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Millie Bobby Brown May Have Revealed Her Baby's Name on Necklace—With a Special Meaning
It’s a tale as old as time: how becoming a parent often comes with a new, endless capacity for love.
Nevertheless, it took Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi welcoming their first child—a baby girl they adopted in 2025—to completely understand it for herself.
In fact, she said no one could have prepared her for “the love” she’d feel for her daughter.
“People say they love their children,” the Stranger Things star noted in a conversation with UNICEF, shared June 1. “I couldn’t—I don’t understand how that much happens in my heart. The feeling is so overwhelming. It’s just incomprehensible.”
And while the 22-year-old and Jake, 24, have only recently stepped into the role of first-time parents, they’ve got a major support system in their respective mothers, Kelly Brown and Dorothea Hurley.
“Naturally, just when you see something, like they’re doing something, you’re like, ‘Is that normal? Do they do that?’” Millie explained. “And I call my mum, she is just like my 9-1-1. It’s like, ‘Mum, did I do this? Did my siblings do this?’ And she’s like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s completely normal. They do that all the time.’”
The Enola Holmes star continued, “It’s so great, I’m so honored to have support. And if I can’t call her, I call my mother-in-law. And she is just like the same way. It’s just so nice to hear reassurance.”
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That female support system will especially come in handy as a sounding board as her daughter gets older.
“Raising a daughter is a real responsibility,” Millie reflected. “I just try to learn as much as I can and feed it into her life so that she knows nothing other than girls supporting girls, or women succeeding, women achieving their dreams, and living in a world and building a world for her that isn’t unrealistic, but it sets a standard for her to know that she shouldn’t settle for anything less.”
Since welcoming their daughter, Millie and Jake—who tied the knot in 2024—have remained relatively mum about their life as a family of three, sharing rare images that shield their baby’s face and only teasing her first name (believed to be Ruth).
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Millie did, however, share some new insight into her favorite way to spend time with her baby girl.
“She loves food, and I love food,” she added to UNICEF. “So, our love language together is food. We just love to sit there and eat. And she always wants to try what I’m having, and I’m always eating what she’s having.”
But don’t expect her and Jake to start peeling back the curtain on their daughter’s inner world anytime soon.
“For me, it’s really important to protect her and her story,” Millie said in the December issue of British Vogue, “until she’s old enough to potentially one day share it herself.”
“If she chooses to share her personality one day with the world, like I did when I was young, that’s something we’d support,” she added. “But right now, as she’s so little—as her parents, it’s our job to protect her from that.”
For more on Jake and Millie’s road to parenthood, read on.
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
June 2021: First Instagram Pic
The pair sparked romance rumors around the time that Jake posted this photo, with the caption, "bff <3"
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
November 2021: Never Say Goodbye
The couple officially confirmed their romance with this PDA pic.
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
November 2021: Bon Jovi 2.0
"We're starting a band," Jake wrote on Instagram, "send name ideas."
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
December 2021: Merry Christmas
The Stranger Things star and the actor celebrated their first Chirstmas together in 2021.
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
December 2021: Happy Holidays
Sweet selfie.
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
February 2022: Celebrating Millie's 18th Birthday
Twinning.
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March 2022: Red Carpet Official
Millie and Jake make their first joint appearance at a celebrity event—the 2022 BAFTA Film Awards in London.
Cindy Ord/Getty Images
May 2022: Stranger Things Premiere
Millie and Jake were twinning at the premiere of Stranger Things season four in New York City.
January 2023: New Year's
Millie shared photos of the couple in celebration of the New Year, writing, "endlessly in love with the year I've had."
January 2023: New Year's
One snapshot showed a photo booth strip of the loved-up couple.
January 2023: New Year's
As Millie put it, "grateful for my friends, family, donkey (bernard), my doggies, my puppies teeth, and my partner for life."
February 2023: Golden Birthday
Jake marked Millie's 19th birthday on Feb. 19, 2023 with a sweet tribute, writing, "Another year around the sun together happy 19th to the girl of my dreams."
February 2023: Golden Birthday
The sweet post included photos of the couple.
February 2023: Golden Birthday
The pair's silly side is depicted in one image of Jake and Millie clowning around in the pool
February 2023: Golden Birthday
Jake and Millie snuggle up in a romantic selfie.
April 2023: Engaged
Millie announced the couple's engagement on Instagram, quoting Taylor Swift's song "Lover." The two would go on to celebrate with family and friends at an engagement party weeks later.
Instagram / Millie Bobby Brown
July 2023: Six Flags Visit
Millie and Jake enjoyed a day out with her sister Ava Brown, 11, and friends at the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park.
Instagram (@jakebongiovi)
September 2023: Summer Nights
Jake shared this pic in the final days of summer 2023.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Glamour
November 2023: Glamour Women of the Year
The two appear at the event, where Millie was honored as one of two Global Women of the Year.
Instagram / Jake Bongiovi
February 2024: Happy Birthday Millie
Jake shared a tribute to his partner for her 20th birthday, writing, "Happy birthday my beautiful fiancéI love you so much. Big year ahead."
Instagram / Millie Bobby Brown
March 2024: Anniversary
Millie shared this tribute to Jake on their third dating anniversary.
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May 2024: Married
After three years of dating, the duo tied the knot in a private ceremony, multiple outlets reported.
August 2025: Expanding Their Family
Over a year after their nuptials, Millie and Jake shared they had a new arrival.
"This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption," the couple announced in an Aug. 21 Instagram post. "We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy."
They concluded, "And then there were 3."
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