Milo Ventimiglia’s wife, Jarah Mariano, is returning to the surf for the first time since giving birth to baby No. 2.
“So good to be back in the sea. Finally got into the water the other week at 2 months postpartum and paddled on my surfboard for the first time in over 2 years,” Mariano, 42, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, September 5. “I caught 0.3 waves, but I am stoked.”
She continued, “Being connected to the ocean and surfing again is such a necessary step in reconnecting to myself. Seeing how I’ve been pregnant for what feels like the past 10 yrs with 2 babies only 17 months apart in age, this all means more to me than I can ever explain on an IG caption.”
Mariano and Ventimiglia, 49, welcomed son Rock-Anthony in July. (The couple’s eldest daughter, Ke’ala, previously arrived in January 2025.)
“These last couple of weeks have been chaos, but in the best possible way,” Mariano wrote via Instagram at the time, announcing her son’s birth. “Welcome back home Rock-Anthony Makoa Ventimiglia. Can’t wait for all of the adventures ahead with our family of 5!”
Us broke the news in October 2023 that the This Is Us alum and Mariano secretly wed several months earlier after a private courtship. One year later, Mariano revealed her pregnancy with Ke’ala, who was born in 2025 just weeks after their family home was lost in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
“We’re doing great. My wife is the strongest person I know, and to be able to rebound from any of that is huge,” Ventimiglia exclusively told Us in December 2025. “But at the same time, [we’re] still dealing with insurance a year later. We’re still dealing with the remnants of the fires, but thank God we’ve been responsible with our funds and finances and were ready for something like this to happen.”
According to the actor, he and Mariano learned to appreciate the “simple necessities of life” after their home was destroyed.
“There’s nothing we need other than a roof over our head, food on our table,” he told Us at the time. “But [with] everything now I’m like, ‘What does my kid need? What would give her freedom?’ It’s anything from ‘Hey, let me make sure I’ve got a handful of pacifiers so she can sleep’ to ‘Well, I should probably set up a 529 exchange [account] so her college is paid for.’ And these were things [I learned] through friends of mine that had been fathers way earlier than me.”
