Sept. 19, 2026

At Just 22, Millie Bobbie Brown Welcomes SECOND Child With Hubby Jake Bongiovi

At Just 22, Millie Bobbie Brown Welcomes SECOND Child With Hubby Jake Bongiovi
At Just 22, Millie Bobbie Brown Welcomes SECOND Child With Hubby Jake Bongiovi
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At Just 22, Millie Bobbie Brown Welcomes SECOND Child With Hubby Jake Bongiovi

‘Stranger Things’ Actress Millie Bobbie Brown got married at 20, adopted her first child at 21 and has now adopted her second at the age of 22 alongside her husband, 24-year-old Jake Bongiovi. In the couple’s latest Instagram post, they confirmed they adopted a baby boy, Brown captioning the post with “Hi little guy!” showing Bongiovi and her holding hands with him. Brown is among a smaller fraction of women her age having babies these days, let alone adopting them. Just 3% of adoptive mothers are between the ages of 18 and 29, Brown saying that one day she hopes a pregnancy is in her future as well.

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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, September 19th. And right before we started recording this, I asked Robes, what's the big deal? And what's the big deal to what, you might ask? The big deal to a 22-year-old successful young woman already having two kids that she's adopted. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes, you got me straight. I get it. I get where we're coming from, but my first reaction... Good for her. Absolutely.

00:00:32
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bon Jovi. But if this is not what these aren't the headlines you hear when you hear 22 year old Hollywood stars, 24 year old singers, and certainly a legend's son, John Bon Jovi's son, they are already on baby number two. That is pretty remarkable. Two kids themselves, I would say very young, now just welcomed their second daughter via adoption. So they adopted their first baby last year in August of 2025, and now they have baby daughter number two in, they believe, August of 2026 or September of 2026. That is pretty impressive.

00:01:17
Speaker 1: That was my first reaction that, okay, I guess, Romes, where is my head in not finding it, even though I, granted, It is not the norm. I still didn't find it odd for some reason, and I was almost kind of wanting to celebrate it. I thought it was cool that a young woman, that a young couple has their ish together, that they seem to be focused on something this young. I thought it was cool.

00:01:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about Hailey Bieber and Justin Bieber young, and she's an unbelievable businesswoman, and obviously both of these two are successful in their own right, but I think about, look, I have a 24-year-old and a soon-to-be 21-year-old. The idea of them being like, married with two children is laughable to me. We've gotten away from that, that's the way it used to be. No, of course, they're doing their thing and they would laugh at it too. They would say, oh my God, you and I got married young. We both got married the first time when we were 23, but my mom was a mom of two at 21. That is unheard of these days. And in fact, when you talk about adopting children, like look, when you usually hear about young moms, let's be honest, it's because something happened with the birth control. It was not necessarily a planned pregnancy. An adoption is beyond a planned birth. That takes a ton of work, a ton of dedication, a ton of patience. And yes, they have means, but that is something that is a choice and deliberate and not something you, I mean, it is something you rarely see in a young starlet like that.

00:02:47
Speaker 1: But just take the population.

00:02:49
Speaker 2: Only 3% of adoptive mothers are between the ages of 18 and 29. 3% are between what?

00:02:54
Speaker 1: 18 and 29. Oh, the 29 number. Robe, that's a big... Here's the thing.

00:02:58
Speaker 2: Young women don't adopt. Exactly.

00:02:59
Speaker 1: Only 3% of adopted mothers are between ages 18 to 29, compared with 27% of biological mothers are between the ages of 18 and 29.

00:03:16
Speaker 2: That's the distinction. It's not just that she got pregnant and had two kids. That would still be pretty impressive and fairly rare. But to have adopted both of these children is exceptionally rare.

00:03:26
Speaker 1: She's choosing and wants to be a mom. And Robes, you said the number, just 3%, 18 to 29. She's 22. Robes- I bet the number, 18 to 22-year-olds that adopt.

00:03:38
Speaker 2: Oh, probably 0.025%.

00:03:39
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.

00:03:41
Speaker 2: And by the way, more than one half of all adoptive moms, guess what their ages are between what and what. So if you're a mom, you want to adopt or you want to become a mom, you want to adopt a baby, more than half of adoptive mothers are between what ages?

00:03:56
Speaker 1: Oh, 39 and 49. Pretty close, 40 and 44.

00:03:57
Speaker 2: So that age group between 40 and 44- 51% of all adoptive moms are in that four-year.

00:04:07
Speaker 1: That's a much smaller range than I thought it would be. Oh, man.

00:04:10
Speaker 2: But those are usually women who probably are past their prime in terms of their eggs. They don't necessarily, maybe they had trouble getting pregnant. They couldn't get pregnant naturally, and so they decided to adopt. That makes a lot of sense for that age group. But look, just in general, can you guess what the median age for a first baby in the United States is?

00:04:30
Speaker 1: This has been going up.

00:04:32
Speaker 2: It has.

00:04:32
Speaker 1: It's around 26, 27 now, isn't it?

00:04:34
Speaker 2: Pretty damn good, babe. CDC latest number 27.6. That's the oldest it's been. That is the median age for a woman to have, and that's to give birth to, get pregnant, her first baby. Or I guess adoptions are included in that as well. So by all accounts, this young woman, Millie Bobby Brown, is young.

00:04:55
Speaker 1: We're bucking the trend. More women are waiting... later to have babies. That has to do with opportunities that women are having in the workforce, but also with advances in medicine that allow women to wait later. That's awesome. So to hear a 22-year-old is making these decisions robes, not just getting pregnant, she's making decisions to be a young mother. Yes, that is worth examining.

00:05:24
Speaker 2: It is. And look, she has 70.6 million followers. So she is.

00:05:28
Speaker 1: Stranger Things was a big show, wasn't it? It really was.

00:05:31
Speaker 2: She is an icon, a role model. A lot of young women look up to her. And I looked at her birthday. She was born February 29th. Oh, she's a leap year baby.

00:05:40
Speaker 1: 2004.

00:05:41
Speaker 2: That's amazing. She was born in 2004 and she already has two kids.

00:05:46
Speaker 1: That is crazy.

00:05:47
Speaker 2: But look, she, um, she put this up on Instagram. Everyone went crazy different in the Dolomites.

00:05:52
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gorgeous.

00:05:53
Speaker 2: She's got, she's holding, um, the first adoptive daughter. And then it looks like Jake Bon Jovi has another newborn swaddled in his arms and this gorgeous Italian mountain chain in the background. And yes, it's a gorgeous photo. And you know what it, I, yes, I know it's romanticizing. I think that's the only thing I think about when I maybe see a young woman who looks to her. Most young women don't have their means, their financial situation, and probably their flexibility was scheduled because of all of that earned money. But it does romanticize this perfect family, these two gorgeous people with these two beautiful babies, and they're in the Italian Dolomites. Look, it's nice to have something that's different than the rest you're not looking at her with her lip flip and you know posing in a sexy bikini and you know doing all sorts of other things that we see influencers and young women do on so it is kind of wholesome and beautiful to see her present a very different image of what a 22 year old woman can look like you know.

00:06:57
Speaker 1: And i didn't piece it together in that way and you are so right we don't roams when it comes to influence oftentimes How do you want to influence young women? And it's often to buy this product because it'll make you look like this. To buy this product because it'll make your hair look like this. Buy this skirt because it'll make your butt feel, right? You just go on and on and on. You're influencing and appealing to these young women in very specific ways. And they're paying attention. Robes, give them another option. Give them another something else to see. A young woman, young love. You can be young and want a family and do it this way, right? You can even do it this way. She's showing a different way to do it. Robes, I didn't put enough emphasis on what you are saying. Just showing a different option.

00:07:42
Speaker 2: And I thought it was cool that she decided to adopt. I mean, obviously she's young and healthy enough and we have no reason to believe she can't have her own children. In fact, she was just on Kylie Kelsey's podcast and she talked about adoption. She said, it was always a part of my childhood dreams. She said, every time I was at home, I was five or six years old. My parents were like, you had your baby dolls. And I told them they were all adopted. I never had any of them myself. And I never pretended I was pregnant. She said, she's just always wanted to adopt a child. But she told Kylie Kelsey that, that she does hope that one day pregnancy is in her future. So it looks like she's given Angelina Jolie a run for her money. She's adopting, and then she said she would like to be pregnant one day too. I just think that's cool. It's just not something we see very often.

00:08:28
Speaker 1: I forget the order they did it in. Did she adopt and then had babies?

00:08:31
Speaker 2: Angelina Jolie adopted first. I think she had two or three adoptions and then ended up having three of her own with Brad. So that's what happened. But when we come back, we're going to go back because I had to scratch my head a little bit. She's 22, has two kids, and Jake's 24. When did they start dating? When did this all begin? So we'll get into their relationship history. And I wanted to share some really fun, awesome, supportive online support that she and Jake are getting. It's nice to see people saying positive things. Welcome back to Amy and TJ. I remember when I told you that Millie Bobby Brown is 22. She's already married and she's just adopted her second child. And you said, I mean, she feels like she's grown up and she had to grow up so fast. You were not surprised by it because you kind of feel like she's lived a lot of life.

00:09:32
Speaker 1: The most. She's still a baby in a lot of ways, right? 22, given the ages we are and Given the ages of the people we are caring for still, right? She feels so young. But yeah, she was introduced to us as a child.

00:09:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:09:47
Speaker 1: What was she? What was her actual age when that show started?

00:09:50
Speaker 2: No, her name was 11. But I can't remember how old she was when she came on to Stranger Things. But certainly she was.

00:09:55
Speaker 1: She was a baby. Was she 13, 14, 15, 16?

00:09:57
Speaker 2: Definitely oh no she was younger than that yeah so she might have been 11.

00:10:02
Speaker 1: To see her now in this way and i it's kind of cool i was when i first heard what was it i don't know if i knew before the wedding was announced like wait a minute the the girl from stranger things is is dating Bon Jovi's son. Right. That was kind of cool.

00:10:22
Speaker 2: It is very cool. So they began dating back in 2021. I'm terrible with, but that means when she was 17, they started dating. They married in 2024 when she was 20. Think about that. She was not even legal to drink and she got married. So she couldn't have a legally, she couldn't have a glass of champagne to toast her new husband. That's how young she was when she got married. And then they had a larger wedding ceremony in Italy. And yeah, now in 2026, they are a family of four. And people, I was really curious to see what the reaction would be. And I was so pleasantly surprised. I kept seeing positive comment after positive comment. So I wanted to share some because I thought people might be negative. People might just throw shade at them for being too young and But no, it's pretty cool. Amy writes, I see comments that they're too young. I got married young and had three kids all under the age of five when I was 25. I too heard that my husband and I didn't know what we were doing. Fast forward 30 years and my husband and I are still happily married and we'll celebrate our wedding anniversary in October and all of our kids are in their 20s and thriving with their own lives. So I don't subscribe that they're too young. I think they got lucky and found each other early and started their family. Congratulations to them.

00:11:42
Speaker 1: I think that's really what it is. I would never tell somebody you're getting married too young. I would caution you about some things that are working against you. But generally speaking, I would say getting married young is a bad idea because you're not done becoming the adult you're going to be later. Your partner isn't. And in five years, you're going to be two different people. So I subscribe to that. But Robes, there are cases where you meet that person early and then you actually grow together in the same way that continues to work. And that's the getting lucky that some people get.

00:12:20
Speaker 2: Oh, that gives me chills. My mom describes that as her story because she met my dad in middle school. And look, I think about Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bon Jovi. We obviously don't know them personally, but think about the shared experiences they have that bind them together. They both know what it's like to be thrust into the spotlight at an early age. And so they've got, and they've got the means and they, they've got shared goals and shared experiences. I also think about that with Justin Bieber and, um, Haley Bieber. She was the daughter of, uh, what's the, uh, yeah, Baldwin, the Baldwin, the William, Stephen Baldwin. Yeah. Stephen Baldwin. But I think about those two, the same kind of thing where you feel like that, I'm rooting for those couples because I feel like they've come up together and they have a shared experience. They've had a shared trauma and a shared privilege at the same time. And so I hope they can make it. I wanted to read another one. Emma T wrote, maturity is relative. There are some young adults who are very responsible and have the resources to care for a child. And there are some much older parents who have neither.

00:13:23
Speaker 1: That's true.

00:13:24
Speaker 2: Right? I don't see any indication. that she's an irresponsible parent, and I hope she continues to have lots of support from her friends and her family to help give her kids a wonderful life. God bless their family.

00:13:34
Speaker 1: That's really cool.

00:13:35
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, people do leave nice comments online. We always talk about the negativity, and I just thought this is such a beautiful story. It's an unexpected one, and I just thought it was fun to maybe highlight it and just show that people are rooting for them, and I hope they feel that love because it's important when you're first starting out.

00:13:51
Speaker 1: It's fun to root for them. It's fun to have somebody like that to root for, and the story is different. And ropes, they could use some help and support. They got family around, I'm sure. Like you said, they got means. But it is more than that still when you're that young. But it's hopeful, man.

00:14:07
Speaker 2: It is.

00:14:07
Speaker 1: There's nothing more hopeful than young love and new babies. They got it all.

00:14:12
Speaker 2: Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bon Jovi got them both. So congratulations to their growing family. And we always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk soon.