Millie Bobby Brown Reportedly Adopts Second Child With Jake Bongiovi

On the bridge in Italy’s Dolomites, Millie Bobby Brown held their older daughter against her hip while Jake Bongiovi walked beside her with a baby carrier strapped across his chest. Alpacas moved with them through the trees. On September 7 she posted the carousel and video to Instagram under four plain words: Different in the dolomites.

The face of whoever rode in the carrier never entered the frame. That single choice held the post together. The replies filled with the same question asked from every angle. Do they have 2 kids now?? Millie has the little one but Jake seem to wear a baby wrap. Do they have other baby? Commenters treated the closed carrier and the daughter already in Brown’s arms as evidence the household had quietly doubled. No name appeared. No second face turned toward the lens. The couple left the speculation sitting unanswered in the comments, the newest child still unseen.

On September 17, 2026, People reported that Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi had welcomed a second child through adoption. A source familiar with the family gave the magazine the news. Brown is 22. Bongiovi is 24. The source released no name, no birth date, and no sex for the newest child. Those same details had never been released for the first child either.

They were a family of four before either parent reached 25.

Representatives issued no confirmation of their own. The magazine’s account stood as the sole public word. The second adoption arrived less than a year after the couple became parents and roughly two years after they married. No arrival month and no further particulars crossed into the open record. Both children remained unnamed. Both remained unseen.

They had married on May 24, 2024, first in a private ceremony and later with a celebration in Tuscany. Bongiovi is the son of Jon Bon Jovi. In August 2025 they announced the first adoption themselves, posting a joint statement to Instagram over both their names.

“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. And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake.”

The post gave no name and showed no face. It recorded only that a daughter had arrived through adoption and that the chapter would be kept private. After the child came home, Jon Bon Jovi spoke about the meeting that made her part of the wider family. “They got married really young, but we blessed it because we get it. They are mature beyond their years,” he said. “They adopted a girl, and we met the baby obviously, and immediately that becomes your grandchild, your baby.”

In November 2025 Brown told British Vogue she would not reveal her daughter’s name. The choice belonged to the child once she was old enough to make it herself.

“For me, it’s really important to protect her and her story until she’s ready to decide for herself,” she said. “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.”

That job sealed the name, the face, the birth date, and the sex. Brown had drawn the line while the child was still an infant. Nothing in the months that followed moved it.

In June 2026, on Kylie Kelce’s Not Gonna Lie podcast, Brown traced how long the wish to adopt had already been hers. “I always, always wanted to adopt. It was always part of my childhood dream,” she said. “Every time I was at home and I was, you know, 5, 6 years old, my parents were like, ‘You had your baby dolls.’ They were all adopted. I never had any of them myself. And I never pretended I was pregnant.”

The dolls stayed adopted. That was the game she chose at five and six, long before any public career, long before the wedding or the first joint Instagram post. A month later, on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast in July 2026, she returned to the same ground. Social-work courses had only confirmed what the dolls had already taught her.

Brown had never framed adoption as a second choice or a temporary measure. The childhood rule had simply scaled up. Of biological motherhood she said, “It’s not because I don’t want that. Hopefully one day that’s in my future.”

Brown’s last theatrical release was The Electric State. She also appeared in Enola Holmes 3. The roles kept her visible on screen while she and Bongiovi kept both children out of view. After People published its September 17 account, Brown and Bongiovi released no joint statement of their own. Their representatives gave no confirmation and issued no official statement. The magazine’s source, described only as someone familiar with the family, remained the only public account of the second adoption.

The only image still available was the September 7 clip from the Dolomites. Bongiovi walked with the baby carrier across his chest. Brown held their older daughter. The second child’s face stayed out of the frame.