Vanessa Kirby is officially a mom! The 37-year-old actress has welcomed a child with her boyfriend of three years, former professional lacrosse player Paul Rabil.
Kirby first revealed she was pregnant back on May 31 on the red carpet during a panel event for The Fantastic Four: First Steps at the CCXPMX Film Festival in Mexico City. It’s unclear when exactly Kirby gave birth, as Rabil shared the news that they had welcomed their child in an Instagram post shared on Sunday, October 19.
“I’m learning that becoming a parent slows you down and wakes you up at the same time,” the 39-year-old captioned the post. “That I’m really grateful for everyone’s health, that I get to wake up everyday to mum’s enormous love, and that we get to have you in our lives now.”
“To your first cradle stick,” Rabil continued, referring to a tiny lacrosse stick in one of the images. “It’ll hold many stories and blessings. Likely broken windows too. Balls are allowed in the house.”
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The rest of the images showed Rabil cradling the infant to his chest, a black and white photo of Kirby lying on their bed with the child, and a close-up of the baby’s foot.
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Speaking with People in July, Kirby shared some of the lessons she learned by playing the pregnant character Sue Storm in the summer Marvel blockbuster.
“Sue was never sat down. She was never huffing and puffing about it,” she explained. “It didn’t define who she was. She was absolutely a mother, and of course, in the comics, that’s so definitively her. But she’s also been a team member that defends, that goes up against great threats.”
“I literally had the lived experience of somebody who was doing this incredibly sacred thing and fulfilling what she needed to do at the same time as a woman and a team member, and that changed me,” Kirby added.
Kirby and Rabil were first linked in October 2022 when they were photographed holding hands together in New York City. However, they didn’t make things Instagram official until November 2023, when Rabil shared a gallery of photos of the couple’s early days together.
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“From the very minute we first met in Des Moines, around the world and back, life is far better, more purposeful and more beautiful with you,” he captioned the post.
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Prior to this relationship, Kirby dated English actor Callum Turner from 2015 to 2019, while Rabil was married to former lacrosse player Kelly Berger from 2014 to 2017.
