Millie Bobby Brown and Husband Jake Bongiovi Welcome First Child Collectively

Millie Bobby Brown is a mother!

The Stranger Issues star, 21, and her husband Jake Bongiovi, 23, have welcomed their first child collectively by way of adoption, asserting the information on Instagram on Thursday, Aug. 21.

“This summer season we welcomed our candy child woman via adoption. We’re past excited to embark on this lovely subsequent chapter of parenthood in each peace and privateness,” she wrote within the submit. “After which there have been 3,” the brand new mother and father wrote in a joint submit.

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The pair — who sparked romance rumors in June 2021 when Bongiovi shared a selfie with the actress — first linked via Instagram. They “had been associates for a bit” earlier than they began courting, the actress instructed Wired in 2022. The couple then secretly married in Might 2024.

In October, the couple posted pictures on Instagram from their celebration at Villa Cetinale in Italy with household and associates. “Without end and at all times, your spouse,” the actress captioned the carousel, which featured pictures from their nuptials and Brown’s two beautiful bridal robes.

Bongiovi additionally shared his personal set of pictures on Instagram from the couple’s big day. “Without end and at all times, your husband,” he captioned pictures of the newlyweds. In his carousel, the couple may be seen exchanging vows beneath white floral arch. In different pictures, the pair smiles in entrance of rows of tall timber. Bongiovi additionally shared a shot along with his dad Jon Bon Jovi.

This previous March, the actress opened up about rising her household with Bongiovi whereas showing on an episode of the Smartless podcast. On the time, the actress mentioned she’s actually trying ahead to turning into a mother. “My mother truly had her first baby at 21, and my dad was 19. And you realize, it has been my factor since earlier than I met Jake,” Brown mentioned. “Since I used to be a child, I instructed my mother, like, child dolls. I needed to be a mother identical to the way in which my mother was to me.”

“And my nan, my grandmother is, she was an enormous a part of my life. And so, yeah, I imply, Jake is aware of how vital it’s to me and, in fact, I wish to deal with actually establishing myself as an actor and as a producer, however I additionally discover it is so vital to begin a household for me personally,” she went on. “It is an enormous factor. Jake was like, we can’t do this till we get married. In order that was his factor.”

The Electrical State star went on to say that she and her husband are planning on having a giant household since they each come from households with 4 children. “And my factor was, I actually desire a household. I actually desire a large household,” Brown shared. “I am one in all 4. He is one in all 4. So, it’s undoubtedly in our future, however, for me, I do not see having your individual baby, you realize, as actually any completely different as in adopting.”

Later that month, Brown mentioned “cherished” the expertise of shaving her head a lot, she desires to do it once more — particularly when she turns into a brand new mother. “I at all times inform Jake for my first child, I wanna shave my hair off,” Brown mentioned on an look on the the Name Her Daddy podcast. “I do not know. I simply really feel prefer it was actually liberating. Would counsel it for anybody, any woman.”

When Cooper pushed to verify that Brown would truly shave her head for her first child, the actress defined why she desires to — and when she’d do it. “Perhaps like proper earlier than I am about to offer start. As a result of I simply suppose hair is such an ordeal anyway to take care of,” Brown famous, saying she simply desires to “nurture” her child.

Brown added, “Why take care of my hair? I feel it is such a liberating expertise, wish to be a lady is, and I felt like I had that have as a woman, however I might wish to have that have as a lady.”