Washington (CNN)
Chelsea Clinton has given birth to a daughter, according to a post on her Twitter and Facebook accounts.
The baby was born Friday, a Clinton spokesman said.
"Marc and I are full of
love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter,
Charlotte
Former President Bill Clinton retweeted her post.
Clinton waited for the
birth to find out the gender of her baby. "There are so few mysteries in
life ... in which any answer is a happy one," she recently told CNN's Fareed Zakaria.
Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, announced in April they were expecting their first child.
Chelsea is Bill and Hillary Clinton's only child, and her baby is their first grandchild.
Chelsea Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky, the son of two former members of Congress, in 2010.
Ever since their
daughter's nuptials, Bill and Hillary Clinton have applied good-natured
public pressure on her to make them grandparents.
In April 2012, Hillary
Clinton told ABC it wasn't "really up to" her whether she would ever
earn the grandma title, but added, "I would like to have that title. ...
I think I'd be pretty good."
Hillary Clinton later added: "Most of us, when we have our children,
we're still younger, we're still striving, we're still preoccupied with
what's going to happen in our lives, and I think a lot of people look
back and say, 'I did the best I could,' but...being a grandparent you
just have that freedom, at least that's what I'm told, and I'm anxious
to find out."
Chelsea Clinton has
regularly said that her parents were "unapologetic" in their pleas for
grandchildren. "(They) are not shy about saying that in public and
private," she told ET in 2013.
Bill Clinton also said last year on CBS that
if Hillary Clinton could be president or a grandmother, the frontrunner
for the Democratic nomination in 2016 would say grandmother.
"If you ask her, I think
she'd say grandmother, but I have found it best not to discuss that
issue," said the former president. "My goal is to live to be a
grandfather. The rest of it's out of my hands."
In an October 2013
interview with Glamour, she said she and her husband want "to start a
family." "So we decided we were going to make 2014 the Year of the
Baby," Clinton said.
She later told the reporter: "Call my mother and tell her that. She asks us about it every single day."
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