Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a baby girl today, the first child for the former Miss World and her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan.
Abhishek Bachchan tweeted this morning “It’s a girl!!!!! :-)))))”, while his father, the Bollywood legend, Amitabh Bachchan tweeted “I am DADA to the cutest baby girl”.
The birth for the star couple, who married in 2007, has generated much interest in India, with bets of as much as R1.5 billion ($29.5m) reportedly placed on whether the child would be born on November 11 or not.
Aishwarya delivered the child at Mumbai’s Seven Hills Hospital.
