“Even in the pregnancy, I am trying to enjoy it, even though it seems like it’s been fast,” Joy-Anna, 28, told sister Jinger Duggar on the Wednesday, September 9, episode of their “Call Your Sister” podcast. “It’s been harder, but I don’t know how many more times I’m going to do this.”

Joy-Anna and her husband, Austin Forsyth, announced earlier this month that they are expecting again. The Counting On alum and Austin, 32, are already the parents of sons Gideon, 8, and Gunner, 3, as well as daughter Evelyn, 5. (Joy-Anna previously suffered a miscarriage in 2019, naming her late daughter Annabell.)

Speaking on the siblings’ podcast, Joy-Anna confessed that she initially felt “pressure” to have a large family like the one she grew up in. (Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are famously parents of 19.)

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“I felt that in our first pregnancy, and Austin and I have had to have real conversations about [it] because I feel like it’s really important,” she acknowledged. “Austin, [during] this pregnancy, for the first time was like, ‘Do you know what? We might be done after this one. I don’t know, how do you feel?’”

As a result, Joy-Anna began discussing the possibilities that baby No. 4 will be her last.

“It’s crazy to me that we might already be there, like, we’re done with this phase of life, so that part of it is bittersweet,” the former TLC star added. “Right now, I don’t feel like I would be done with this one. Four or five have always been … in my mind.”

Like her younger sister, Jinger, 32, “assumed” she’d have “as many kids as possible” before becoming a mom.

“When [Jeremy Vuolo and I] were engaged, we were talking about how many kids we wanted, and we were also watching through Bill Gothard’s videos and pausing it,” Jinger said, referring to the controversial leader of her family’s IBLP religion. “Initially, that was one of the bigger things I was thinking through. I was never the one that wanted to babysit everyone’s kids. … I loved being around kids, but I wasn’t like, ‘I’m going to have 50 kids of my own.’ But I thought, ‘That’s what everybody’s gonna do.’”

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Upon discussing the matter with Jeremy, 39, Jinger ultimately had a change of heart.

“Children are a blessing from the Lord, but [that] doesn’t mean you have to have as many as possible, then that was actually a different perspective for me,” she said. “[That] gave me more joy going into having my kids. I was like, ‘Thank you, Lord, for these kids; they are a blessing.’ I don’t want to do anything out of convenience, but I also want to be present and involved in my kids’ lives in a deep way where each kid feels taken care of.”

Jinger and Jeremy share daughters Evangeline, 8, and Felicity, 5, and son Finn, 17 months.

“17. They say it goes by fast but wow,” Chelsea, 35, wrote via Instagram on Monday, September 7. “To think that she is the same age I was when I first found out I was having her is … wild.”

She continued, “I love the person she is and I’m excited to see [the] woman she will become. Happy HAPPY birthday Aubree ❤️.”

In Chelsea’s upload, she shared a selfie of herself and husband Cole DeBour posing with the teen, who rocked teal-colored hair with blunt-cut bangs.

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Chelsea, who shares Aubree with her ex-boyfriend Adam Lind, and Cole, 38, are parents of three younger children.

“We actually don’t get sick of each other,” Chelsea exclusively told Us in November 2025 of working with Cole on HGTV’s Down Home Fab. “We just have so much fun. We always do little lunch dates [so] we’re kind of lucky that we get to be together so much.”

According to Cole, Chelsea is his “best friend” and it was an easy decision to work together. (The HGTV couple also run their own boutique.)

“One thing I’ve learned is that it’s OK to have a team and give them things to do rather than trying to do everything yourself,” he said, before Chelsea also noted that she’s learned to “accept help” in their endeavors.

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“Coming into the HGTV world, we were new to the game, and we were just new to remodeling in general,” Chelsea told Us at the time. “Getting that confidence over the last three years, I’m like, OK, now we’re here and we deserve to be here. I’m such an HGTV fan, so the fact that we get to meet the people I’ve watched on TV, I’m like, ‘This is so cool.’”

In addition to their thriving decorating businesses, Chelsea and Cole have kept their family a top priority.

“She has such a unique sense of style. She’s so into makeup, which maybe is taking after me a little bit, I like to say. It’s just really crazy,” Chelsea previously told Us in March 2025, specifically gushing over Aubree. “Everyone always says, ‘Aubree’s 15? That makes me feel so old.’ I know! Imagine how I feel. I feel so old, but she’s just so cool and confident, and I love that so much about her.”

For Chelsea, she was especially “proud” of Aubree’s inner self-confidence.

“I’m so proud of her. Just thinking back to how I was when I was her age, I just remember being like, I always wanted to follow the crowd, or I wanted to be someone I wasn’t,” the MTV alum mused. “She’s just so sure of herself and confident in her sense of style and who she is. I think that is just so cool about her.”

The former Today anchor became a mother when she adopted her little ones in 2017 and 2019, respectively, with her then-partner, Joel Schiffman. The exes got engaged after six years of dating in 2019 before calling it quits in 2022.

When it comes to raising her kids, Hoda has often credited her mother, Sameha Kotb, for inspiring her approach to parenting. “She was a great mom. She was strict,” she told Today in 2016. “That was how we lived. You understood what no meant. There was no ‘But everyone else is doing it.’ She couldn’t have cared less what anyone else was doing.”

Following her split from Schiffman, Hoda discussed the lessons she was trying to instill in Haley and Hope.

“I think one thing I really wanna work on with my girls, too, is them having their voice,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in November 2022. “[Teaching them about] being brave enough to say what they need, what they want and not to feel greedy or too much or too bossy. … I think I want my girls to be more vocal and to say what they want and not to be afraid and not to try to conform to be what other people want.”

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“It’s here! First day of school💥. 4th and 2nd grade! Whaaaatttt?” Kotb, 62, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, September 8, alongside photos of herself and Schiffman, 68, walking daughters Haley, 9, and Hope, 7, to school.

In one photo, Kotb and Schiffman stood between their kids outside their home as the family of four smiled at the camera.

Kotb and Schiffman began dating in 2013 and adopted Haley in 2017, followed by Hope in 2019. The pair got engaged later that year.

In January 2022, Kotb revealed on the Today show that she and Schiffman had amicably ended their engagement.

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“Joel and I have had a lot of prayerful and meaningful conversations over the holidays, and we decided that we are better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided we are going to start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorably delightful children and as friends,” she said at the time. “It’s not like something happened. They say sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason, a season or a lifetime; this was for a season.”

Despite their split, Kotb and Schiffman have remained committed to coparenting their daughters. In April 2022, the former Today host exclusively told Us that they had an “easy” dynamic.

“He sees the kids,” she said at the time. “He takes them to school some, and he sees them on weekends. We’ve got a really nice, easy situation.”

Kotb added that she and the financier were trying their “best” to make the situation work.

Hoda Kotb and Ex Joel Schiffman's Relationship Timeline: Coparenting and More

“We make sure that the kids get plenty of him and plenty of me,” she concluded.

Later, Kotb opened up about the reason behind their split, admitting that they were “growing at different paces.”

“Joel is one of the best people I know, and he really is a great human being,” she explained on “The Jamie Kern Lima Show” in August 2024. “And I feel like I’m a pretty great human being, but sometimes two great human beings together isn’t quite enough to make it work.”

Kotb further broke down their split in her September 2025 book, Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life.

“There was no cheating, no scandal, no big crisis. It sounds cliché, but truth is, we were just growing apart,” she wrote. “There wasn’t the drama you hear about in all the great country songs. The no-good, two-timing, whiskey-loving heartbreakers. It simply wasn’t us.”

Kotb was previously married to tennis coach Burzis Kanga from 2005 to 2008.

“I have one girl and one boy, and then Brad has one girl and one boy,” Paltrow, 53, said during the Tuesday, September 8, episode of the “Friends Keep Secrets” podcast, referring to daughter Apple, 22, and son Moses, 20, with ex-husband Chris Martin and Falchuk’s daughter, Isabella, 22, and son, Brody, 20, with ex-wife Suzanne Bukinik. “So I have two girls and two boys.”

The Goop founder added, “They all get along, and it’s so fun.”

Paltrow and Falchuk, 55, tied the knot in 2018. The Iron Man star admitted on Tuesday that it was “so hard” to combine their families.

“It was like the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” she said. “It just didn’t go well for a really long time.”

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Paltrow explained that “kids can feel like they’re being sort of demoted” when their parents remarry. (The Seven actress was married to Martin, 49, from 2003 to 2016, while Falchuk was married to Bukinik, 56, from 1994 to 2013.)

“They’re not, but they can feel like [that] if there’s a new parent that comes in, and it can cause a lot of disturbance. So it was hard. It was really hard at the beginning,” she said.

Paltrow said their family dynamic improved with time.

“We never did family therapy altogether, but we, I don’t know, it just ended up … I did a lot of work on myself and around, like, why is this so triggering, and why are my feelings so hurt, and why am I having like these non-adult reactions to a child, you know?” she continued. “And they ended up teaching me so much, and I really am so grateful that I traversed through all of that, but it was rough, but now it’s amazing.”

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Paltrow concluded, “They’re all best friends.”

Last year, the businesswoman revealed that Falchuk’s kids filled a void in her heart.

“My dad [Bruce Paltrow] used to say the only regret he had in his entire life was not having more kids, and I felt like that for a long time until I got yours too,” she told her husband on her “Goop” podcast in April 2025. “I got to tack on.”

Paltrow also got candid about the obstacles she faced while building her relationship with Falchuk’s kids.

“We traversed through some really rough things,” she said on her podcast last year. “One of the most profound lessons that I’ve learned from my relationship with your daughter, which is now so fantastic, is there was [a lot of] testing going on. She was testing me at the time to see at what point I would reject her.”

For his part, Falchuk said he “always” believed that they could work through their issues.

Paltrow concluded, “It’s been amazing for me to watch all four kids, kind of, grow into this and embrace it. It’s almost, like, the payoff is greater when it’s your stepkid than your own kid because … it’s not as natural of a relationship. You’re able to create something with someone who’s not one of your kids but becomes one of your kids.”

The Full House alum first met Giannulli in 1995 and two years later the duo eloped on Thanksgiving on November 27, 1997.

Loughlin and the Mossimo founder welcomed their first child together, Bella, on September 16, 1998. One year later, Loughlin gave birth to their second daughter, Olivia Jade, on September 28, 1999. Olivia Jade later became a social media influencer with her YouTube channel, gaining more than 1 million subscribers for her videos, where she shares beauty and fashion tips.

Bella and Olivia Jade went on to attend the University of Southern California. Loughlin and Giannulli were arrested in March 2019 for allegedly falsifying their daughters’ participation on USC’s crew team in a bribe to get accepted into the school. One month later, the couple pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges. Us Weekly confirmed in October 2019 that Bella and Olivia Jade were no longer enrolled at USC.

Loughlin and Giannulli changed their tunes in May 2020 when they pleaded guilty. In August 2020, a judge sentenced her to two months in prison, two years of supervised release, 100 hours of community service and a $150,000 fine, while he was ordered to five months in prison, two years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine and 250 hours of community service.

In October 2025, the family made headlines again when Loughlin and Giannulli split after nearly three decades together. Loughlin later filed for divorce in September 2026.

Scroll down to see photos of the Giannulli family throughout the years.

The royal couple were seen dropping off their 13-year-old for his first day at the all-boys school in Windsor, England, on Tuesday, September 8. William, 44, dressed smartly for the occasion, wearing a dark suit and blue tie. George was the spitting image of his father as the trio strolled through the courtyard.

Kate, for her part, looked dazzling in an emerald green dress and beamed with pride on her son’s big day.

Simon Henderson, the school’s headmaster, and provost Sir Nicholas Coleridge were on hand to greet George and his parents.

Prince William and Kate Middleton's Son George Suits Up in 13th Birthday Pic

Henderson reportedly welcomed the new student and told him, “Good luck. Enjoy it.”

William previously attended the boarding school from 1995 to 2000. In a scene mirroring the one captured by photographers on Tuesday, William was dropped off by his father, King Charles III, and late mother Princess Diana on his first day.

William and Kate, 44, have been hands-on parents while raising George and his siblings: Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, 8.

Years before George began his Eton journey, a source exclusively told Us that Kate and William were “open” to sending their son to a boarding school someday.

“They’d never force George to go unless he wants to and they feel it’s right,” the insider told Us in 2021, adding that the decision would be one they made “as a family.”

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According to a separate source, William was already preparing George for his future as a royal leader.

“William’s already explained his future role to him, and he loves learning about his family in history classes,” the insider explained. “William tries not to overwhelm him with too much information, but George is aware that there’s a lot more to being king than how the role is portrayed in Disney movies and children’s books.”

More recently, royal historian Marlene Koenig told Us that George is “undoubtedly aware” of what lies ahead for him as second in line to the throne behind his father.

Reflecting on George’s role as a train bearer in grandfather Charles’ coronation in 2023, Koenig added, “The coronation provided the young prince with the knowledge that he, too, would one day be crowned in a coronation ceremony.”

The Only Murders in the Building star, 34, took to her Instagram Stories on Monday, September 7, to share a sweet photo of her spending time with a newborn baby. She wrote over the image, “One day.”

Gomez is married to music producer Benny Blanco, whom she wed in September 2025. The couple got engaged in December the previous year.

The actress and singer has previously expressed her desire to one day become a mom.

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In a 2024 interview with Vanity Fair, Gomez revealed, “I haven’t ever said this, but I unfortunately can’t carry my own children.”

“I have a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby’s life in jeopardy. That was something I had to grieve for a while,” she said. (Gomez has previously opened up about her struggles with the chronic autoimmune disease lupus.)

Gomez said at the time that she thought she would become a parent “the way it happens for everyone,” but after accepting that she can’t carry her own children, she is “in a much better place” now.

“I find it a blessing that there are wonderful people willing to do surrogacy or adoption, which are both huge possibilities for me,” the “Good for You” singer said. “It made me really thankful for the other outlets for people who are dying to be moms. I’m one of those people. I’m excited for what that journey will look like, but it’ll look a little different. At the end of the day, I don’t care. It’ll be mine. It’ll be my baby.”

In 2022, Gomez, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2018, shared how her medication for the condition may impact her plans to start a family.

“That’s a very big, big, present thing in my life,” she told Rolling Stone at the time. “However I’m meant to have them, I will. … I think there’s something over me that is maybe my bipolar that kind of just keeps me humble — in a dark way.”

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Blanco, 38, for his part, is also ready to start a family.

“I love kids; I love being an uncle,” he said in a June 2025 interview with InStyle. “I want to be a dad, though, God willing. I’m just dreaming and praying every day.”

In the same interview, Blanco gushed about first meeting Gomez as a teenager, when she was about to sign her first record deal, and how their relationship later blossomed.

“We didn’t work together until many years later. They say you’ve probably already met the person that you’re gonna spend the rest of your life with… I never believed that s*** until it happened to me,” he said. “And now I get to kiss her. It’s like my own little fairytale I concocted.”

“Creating life with the love of my life has been the most profound healing journey I could have never imagined being written into our journey,” the model wrote via Instagram on Sunday, September 6. “Growing life for nearly 10 months, growing our family, falling so deeply in love in a union that was always destined to be, falling in love with the life we have created for our family, birthing life, and then birthing death has been incomprehensible.”

The former Ex on the Beach star added that her “body feels broken” and “aches” for her baby with partner Chris Hunter.

“I don’t think we will ever know how to move through this heartbreak,” she wrote. “Our little boy, Harmony Hunter, due 8.8, born 28 August 2026 at 4:27 a.m. at 42 weeks and 5 days in the most powerful birth of our lives, passing peacefully in our arms at 8 p.m. that night.”

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Negara then thanked her friends for their support, as well as hospital staff.

“Our hearts sit in deep gratitude to our friends who have loved and cared for us this past week, to our community, to Lismore Hospital who worked tirelessly to save Harmony and treat me for Post Partum Hemorrhage, the Neo Resc team who flew to us and continued to spend hours trying to save our little boy, and to Gold Coast University Hospital who held us so deeply as we spent three nights and four days in Comfort Care as a family,” she wrote.

Negara concluded, “We will soon lay our angel to rest on Bundjalung Country where he was born, the land that has held my family and continues to hold our family. We know you will return to us again, old soul, we can feel you surrounding us, our Angel 🤍.”

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The post included photos and videos from a picnic maternity shoot featuring the couple’s dog and their two older toddlers. Negara also included photos from the hospital, where they mourned their son’s death.

Hunter also paid tribute to their late son via his Instagram Story.

“The most perfect son a dad could ever ask for. I know you will return to us,” he wrote.

Negara, a Balinese Australian model who lives in Byron Bay, Australia, appeared on MTV’s Ex on the Beach Couples: Now or Never in 2023.

“It’s September 6, I’m filming this in real time … I’m still pregnant, I still have a baby here, OK?” she told fans in a Sunday, September 6, TikTok video, before lifting her shirt up to reveal her bump.

Natasha, 28, who is expecting her first child — and Candace’s first grandchild — with her husband, Bradley Steven Perry, filmed the clip in response to a comment that claimed she had delayed a birth announcement for strategic reasons. “Ultimately these people just use us for engagement and likes and comments because the more attention, the more money. They don’t actually want us involved or want to keep anyone in the loop,” the comment, pasted in Natasha’s TikTok, read.

Natasha, who is one of three children shared by the Full House alum, 50, and her husband, Valeri Bure, told fans, “I see [this type of comment] all the time on my content. The internet can be a really fun, beautiful place. I love my community that I have on here. It can also be such a creepy, parasocial space where people feel entitled to information about your life. That being said, not sharing content in real time has never come from a monetization aspect.”

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She added that delayed content posts are “not about money, it’s not about strategy: it’s simply about having boundaries online, protecting my family and ultimately the biggest reason is, allowing myself to soak up the moments that are happening for me in my real life before I share them with the internet.”

Natasha, who announced her pregnancy via a joint Instagram post with her husband in May, continued, “I’m not sitting at home thinking about how it’s going to financially benefit me to post a certain video at a certain time. I’m just not. If I feel comfortable to share in the moment then great, I will, but if I want to savor a moment that’s happening for my family, I don’t owe you anything. Nobody owes you anything.”

She concluded, “I’m always going to do it when it makes me feel comfortable. Sometimes that’s the same day, sometimes that’s a month later. I don’t know what I’m going to feel and when I’m going to feel that way.”

This isn’t the first time that Natasha has hit back at online criticism. In June, she clapped back at social media users who didn’t approve of her showing off her growing bump publicly. “Raise your hand if you will never understand people being offended by a pregnant belly being out?” she quipped in a June 12 TikTok video, subsequently raising her own hand. “Let me just be the first to say: I do not care. I literally don’t care.”

She continued at the time, “I didn’t know this was a thing until I have received countless DMs from grown women telling me I need to put my belly away, buy a bigger shirt or sending me the lengthiest stories about how when they were pregnant, in their time, they didn’t do that. I love my pregnant belly, [and] I have never in my life been so proud of my body, so proud that I’m growing a little baby in there.”

In the first half of the year, actresses Bonnie Wright, Aubrey Plaza, Natalie Portman and Anne Hathaway all revealed that they are pregnant. From across the pond, Princess Eugenie also shared the news that she was expecting her third baby with husband Jack Brooksbank.

The second half of the year kicked off with Bachelor Nation’s Ben Higgins sharing that he and wife Jessica Clarke are expecting their second baby. F1 driver Charles Leclerc and wife Alexandra Leclerc seemingly confirmed their own pregnancy news in mid-August. In September, Counting On alum Joy-Anna Duggar revealed her pregnancy with baby No. 4 days before Bachelor Nation alum Peter Weber and girlfriend Jadeyn Carr shared they are expecting twins. Ciara and Russell Wilson also announced that month that they are expecting their fourth baby together, her fifth.

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“One more person to love,” Ciara, 40, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, September 6, announcing her pregnancy alongside several vintage-looking videos and photos of the singer and her former NFL quarterback husband, 37, revealing the pregnancy news.

In the video and pics, Ciara could be seen rocking a simple pair of blue jeans and a white top that accentuated her growing baby bump. The couple posed alongside a clothesline featuring t-shirts boasting the names of the blended family’s children alongside a nameless white onesie representing the baby-to-be.

Ciara and Wilson, who have been married since 2016, are already the parents of daughters Sienna, 9, and Amora, 2, as well as son Win,5. (Ciara also shares eldest son Future, 11, with rapper ex Future.)

Shortly after Ciara gave birth to Amora in December 2023, Wilson already had future babies on the brain.

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“My husband’s been the one doing that. He’s the one to pick this thing off,” the singer exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2026, revealing whether a fifth baby was in the cards for the couple. “I will tell you, when I was giving birth to Amora, … he was like shortly after, ‘So cinco?’ and I’m like, ‘Wait a minute now, like slow it down, sir. We just had a baby here. Let’s be in this moment here, sir.’”

According to Ciara, she quickly told Wilson (“in a laughing way”) that his comment was “disrespectful” to hear in the delivery room.

“I love being a mom. It’s my favorite job of all, and I couldn’t stand here and tell you that I don’t see that happening one day in our lives to have cinco because why not?” she added to Us. “I think the greatest discovery for me is learning that I can figure it out.”

Ciara continued at the time, “From the first day that I decided to be a mom, I was definitely really like, ‘OK, what’s this world going to be like?’ A little uncertain, but I also had great faith and confidence in myself that it was going to be a beautiful chapter. I’m so glad that, over the years, in the midst of all my ambition and drive and determination and goals, that I feel I’ve been committing to living my life because we can’t get it back. I don’t want to look back and say, ‘Man, I wish I would have.’”

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Ciara further gushed that motherhood “fills [her] cup up so much.”

“It’s a part of me being me. So I say, why not?” she teased of potentially having another baby. “Well, when the time is right, how about that?”

Ciara and Wilson celebrated their 10th anniversary earlier that year amid his NFL retirement. After 14 seasons playing pro football, Wilson confirmed in June 2026 that he was hanging up his cleats and inking a deal with CBS Sports to serve as an analyst.

“As I enter this next chapter with CBS Sports and ‘The NFL Today,’ I’m so blessed to continue doing what I love most — being around the greatest game in the world,” he said in a social media video. “I thank you, football. I am forever grateful.”

Ciara responded to Wilson’s announcement via Instagram comment, calling her husband “the best in the world.”

“A few things I’ve learned about co-parenting after divorce,” Kramer, 42, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, September 5. “The end of a marriage comes with so much pain and grief, and you don’t get to totally separate from that person when you share kids. Learning how to put my own hurt aside and separate our relationship as a couple from our relationship as parents took time, healing a lot of growth.”

Kramer and Caussin, who were married from 2015 to 2021, are parents to daughter Jolie, 10, and son Jace, 7. Kramer has since moved on with Scottish soccer coach Allan Russell, with whom she welcomed son Roman in 2023. The pair tied the knot in Scotland in 2024.

“Letting go of control has probably been one of the hardest lessons for me,” she wrote. “What happens at their dad’s house isn’t always going to look exactly like what happens at mine but if something comes up that I know their dad would want a say in, I ask, and I know he’ll do the same.”

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She continued, “Your kids shouldn’t have to choose sides. No matter what has happened between the adults, your kids deserve to have their own relationship with both of their parents. I never want them to feel like loving one of us means being disloyal to the other.”

Kramer went on to note that “missing parts of their life is really hard” and something that she doesn’t think “ever feels 100 percent normal.”

“There are ordinary school mornings, practices, holidays and little moments I’m not there for, and sometimes that still hurts,” she wrote. “Speaking of holidays, the first one you don’t wake up with your kids or have them for a tradition you’ve always done together feels literally heartbreaking. You eventually find new traditions and a new normal, but those first few are hard, and it’s OK to admit that.”

Kramer explained that her parenting plan with Caussin gives the exes “structure,” but noted that the pair “don’t treat it like it’s set in stone.”

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“We’ve both gotten really good at adjusting schedules, switching days when needed and understanding that life happens. That flexibility on both sides has made coparenting so much easier,” she wrote. “Having a supportive partner makes a huge difference. Allan understands that coparenting is part of our life and supports the relationship J&J have with their dad. There’s no competition or trying to replace anyone, just another person in their corner who loves them and wants what’s best for them.”

She continued, “A bonus of this whole situation is Roman. He changed our family dynamic in the best way, and it’s been so special watching the relationship between all three of them grow.”

Kramer explained that with “three kids at different ages and in two different households, it’s easy for our time together to become all about the family as a whole,” but she tries to be intentional with one on one time.

“I try to make space for individual time with each of them, whether it’s a mani/pedi date … or a special movie night, I always want to make sure they each get moments where they have my full attention,” she wrote.

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She continued, “I definitely don’t have it all figured out. There are still hard days, moments we don’t agree and times when old emotions come up. Coparenting isn’t about getting it perfect. For me, it’s about continuing to learn, give each other grace and come back to what matters most: our kids.”

In the caption, Kramer explained that she thought it would be helpful to share her lessons after talking via DM about coparenting. She added, “I hope this helps someone who’s navigating it too 🤍.”

Ushering in the year, Becca Kufrin, Justin Theroux, MLB player Freddie Freeman, TikTok star Allison Kuch and NFL star Baker Mayfield all welcomed little ones into their respective families in April, followed by Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden in May. That month also brought new arrivals to Stephen Coletti, Josh Duhamel and Pat McAfee‘s own broods.

Moving into June, Dancing With the Stars alum Lindsay Arnold and husband Sam Cusick welcomed baby No. 3. The next month, Luke Wilson announced that he quietly welcomed his first baby with longtime girlfriend Kendall Yates.

August kicked off with Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, welcoming their third baby, while McBee Dynasty’s Cole and Kacie McBee added a second baby girl to their brood. Elizabeth Olsen, for her part, become a first-time mom this summer before Natalie Portman welcomed baby No. 3, her first boyfriend Tanguy Destable.

September began with Wizards of Waverly Place alum David Henrie‘s wife Maria Cahill, giving birth to their rainbow baby and In the City couple Andrea Denver and Lexi Sundin welcoming their first child.

Keep scrolling to meet the stars’ newest additions of 2026:

People reported on Saturday, September 5, that Portman, 45, quietly gave birth in August. Further details have not been immediately shared. Us reached out to a rep for the actress for comment.

Portman’s newest addition joins her two older children with ex-husband Benjamin Millepied, to whom she was married from 2012 to 2024. The pair previously welcomed son Aleph in June 2011 and daughter Amalia in February 2017.

Portman revealed in April that she was pregnant with her and Destable’s first baby together.

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“Tanguy and I are very excited,” she told Harper’s Bazaar at the time. “I’m just very grateful. I know it’s such a privilege and a miracle. I grew up hearing about how hard it is to get pregnant. I have so many people I love who’ve had such a hard time with it that I want to be respectful around that as well. It’s such a beautiful, joyous thing, and it’s also not an easy thing.”

She added, “I know how lucky it is. I’m very aware, and I’m very grateful. I have deep appreciation and gratitude.”

Portman’s pregnancy news came more than a year after Us confirmed her relationship with Destable.

“Natalie and Tanguy have been seeing each other for a few months,” a source exclusively told Us in March 2025, noting that their romance hadn’t been going on “too long, but they are having a great time together.”

According to the insider, Destable is “very outgoing and boisterous” and “really into” Portman, whom he first crossed paths with because the two share a “few mutual friends.”

“Natalie is very happy with Tanguy,” a second source told Us at the time.

The following month, Portman offered rare insight into her life as a mother of two.

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“My kids are always a source of excitement because you just see them develop into the individuals they are,” she told Jenna Ortega in an Interview magazine profile published in April 2025. “And also, I’ve been spending a lot of time with my friends, with their kids and my kids; that’s pretty fun.”

Portman also addressed how she found “balance” between her work and personal life after becoming a mom.

“Having kids, that wasn’t really my motivation,” she explained. “I was just excited to have kids, and with a person that I was in love with. But it’s really important to have people in your life who keep you on the ground.”

Portman is raising her family in Paris after relocating from the United States.

“I find the people here are actually incredibly friendly — you just have to know how to interact, so that we’re not the ones being rude,” she told Net-a-Porter in her May 2025 cover story. “Now, when I go back to the U.S., I’m like, ‘Oh,’ I would go into a store and not say hello to everyone there? It’s weird.”

While Portman enjoys the “privacy” she receives in France, she also appreciates the polite nature of her children’s friends.

“All the kids that come to my house are, like, ‘Bonjour, Madame’ — and give me the bise [cheek-to-cheek kiss],” she said. “And before they leave, they are like, ‘Thank you for having me’ — and if I’m not nearby, they’ll come and find me to say it.”

“Earlier this year, our family changed forever when our beautiful baby boy, Felix, died shortly after birth,” Howard, 46, said in a statement shared via Instagram on Friday, September 4. “During the most devastating time of our lives, the hospital staff who cared for us showed extraordinary compassion, kindness and humanity. They helped us navigate an unimaginable heartache and gave us support when we needed it most.”

The TV host explained that he and his wife, Cerys Morgan, were assigned a “bereavement midwife” who “had experienced a similar tragedy.”

“After losing her own baby, Lauren retrained as a midwife so that she could help other families going through what she had been through,” Howard went on to explain. “Her care meant more to us than we can ever put into words.”

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Howard and his wife, who also share an older son born in August 2024, were able to spend “precious hours” with their baby boy thanks to a cool cot — a cooling unit and pad placed inside a bassinet that gently cools an infant, allowing grieving families time to stay close to their late loved one before their bodies are taken.

“We could hold him, talk to him and tell him just how much we loved him,” Howard recalled of those precious moments with his late son. “Those hours are among the most precious memories we have of Felix.”

Howard then announced his decision to launch The Felix Foundation in the newborn’s honor.

“We were overwhelmed by the care we received, and we made a promise to each other: that we would try to help other families who find themselves facing the same devastating circumstances,” he shared.

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The Felix Foundation aims to “relieve the needs of parents, siblings and other close family members affected by miscarriage, premature birth, stillbirth, neonatal death or related bereavement” by supporting midwives in bereavement care training, funding resources for emotional support, facilities and equipment, providing information to families and raising awareness.

Howard revealed that he will host a charity gala at The 02 in London on February 8, 2027, with several comedians on the lineup: Michael McIntyre, Jimmy Carr, Aisling Bea, Guz Khan, Greg Davies, Mo Gilligan, Michelle Wolf and John Bishop.

“Every single one of these incredible performers is giving their time completely free of charge. I will never forget their generosity,” Howard noted. “We would absolutely love it if you could join us for what promises to be a very special evening: a night of comedy, laughter and celebration, all in aid of a cause that means everything to our family.”

He concluded, “The Felix Foundation is named after our beautiful son. We miss him dearly, every single day, but we take some comfort in knowing that his name will stand for kindness, compassion and laughter, and that his legacy may help other families through the darkest moments of their lives. We would love it if you came along and helped us make Felix’s legacy something truly special.”

“I had a miscarriage in my second trimester,” Kirke, 42, wrote in the caption of an Instagram post on Friday, September 4. “After an awful D&C procedure, I went home to recover for a few days, plodded around on the piano, and wrote this song ‘Mercy’ … and went to support someone giving birth just a few days after that, still bleeding.”

The “Teething” singer added that instead of calling a colleague for support, she felt obligated to be a “superhero.”

“[I] crawled around in the night, high on my own supply and the adrenaline of birth, saving mothers and babies no matter what,” she continued. “It cost me my health (autoimmune disease), friendships, my relationship with my child and husband.” (Kirke is a mom to son Cassius, 17, with ex Morgan O’Kane. She and Badgley, 39, share a 6-year-old son and twin boys born in September 2025.)

“Not even my own grief could stop me,” Kirke wrote. “Actually, back then, that’s why I behaved this way — I couldn’t be with my grief. It wasn’t ‘til I was teaching a doula training many months later that I had to excuse myself and sob quietly in the bathroom for the first time since the procedure.”

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Kirke concluded, “The role of a caregiver is too important. Your own grief and traumas will always follow you and come out sideways. It’s only a matter time [sic]. You deserve to do this work with a solid foundation of support and skills so that you can sustain yourself in it. Our clients deserve to be held by adults who have many tools in their basket, because the impact caregivers make on their clients is truly lifelong.”

In the Instagram post, Kirke admitted that her “workaholism and people pleasing” had reached an “all time low.”

“I had no tools or skills. My marriage was falling apart because this was our second miscarriage in a row. I had no idea how to ask another doula to tap me out without feeling like a burden or failure,” she wrote.

Kirke then warned, “I find that this way of being in the caregiver role is all too common. If this is how you parent or were parented, then you have no shot as a professional caregiver if you don’t do the deeper work of examining your story. Burnout, at the very least, is coming for you.”

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Badgley and Kirke tied the knot in 2017 and nearly split after they experienced two consecutive miscarriages, the Gossip Girl alum revealed last year.

“This was our second loss together, a time when I did not feel as though the cycle would break,” he wrote in his essay collection, Crushmore: Essays on Love, Loss, and Coming-of-Age, which was released in October 2025. “My wife and I neared separation, as many do after losses like that, largely because we felt so isolated in a culture that doesn’t talk much about these things or know how to support those going through it.”

Badgley continued, “Seeing our still baby in that tripped-out black and white sono imagery is a dreadful memory I can’t shake every time we go for a sonogram now.”

Badgley later shared on the “Totally Booked With Zibby” podcast that he had written the essay before his twins were born.

“And now I feel like I am, I mean this with love, but I feel like I’m drowning in children,” he said. “So it’s harder to get in touch with that feeling of loss. Because my cup truly runneth over.”

“They are going to make the best big siblings,” Duggar, 28, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, September 3, sharing footage from the moment she told her sons Gideon, 8, and Gunner, 3, and daughter Evelyn, 5, that she’s pregnant.

The Counting On alum continued, “They’ve been praying for a baby brother or sister for a long time and since finding out they have been talking to and about their baby non-stop.”

In a sweet family video, Duggar and husband Austin Forsyth shared her pregnancy reveal with Gideon, Evelyn and Gunner during a car ride.

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“You know how Mama and Papa told you guys, if we want a new baby we have to ask God for them?” Duggar asked her little ones in the clip. “Well, God answered our prayers.”

Gideon and Evelyn immediately burst into laughter and asked whether the family was expecting a boy or a girl.

“We don’t know,” Duggar said, revealing she hasn’t yet found out the sex of the baby. “I have a baby growing in my belly right now.”

Forsyth, 32, chimed in, adding, “Lord willing, we’re going to have another baby.”

Before welcoming their three children, Duggar suffered a pregnancy loss in 2019. (The former TLC personality lost the pregnancy at 20 weeks gestation and was induced in order to safely birth her daughter’s remains. She named her late baby Annabell.)

“That was extremely hard. I felt like, at first, I was like, ‘I’m going to be strong and I’m going to push through this,’” Joy-Anna said on the Wednesday, September 2, episode of her sister Jinger Duggar’s podcast, discussing her loss. “But after the dust settled and, like, a new normal had to start happening, it was really hard.”

She added at the time, “I really had to work through a lot of hard things and … I guess in a lot of ways, I didn’t know how to handle it. I was like, ‘I don’t want to turn into this bitter person that just can’t move on from the past, like, I want to be able to work through this.’ It felt like I would never see light at the end of the tunnel.”

Joy-Anna further noted that the fog from her grief eventually began to lift after six months.

“True joy comes from the Lord, and I think my kids help me have a little bit of happiness here and there in the dark moments,” she recalled. “It is really hard to find joy in those hard moments.”

Joy-Anna is among Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, who rose to fame chronicling their large family on 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On.

Former Bachelor Peter Weber announced on Thursday, September 4, that his girlfriend, Jadeyn Carr, is pregnant with twins.

“1 + 1 = 4 ♥️,” he captioned maternity photos kissing the model’s bare baby bump.

Jadeyn replied, “Forever <<<333.”

Peter and Jadeyn, who debuted their relationship in August, have been together for less than one year. Their relationship — and the babies on board — already have Peter’s mom excited.

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“God’s sweetest blessings! So So loved already!!” Barbara Weber gushed via Instagram comment at the time. “You two will be the best parents!! Love you 4! ❤️❤️❤️❤️.”

Peter rose to fame on Hannah Brown’s season of The Bachelorette, ending in third place. He subsequently served as the next lead of The Bachelorette. While Peter proposed to Hannah Ann Sluss, they called off their engagement weeks later over the pilot’s lingering feelings for finalist Madi Prewett.

Peter was later romantically linked to Kelley Flanagan, Julie LaPlaca and Brook Sill before meeting Jadeyn.

“I was in New York for the last four years, and [Kelley] and I had gone back on-and-off a little bit during that time, but [the] majority of it was all single,” Peter previously said on a 2025 episode of the “Almost Famous” podcast. “I always wanted a relationship. It’s no secret, obviously, but you know, I was never going to be someone to force anything.”

Peter had relocated to his native California earlier that year before he was introduced to Jadeyn, who is also based on the West Coast.

Keep scrolling to see how Peter’s fellow Bachelor Nation alums have celebrated the couple’s pregnancy announcement:

Jamie Otis

Jamie, who appeared on Ben Flajnik’s season, married Doug Hehner on Married at First Sight season 1. The pair share daughter Henley, son Hendrix and twins Hawkins and Huxley.

“Ohhh your family is going to double in the best way!” she gushed to Peter. “People will warn you it’s a lot but trust me .. it’s a lot of fun ❤️❤️.”

Kendall Long

“As a fellow twin I can say twins are the best 😜🤍 Congrats to you two!!,” Kendall replied.

Adam Gottschalk

The Bachelor in Paradise alum is already looking ahead, responding, “Hollywood wedding let’s go!” (Peter and Jadeyn, for their parts, have not publicly revealed their future plans as a couple.)

Michael Allio

He replied, “Couldn’t be happier for you both. Congrats 🎉.”

Dylan Barbour

Dylan, meanwhile, jokingly requested that the proud parents-to-be name both babies Dylan in his honor.

Dale Moss

Dale bestowed Peter with a new nickname: “Zadddyyyy.”

Zac Clark

“Awesome. Congrats,” Zac added.

Joey Graziadei, Jason Tartick and Susie Evans

The trio each simply commented, “Congratulations.”

Serena Pitt

Serena chimed in, “Omg CONGRATS!!”

Elyse Dehlbom

Elyse responded, “Oh my goshhhhh!!!! Congratulations.”

“Our little Astrid,” the couple announced in a joint Instagram post on Thursday, September 3. “It’s already been a week with her, and our hearts have never been so full. Best thing we’ve ever done!! 🙌”

Congratulatory messages poured in from the Bravoverse from Vanderpump Rules‘ Katie Maloney, Summer House alum Luke Gulbranson and Family Karma‘s Amrit Kapai.

“So happy for you two!! She’s beautiful! Congratulations,” Kapai, 40, wrote in the comment section of Lexi and Andrea’s baby announcement.

Andrea and Lexi announced in June that they were expecting their first baby.

“Last fall, we decided it was time to start trying for a family, something we had always hoped for,” Lexi told People at the time. “Over Christmas, while we were spending time with family, I realized my period was a few days late and had a feeling I might be pregnant.”

After Lexi took a pregnancy test, the couple were overcome with emotion once they saw the positive result.

“It was one of those moments you wish you could bottle up forever,” she gushed to the outlet. “We were completely stunned in the best way and filled with gratitude. It’s exciting because every week makes it a little more real, and we’re both counting down the days until we finally get to meet our little one.”

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Andrea and Lexi have been together since 2021, saying “I do” in the groom’s native Italy three years later.

“We feel so lucky to be able to celebrate with all our beloved people. I think it just solidified our relationship even further and we’re so excited to walk through life together,” the couple exclusively told Us in 2024 of their nuptials. “We are excited to grow together, make unforgettable memories, and eventually have a family of our own.”

Andrea and Lexi exchanged vows in a picturesque castle in Lake Garda, Italy, surrounded by his former Summer House castmates.

“This ancient castle, perched on a hill with sweeping views of the lake and the charming town of Lonato, offered everything we envisioned, including breathtaking sunsets,” the pair told Us at the time. “We also wanted our guests to fall in love with our cherished region and Lake Garda just as deeply as we have.”

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They continued, “The castle’s grandeur, uniqueness and rich history set it apart from the rest, making it the perfect choice for our wedding. It truly checked all our boxes and felt like a dream come true.”

Nearly two years after their wedding day, Andrea and Lexi returned to Bravo for the latest Summer House spinoff, In the City, about the friend group’s lives in New York City in between summers in the Hamptons. Andrea and Lexi announced during the season 1 finale, which aired in early July, that they were expecting their first baby — as did costars Danielle Olivera and Yvonne Najor. Danielle, for her part, gave birth 10 weeks early on June 21.

“Welcome to the world, Aidan Santos Heavey,” Danielle, 37, wrote via Instagram on July 18 of her son with boyfriend Eoin Heavey. “Already making his own rules, Aidan arrived on June 21st at just 28 weeks (+5 days). Tiny, mighty, and clearly not interested in our timeline. He’s thriving at @stonybrookmedicine NICU and getting stronger every day while keeping Mom & Dad on our toes.”

Andrea, Lexi and Yvonne, 39, all offered their support in the comments section.

“Sending so much love to little Aidan,” Andrea replied at the time. “He’s already shown how strong he is. Wishing you guys endless strength and hoping home day comes soon.”

As for Yvonne, she and husband Nick Barber welcomed their first baby, son Leonardo, in late August shortly after Danielle’s baby boy was discharged from the NICU.