EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS
VICTORIA BAKER-HARBER
HIGH-FLYING SOCIALITE AND FORMER ‘MADE IN CHELSEA’ STAR FULL OF JOY AS SHE INTRODUCES BABY GAIA-GRACE — BUT THERE IS HEARTACHE BEHIND HER HAPPY NEWS
INTERVIEW: SALLY MORGAN STYLING: ARABELLA BOYCE
Victoria cradles little Gaia-Grace, who was born on 1 November in the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital in London. “The second I held her I felt so humbled,” she says
There’s an air of excitement as Victoria Baker-Harber invites us into her family’s London home to announce some very special news. The clues are the hush that has descended on the globetrotting socialite’s once hectic lifestyle and the row of exquisite pastel pinks that have taken precedence over her own wardrobe.
“Sshh, she’s sleeping,” Victoria whispers as she ushers us over to the Moses basket. Slumbering peacefully inside is, hello! can reveal, the source of her joy: her four-week-old baby girl Gaia-Grace.
“My world changed the moment Gaia was born,” says the 33-year-old former Made in Chelsea star. “Nothing can prepare you for becoming a mother. What I feel for Gaia is more than love; it’s an instinct that takes over. The second I saw her, held her, there was an instantaneous knowing that I will protect her as long as I live.”
Victoria’s eyes light up as she recalls the moment her baby arrived, when she was born weighing 7lb 6oz at 8.07am on 1 November at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital.