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Amanda Knoxhas welcomed her first child with husband Christopher Robinson.
Though Knox announced the birth on her podcast, theNew York Timesreported on Friday that she andRobinson, 39, became parents months ago.
Knox told the publication that she initially kept the birth a secret in part because “I’m still nervous about the paparazzi bounty on her head.”
Fourteen years ago, Knox waswrongfully convicted and then exoneratedfor the 2007 murder of roommate Meredith Kercher when she was a 20-year-old American student studying abroad in Perugia, Italy.
“Since my exoneration, I’ve struggled to reclaim my identity and protect the people I love from being exploited as tabloid content. It’s not easy, and I often feel like I’m trying to invent good choices out of bad whole cloth.” she wrote.
“I know that I cannot 100% protect my daughter from the kind of treatment I’ve suffered, but I’m doing the best I can. Which is why this will be the only picture of her I will ever share on social media,” she added. “I’m so grateful to everyone who has wished @emceecarbon and I well on our journey to parenthood. Thank you for believing in us.”
Knox and Robinson also explained their decision to keep things private on their podcast, saying that will not share any images of Eureka on social media as that is “a decision for her to make, many years from now.”
Knox added of her newborn daughter, “She deserves the privacy and autonomy that I was denied.”
News of Eureka’s arrival comes three months after Knox revealed on her podcast that she had previously suffered a miscarriage.
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“I did feel incredibly disappointed that that was the story of my first-ever pregnancy. … I thought, like, I knew exactly what I want to do with my first pregnancy, and to have it not come to fruition not through choice felt like a betrayal,” recalled Knox.
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“Oh, thank goodness! Yay, we did it!” Knox excitedly said in audio from the moment they got their positive pregnancy test result.
“That’s right, we’re pregnant,” she and Robinson, whom she married in February 2020, said in unison, adding at the time that they’ve been documenting their experiences “from day 1” and will share more soon.
source: people.com
