Avril Lavigne is a mother, revealing the arrival of her newborn yesterday with three black-and-white photos and a blunt caption: our mini princess has arrived.
One image shows the singer cradling the baby, dressed in an animal-print onesie and a matching headband, while another frames three pairs of Vans lined up on a skateboard. She left out the details fans will want most. No name, no birth date, and no word on whether she has a co-parent.
Lavigne is enjoying time with her family while working on a new album, and she thanked fans for their love.
The baby opens a new chapter after a well-documented stretch in her personal life. She has been married twice, first to Sum 41 guitarist Deryck Whibley and later to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, a marriage that ended in 2018. An engagement to rapper Mod Sun followed in 2022 and collapsed the next year.
Motherhood is also something she has talked about openly for more than a decade. Back in 2013, at 29, she said she wanted one or two kids eventually, just not at that moment.
The announcement lands while her career story is still being written. Her parents let her leave high school as a teenager to chase music, her debut arrived at 17 and hit immediately, and the run that followed includes the 2002 chart-topper Complicated and 2021's Bite Me. That family bond has never faded. She brought her mother on stage at Madison Square Garden in May 2025 and credited both parents with the sacrifices that made her career possible.