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Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan welcome third daughter

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have taken to Instagram to announce some exciting family news.

Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have welcomed their third daughter. Picture: Mandel Ngan / AFP.
Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan have welcomed their third daughter. Picture: Mandel Ngan / AFP.

From Facebook to family of five!

Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan announced on Friday that their third baby girl arrived.

“Welcome to the world, Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg!” the couple wrote via Instagram, Page Six reports. “You’re such a little blessing.”

Zuckerberg and his former Harvard University classmate previously welcomed daughters Max, 7, and August, 5, in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Mark Zuckerberg shared a snap of the adorable infant, Aurelia, on Instagram.
Mark Zuckerberg shared a snap of the adorable infant, Aurelia, on Instagram.
She is the third daughter for the couple.
She is the third daughter for the couple.

The entrepreneur, 38, mentioned the little ones in his September 2022 Instagram post announcing his 38-year-old wife’s pregnancy.

“Lots of love,” Zuckerberg captioned a smiling selfie with his hand on Chan’s budding belly.

“Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!”

The couple met in 2003 at a frat party while in line for the bathroom.

“He was this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there,” Chan told the New Yorker in 2010, joking that Zuckerberg had a “nerdy, computer-science appeal.”

The couple now have three girls, Maxima, August and Aurelia. Picture: Charles Ommanney/Facebook via AP.
The couple now have three girls, Maxima, August and Aurelia. Picture: Charles Ommanney/Facebook via AP.

On their first date, the Meta CEO told Chan that he would rather go out with her than “finish his take-home midterm.”

The sentiment “appalled” the “the type-A first child,” the paediatrician told Today show co-hosts in 2014.

The couple got married in 2012, and Zuckerberg called Chan the “most important” part of his life in a commencement speech at their alma mater five years later.

While trying to start a family, the doctor struggled to conceive and suffered three miscarriages.

Mark and Priscilla met while waiting in line for the bathroom at a party in 2003. Picture: Josh Edelson / AFP.
Mark and Priscilla met while waiting in line for the bathroom at a party in 2003. Picture: Josh Edelson / AFP.

Zuckerberg called the pregnancy losses “a lonely experience” in a 2015 Facebook post.

As the CZI co-founder and co-CEOs’ family began growing, Zuckerberg told North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students that he had been changed in a “pretty dramatic way” by parenthood.

“The thing that I’m most proud of and the thing that brings me the most happiness is my family,” he gushed in 2017.

This article originally appeared on Page Six and has been reproduced here with permission

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