Nick Jonas Reveals Daughter Malti’s Karate Passion and Soccer Snub
Clearly, you require hand-holding to catch up on Nick Jonas’s update about his daughter Malti’s extracurricular picks, so here it is. During his May 15 appearance on Live with Kelly and Mark, the Jonas Brothers superstar broke down the “intense” toddler schedule that even he finds more jam-packed than his own. He explained that little Malti Marie, now 3, is thriving in nursery school with a particularly enthusiastic friend group and has been enrolled in multiple classes by he and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Of course, she vetoed the soccer experiment—“did not like that,” Jonas quipped, earnestly apologizing to co-host Mark Consuelos—yet she’s fully embraced karate with adorable “hi-ya” shouts in her miniature gi. Jonas was visibly proud, noting that this kind of structure and budding friendship network is something he once took for granted.
To fill in some background for those of you who haven’t been stalking celebrity baby feeds: Malti arrived via surrogate on January 15, 2022, and spent her first 100 days in the NICU before finally celebrating her first Mother’s Day at home with Priyanka. The couple’s whirlwind romance began in May 2018, an engagement announcement followed two months later, and they tied the knot in December 2018—long before they publicly confessed they were eager to start a family. Priyanka Chopra Jonas has admitted in Vanity Fair that kids were “a big part” of their future vision, and in an Elle interview she confessed Malti already has them both utterly charmed and, consequently, lacking any real disciplinary leverage.
As if you needed more proof that this is peak “girl dad” content, Nick recently shared a selfie sporting one of Malti’s light blue bows in his hair, captioned simply “Girl dad life,” amidst a backdrop of pink balloons. It’s all very predictable but undeniably endearing: toddler karate lessons today, the next second-hand accessory from your daughter’s closet tomorrow. Amid scheduling toddler clusters to full-blown nursery school antics, the Jonas-Chopra household seems to be thriving on stability and little bursts of chaos—exactly what every parent craves, even if you hadn’t realized it until now. Hopefully you can file away this parenting playbook without too much trouble. Glad I could clear that up for you.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and People Magazine, Dotdash Meredith
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