Alexandra Daddario Shares First Photo of Herself Postpartum as She Cuddles with Her Newborn Baby: ‘Never Felt More Proud’

Alexandra Daddario is honoring her body after she welcomed her first baby.

On Wednesday, Nov. 13, the White Lotus star, 38, shared the first photo on her Instagram with her baby as she took a moment to reflect on what her body has endured since giving birth. Wearing gray shorts and a tan bra, Daddario held her baby, who slept soundly in a striped shirt and brown pants.

“I play a witch on TV and gave birth on Halloween, but nothing could have prepared me for the magic, and scares, of postpartum,” Daddario wrote in her caption. “THIS is what it looks like for me 6 days after giving birth to my magical little baby.”

“Women’s bodies are amazing and I’ve never felt more proud of mine. So much love to all the new moms out there leaning into their new powers (and new @fridamom undies)! #fridamompartner.”

On Halloween, Daddario shared that she had welcomed her first baby with husband Andrew Form, announcing the exciting news on Instagram.

“I thought this was a weird bowl of candy,” Daddario captioned the Oct. 31 post. The photo showed her newborn swaddled in a blanket covered in mini candies, the perfect nod to the spooky holiday. The actress has yet to share her baby’s name or sex.

Daddario is also stepmom to Form’s two kids, Rowan and Julian, whom he shares with his ex-wife Jordana Brewster.

In July, Daddario announced with Vogue that she was expecting her first baby with Form after nearly four years together.

The outlet shared that the Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief alum had been keeping her pregnancy under wraps for six months. Vogue also posted the announcement on its official Instagram account, sharing several pictures of Daddario cradling her baby bump.

Daddario told Vogue that she was “overjoyed” to be pregnant, going on to share she previously experienced a pregnancy loss. “Well, I had been pregnant,” she said, adding, “I had loss.”

“It’s long and complicated, so I don’t want to be too specific,” she continued. “Those kinds of losses and trauma are very hard to explain unless you’ve been through them. I really relate to all the women who have been through those kinds of things in a way that I didn’t understand fully before. It’s very, very painful.”