The Iron Man star announced the happy news via his Facebook page, which of course, being Robert Downey Jr, came complete with jokes:
“After 9 months of intensive development, Team Downey is pleased to announce our 2014 fall/winter project.
Yep … Avri Roel Downey joined the party @ 3:22 a.m. on November 4th … she’s 7 lbs even, spans 20 inches, and is accompanied by a variety of Susan’s traits that have seemingly overwritten my ‘junk DNA.'”
Robert, 49 and his film producer wife Susan, 40 married in 2005 after meeting on the set of the 2003 thriller Gothika. Susan originally turned down Robert’s advances as she feared it would merely be a fling and their relationship wouldn’t go the distance after filming completed.
Robert proposed to her the night before her 30th birthday though they’ve been together for over a decade as they now add the cherry on top of their relationship – a baby daughter.
There were plenty of Iron Man jokes amidst the flood of congratulations that poured in from fans on Facebook. The most popular ones included:
“Behold! The Iron Maiden has arrived!”
“Congratulations to the Downey family. I’d hate to be the person who tries to date her in 15 years and has to meet the parents. “This is my dad, Ironman”
It sounds like the proud new Dad’s photo collection is already growing out of control as he also posted that:
“Principal photography commenced 11-14 and will continue until she says, ‘Dad! You are embarrassing me…I’m 30, this has gotta stop.’
I’ll post pics here + there when I’m not too busy staring…”
We can’t wait to see all the photos of Avri in her full glory! Many congratulations to the happy couple!
Robert’s Facebook announcement was met with a flood of congratulations from fans.
