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Nicole Richie, 26, and Joel Madden, 28, welcomed their first child, a baby girl, on Friday (January 11). Harlow Winter Kate Madden was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, weighing 6 pounds and 7 ounces. Madden told People magazine, ‘We are very blessed she’s healthy and beautiful and so good already, we are very happy.’

Nicole Richie, the socialite daughter of singer Lionel Richie, is perhaps best known for costarring with Paris Hilton in the reality show “The Simple Life.” Last year, she spent 82 minutes in jail after being convicted of driving under the influence of drugs. She was arrested in December 2006 after witnesses reported seeing her Mercedes-Benz SUV headed the wrong way on a freeway in Burbank.

Richie, and Madden, of the rock group Good Charlotte, started dating in December 2006, shortly after the rocker’s relationship with Hilary Duff ended. The adopted daughter of singer Lionel Richie, Nicole had been romantically linked to entrepreneur Brad Salyn and DJ AM prior to dating Madden.

The couple are not married, although Madden told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show in mid-September that he had plans to marry Richie. Madden — who saw his marriage-proposal secret slip after Regis Philbin spilled the beans on his own show — told Seacrest, “Obviously, marriage is in our future. I don’t know when or where or how, but right now our priority is our family and is the baby. That’s all we’ve been thinking about. We are in love and are really happy.” He added, “I already went to Target and got a stroller and a playpen.”

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