Karen Gillan is officially a mommy to a girl!
The Guardians of the Galaxy The 37-year-old actress revealed on Instagram on Thursday, January 2, that she welcomed her first child with her husband. Nick Kocher at the end of 2024.
“Thank you 2024 for giving us Clementine 🍊,” Jilan shared alongside a cute series of photos revealing baby Clementine for the first time. In one picture, the Scottish-born actress is seen holding her newborn, who is lovingly resting his head on his mother's shoulder. Another photo shows Kocher holding Clementine. The third photo shows the new parents holding mugs that read “Best Dad” and “Best Mom Ever.”
Gillan continued in her caption: “Also like the last slide – I made a movie called 'Let's Be Kids' right when I was having a hard time in real life, so take that. Daniel Day-Lewis“. In the last slide of Gillan's post, she is seen on the set of a movie, sitting at the foot of the bed of the person she is about to give birth to.
The previous one Doctor Who star her baby debuted last September at the red carpet premiere of her film, Chuck's lifeat the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The actress wore a yellow bodysuit and clutched her stomach as she posed for photos with him at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Chuck's life costars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tom Hiddleston.
Gillan married Koher in May 2022 after the couple secretly tied the knot at Castle Toward, Scotland.
during the 2023 performance Lives with Kelly and MarkGillan revealed she met her husband through social media, saying an “algorithm” brought them together after seeing him on Instagram's suggested friends list.
“I sent him a message on Twitter saying, 'Hey, your tweets are really funny. I'm Karen, by the way,” Guardians of the Galaxy star shared at the time. “It wasn't very interesting. I hadn't really read his tweets.
For the most part, the couple has kept their relationship out of the public eye, although Gillan revealed in 2023 that she once attended a couples therapy session in her full nebula makeup during filming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
“In honor of Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters on Friday, here's a screenshot of the time I forgot I scheduled a COUPLES THERAPY session the day we were filming,” the actress, who plays the badass blue cyborg in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wrote via X at the time.