Coco & Ice-T's baby arrives early: Meet Chanel!

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Carolyn Robertson

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Coco and Ice-T have one very big reason to be thankful this week: Their baby girl is here!

The couple announced this weekend that they welcomed their daughter on Saturday, November 28 at 11:47 a.m. - a little ahead of her December due date.

“Surprise!!! Look who came early!! Welcome the new arrival of Chanel Nicole,” Nicole “Coco” Austin, 36, wrote on Twitter. “A beautiful healthy 5.7 pound baby girl.”

Proud papa Ice-T also shared the news with his fans and followers, sharing this sweet shot of baby Chanel on Twitter along with caption, "Ladies and Gentlemen! Please allow me to introduce to the World.... Baby Chanel 5.7 pounds. Love is Love."

Chanel is the first baby for Coco, but the third for Ice-T, 57, who also has adult children Tracy and Letesha.

While Coco loved being pregnant - "I could be pregnant for the rest of my life," she recently gushed - it wasn't always easy. It wasn't morning sickness or exhaustion that made these past months difficult, though. It was the constant criticism she faced over the size of her bump. Some even speculated that the pregnancy was a hoax and that Coco and Ice-T were actually using a surrogate.

Just last week the new mom admitted that she was "irritated" by the speculation, pointing out that because she's very fit and has strong abs it just took longer for her belly to pop.

“I’m going through pregnancy in my own way and I’m carrying small. I’m carrying the way my body wants to carry it and I’m not using anybody else... So I got irritated," Coco said, adding that the response "just boggles my mind."

Now that little Chanel is here, Coco and Ice-T both seem eager to take on the challenge of parenting.

“I think it’s time. I think I’m in that stage in my life where I need this. I’ve done everything in my life pretty much career-wise and... I’ve been in a happy marriage for 15 years. We planned it. We organized it out,” she says. “A lot of people don’t plan families, Ice and I planned it, and it’s time for me to make this big jump.”

Congratulations to them!

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