Meghan McCain Welcomes Baby Girl with Husband Ben Domenech: ‘Happy and Healthy’
The View co-host and her husband, Ben Domenech, welcomed daughter Liberty Sage McCain Domenech on Monday night.
A rep for McCain, 35, says she and her daughter “are happy and healthy.”
The news of her baby girl’s birth comes about two weeks after McCain gave fans an update on her pregnancy by sharing her due date.
Posting a selfie of her “topknot” on her Instagram on Sept. 18, McCain wrote in the caption, “2.5 weeks until my due date and trying to keep myself looking as stylish as humanly possible while feeling like shamu.”
The expectant star capped off the message with three emojis of a pregnant woman.
McCain, who announced in March that she was pregnant, previously said that she didn’t want to expose her child to the vitriol that can accompany her social media posts, where trolls sometimes leave hateful words about her late father, Sen. John McCain.
“People keep asking and requesting I show pics & details of my pregnancy,” she shared on social media in May. “Given that people write on photos I put up of my family they are glad my Dad got cancer and he’s in hell, I thought I would leave my unborn child out of the social media cesspool as much as is possible.”
She continued in a lengthy Instagram caption, saying she and Domenech, 38, “have made the conscious decision to guard our (growing) families privacy as much as is possible” and adding, in part, “I believe children have a right to privacy and hope you will all understand as we navigate this as much as possible going forward without sacrificing our comfort or safety.”
Returning to The View in late March after announcing her pregnancy, in what would become her regular remote appearances, McCain said the news was “bittersweet because there’s just a lot of people in a lot of pain right now, and I obviously would prefer to be in studio with all of you.”
“I keep trying to remind myself that people have had babies in much worse and much more intense conditions and, you know, this is just how it’s going to be for a little while,” she said.
In that March episode, McCain also noted that View moderator Whoopi Goldberg had correctly predicted her pregnancy.
“Whoopi told me like a year ago that I was going to have a child and she told me the gender — and you were 100 percent right. This doesn’t help my feeling that you have psychic abilities that I always thought you had,” she said. “I told my mother, ‘Whoopi was right about everything including the timing.’ “
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