Lily Cole

Lily Cole has given birth to her first child

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Congratulations to Lily Cole and her boyfriend Kwame Ferreira - they have welcomed their first child, baby girl Wylde.

The 27-year-old model shared the baby news on her Instagram account.

She took to Instagram with two photos - in one, Cole could be seen holding Wylde on her arms as she sat on a bed and offered a smile to the camera.

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The other picture, meanwhile, offered a glimpse of Wylde's little hand pulling at her mother's famous red hair.

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Cole also shared a link to her website featuring a poem she had written about her daughter.

"Wylde. Born on the hottest day. Ordinary. Extraordinary. Witchcraft. Wilderness," the message on her site starts.

"Love beyond doubt. Love, a fact of life. Without fear or choice.

"Wylde Cole Ferreira. We have a little girl - YAY!"

Lily and Kwame have been together since 2012, having met during work on a shared project.

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Congratulations to Lily Cole, she has revealed she is pregnant with her first child in a post on her social networking website.

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The 27-year-old actress, occasional model, designer, environmental campaigner and social network creator announced the news she is having a child in a photograph featuring a yellow post-it note and a toy dinosaur on Saturday.

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The Cambridge University student posted the cute pic on Instagram and on her altruistic social network site - Impossible.com.

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She wrote: "The first known impossible baby is being born!

"I met Kwame when I was in the process of developing Impossible and he offered the most profound gift, to help build the platform.

"After working together for a long time Kwame and I fell in love, and I am very happy to share our news that we are expecting our first child together."

The couple are thought to have met in 2012.