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Ozzy Osbourne's legacy lives on.
Seven months after the Black Sabbath vocalist died at the age of 76 from Parkinson's disease, his and Sharon Osbourne's son Jack Osbourne welcomed a baby daughter with wife Aree Gearhart, and the couple named her Ozzy Matilda Osbourne.
In his March 11 Instagram post, Jack reported that little Ozzy was born on March 5 and weighed 7 pounds and 12 ounces. The child even slept with a toy bat plushie, an apparent homage to his late father biting the head off a bat while performing onstage in 1982.
Aree, for her part, published the footage on Instagram Stories with the caption, "Our Ozzy Matilda Osbourne has landed earthside." Plus, the mother-daughter duo bonded in matching pink pajamas in another snapshot.
Three months earlier, Jack—who is also the father of daughter Maple, three, with Aree, as well as daughters Pearl, 13, Andy, ten, and Minnie, seven, with ex-wife Lisa Stelly—announced that he and Aree were expanding their family and mentioned how it was helping him cope with the death of his father.
"It's been partly a healthy distraction, partly healing—probably in that kind of 'full cycle' category, in a weird way," he told The Sun on Sunday, December. "It's very much taken energy out of the grieving side of things and parked in a bit more hopefulness."
And the 40-year-old said he was able to tell the "Paranoid" rocker—also father of Aimee Osbourne, 42, and Kelly Osbourne, 41, with Sharon, as well as Louis Osbourne, Jessica Osbourne, and Elliot Osbourne with ex-wife Thelma Riley—about Aree’s pregnancy before his death.
"We're really excited. "It was sort of planned, I should say," Jack explained. "It was maybe a little earlier than expected."
He went on: "But it's definitely something that we were wanting to pursue and somehow it happened, miraculously."
