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Ed Sheeran has said that he is “on the cloud” after announcing the birth of his first child.
Revealing the happy news in 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 couple have named their daughter Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.
In her post, Sheeran shared a snap of a pair of baby socks and said that Cherry had given birth to a “beautiful and healthy daughter: Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.”
He continued, “We are completely in love with her. Both mom and baby are doing amazing and we are on cloud nine here.”
The Instagram message received more than 500,000 likes, including one of David beckham – within an hour of being posted, with fans congratulating the couple on their news.
Sheeran, 29, has kept her relationship with Seaborn out of the limelight, confirming in 2019 that they had tied the knot but did not reveal any further information.
Childhood friends who attended school together in Suffolk are rarely seen together in public.
The singer, best known for hits like Sing, Thinking Out Loud, Shape Of You, and Castle On The Hill, announced her engagement in 2018, saying, “I got engaged just before the new year. We are so happy and in love, and our cats are also happy x “.
Sheeran and Seaborn, pictured at an Ipswich Town game in 2018, met at school
Fans had a rare glimpse of their romance in their Put it all in me music video with Ella Mai, released last year.
The video featured a series of couples from around the world, each with their own story. Towards the end, Sheeran and Seaborn were filmed together dancing, laughing and sharing a kiss, with a description of their love story on screen.
“In high school, Ed and Cherry were crushed,” it read. “They kissed in the castle on the hill.
“A few years ago they reconnected, there were fireworks. They were married in January 2019.”
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Late last year, Sheeran announced that he was taking a break after working “non-stop” for the previous two years following the release of his third and fourth albums: Divide, in 2017, and Project No 6 Collaborations in 2019.
In a message to his millions of Instagram followers at the time, he said: “The Divide era and tour changed my life in so many ways, but now it’s all over, it’s time to get out there and see a little more of the world.
“I’ve been a bit nonstop since 2017, so I’ll take a break to travel, write, and read. I’ll be off social media until it’s time to go back.
“To my family and friends, we’ll see you when I see you – and to my fans, thanks for always being amazing, I promise to be back with some new music when the time is right and I’ve lived a little longer to really have something about it. to write “.
