Avril Lavigne is a mom, and her baby girl already has a pair of checkered sneakers. The “Complicated” singer, who is 42 years old, announced on Instagram on Friday, November 13, that she’d welcomed her first child. She shared a photo of herself cradling her daughter and another of two adults holding the newborn’s tiny hand. Lavigne kept her partner’s identity private, but she had a very Avril way of introducing their little girl.
Avril Lavigne Introduces Her ‘Mini F–king Princess’
“Our Mini F-cking Princess has arrived,” Lavigne wrote alongside the photos.
The announcement also featured three pairs of checkered sneakers lined up in a row, including a tiny pair for the newest member of the family. The carousel showed Lavigne holding her daughter and her partner joining in for the hand-holding shot. She didn’t identify the baby’s father in the post.
Avril Once Said She Wanted ‘One or Two’ Kids Someday
Long before she was lining up baby sneakers for Instagram, Lavigne had talked about wanting a family someday.
In November 2013, she was celebrating the release of her self-titled fifth album in New York City when reporters asked whether she and then-husband Chad Kroeger were thinking about children. She was 29, had a new record out and had a tour on her mind. “I want one or two [kids], but not right now,” Lavigne said. “Like, in the future. Eventually.”
She also gave a peek at life at home with the Nickelback frontman. The two had a studio in the house, made music together and cooked. Kroeger was touring Europe at the time of the album party, but Lavigne said he’d recently sent roses and a poem to her hotel.
- Avril Lavigne said she’d like Kristen Stewart to play her in a film, adding, “She’s Dope.”
- The singer praised Taylor Swift and said she’d “Love” to collaborate with her.
- Swift sent Lavigne flowers and called herself a “Forever Fan.”
In Her 20s, She Joked That She Could Barely Handle A Dog
Lavigne had been even more emphatic about waiting during an earlier interview with OK! while she was married to Sum 41 frontman, Deryck Whibley.
“Oh, God! I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years,” she said, per PEOPLE, when asked whether she planned to have children. At the time, Lavigne joked that she wasn’t sure she could even handle a dog and said she pictured herself becoming a mother later in life.
Lavigne Kept Her Partner Out Of The Spotlight
Lavigne’s past relationships have often made headlines. She was married to Whibley from 2006 to 2010 and Kroeger from 2013 to 2015. She got engaged to fellow musician Mod Sun, whose real name is Derek Smith, in 2022 and was later linked to Tyga.
Avril Lavigne Is Still Making Music More Than Two Decades After ‘Complicated’
Lavigne was 17 when she released Let Go in 2002. With “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi,” the Canadian singer made her pop-punk sound and skater style instantly recognizable. She kept adding hits well beyond that first album, from “My Happy Ending” to “Girlfriend” and “What the Hell.”
When the album turned 20 in 2022, Lavigne told The Guardian how quickly life changed once her music took off. “I moved out of my parents’ house and straight into a tour bus with no rules,” she recalled. By then, the songs that made her famous were finding another generation of listeners on TikTok.
In 2024, Lavigne released her first Greatest Hits album. The 20-track collection put her early singles alongside newer songs like “Bite Me” and “I’m A Mess,” her collaboration with Yungblud. She later teamed up with fellow Canadian pop-punk act Simple Plan for “Young & Dumb.”
She also took those hits on the road and invited Simple Plan, who had joined her on her very first tour, to play select dates. “This is gonna be too much stupid fun celebrating my career with my friends and fans,” she wrote when she announced the tour.
More than two decades after “Sk8er Boi,” the singer brought a little of that style to her baby announcement, right down to the tiny checkered sneakers.