Congratulations are in order for Robyn Lawley and Everest Schmidt.

The 25-year-old Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model (named the magazine’s first “plus-size” model) and her partner welcomed their first child – daughter Ripley – on Feb. 26, she announced via Facebook.

“CONGRATULATIONS! Robyn Lawley and Everest Schmidt welcomed the arrival of their new beautiful healthy baby girl Ripley on Thursday 26th Feb,” the post, which was retweeted by Lawley on Twitter, read.

“The new family are doing great, everyone is healthy, happy and looking forward to spending quiet time with their precious new little human,” the statement continued. “Ripley is just the epitome of contented perfection, big big love guys XXX.”

During a recent interview with Cosmopolitan, Lawley admitted that her pregnancy was unplanned and she considered having an abortion.

“I talked to so many women for advice,” she shared. “I spoke to a lot of career women that I respect who chose their careers over babies and had abortions. Even my mom had an abortion in her early 20s that I didn’t [previously] know about. Women have always been expected to raise the child, but now it’s great because dads are more involved. I know my partner’s going to be a great dad, so that takes some of the pressure off. Another reason I kept the baby was because I was worried about possible fertility problems down the road. What if I aborted the baby now and in five years time, I wouldn’t be able to have one? That was my biggest fear.”

She added: “I am pro-choice. I donate to NARAL every year. I always thought it was a very easy decision to make, to get an abortion. I thought if you need it, you can get it. I thought it’d be so easy! I’d just walk in there, and it’d be done so quickly, but then I called them and heard the process and thought this is a serious, full-on thing. I decided then that I wanted to keep the baby. Had I been in a different circumstance, without a partner or had I been raped, the decision could have been different. When you’re actually confronted with the possibility of an abortion, it’s an immensely hard decision. If people think this is an easy decision to make, they’re grossly mistaken.”

She went on to talk about her main reason for keeping the baby.

“I still think planned pregnancies are better for society or [for parents to have] a deep want of the child,” she shared. “There’s so many deciding factors [in having a child], but my main reason was that I chose Everest as my life partner years ago. He and I discussed kids often, so although it was sooner than we thought, we always knew we would have one together. I just had to decide if 25 was OK to do it.”