Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, 60, becomes dad for third time as he welcomes first child with wife Melody Ehsani-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro

Flea and his wife Melody Ehsani are over the moon following their little arrival (Picture: Getty)

Congratulations are in order for Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, as he and his wife are parents!

The bassist – real name Michael Peter Balzary – and Melody Ehsani, 42, welcomed their first child together on December 12, making the 60-year-old musician a dad to three.

Flear already shares 34-year-old Clara Balzary with ex-wife Loesha Zeviar, and 17-year-old Sunny Bebop Balzary with model Frankie Rayder.

Speaking at the premiere of his new film Babylon, he shared his happy news.

‘I’m very happy,’ he told E! News.

Flea joked: ‘I haven’t been doing a lot of sleeping.

Flea and Melody wed in 2019 after a one-month engagement (Picture: Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)

‘But I’ve been doing a lot of floating on a cloud of love.’

People magazine also quoted him saying last week ahead of their arrival: ‘I love being a dad, and I can’t even believe that I’m about to have another baby.’

The musician married fashion designer Melody in 2019, in a Los Angeles ceremony one month after their engagement.

The fashion designer announced her pregnancy in July with a playful bump selfie (Picture: Instagram)

The couple are now a family of three, while Flea fathers two children from previous relationships (Picture: Instagram)

Sharing a gushing tribute to his second wife after tying the knot, Flea wrote on Instagram: ‘My life has changed forever and I am eternally humble and grateful.

‘The person who sees all of me and knows who I am. My wife.’

Meanwhile, Melody wrote: ‘This weekend I got to marry my best friend. Surely, my best collaboration to date…you’re my whole heart’.

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Then, in July this year, the lovebirds announced that they were expecting their first child.

‘I’ve put on a couple pounds 😅’, she joked on social media, alongside a snap of her growing bump.

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