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Actress Alexa PenaVega<\/strong><\/a> and husband Carlos PenaVega<\/strong><\/a> announced their baby girl died during childbirth in joint Instagram statements<\/a> on Monday, April 15. Their daughter was couple\u2019s fourth child.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are never the right words to say when it comes to loss, After a beautiful and peaceful delivery our daughter \u2018Indy\u2019 was born at rest,\u201d the pair began. They did not reveal the date of the delivery.<\/p>\n \u201cIt has been a painful journey. But in the pain, we have found peace. God continues to comfort and hold us in his arms,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n Alexa, 35, and Carlos, 34, went on to describe their baby. \u201cThis little girl has already changed our lives in so many ways. She was absolutely beautiful. And looked just like daddy. Dark hair and all,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t understand why things like this happen and we may never get those answers. Indy Rex PenaVega, you completely changed our world. You gave us the community we have been longing for. We love you [and] can\u2019t wait to see how many other lives you change,\u201d the couple concluded.<\/p>\n Alexa last shared a picture of her pregnant bare baby bump<\/a> on March 19 in an Instagram mirror selfie, although she did not say how close she was to giving birth. She and Carlos announced in November 2023 that baby No. 4 was on the way.<\/p>\n The actress, then known as Alexa Vega, first gained fame playing Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids<\/em> film franchise<\/a> starting in 2001, and has worked steadily throughout her career, eventually transitioning into numerous Hallmark Channel films.<\/p>\n Carlos, then known as Carlos Pena, also got his Hollywood start young, as a cast member on Nickelodeon\u2019s Big Time Rush<\/em>.<\/p>\n The couple met at Bible study in 2012 and began dating, shortly after Alexa\u2019s divorce from film producer Sean Covel<\/strong>. They married in 2014 and combined their last names into PenaVega. Alexa and Carlos went on to welcome three children<\/a>, sons Ocean, 7, and Kingston, 4, as well as daughter Rio, 2.<\/p>\n Alexa and Carlos are mainstays on The Hallmark Channel, starring together in such films as Love at Sea<\/em>, Enchanted Christmas<\/em>, Love in the Limelight<\/em>, Never Too Late to Celebrate<\/em> and the Picture Perfect Mysteries<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cThis industry was not built for families. If anything, it\u2019s the opposite. You leave for six months, usually the family stays behind. And it\u2019s really hard. I don\u2019t know how you raise kids that way. I don\u2019t know how you keep a marriage strong that way,\u201d Alexa told Southern Living<\/em> in 2022.<\/p>\n She continued, \u201cWe always said, if we can, we\u2019re going to work together on every project. And if we can\u2019t then the other one will not take a project. And we\u2019ll just tag along. That way family is never separated. Hallmark has just been so accommodating with that and anytime there\u2019s an opportunity for us to work together, they bring it up. And if there isn\u2019t, they fly the whole family out and we\u2019re together anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n