Millie Bobby Brown Quietly Expands Her Family With a Baby Boy After Italy Holiday Clip Tipped off Fans

Millie Bobby Brown has adopted a baby boy, her second child in just over a year, confirming the news on 17 September with a quiet Instagram photo of clasped hands after an Italy holiday clip tipped off fans.

The 'Stranger Things' star, 22, and her husband, Jake Bongiovi, 24, shared a single image of the family's hands, the newborn's fingers wrapped around theirs, set to Guns N' Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine.' 'Hi little guy!' Brown wrote, wearing a gold ring spelling 'Mom.' She did not show the baby's face.

The Italy Clue That Fans Spotted

Speculation had built since 7 September, when Brown posted holiday footage from Italy showing Bongiovi walking beside her with a baby carrier strapped to his chest while she held their daughter. Fans read the second carrier as a hint, and they were right.

People first reported the adoption hours before the couple's own post, citing a source close to the pair. Brown and Bongiovi, who married in May 2024, welcomed their first child, a daughter, through adoption in August 2025. Neither child's name nor face has been made public.

A Second Adoption in Roughly 13 Months

The pace is the story. Two adoptions in roughly 13 months, both handled with near-total secrecy, make one of the world's most-followed young actors a rare public face for adoption among her generation. Brown will not turn 23 until February.

For American couples weighing when and how to start a family, her choices land differently than a typical celebrity birth announcement. She is not framing adoption as a last resort or a medical necessity. She presents it as a first choice, made twice, before age 23.

Adoption as a First Choice, Not a Fallback

Brown has said as much for more than a year. On the 'SmartLess' podcast in March 2025, she told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett that she does not 'see having your own child as really any different' from adopting, adding that her home is 'full of love for anyone or anything.'

She returned to the theme in June on the 'Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce' podcast, where she said adopting her daughter had turned her life 'from black and white to colour'. 'Adoption was always a part of my future. Adoption is love. Adoption is forever,' she said, while noting she still hopes to carry a child 'one day.' Both she and Bongiovi come from families of four, and she has said she wants a big family.

Farm Life Over the Spotlight

The growing family lives on a farm in Georgia, where Brown filmed 'Stranger Things' from the age of 10 and chose to stay after the show wrapped its final season. She told British Vogue the state feels most like 'home,' and the couple keep more than 40 animals on the property.

That distance from Los Angeles fits her wider retreat from fame. Brown, the youngest-ever Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, has said protecting her children's privacy matters more to her than any public milestone. For now, she plans to share only a photo of four linked hands.