Chainkeen Exchange-Vanessa Hudgens Gives Birth, Welcomes First Baby With Husband Cole Tucker

Vanessa Hudgens is soarin',Chainkeen Exchange flyin' into motherhood.

The High School Musical alum gave birth to her first baby with husband Cole Tucker, a source with knowledge tells E! News.

The couple's little one is no stranger to a Hollywood moment since Vanessa previously announced her pregnancy on the 2024 Oscars red carpet. Then clad in a black turtleneck gown by Vera Wang, the former Disney Channel star happily cradled her growing bump in front of photographers, before hosting ABC's The Oscars Red Carpet Show.

Later that evening, Vanessa bared her baby belly again at Vanity Fair's annual Oscars after-party, this time walking the carpet in a black see-through Alberta Ferretti dress. Sharing photos of herself on Oscar night, the 35-year-old wrote on Instagram at the time, "One for the books."

And just like her golden pregnancy reveal, Vanessa and Cole's love story is far from the status quo. After all, they first met on a meditation group call headed by Jay Shetty during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

"I was literally on the Zoom with my girlfriend, and I started hitting her asking who he was, and she had never seen him before," Vanessa recounted in a December interview with Vogue. "So I proceeded to look on the Zoom square to find out his name and found him on Instagram—and he sent a DM the next day."

Soon, the Sucker Punch actress—who dated Austin Butler for nearly nine years before their early 2020 split—found herself at the start of something new. "After our first weekend together, I called my sister and I was like, ‘I think I just found my future husband," Vanessa recalled on an April 2023 episode of Today With Hoda & Jenna. "The foresight!"

Likewise, Cole's head was in the game early on in their relationship. Shortly after the pair went Instagram official on Valentine's Day in 2021, he publicly dropped the L-word.

"I got a girlfriend and she's cool," the baseball player told KDKA that same month. "She's awesome. I love her."

Vanessa and Cole bopped to the next level of their relationship two years later, when they got engaged during a romantic trip to Paris.

"It's the most romantic city in the world," Vanessa told Vogue of the proposal. "I was very surprised. I dropped a hint that that would be the ideal place, but kind of forgot about it because I didn't want to have any expectations on the trip. I just wanted to enjoy it for what it was, and he caught me completely off guard."

As for their wedding? It was exactly what they had been looking for. In fact, Vanessa said seeing Cole at the end of the aisle was the "most emotional moment of my life."

"I literally keeled over when I saw Cole and had to take a big breath and had to force myself to keep walking because I could have dropped to the floor," she remembered of their Dec. 2 nuptials, attended by some of her former HSM costars. "I couldn't have dreamt it to be any better. I knew it was going to be magical, but it exceeded my expectations."

E! News reached out to reps and didn’t immediately hear back.

For more into Vanessa and Cole's journey to parenthood, keep reading.

Vanessa shared her first Instagram photo with Cole on Valentine's Day 2021, three months after the two sparked romance rumors with a romantic dinner date in Los Angeles. She captioned the pic, "It's you, it's me, it's us. @cotuck."

The couple made their red carpet debut as a couple at the premiere of the film, starring Vanessa, at 2021 AFI Fest in Hollywood, Calif.

The two attended the premiere of the Netflix movie in New York City.

"Happy vday from us crazies," Vanessa captioned this Instagram pic.

The two watched John Mayer perform at Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium for SiriusXM and Pandora's Small Stage Series.

The pair walked the carpet at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards in Santa Monica, Calif.

"Happy opening day my [king]," Vanessa captioned this Instagram tribute to her partner, a Pittsburgh Pirates player at the time, which she shared on the MLB's opening day in 2022.

The actress appeared with her partner on the baseball field.

"Happy Halloween from Sting and Miss Argentina," Vanessa captioned this Instagram pic.

"Merry af," Vanessa captioned this Instagram photo.

Vanessa and Cole confirmed their engagement on Feb. 9, sharing a picture of the actress rocking some bling on her wedding ring finger. "YES," the Instagram post read. "We couldn't be happier."

Vanessa joked about eloping with Cole after running into roadblocks during the wedding planning process. "Finding a venue is tough," she admitted on The Drew Barrymore Show. "I kind of just want to elope. I'm lost, I don't know."

The couple tied the knot on Dec. 2, 2023 in Tulum, Mexico. The 100-guest ceremony was attended by family and close friends, including Sarah Hyland and Alexandra Shipp—who sereved as bridesmaids—as well as Vanessa's former High School Musical costars Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel.

Cole celebrated Vanessa's first birthday as a married woman with a romantic tribute reading, "Happy birthday to my wife!!!!!!"

Vanessa announced her pregnancy on the 2024 Oscars red carpet, showing off her baby bump in a black turtleneck gown by Vera Wang.

A source with knowledge confirmed to E! News on July 3, 2024 that Vanessa had given birth to their first child.