Made In Chelsea star welcomes second child just days after getting married
Made In Chelsea star Victoria Baker-Harber has welcomed a baby girl with her husband Inigo Philbrick, just a year after they married in a 'quickie ceremony without guests'
Made In Chelsea's Victoria Baker-Harber has joyfully announced the arrival of her second daughter, just a year after her whirlwind wedding to her husband following his prison release. The reality TV star, who joined the E4 series in 2011 and quickly became known for her fiery attitude and close bond with Mark-Francis Vandelli, took to Instagram to share the delightful news.
She revealed that she had given birth to a baby girl named Astra. This comes only a year after Victoria hastily married her husband Inigo Philbrick, two months after he was released from prison for an £80m art fraud conviction.
Sharing the birth announcement on Instagram, Victoria wrote: "Welcome to the world our beautiful little angel girl! Astra August Philbrick, May 5th 2025, 7Ilbs 5oz. You have already made us the happiest people on this planet."
Congratulatory messages poured in for the former reality star and her newest family member. Victoria and Inigo tied the knot in a swift ceremony without guests last Monday, following his two-year stint of a seven-year sentence for defrauding wealthy clients, forging documents and faking an investor.
After officially becoming husband and wife, the couple, who also share three year old daughter Gaia, said they planned to celebrate with loved ones once Inigo's electronic tag was removed. Their marriage is part of a plan to secure an American visa for Victoria, who is half British, half Australian, with the former E4 reality star admitting in a recent interview.
In a twist of fate, Inigo was arrested in 2020 when Victoria was five and a half months pregnant with their daughter. He was sentenced two years later and released last month to home detention in New York, where he reunited with his young family.
Speaking to the Sunday Times Magazine last year, Inigo confessed that he didn't feel any guilt about breaking the law. He said: "There are a lot of people who look at it and say, Look, I didn't kill anyone; I didn't do anything violent in any sort of way. Beyond that, the people who are involved in my case... no one missed a meal; nobody didn't send their children to university. I don't think that anyone in this whole story is guilty of much more than greed and ambition. I don't think any good business happens without ambition, and I think greed is a natural human state. I'd feel a lot more guilt if I had been drink-driving or if I'd been selling drugs and someone had died."
The former gallery owner added that he would have no problem being transparent about his crimes with three year old Gaia because 'a lot can be learned' from his experience.
Victoria met Inigo in 2016 on a friend's yacht in the Mediterranean when the father-of-two was still with his ex-girlfriend, with whom he shares another daughter. She pledged to stand by him throughout his prison sentence, calling Inigo the 'love of her life'.
Inigo has declared that his time behind bars only deepened his affection for Victoria, even getting a 'V' tattoo inked on his chest by a fellow inmate as a testament to their bond. Victoria, who first graced our screens with her sharp wit and no-nonsense demeanour on E4's Made In Chelsea in 2011, later joined Inigo in a BBC documentary exploring his fraudulent past and stint in prison—a project she reveals was actually his brainchild.
Chatting to the Mail last year, Victoria shared: "I'm doing a documentary. It's about my fiancé and his time in prison. It's wild... He's all for it. It was his idea."
She continued, defending her husband-to-be: "He didn't murder anyone. He put his hands up and admitted what he did do, and takes full responsibility and accountability, but everyone makes mistakes."
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