--- description: Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that he and wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a baby girl after three miscarriages. title: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Having a Baby Girl image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf292476a7c45c59/69885d642dce011d1e9e4dfb/gettyimages-458730082.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [facebook](/tag/facebook/) ## facebook Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Are Expecting a Baby Girl by [Benjamin Snyder / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Benjamin Snyder / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 31, 2015 5:51 PM CUT  Breakthrough Prize Founders Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (R) attend the Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony Hosted By Seth MacFarlane at NASA Ames Research Center on November 9, 2014 in Mountain View, California. Breakthrough Prize Founders Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (R) attend the Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony Hosted By Seth MacFarlane at NASA Ames Research Center on November 9, 2014 in Mountain View, California.Steve Jennings—2014 Getty Images by [Benjamin Snyder / Fortune](/author/fortune/) ## Benjamin Snyder / Fortune Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 31, 2015 5:51 PM CUT Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a baby girl, the couple [announced](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102276573729791&set=a.529237706231.2034669.4&type=1&permPage=1 "undefined") — where else — on Facebook Friday. “This will be a new chapter in our lives. We’ve already been so fortunate for the opportunity to touch people’s lives around the world — Cilla as a doctor and educator, and me through this community and philanthropy. Now we’ll focus on making the world a better place for our child and the next generation,” Zuckerberg wrote. Zuckerberg’s post also revealed that Chan, a medical school graduate, has had three miscarriages over the couple’s two-year quest to have a child. “You feel so hopeful when you learn you’re going to have a child,” Zuckerberg wrote. “You start imagining who they’ll become and dreaming of hopes for their future. You start making plans, and then they’re gone. It’s a lonely experience. Most people don’t discuss miscarriages because you worry your problems will distance you or reflect upon you — as if you’re defective or did something to cause this. So you struggle on your own.” But Zuckerberg said that Chan is “now far enough along that the risk of loss is very low and we are very hopeful.” “Cilla and our child are both healthy, I’m extremely excited to meet her and our dog Beast has no idea what’s coming,” said Zuckerberg. “In our ultrasound, she even gave me a thumbs up ‘like’ with her hand, so I’m already convinced she takes after me.” _Read next:_ [_Someone I Loved Was Never Born_](http://time.com/3596989/miscarriage-someone-i-loved-was-never-born/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3980527/zuckerberg-chan-pregnant-facebook/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3980527/zuckerberg-chan-pregnant-facebook/"},"headline":"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Are Expecting a Baby Girl","datePublished":"2015-07-31T17:51:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:06:13.656Z","description":"The Facebook CEO also revealed they experienced three miscarriages","url":"https://time.com/3980527/zuckerberg-chan-pregnant-facebook/","keywords":["facebook","Tech","Mark Zuckerberg","Pregnant","pubdesk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf292476a7c45c59/69885d642dce011d1e9e4dfb/gettyimages-458730082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Benjamin Snyder / Fortune"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf292476a7c45c59/69885d642dce011d1e9e4dfb/gettyimages-458730082.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony Hosted By Seth MacFarlane","caption":"Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony Hosted By Seth MacFarlane","creditText":"Steve Jennings—2014 Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/facebook/","name":"facebook"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3980527/zuckerberg-chan-pregnant-facebook/","name":"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Are Expecting a Baby Girl"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"An Interview with Mark Zuckerberg","description":"TIME managing editor Rick Stengel sits down with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg at his company's Palo Alto headquarters","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/OY4lvTU2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-12-15T12:43:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/OY4lvTU2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3980527/zuckerberg-chan-pregnant-facebook/","duration":"PT9M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3980527/zuckerberg-chan-pregnant-facebook/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```