Millie Bobby Brown Drops First Peek at Adopted Baby Girl as Jake Bongiovi Plays Dotting Dad in Airport Snap
Avery Sinclair here, and on September 1 Millie Bobby Brown quietly shared the first glimpse of the baby girl she and husband Jake Bongiovi adopted, serving up a tidy carousel of evidence that their parenthood era has officially begun.
Because nothing screams privacy like posting it to Instagram, right? Still, the facts are the facts: less than two weeks after the couple announced on August 21 that they had welcomed a daughter through adoption, the Stranger Things star posted a photo of Jake in a black hat, matching windbreaker jacket, cargo shorts and cream sneakers, walking toward a plane while carrying their daughter’s covered baby carrier. No face reveal, just a peek of tiny skin under a white blanket. Consider it the soft launch of Baby Bongiovi, brought to you by the algorithm and a highly curated camera roll.
The post did not stop at airplane chic. The carousel also included a low-key diner date night, where the Florence by Mills founder, 21, posed in a sleek black halter top while the Sweethearts actor, 23, kissed her cheek. For a caption, Brown picked three emojis that pretty much summarize the vibe: baby bottle, star and yellow chick. Minimal words, maximum clicks.
Let’s rewind the receipts. On August 21, Brown posted a statement to Instagram announcing, “This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,” adding that they were excited to begin this next chapter “in both peace and privacy.” She signed off with the tidy tally “And then there were 3.” That initial announcement is your primary source. The fresh photo drop is your corroborating follow-up. And if you like a third breadcrumb, Brown told the SmartLess podcast in March that she always intended to start a family young, noting her mom had her first child at 21 and her dad at 19. Translation: this was the plan long before the engagement ring.
As for the name, the couple is staying strategically silent. Fans sniffed out a clue in the Hamptons when Brown stepped out with a phone case stamped with the initials RDW, which could be anything from the baby’s monogram to a decoy to keep the internet guessing. E! News documented that sighting, but until the parents confirm it, mark it as speculative, not gospel.
Context check, because the timeline matters. Brown and Bongiovi began popping up on each other’s feeds in 2021, went official with PDA later that year, and took their budding red carpet act to the 2022 BAFTAs and the Stranger Things season four premiere. By April 2023, she announced their engagement with a Taylor Swift quote, and by May 2024, multiple outlets reported they had married privately. Now, post-wedding, post-adoption, we have the picture proof of family-of-three status, carefully filtered and privacy-protected.
Before anyone screams publicity stunt, consider the playbook. Posting an image that shows a carrier and not a face is the standard celeb parenting move: you control the narrative, you set the boundaries, and you do not turn your child into content. It is not groundbreaking, but it is reasonable. The choice of a runway-adjacent setting reads like two working actors on the move, not a lavish stage. Even the diner date is aggressively normal. The message is obvious: yes, we are famous, but no, you are not meeting the baby. Not today.
What we do have is a consistent paper trail. The adoption was announced via their own statement, the first image landed on Brown’s Instagram on September 1, and both were amplified by E! News coverage. Add the March SmartLess comments about wanting to be a young mom, and the story lines up. No mystery, no scandal, just tightly managed access and a hint of scavenger-hunt energy for fans dissecting initials.
So where is this going? Brown returns as Eleven in the final season of Stranger Things at some point in the near TV future, while Bongiovi continues to rack up credits after Sweethearts. Expect more glimpses that show silhouettes, socks and strollers, not faces. Expect emojis instead of long captions. And expect the internet to debate RDW until either a christening cake, a trademark filing, or a slip-of-the-tongue confirms a name.
Until then, file this under: famous couple invites you to the door, but keeps the lock on. Perfectly reasonable. Slightly performative. Highly effective. Nothing shocking here, folks. Let’s all act surprised.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! News, Instagram, SmartLess podcast
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