Amanda Holden Shows Off Baby Daughter

Amanda Holden poses with her husband Chris and two daughters Lexi and Hollie

1:42am UK, Monday February 06, 2012

Amanda Holden has revealed the first picture of her new baby daughter and shown she is well on her way to recovery after her traumatic birth.

The star, 40, almost died when she gave birth to her second child a fortnight ago and had to spend several days in intensive care.

But she has shown she is moving on by releasing the first picture of her larger family, which shows baby Hollie being cuddled by her sister Lexi, six.

Holden and her husband, record producer Chris Hughes, sit either side of their two children and flowers and cards to celebrate the new arrival can be seen behind them.

Hollie was born by Caesarean and weighed just over six pounds.

Amanda with her daughter Lexi, now six

Her mother, the Britain’s Got Talent judge, was thought to have needed a blood transfusion and was in a critical condition following the premature birth.

She had recovered enough to be allowed home last week and is aiming to return to Britain’s Got Talent by next weekend.

The couple have expressed their gratitude to medical staff for their “skill and dedication” to enable them to pull through.

A spokesman said last week that Holden and Hughes are “completely besotted with their two girls”.

The actress had been in good health during the pregnancy until she was suddenly admitted to hospital.

She lost a child last year seven months into the pregnancy and suffered a miscarriage in 2010.

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