Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Welcome Daughter Daisy Dove

The couple introduced their daughter’s arrival by way of UNICEF — Perry and Bloom are Goodwill Ambassadors for the charity — sharing a black and white picture of their little greedy her daddy’s finger. On the identical time, Perry held on to the new child’s wrist.

“We’re floating with love and surprise from the secure and wholesome arrival of our daughter,” Perry, 35, and Bloom, 43, stated.

Whereas they didn’t reveal any particulars about Daisy Dove’s arrival, the brand new dad and mom identified they have been blessed with a “peaceable” beginning — one thing not everybody will get an opportunity to expertise.

“However, we all know we are the fortunate ones, and never everybody can have birthing expertise as peaceable as ours was,” the duo stated.

“Communities worldwide are nonetheless experiencing a scarcity of healthcare staff, and each eleven seconds, a pregnant girl or new child dies, largely from preventable causes. Since COVID-19, many different new child lives are in danger due to the elevated lack of entry to water, cleaning soap, vaccines, and medicines that forestall illnesses. As dad and mom to a new child, this breaks our hearts, as we empathize with struggling dad and mom now greater than ever.”

With the hope that “each anticipating mom has entry to a skilled well-being employee and entry to high-quality healthcare,” Bloom and Perry requested followers to donate in the direction of the charity.

“In celebration of the center we all know our daughter already has, now we have arranged a donation web page to have fun DDB’s arrival,” the pair added.

“By supporting them, you’re supporting a secure beginning to live and reimagining a more healthy world for each baby. We hope you ♥️ can bloom with generosity.”

The brand new addition is the primary baby for Perry and second for Bloom, who acquired engaged in February 2019 after first being linked romantically again in January 2016.

Bloom additionally shares 9½-year-old son Flynn with ex-wife Miranda Kerr.

The “Smile” songstress beforehand revealed she was pregnant along with her first baby again in March by the music video for her private ballad, “By no means Worn White.”

Singing about her fears of dedication, whereas detailing how prepared she is for a lifetime of happiness with one other individual. Perry ended the tune’s video ended by first caressing her stomach in a white costume earlier than, within the remaining shot, turning to the aspect whereas carrying a sheer look to indicate off her child bump.

Throughout an Instagram Stay session after the music video premiered on YouTube, Perry confirmed her being pregnant, saying it was “most likely the longest secret” she has “ever needed to preserve.”

“There are loads that might be occurring this summertime,” she teased on time. “Not solely will I be giving beginning — actually — but also figuratively to one thing you guys have been ready for,” she added, referring to her new album Smile.

Perry not too long ago opened as much as PEOPLE that it wasn’t till not too long ago that she felt prepared for motherhood. “I used to be actually petrified of the concept two or three years in the past. It was identical to, I do not understand how I am ever gonna do this. That is loopy. I can barely handle myself!” the singer stated.

However, after the present process, the Hoffman Course of — a week-long retreat serving to contributors dig into destructive behaviors conditioned from childhood — throughout deep despair over the past several years, she felt a shift. “It modified my life, and it is modified Orlando’s life and lots of of my mates’ lives,” Perry stated. “It helped me re-wire how I take into consideration myself and the habits and patterns of why I do one thing. It is simply given me much more freedom.”

The American Idol choice added to PEOPLE that she was now not “scared” to carry a baby into the world and stated, “I am glad that I acquired to examine off a variety of packing containers personally and professionally earlier than I acquired to this place.”

“Unconditional love has been a journey for me, and that is going to be superb,” she added.

Perry additionally opened up about her method to motherhood with PEOPLE, joking, “I am the three Fs: I am an enjoyable, agency, however honest. That is how I roll,” earlier than she shared how she is assured that she’ll be the disciplinarian when their daughter is older.

“He is gonna be the good cop, and I am gonna be the dangerous cop. I already realize it,” she added, referring to herself and the Pirates of the Caribbean star. “It is gonna be effective. Perhaps it’s going to flip for the teenage years, and I am going to get the teenage years.”

“I will be cool, mother, you understand? Like in Imply Women, [I’ll] be like, ‘Heeey!’ “Perry continued, shouting out queen bee Regina George’s mother (performed by Amy Poehler) within the 2004 iconic teen comedy.

Though Perry couldn’t have anticipated welcoming her first baby throughout a worldwide pandemic, each she and her fiancé are excited for the following chapter of their lives collectively.

“I suppose most likely why I am so late, or not late. However, 35 and having a baby is as a result of I used to be terrified of getting a baby. I used to be like, ‘I do not understand how to do that. It’s going to break,’” she stated in the latest interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

“I am not very maternal. I’m, in a method, however in the case of crying and disappointment and that sort of stuff,” she continued, noting that she needed to do a “ton of labor” earlier than feeling “prepared” for motherhood.

The “Teenage Dream” singer went on to elucidate that she and Bloom have been “each acutely aware of” having a child. “We have been each prepared. It was no mistake,” she stated.