Brooke welcomes baby Grier

Actress Brooke Shields, who wrote a book about postnatal depression after having her first baby, today gave birth to her second daughter.

The 40-year-old actress and her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy, named their new daughter Grier Hammond Henchy.

Shields, who burst onto the Hollywood scene playing a child prostitute in the 1978 film Pretty Baby and went to star in her own television sitcom, Suddenly Susan, gave birth to her first daughter, Rowan, in May 2003.

Shields wrote about her emotional difficulties after the birth in the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression.

She described taking antidepressants, an admission that Tom Cruise criticised as part of his belief in Scientology. Shields said it was a "ridiculous rant" and a "disservice to mothers everywhere".

Shields, who previously wed tennis star Andre Agassi, married Henchy in 2001. Last year, she starred in the hit musical Chicago on Broadway and in the West End.