‘Enola Holmes’ Star Millie Bobby Brown Quietly Welcomes Second Baby

Millie Bobby Brown has spent years balancing a rapidly expanding acting career with a genuinely private personal life, marrying Jake Bongiovi in a quiet ceremony back in May 2024 after years of dating out of the public eye. The ‘Stranger Things’ star has consistently made clear that family has always mattered deeply to her, long before she and Bongiovi welcomed their first child together.

That commitment to family took its first public step in August 2025, when the couple announced they’d adopted a baby girl, sharing the news directly on Instagram with a simple, heartfelt message about beginning their next chapter in both peace and privacy. They kept virtually every detail private at the time, including their daughter’s name, choosing to protect their growing family from public scrutiny.

Now, just over a year later, that family has grown again. Brown, 22, and Bongiovi, 24, have welcomed their second child together through adoption, a source confirmed to People on Thursday, September 17, marking the couple’s second time expanding their family this way.

Brown and Bongiovi have yet to publicly confirm the arrival of their newest addition, and additional details about the baby haven’t been revealed. That silence tracks with how the couple has handled parenthood from the start, having never publicly shared their first daughter’s name or many specifics about her.

Fans may have already caught an early glimpse of the family’s growing size without realizing it. Earlier this month, Brown shared footage from a family vacation in the Dolomites, Italy, posted to Instagram on September 7, showing her carrying her daughter while walking alongside an alpaca. In the same video, Bongiovi appeared beside her with what looked like a second baby strapped to his chest in a carrier, though the child’s face remained obscured from view.

Brown has spoken openly in the past about wanting a large family and about adoption specifically feeling like a natural path to parenthood for her. During an appearance on the “SmartLess” podcast, she reflected on how important starting a family felt to her personally, noting that her own parents had her at a young age and that she didn’t see having a biological child as fundamentally different from adopting.

“I feel like my home is full of love for anyone or anything,” Brown said at the time, describing her outlook on building a family through adoption. That sentiment echoed through the couple’s original announcement of their first daughter’s arrival, where they described feeling “beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy,” closing the message with the simple line, “And then there were 3.”

Brown and Bongiovi, the son of musician Jon Bon Jovi, first sparked dating rumors back in 2021 after meeting on Instagram, later making their red carpet debut together in March 2022. The couple got engaged in April 2023 before marrying in their private May 2024 ceremony, building toward parenthood together over the course of several years before officially becoming a family of three, and now apparently four.

Brown has continued balancing that family life with an active career, with the fifth and final season of ‘Stranger Things’ set to premiere later this year, closing out the show that first made her a household name nearly a decade ago.

With representatives for the couple not yet commenting publicly on the reported second adoption, fans will likely have to wait for Brown and Bongiovi to share more details on their own terms, consistent with how they’ve handled every major family milestone so far. For now, the news marks yet another meaningful chapter for a couple who’ve made clear that privacy remains just as important to them as the family they’re building.

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