The Ellen DeGeneres Show child star Sophia Grace Brownlee is officially a mom of three.
Brownlee, 23, announced via Instagram on Friday, October 16, that she welcomed daughter Ariella Bleu on October 4, sharing photos of herself holding the newborn next to a pair of balloons.
Brownlee announed in June that she was expecting her third baby.
“We are so excited to meet you 🤍,” the influencer wrote via Instagram, sharing maternity footage in which she showed her eldest children ultrasound videos. She also added “Pregnant,” “Pregnancy,” “Mom of 3” and “3 Family Siblings” hashtags to her announcement.
Brownlee, who rose to fame dancing to Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show, welcomed son River in March 2023. Her daughter, Athena, followed in December 2024. (Brownlee has never publicly identified the father of her children.)
“I was quite young when I had River. I was 19, which I do feel like is quite young,” Brownlee recalled on the “Private Story” podcast in February. “I don’t regret, like, doing anything because I’m quite happy with where I am now. When I had Athena, I was 21, which is a bit more older.”
She added at the time, “It’s obviously young to have kids, but I don’t really think there’s a right age to have kids as long as you’re ready and you’re mature enough, that’s all that matters.”
For Brownlee, she felt “financially stable” enough to have a family because of her childhood career earnings.
“If I wasn’t, like, I would have been struggling a lot,” she acknowledged. “So, yeah, I’m blessed to have been in that situation.”
The social media star has since found her footing with motherhood after an admittedly scary childbirth experience.
“It actually went quite bad with River. It wasn’t a nice experience,” she recalled on the podcast earlier this year. “I went into labor naturally, and I was just a week early, which is common. That’s not a problem, and everything was fine. It just, kind of, got bad when you’re actually trying to push the baby out. He was getting really stressed out, and he just wouldn’t come down properly like how [babies] are supposed to. Loads of different doctors and surgeons [came into my room], which is so scary.”
Brownlee ended up having an emergency C-section after doctors told her River was “getting distressed.”
“I was just so scared that they were going to put me to sleep ‘cause that is one of my biggest fears because I think I’m not going to wake up,” she said at the time, also revealing that she had a vaginal birth with Athena. “Because I had a C-section, they were like, ‘We’re going to book you in for another one.’ That’s what they like to do, but the midwives were, like, ‘No, we think you can have her naturally, so at least try.’ I did, and it went so quickly. … I was so proud of myself, and I was glad I got to experience a natural birth.”
