Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan are now parents to three daughters. Via Instagram, the Facebook co-founder revealed the birth of their newborn daughter and posted a picture with the ‘little blessing’ Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg.
“Welcome to the world, Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg! You’re such a little blessing,” he wrote in the caption. The post captures Zuckerberg smiling at his baby girl, while the second picture portrays Chan caressing Aurelia. Since being posted, the post has garnered over 10 lakh likes with congratulatory messages flowing in from netizens in the comments section.
Chan and Zuckerburg’s two other daughters are August, aged 5, and seven-year-old Maxima “Max”. The Meta CEO first announced Chan’s pregnancy in September 2022 announcing that Max and August will be elder sisters soon. For New Year’s, Zuckerberg shared another picture from his wife’s pregnancy journey with a snap of him cradling her baby bump and a toast to all the upcoming ‘adventures and love’.
Chan and Zuckerberg are college lovebirds, who started dating in 2003 after they met in a queue for the washroom at a party of the former’s Harvard University fraternity. They met when he was a sophomore and she was a freshman. The couple recently marked their 10th wedding anniversary by recreating a scene from their wedding day on May 19, 2012. “10 years married and half our lives together,” Zuckerberg captioned the picture.
A pediatrician and philanthropist, Chan pursued her medical education at the University of California after finishing her degree from Harvard University.
Zuckerberg and Chan are also co-founders of their nonprofit Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which primarily works in science, education, justice, and opportunity, facilitating housing affordability, criminal justice reform, and immigration reform.
