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Dani Harmer exclusively introduces her 'beautiful' baby girl Avarie-Belle

Former Tracy Beaker star and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Dani Harmer, 27, has introduced her beautiful baby girl Avarie-Belle for the first time with an exclusive photoshoot and interview in HELLO!.

Speaking of her firstborn with boyfriend Simon Brough, 25, the actress reveals: "I just feel the most happy I've ever felt in my entire life. We're in a complete little love bubble."

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Dani and Simon with their beautiful baby girl Avarie-Belle

However, the delivery of their daughter - whose full name is Avarie-Belle Betsy Rachel Brough – was not all plain sailing, after a gruelling three-day labour left her exhausted and having a "traumatic" emergency caesarean.

"I was devastated. I cried a lot," she recalls. "My birth plan was literally "birthing pool, whale music, no drugs, let's just try and be really hippy about it and do some breathing" – but it just turned into the complete opposite… Once she'd come out I started to regain feeling, so I could feel literally everything they were doing.”

Celebrity friends have already been in touch to offer their congratulations to the new parents. Former Strictly dance partner Vincent Simone "can’t wait" to meet Avarie. "Hopefully Avarie will have a bit of rhythm… then we can send her off with Uncle Vincent and he can teach her a bit of ballroom!"

And Girls Aloud star Kimberley Walsh, who just last month revealed her second pregnancy in HELLO!, "was overjoyed" to hear of Avarie's arrival, says Dani.

And it looks as though wedding bells may not be in the too-distant future. "I'm really keen on that, but I want to do it right," says Simon. "I want to build a much better relationship with her father in particular and I want to ask, man to man, and I want him to feel confident that it's a good choice. I just feel it’s the right thing to do."