Posted on 05/15/2004 6:50:09 AM PDT by veronica
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has given birth to her first child, a baby girl named Apple Blythe Alison Martin.
The baby, weighing 9 pounds, 11 ounces, was born in a London hospital Friday after what Paltrow's husband, Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, described as "a long labor." Mother and daughter were said to be doing fine.
"We are 900 miles over the moon, and we'd like to thank everyone at the hospital who have looked after us amazingly," Martin said in a statement released by spokesman Murray Chalmers.
Paltrow announced last December that she and Martin, 26, were expecting a baby. The couple, who have been scrupulous about maintaining their privacy, were wed in December during a private ceremony in Santa Barbara.
The 31-year-old actress, who won an Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love," is the daughter of actress Blythe Danner (news) and the late director Bruce Paltrow (news).
She hinted during an interview with W magazine earlier this year that she may do as her mother did and put her acting career on hold to raise her child.
"My mother turned down every fantastic movie there was," said Paltrow, who starred opposite her mother in last year's film "Sylvia." "She turned down these amazing things that would have made her a huge movie star."
some paretns are so self absorbed that the ydo not think of the consequences of naming a child. I can see little Apple at her preschool.
Other Kids: NA NA NA NA Youre a rotten Apple!!!
This kid is going to have so many problems
When naming a child you have to momentairly pretend you are 8 years old
Veronica wrote:
Why not "banana" or "kumquat?"
LOL!
Great minds and all of that!
Those are boys' names, silly.
If it was a boy , she was gonna name it "Linux"....
If she turns out to be fat, they will call her the Big Apple.
Are all liberal movie stars idiots?
I should have posted this under crime/corruption. It's a crime to saddle a kid with a name like Apple!
I'm just glad she and the father married so as not to add to the long list of Hollywood bastard children.
Any relation to Slick?
Rhetorical question, I assume.
9'11oz was what my first child weighed. No easy task. She looked like a 3 month old in the incubator!
How about 'B*astard child Alison/Apple'
Sheesh...Apple...when the obvious choice was Aston.
(Maybe they're saving that for a boy...)
Paltrow gives birth to baby Apple
LOL
The second choice was "iBaby".
"Momsamoron" would have been a more acurate name choice in this case.
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