Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi welcome their second baby
By Amarachi Orie, CNN
(CNN) — Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi have welcomed their second child, a year after adopting their first baby.
The couple shared an image of baby hands holding onto theirs in a joint Instagram post on Thursday, with the caption, “hi little guy!”
A “mom” ring can also be seen on one of Brown’s fingers.
The new addition comes just over a year after the 22-year-old “Stranger Things” star and the 24-year-old model and actor announced they had welcomed a “sweet baby girl through adoption.”
Their second child has also joined the family through adoption, People magazine reported. CNN has contacted the couple’s representatives.
Brown has spoken publicly about her experience of motherhood and her adoption journey.
The British actress, who was aged 21 when she adopted her first child, said on the “Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce” podcast in June that she “always wanted to adopt” and that it was “always part of my childhood dreams.”
While she said giving birth to a child would “hopefully, one day” be in her future, she added that “for me, adoption was always part of my future. Adoption is love. Adoption is forever.”
Brown said she “took so many courses” in adoption beforehand, adding that she went to school for two years to be a social worker before switching to being a vet, and “the aspect of adoption in my social work courses were… so, so meaningful and important.”
The hardest part of adoption, she said, is “waiting for the call.” She advised others who are pursuing adoption not to compare themselves to other families. “Your baby’s out there and you’ll find each other,” she said, adding it was “something that I prayed for every night.”
Brown, who married Bongiovi, the son of the rock star Jon Bon Jovi, in 2024, said that she’s “having the most amazing time” being a mother.
“It’s like going from black and white to color,” she added. “It’s just – everything feels complete and perfect in every way.”
The actress, who began her career by the age of 9, said that raising a daughter specifically is a “huge responsibility” since, coming from her experience of having “a really public childhood and getting criticized as a girl and as a woman so frequently, I just take it very seriously to raise a girl that can be proud of who they are and be confident.”
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