Watch: Millie Bobby Brown Has Adorable Twinning Moment With Baby Girl in New Photo
Millie Bobby Brown couldn’t wait to have kids and, when the opportunity arose for her and husband Jake Bongiovi to become parents, she didn’t have to count to 11 before making a decision.
“Jake knows how important it is to me,” the Stranger Things actress said on a March 2025 episode of Smartless, noting that her spouse was the one who said marriage had to come before the baby carriage. “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.”
Then 21, Millie acknowledged she was “still really young.” But since her mom was 21 when she had her first child…
So came the news in August that Millie, now 22, and Jake, 24, had adopted a baby girl, the couple sharing that they were “beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.”
And as she celebrates her first Mother’s Day, they’ve managed to nurture their family of three—not including the dozens of animals that also reside on the couple’s Georgia farm—on their own terms.
Even as she embarked on a big press tour last year, Millie deftly kept the excitement that swirled over the final season of Stranger Things (and what really happened to Eleven) separate from her own state of bliss.
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“For me, it’s really important to protect her and her story until she’s old enough to potentially one day share it herself,” she told British Vogue in November of her daughter. “It’s not my place to purposefully put her in the spotlight unwillingly. If she chooses to share her personality one day with the world, like I did when I was young, that’s something we’d support. But right now, as she’s so little… As her parents, it’s our job to protect her from that.”
Hence Millie only sharing fleeting glimpses of her daughter on Instagram in adorable but otherwise unidentifiable ways.
But talking about motherhood is another story, as the Florence by Mills founder has plenty to share about how much life has changed for the better.
Calling this her “most authentic era,” Millie explained to Allure, “Being a mother expedited this version of me. Nothing could get in the way of me being who I need to be for my daughter.”
She wants her child to see her practicing self-care, she explained, though, “You have to do everything 10 times quicker, and you don’t really get to do your gua sha in the morning.”
Instead, she’s been trying to spent more time nurturing her relationships with both her loved ones and herself.
“I have to talk to myself kindly,” Millie explained, noting how easy it is to “talk badly about yourself and your body” out of habit. “After becoming a parent, I couldn’t imagine talking about myself like that anymore, because she’s going to watch me do that.”
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And, if life continues to go according to plan, Millie’s audience is only going to get larger.
“I really want a big family,” she said on Smartless. “I’m one of four, he’s one of four. So, it is definitely in our future. But for me, I don’t see having your own child, you know, as really any different as in adopting…My home is full of love for anyone and anything.”
Which includes animals, Millie quipping that people in their community thought she was pregnant at one point because she was buying so many bottles and diapers for their rescues.
Though she recently posted a photo that indicated her dog Winnie is starting to accept the tiny human in their midst, Millie said on The Tonight Show in December that sharing her territory with a baby had been “a hit to the ego” for the pup.
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As for Jake, whom she wed twice in 2024—once to make it legal and again in Tuscany to make it exquisite—he’s shown up as advertised.
Getting married “is such an important decision,” Millie told Vanity Fair last year, “and we wanted to make sure we were making the right one. I knew I was. It always felt right with him.”
And sure enough, he turned out to be “the most amazing dad,” according to his wife.
“We are 50-50 on everything,” Millie told Vogue. “That’s why I’m so grateful to have partnered with him in this life.”
Being parents together was “a beautiful, amazing journey,” she said. “Perspective is a huge thing. The smaller things in life are so much more precious. Our days are filled with lots of cuddles and laughter and love. It’s just endless joy.”
And while they’re holding on to what they’ve got, see Millie and Jake’s love story in photos:
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Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
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Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
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