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Victoria Johns

Love Island's Montana Brown gives birth to baby boy as she shares sweet name and first photo

Love Island's Montana Brown has given birth to a beautiful baby boy.

The reality star, 27, announced the happy news on Instagram, sharing a black and white picture of her bundle of joy.

Montana's adorable photo shows the tot sleeping peacefully as he lays on his mum's chest.

Love Island star Montana then announced she has called her son Jude Isaiah O'Connor in the caption.

She announced: "Welcome to the world Jude Isaiah O’Connor we’re so smitten with you little man 23.06.23".

New mum Montana also shared the photo on her Instagram story and gushed: "The light of our life has arrived".

Montana and her fiancé Mark were flooded with messages of congratulations in the comments.

Molly-Mae Hague wrote: "Oh wow congratulations mon".

"Congratulations," penned Zara McDermott followed by a string of red heart emojis.

Montana Brown shared the first photo of her adorable son (@montanarosebrown1/instagram)
The Love Island star gushed: 'The light of our life has arrived' (Montana Brown/Instagram)

And Vicky Pattison added: "Congratulations beautiful girl".

Montana revealed she was expecting a baby with her partner Mark O'Connor on Christmas Eve.

She met her beau on New Years Eve in Barbados in 2020, but said their relationship was more of a slow burn than a cacophony of fireworks.

"People assume it’s a romantic story because we met on New Year’s Eve and kissed at midnight," she told OK! magazine earlier this year.

"But we didn’t initially like each other. We went on dates, but there was no spark or fireworks.

Montana Brown has given birth (Instagram)

"We got along well and I realised he was a man of his word. I’d had experience with unreliable men, whereas I trusted Mark from the get-go."

The proud parents found out the gender of their baby at a lavish party in March.

The pair kissed as they were showered in blue confetti before celebrating with guests at 17th century Huntlington House in Worcester.

Montana danced barefoot as she twirled around near the indoor pool following a sumptuous spread laid on for friends and family.

The TV star was quickly congratulated by her showbiz pals, with TOWIE's Amber Turner and Chloe Meadows sending their best wishes.

Montana has been candid about her pregnancy journey and in March revealed she'd been rushed to hospital.

Updating her fans on Instagram, she shared a series of photos of her hospital trip – including one of herself with a monitor strapped to her bump and others showing boyfriend Mark supporting her.

The TV star then told her followers she was 'grateful' everything was OK, but had suffered a 'nerve wracking experience'.

She wrote: "Definitely so emotional when you overthink what’s going on in your body and movements differ between days.

"I had reduced movements which were all explainable but it’s so nerve wracking when it’s your first time going through it all. So thankful for the wonderful NHS and really glad we decided to go with a local hospital rather than in London."

Days before announcing the arrival of her son she admitted she was feeling "irritable" in a candid post.

She posted a sassy TikTok video of herself miming along to the words: "I set the rules and you follow them, blindly, OK?

"And if you have a problem with that then you can talk to our complaint department."

Writing on top of the tip, Montana quipped: "When my partner tries to suggest anything that I don't want to do during pregnancy".

She then added in the caption: "pregnant and very irritable poor Marky".

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