Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi got married in May 2024 and welcomed their daughter through adoption in August 2025. They were 21 and 23 at the time, and had been vocal about wanting to start a family. They’re both adamant about protecting their daughter’s privacy, but Millie has shared stories about her over the last year. She’s also talked about being a working mom and wanting more children. Earlier this week, Millie posted an Instagram video of her holding their daughter and Jake seemingly wearing a baby carrier. Fans speculated that their family had grown and they were right. A source exclusively confirmed to People that they are now a family of four. From People:
Millie Bobby Brown is a mom of two!
The Stranger Things alum, 22, and her husband Jake Bongiovi, 24, have welcomed their second baby together through adoption, a source tells PEOPLE.
Representatives for Brown and Bongiovi could not be reached.
Brown recently shared a hint at her growing family in an Instagram post on Sept. 7.
The actress shared a video in which she could be seen holding her daughter while Bongiovi walked alongside her with a baby carrier strapped to his chest. The view of their newest addition was obscured as the couple strolled with alpacas in the Dolomites mountain range of Italy.
Nearly one year ago, Brown announced that she and Bongiovi had welcomed their first daughter together.
“This summer we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption. We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy,” she wrote in an Instagram post in August 2025. “And then there were 3.”
Congratulations to Millie, Jake, and Big Sister Bongiovi. I saw the Instagram post she made from the Dolomites, but completely missed that Jake was wearing a baby carrier. I should have read the comments! It looks like they had a beautiful vacation. I would love to visit the Dolomites one day. While it’s great to see Jake holding the baby, he better start carrying those baby bags too. Going from one to two kids is a big adjustment and they’re going to have twice the amount of baby stuff.
When Millie and Jake didn’t immediately comment after the news broke, I wondered if the family vacation post was her official announcement. I was prepared to wait until Millie was promoting something to get more information. I didn’t have to wait that long. On Thursday evening, Millie made a post welcoming her “little guy.” Welcome, Little Brother Bongiovi!
Photos credit: MediaPunch/Backgrid, Getty Images for Netflix and via Instagram/Millie Bobby Brown
Normally I would side eye such a young couple having 2 kids, but it sounds like they’ve gone through the entire adoption process twice now and are truly good parents who are extremely capable. Very happy for them both! Millie seems extremely grounded and self aware.
MTE! I’m thrilled for their family and really pulling for these two to make it.
I’m thrilled for them but I thought the adoption process took years and years , longer than they’ve been married. So this surprises me. Unless the process isn’t as long as I thought.
Either way congratulations to the beautiful family.
I read they went through one of those fancy adoption agencies celebrities use – so definitely not the same process (length or otherwise) as us plebs. But hey, congrats to them and their little ones! Wishing them health and happiness in this mad world
Thank you Danbury. I appreciate the insight. I remember Sandra Bullock talking about it taking years for her to adopt Louie so the quickness they do it is surprising, but I guess if you go through a fancy private adoption agency the timing is condensed. But happy for them and those kids having a happy home..
Adoptive mom here.
The process is the same no matter what – you have to have all the background checks, social service visits, etc.
Birth mothers pick the families for their children these days (in the US).
My husband and I went live on the adoption website in October, were picked in December and had our son in March. It can move VERY quickly depending on how far along the birth mother is.
@Bean – Maybe this is a dumb question because I think there are videos involved, but would the birth mother have known these were celebrities? I imagine that might have helped in the selection process.
Someone in my life gave up a baby as as a teen about 30 years ago. They picked the parents from a binder, so they knew they were picking fairly affluent homes, and then they did an in person interview, but they never knew the actual names of the adoptive parents.
They seem genuinely happy, but I’m concerned she didn’t have much of a childhood or young adulthood (either because she was working and supporting her entire family or now, because she’s child-rearing at such a young age).
While I’m still a little weirded out by such a young couple adopting and how that’s even legally possibly, we still don’t know if the first or both adoptions were familial or something similar to that, or if they were through a regular adoption proceeding. And, honestly, that’s none of our business.
Adoption has many problems that adoptees have written about but it still feels to me like a better way of having children than surrogacy, so I’m glad they, as public people, are doing adoption instead of that.
If they weren’t rich they’d be too young to rent a car. But as much as I side eye nepo kids, money does make a huge difference. It’s the number one stress factor in young families (in most families but especially starry eyed kids who aren’t prepared for the stress). And Jake’s family is close knit. So money and family support go a long way to a successful family life.
Obviously it’s fine to start a family this young, but I strongly expect that this might go the way of Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner. They just do not seem like a long-term couple to me.
yeah there’s a legit possibility they’ll split someday and she’ll return to England, but there’s two big differences: 1. Joe Jonas was a controlling abuser. I don’t think that’s happening here. 2. Millie has lived in the U.S. since early childhood. Sophie moved to the U.S. as an adult. Their childhood stardom took very different paths.
I wish this young family all the luck but as a young mother/wife (19 YO) myself, they are likely not going to go the distance. I changed so much and was divorced by 25, but MBB has money to insulate her if things don’t work out.
My parents had me at 19 and 20 respectively and just celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary.
It can go the distance, especially with support and help.
Another factor is Millie’s parents. Are they still demanding to be supported by her for life? Do they ever help HER? Did she get married to have someone protect her from her parents? To get support from good in-laws?
@Bean that is your experience but not all adoptions are that way. There are multiple ways to adopt; some adopt through fostering; emergency placement; private adoption agencies; religious adoption agencies and other nonprofit agencies; etc. Not every birth mom picks the people she wants to adopt her child and many adoptions are still closed with neither the birth or adoptive parents knowing much about each other.
Can one theoretically use multiple avenues? If money is no object and you’re pursuing the unicorn of a “healthy white baby,” would using multiple avenues speed the process?
Even without fame, I suspect being a wealthy, white , straight couple greases the wheels a bit too. My friend mentioned above saw anonymous profiles in a binder but as a teenager tried to pick the home they wished they’d come from.
The human brain is not fully developed until 25, right? So put me in the camp of Americas should not be able to do non-familial adoptions until 25.