Millie Bobby Brown adoption news broke on 17 September 2026, when the actor and Jake Bongiovi confirmed via Instagram that they had welcomed a second child through adoption. The post, shared jointly by the couple, showed them holding their newborn’s hand, with Brown captioning it simply: ‘Hi little guy.’
A Second Adoption in Under a Year
The news came less than a year after the couple first went public with parenthood. In August 2025, they announced their first adoption through a joint Instagram post. ‘This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,’ they wrote. ‘We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.’ They signed off: ‘And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi.’
The second adoption was confirmed on Instagram by the couple themselves, hours after the news first surfaced. People was among the first to report the arrival. The couple have been consistent in one thing: they are doing this on their own terms, keeping the details of their children’s identities firmly private.
Millie Bobby Brown on Why Family Came First
Brown had spoken openly about wanting to become a mother long before either adoption. On the Smartless podcast, the Enola Holmes star traced the desire back to childhood. ‘My mom actually had her first child at 21, and my dad was 19. And you know, it’s been my thing since before I met Jake. Since I was a baby, I told my mom, like, baby dolls. I wanted to be a mom just like the way my mom was to me,’ she said.
She was candid about the balancing act too. ‘Jake knows how important it is to me and, of course, I want to focus on really establishing myself as an actor and as a producer, but I also find it’s so important to start a family for me personally. It’s a huge thing.’ The interview took place before Brown and Bongiovi married, and she recalled Bongiovi’s position clearly: ‘Jake was like, we cannot do that until we get married. So that was his thing.’
Those words now carry extra weight. Two children in under a year, both through adoption, is a clear statement of intent from a couple who had already mapped this out well in advance of making it public.
The first announcement drew attention for its tone as much as its content. No birth photos, no hospital corridors, no staged reveal. Just a post, a short statement, and a firm boundary around their children’s lives. The second follows the same pattern: a hand, a caption, and very little else given away. Whether that discipline holds as the family grows will be worth watching, but for now the couple seem settled on exactly how much they want to share.
Brown’s comments on the Smartless podcast also underlined that parenthood was never an afterthought around a career. She spoke about acting and producing as parallel ambitions, not competing ones, and framed starting a family as equally non-negotiable. Two adoptions in quick succession suggests that framing was genuine.
The couple’s family now stands at four. Their first child, a daughter welcomed in the summer of 2025, has now been joined by a son. Beyond the caption and the image of a small hand, the couple have offered nothing further, which, given everything Brown said on that podcast, is precisely the point.