Welcome to parenthood. Amanda Knox introduced the arrival of her first baby with husband Christopher Robin on Friday, October 22.
The couple saved the delivery of their daughter, Eureka Muse Knox-Robinson, underneath wraps because of privateness considerations — till now. “I’m nonetheless nervous in regards to the paparazzi bounty on [my daughter’s] head,” Knox, 34, instructed The New York Instances on Friday. “I’ll say I’m excited to not need to maintain pretending not to be a mother. ‘Trigger it’s like, my mind is simply there.”
The Ready to Be Heard writer shared a photograph of the new child through Instagram the identical day, defined that it “would be the solely image of her I ever share on social media.”
Within the caption, she famous, “Since my exoneration, I’ve struggled to reclaim my identification and shield the folks I really like from being exploited as tabloid content material. It’s not straightforward, and I usually really feel like I’m making an attempt to invent good decisions out of unhealthy complete material. I do know that I can’t one hundred pc shield my daughter from the form of therapy I’ve suffered, however I’m doing the perfect I can.”
The “Reality About True Crime” podcast host concluded by thanking those that wished her and Robin “effectively on our journey to parenthood. Thanks for believing in us.”
Knox is greatest identified for her exoneration by the Italian Supreme Courtroom after being wrongfully accused of the homicide of her former roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. The Washington native and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito had been finally discovered not responsible of the crime in 2015.
Knox noticed many similarities between her expertise and Matt Damon’s July film, Stillwater — however tweeted that she was not consulted forward of the movie’s launch.
“Does my identify belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story?” Knox wrote through Twitter on the time. “Why does my identify check with occasions I had no hand in? I return to those questions as a result of others proceed to revenue off my identify, face and story with out my consent. … I’ve not been allowed to return to the relative anonymity I had earlier than Perugia. My solely possibility is to sit down idly by whereas others proceed to distort my character or battle to revive my good popularity that was wrongfully destroyed. It’s an uphill battle. I most likely received’t succeed. However I’ve been right here earlier than. I do know what it’s like dealing with not possible odds.”
When she and Sollecito, 37, had been exonerated in 2015, the Scarlet Letter Studies host subsequently acquired engaged to Colin Sutherland. She went on up to now Robin after splitting from her longtime good friend.
Robin proposed to Knox in November 2018. They went on to tie the knot in February 2020 in Washington.
In July of the next 12 months, the couple opened up in regards to the “Labyrinths: Getting Misplaced With Amanda” podcast host’s latest miscarriage, which was “hang-out[ing]” Knox.
“I believed I knew precisely what I need to do with my first being pregnant and [to] have it not come to fruition, not by way of selection, felt like a betrayal,” she instructed listeners on the time. “Do I’ve unhealthy eggs? Am I too outdated? Did one thing occur to me whereas I used to be in [prison in] Italy? As quickly as I realized it wasn’t alive, I attempted to divorce these two concepts in my head, that was not my child, it doesn’t have a reputation. … I don’t know that child, I don’t suppose I ever will.”
Knox went on to say, “I don’t know who that child was. I don’t know if I’ll ever know. It’s a bizarre thought. We sat with the miscarriage for some time, making an attempt and failing to be OK.”
The next month, Knox and Robin introduced they had been anticipating by sharing a clip of themselves ready to search out out the outcomes of a being pregnant check. “Thank goodness!” Knox could possibly be heard yelling. “We did it!”
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