Dea Djurdjevic: Overjoyed We Brought Iris Home
Dea Djurdjevic posted on Instagram on August 3, her first update since leaving the hospital with her daughter, and confirmed the girl's name is Iris.
TV host Dea Djurdjevic posted on her Instagram on August 3, her first update since leaving Belgrade’s Narodni front maternity hospital with her daughter. The post also settled a question that had lingered since the birth: the girl’s name is Iris.
The message is short. There’s no photo of the baby in it.
They say deciding to have a child is a defining decision. It means deciding that for the rest of your life, your heart will walk around outside your body. I’m overjoyed that we brought our Iris home.
Djurdjevic wrote that in the post on her own account. The couple had left the hospital the day before, making this her first message from their family home.
The timeline moved fast:
- birth at Narodni front, no complications
- first photo posted online two hours later
- discharge from the hospital the day before the post from home
- post from the apartment confirming the name, on August 3
Who Named the Baby?
The baby’s name was chosen by her mother. That detail came from Dea’s husband Lazar, who otherwise avoids cameras and public appearances, at a family celebration the couple threw to mark their daughter’s birth.
There were tears of joy, I love her more than anything in the world, she’s the biggest fighter! My first impressions are fantastic, I’m the happiest man alive! Dea picked the name, and I held our girl right after she was born, but only briefly, five, ten minutes.
The same conversation revealed who found the birth itself tougher to get through.
I’ll tell you, I was more scared than Dea was! She handled it all with ease.
Lazar said that at the celebration, about himself, not about her.
The T-Shirt That Had Guests Laughing
At that family gathering, Lazar wore a T-shirt reading, “Go easy on Dad, he’s got a new boss now.” The line amused the guests and later made the rounds online, though it wasn’t from the trip to pick up his wife and baby at the hospital, it was from the family celebration itself.
For a man who has spent years steering clear of celebrity events, it was a rare public moment.
What She Said Right After Leaving the Delivery Room
Djurdjevic also posted just moments after giving birth, while she was still in the hospital.
Iris is here, I just walked out of the delivery room, everything’s great.
Later, she said more, talking about the hospital staff and the first days with her baby.
Everyone here at Narodni front has honestly been wonderful, this was the right choice for all of us. Everyone was amazing, I felt spoiled and cared for thanks to the whole staff. Thank you to everyone for the messages and calls. These people made my delivery so much easier. Mom’s here, mom’s not going anywhere.
She had already answered who the baby resembles back at the hospital, and we reported that comment earlier: the baby is a mix of both parents, but since she sleeps more calmly, she takes after her dad on that front. This time, posting from home, she didn’t mention her daughter’s looks again.
A Love Story That Returned After 15 Years
The story behind Iris goes back more than two decades. Dea and Lazar met in high school, when they were a couple, before life pulled them apart. They had no contact for 15 years.
They ran into each other again by chance over coffee, and the relationship picked back up. They married in secret, with no announcement and no photos released to the media.
The same approach is showing now. The name is public, the baby’s face isn’t. A host who regularly shares her day on Instagram has drawn the line exactly at her daughter.
What comes next is predictable: the first weeks at home, then the question of when she returns to television. She hasn’t answered that one yet.
