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| Chelsea Clinton has given birth to a girl, she said in a statement on her Twitter and Facebook profiles, giving the former US president Bill Clinton and the former US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, their first grandchild. | Chelsea Clinton has given birth to a girl, she said in a statement on her Twitter and Facebook profiles, giving the former US president Bill Clinton and the former US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, their first grandchild. |
| “Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky,” Clinton said in the post, referring to her husband Marc Mezvinsky. | “Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky,” Clinton said in the post, referring to her husband Marc Mezvinsky. |
| The baby has been eagerly anticipated as Hillary Clinton considers her political future. | |
| She has called the prospect of becoming a grandmother her “most exciting title yet” and has picked out the first book she intends to read to her grandchild, the classic Goodnight Moon. | |
| The former secretary of state has said she did not want to make any decisions about another campaign until the baby’s arrival. | |
| The former president also has been eager to become a grandparent. | |
| “Every day I get up and I say, ‘You have to remember whose child this is. Do not interfere. Be there when you are welcome. Be loving but not judgmental,” Clinton said only days before the baby’s arrival. | |
| Even the president, Barack Obama, got into the act. Addressing the annual Clinton confab, Obama quipped if Chelsea Clinton went into labour during his speech, “she has my motorcade and will be able to navigate traffic”. | |
| Chelsea Clinton, 34, announced her pregnancy in April at the end of a forum in New York on female empowerment. | |
| She graduated from Stanford and Columbia universities, worked in finance in New York and in public health, and earned a doctorate from Oxford University while taking on a prominent role as vice chair of her family’s foundation. She recently departed NBC News, where she served as a special correspondent. | |
| The new parents, who married in 2010, were friends as teenagers in Washington and both attended Stanford. Mezvinsky is a hedge fund manager and the son of former member of the US House of Representatives, Majorie Margolies, and Edward Mezvinsky, longtime friends of the Clintons. |