Claudia Schiffer

Update: Schiffer and Vaughn have named their baby girl Cosima Violet, the model’s rep announced Tuesday. The couple chose to wait to release the name until their families had met the new born.

Originally posted May 15: It’s a girl for Claudia Schiffer, who delivered her third child via c-section on Friday, May 14 at Portland Hospital in London.

“Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Vaughn are proud to announce the birth of their baby daughter who was born on Friday May 14 in the early afternoon,” the couple’s rep said in a statement.

“Both mother and baby are doing well.”

The baby girl, whose name has yet to be released, joins siblings Clementine, 5½, and Caspar, 7.

Supermodel Schiffer, 39, is currently appearing on the June cover of German Vogue.

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Claudia Schiffer

Claudia Schiffer gave birth to her third child, a girl, on Friday in London.

The baby joins Caspar, 7, and Clementine, 5, Schiffer's children with husband Matthew Vaughan, a film producer whom she married in 2002. According to a report in German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the supermodel, 39, is expected to reveal the baby's name in the coming week.

The baby was delivered in London's Portland Hospital.

"I am much more self-confident today," Schiffer said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag shortly before giving birth, "because of my children and my husband. I know what I am doing, what I want [and] I am in control of myself."

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