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Chimamanda Adichie Confirms She Recently Gave Birth to Baby Girl

Chimamanda Adichie Confirms She Recently Gave Birth to Baby Girl

In a recent interview, critically acclaimed author, Chimamanda Adichie, confirmed that she and her husband, Ivara Esegee, have welcomed a baby girl.

She told Financial Times that she wanted it to “be as personal as possible.”

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“This is the first time I’m saying it publicly. I have a lovely little girl so I feel like I haven’t slept . . . but it’s also just really lovely and strange.”

“I have some friends who probably don’t know I was pregnant or that I had a baby. I just feel like we live in an age when women are supposed to perform pregnancy. We don’t expect fathers to perform fatherhood. I went into hiding. I wanted it to be as personal as possible.”

The new mum also spoke on society’s emphasis on marriage and how it affects women. She said, “In this country of mine that I love, people think that you’re incomplete unless you’re married.”

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Congratulations to the new parents.

Photo credit: Chimamanda Adichie/Instagram

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