A ready-to-pop Halle Berry has finally popped! The Oscar-winning actress gave birth to a daughter on Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA. She and partner Gabriel Aubry have named their baby Nahla Ariela Aubry, Halle’s rep has confirmed.
It’s said the name Nahla is the Arabic word for “drink of water”, and that Ariela is derived from Hebrew word ‘Ariel’, meaning “lion of god”. Interestingly, both names also relate to Disney heroines — Nala in The Lion King and Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
“We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital,” Halle told Access Hollywood. “For us it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her.”
According to Gabriel’s sister Eugenie, the model and, now, new dad was very excited at birth time.
“He called my father to say, ‘It’s time! It’s happening!'” she told Us Magazine. “She was about to give birth. He sounded a bit nervous but happy!”
“He loves kids! Gabriel is an uncle, and the kids just love him. They bring him so much joy,” Eugenie says.
41-year-old Halle and 32-year-old Gabriel met at a Versace photo shoot in November 2005, and went public with their relationship three months later. They announced they were expecting last year.
“I’ve accomplished things I never thought I would,” Halle was quoted in Parade magazine. “Now my sights are set on a different chapter in my life, which is motherhood. That’s the goal I have very clearly set for myself.”
And Gabriel is the man to accompany her on the journey.
“I have someone who is putting a spark in my eye,” Halle told Hello magazine of her beau. “I have never been in better physical and emotional shape, and I’m happy in my personal life — what a novel idea!”
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