Avril Lavigne is a mom. The pop-punk icon announced on Friday Nov. 13, that she has welcomed her first child, a daughter.
The 42-year old singer revealed the news in an Instagram post, captioned “Our Mini Fucking Princess has arrived 🎀👑🍼🩷,” throwing a playful nod to her 2007 hit “Girlfriend.” Fans have flooded social media with congratulations, and the news landed as a surprise since Lavigne had largely kept her personal life out of the spotlight in recent months.
The post includes three black-and-white photos of the newborn, among them a close-up of Lavigne and her partner holding the baby’s hand. Lavigne also tipped her hat to her punk-rock roots with a photo of a skateboard stacked with three pairs of checkered Vans, the last pair baby-sized.
The baby’s name and date of birth were not known at press time. Lavigne has not identified her partner, and he does not appear in a full photo in the post.
Lavigne was previously engaged to the rocker Mod Sun, whom she began dating in 2021; the pair called off the engagement in 2023. She was married to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger from 2013 to 2015, and before that to Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley, whom she wed in 2006 and filed to divorce in 2009.
Motherhood is the latest chapter in a career that has spanned more than two decades. Lavigne was 17 when Let Go arrived in 2002; the album went on to sell more than 16 million copies and earned her Juno Awards for Album of the Year for Let Go, and Single of the Year for “Complicated.” Her first-ever Greatest Hits tour launched in Vancouver in 2024, and she extended the sold-out run in 2025.
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