -up in 2017. “Everyone has a different form of recovery,” she said at the time. “I wanted a family. I wanted children.” The medical consequences of an eating disorder can increase the risk of pregnancy complications.