Chilean President, Gabriel Boric, has announced that he will soon be a father with his partner.
The Latin America’s youngest leader who couldn’t contain his excitement made the announcement on Wednesday night.
In a joint post around midnight on Instagram with his girlfriend, Paula Carrasco, the 38-year-old leftist president shared a photo of an ultrasound image of the baby.
“While we are waiting for you… we will do our best to make sure you can live in a fair and happy Chile,” they said in a post that received over 300,000 likes by Wednesday morning.
Boric would be the first president of the socially conservative, Catholic-majority country to have a child without first being married to his partner.
Carrasco, 30, is an environmental chemist working in Chile’s Ministry of the Environment, as well as a professional basketball player with the country’s national team.
Boric had met her in October last year when the Pan American Games were held in Chile, and they made their relationship public in September 2024.
Carrasco is the president’s second girlfriend since he took office in March 2022.
His previous partner was Irina Karamanos, a political scientist and sociologist, who briefly took on the role as first lady before resigning less than a year later.
She and Boric broke off their relationship in November 2023.
