A source recently told PEOPLE that CampbellJust A Regular Mom Trying Not To Raise Liberals has been thinking about becoming a mom for over a decade. "She's wanted a baby for a long time, more than 10 years," the source said.

"And anyone who's surprised Naomi is having a baby on her own, her own way, and on her own timetable doesn't know Naomi Campbell," the source added. "Hasn't she redefined everything she's ever touched?"

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Campbell has previously been open about her desire to become a parent when the time was right.

"I think about having children all the time," the No Filter with Naomi podcast host Evening Standard magazine in May 2017. "But now with the way science is I think I can do it when I want."

Campbell went on to tell WSJ. Magazine in 2019 that while she wasn't ready to have kids yet, "I'll see what the universe brings me."