Actor Millie Bobby Brown announced Thursday that she's adopted a girl pinch her hubby Jake Bongiovi, nan boy of vocalist Jon Bon Jovi.
Brown, 21, revealed nan news successful a station connected Instagram, saying nan take occurred "this summer." The "Stranger Things" and "Enola Holmes" prima did not see nan sanction of nan kid aliases immoderate photos.
"We are beyond excited to embark connected this beautiful adjacent section of parenthood successful some bid and privacy," nan station said.
The mates joined past year, 3 years aft going "Instagram official" arsenic a mates successful 2021. She said connected "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" that Bongiovi proposed while nan mates were diving underwater together.
Brown was incapable to vocalize her answer, aliases consequence swallowing water, truthful she gave an OK motion pinch her manus instead.
"I deliberation it was underwhelming but we freaked out," Brown said.
In an question and reply earlier this twelvemonth connected nan "SmartLess" podcast, Brown said that she and Bongiovi had hopes for a ample family successful their future. She noted to nan hosts — actors Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett — that her parents were 19 and 21 erstwhile they had their first child.
"Of people I want to attraction connected really establishing myself, arsenic an character and arsenic a producer," Brown said. "But I besides find it's truthful important to commencement a family, for maine personally, it's a immense thing."
She explained that being a mother was thing she ever dreamed of and that nan mates don't needfully attraction really that happens.
"For me, like, I don't spot having your ain kid arsenic really immoderate different successful adopting," Brown said. "I consciousness for illustration ... my location is afloat of emotion for anyone aliases anything."
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