Macaulay Culkin and his girlfriend Brenda Song have been parents.
The couple welcomed their first child, a girl, who they have named Dakota Song Culkin.
The little girl was born on April 5 in Los Angeles, a representative for Culkin announced Monday.
"We are very happy," the couple said in a statement.
The baby is named after Culkin's late sister Dakota, who died in 2008 at age 29 from her injuries after being hit by a car.
Last February, Culkin spoke in
Esquire
magazine
about his desire to have a family with Song, his girlfriend of four years.
"We practice a lot," joked the 40-year-old actor.
“We are solving it, making time work.
Because nothing turns you on more than when your wife walks into the room and says, 'Honey, I'm ovulating.'
Song, who has appeared on
The Social Network
and on the ABC TV drama
Station 19,
previously told
Esquire about
his relationship with Culkin.
"You can't be around him and not be happy," he said.
Before his romance with Song, Culkin dated Mila Kunis for eight years before their relationship ended in 2011. Culkin also married actress Rachel Miner in 1998, but the couple separated two years later.
The actor's life seems to have balanced after years of turbulence due to his addictions and his relationship with his father.
Rich Kid
was the last film to star Macaulay Culkin before he temporarily fired from the cinema when he was 14 years old.
The story of a boy who had everything, whether it was a McDonalds all to himself or a personal trainer played by Claudia Schiffer, was not far from the actor's real life.
At the age of ten, he became the first child to charge a million dollars for a movie and from
My Girl
the sum was greater.
It was predictable that he would become a broken Hollywood toy.
His dark past, he says, is due to his father's attitude towards him and his brothers.
Kit Culkin tried to succeed as an actor and when he failed, he projected his frustration on his children, eight in all.
His father, whom he defined as an aggressive person, saw him as a thriving business when Home
Alone
was a huge box office success.
So he became his manager and greed led him to be one of the most influential and hated men in the industry, with constant threats to remove his son from projects if the father's whims were not met.
After the first installment of Home
Alone
, the actor worked on a dozen more films, his natural habitat being the filming sets.
Over the years, he got tired of that life and decided to face his parents, more concerned about the fortune of the young star - which was estimated at about 50 million dollars - than about the well-being of their son.
“There, guys.
I hope you have earned enough money because it is not going to come out of me anymore, ”a Culkin teenager told them, who became emancipated and did not speak to his father again.
Over time, Culkin has spoken openly about his life, but not about his relationship with his great friend Michael Jackson, with whom he was 22 years old.
A year ago he explained on the
Inside of You podcast
that their close relationship was probably due to the fact that both had suffered the ravages of fame since they were children: “No one around me had any idea what was happening and he had been through the same situation and he just wanted to make sure that I wasn't alone. "
Culkin testified on behalf of the singer during the child abuse trial of which the pop star was acquitted.
He said that he shared a bed with the singer and never felt uncomfortable or bothered, according to
The Washington Post
.
The actor maintains a close relationship with the Jackson family and is the godfather of the artist's three children.
