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Zooey Deschanel weds Jacob Pechenik, welcomes baby girl

Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel, pictured in September 2014. Kevin Winter / Getty Images

LOS ANGELES — Zooey Deschanel is now a wife and mother.

A spokeswoman for the 35-year-old entertainer confirmed Tuesday that Deschanel recently married Jacob Pechenik and gave birth to the couple’s “beautiful, healthy” baby girl.

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Publicist Lauren Auslander provided no other details.

Deschanel is best known as the Emmy-nominated star of TV’s New Girl. She also writes and performs music with the indie folk duo She & Him and co-founded the popular website HelloGiggles.com.

Pechenik is a film producer whose credits include The Skeleton Twins and Rock the Kasbah.

It’s Deschanel’s first child and second marriage. She divorced Death Cab for Cutie rocker Ben Gibbard in 2012.

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