The Hollywood baby boom
Ashlee Simpson Ross welcomed her first child, a little girl named Jagger Snow, with husband Evan Ross. The baby joins Simpson’s 6-year-old, Bronx Mowgli, whom she had with former husband Pete Wentz.
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By Los Angeles Times staff writers
Naya Rivera and her husband, Ryan Dorsey, better be ready for sleeples nights. They have welcomed their first child, son Josey Hollis Dorsey. The “Glee” actress made her pregnancy announcement on the same day her former boyfriend, Big Sean, released his latest album.
(Jonathan Leibson / Getty Images for U.S. Fund for UNICEF)Hello, baby! “Gossip Girl” actress and “The O.C.” actor Adam Brody welcomed a little one to their family, daughter Arlo Day. The private pair tied the knot in early 2014 after meeting on the set of “The Oranges” in 2011.
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Model turned actress Brooklyn Decker and husband and tennis player Andy Roddick have welcomed their first bundle of joy. The couple have been married for six years.
(Rick Diamond / Getty Images for iHeartMedia)Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and longtime girlfriend singer Lauren Hashian are expecting their first child together. Johnson is already a father to teenage daughter Simone with ex-wife Dany Garcia.
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Business entreprenuers Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner are ready to become parents for the third time. It’s an incredible blessing,” Trump tells People. “We feel so grateful — and so excited!” The couple tied the knot in 2009 and welcomed daughter Arabella Rose two years later.
(Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images)Actors and “Gotham” costars Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie are expecting a child together. This will be the second child for Baccarin, who is mother to baby boy Julius, with her estranged husband, director/writer Austin Chick.
(Jemal Countess / Getty Images)Carey Mulligan can add the title of mother to her resume -- she and her musician husband Marcus Mumford just became first-time parents. She kept her pregnancy under wraps for the most part.
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)Musician Billy Joel and girlfriend Alexis Roderick have expanded their family with their first child, daughter Della Rose Joel. The couple have been together since 2009. This is the second child for Joel, who has a 29-year-old daughter from his previous marriage to supermodel Christie Brinkley.
(Kris Connor / Getty Images)“American Idol” winner Kelly Clarkson and her music manager husband, Brandon Blackstock, will be parents for the second time. The two are already mom and dad to daughter River Rose. This will be Clarkson’s second child and Blackstock’s fourth.
(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)“Glee” actress Heather Morris and husband Taylor Hubbell better get ready for sleepless nights. The high school sweethearts are expecting their second child, who will join big brother Elijah.
(Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)Joseph Gordon-Levitt and his entreprenuer wife, Tasha McCauley, are parents for the first time. The pair welcomed a little boy, whose name is yet to be announced.
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Twice as nice! Zooey Deschanel became a new mom and a new wife with producer Jacob Pechenik simultaneously. The pair welcomed their first child together, a little girl. Before she popped, Deschanel told People magazine she and her husband were “over the moon” and “excited to meet our little one.”
(Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated Press)Rapper Macklemore and and fiancee Tricia Davis welcomed their first child, baby girl Sloane Ava Simone Haggerty. The first-time father called his little one “the love of my life,” adding, “She has filled my heart in ways that I never knew were possible.”
(Larry Busacca / Getty Images for MTV)Ever so suitable that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced on Faceboook that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting their first child. “This will be a new chapter in our lives,” he wrote of their baby girl to come.
(Andrew Gombert / EPA)Finally, finally! Reality TV stars Coco and Ice-T announced they are expecting their first child together, something they’ve wanted for a while. Little baby will join Ice-T’s two other children from a previous relationship.
(Robin Marchant / Getty Images For ESPN)“Hart of Dixie” actress Jamie King and her director husband, Kyle Newman, welcomed another bundle of joy, a baby boy. The couple, who tied the knot in 2007, are already parents to son James. Their newest addition to the family will have Taylor Swift as his godmother.
(Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Women In Film)Czech model Karolina Kurkova and actor Archie Drury are at it again! The pair are expecting their second child, which means their young son, Tobin Jack, will have a sibling in no time. Kurkova opted for a natural delivery at home for her firstborn.
(Tristan Fewings / Getty Images)Singer-songwriter Bobby Brown and his wife, Alicia Etheredge, who tied the knot in 2012, have a new addition to their family, a baby girl. Their daughter will join their toddler boy, Cassius. This is the sixth child for Brown.
(Allen Berezovsky / Getty Images for TRANS4M)Sleepless nights again! Actor Jeff Goldblum, 62, and his wife, actress Emilie Livingston, 32, are now parents to baby boy Charlie Ocean Goldblum. The pair married in November 2014, and this is the first child for Goldblum.
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Louis Tomlinson of One Direction is headed in a new direction! He and his Los Angeles-based stylist friend Briana Jungwirth, both 23, are expecting a child. The two met through mutual friends in early 2015.
(Rich Fury / Invision/AP)Josh Hartnett and his British model girlfriend, Tamsin Egerton, are expecting their first child. The pair met on the set of the 2011 film “The Lovers” and have had a romantic thing going for nearly four years.
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Canadian crooner Michael Bublé and his Argentinian actress wife, Luisana Lopilato, can sing to new good news: the pair are expecting their second child. The little one will join their first tot, Noah, born in August 2013.
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It looks like Tiffani Thiessen and her husband, Brady Smith, have expanded their family. Thiessen gave birth to the couple’s second child, son Holt Fisher Smith. Harper Renn, pictured, is one happy older sister.
(Eugene Gologursky / Getty Images for CMEE)Round 2 for Tamera Mowry-Housley, left, and her husband, Adam Housley. They welcomed daughter Ariah Talea Housley, who joins toddler son Aden. “We are beyond overjoyed and blessed with our beautiful baby girl,” Mowry told People. “Aden already made a welcome video for her.”
(Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)At the Los Angeles premiere of her new movie, “Ant-Man,” Evangeline Lilly let her oh-wow baby bump do all the talking. This will be the second child for the actress, who is expecting the little one with partner Norman Kali, a production assistant.
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ABC News chief meteorologist Ginger Zee has something to forecast: She’s expecting. She and her husband, Ben Aaron, will welcome their first bundle of joy in December. She made the announcement on “Good Morning America.”
(Neilson Barnard / Getty Images)Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay are parents for the second time to son Atticus James Hallisay. “I feel my best when I’m pregnant, which means I probably should have 18 children — it won’t happen — but I do feel good,” Hewitt, told American Baby in April 2015. The pair tied the knot five days before welcoming their first child, Autumn James, in November 2013.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Alec Baldwin and his yoga-instructor sweetheart Hilaria Thomas are parents again. The welcomed baby boy, Rafael Thomas Baldwin, joins older sister Carmen Gabriela. Alec is also father to daughter Ireland with ex-wife Kim Basinger.
(Chris Pizzello / Invision/AP)Jack Osbourne, son of British rocker Ozzy Osbourne and “The Talk” host Sharon Osbourne, will take on sleepless nights again. He welcomed his second child, Andy Rose Osbourne, with his wife, Lisa Stelly. The couple welcomed their first child, a girl named Pearl, in April 2012.
(Michael Buckner / Getty Images)Benedict Cumberbatch can add the role of father to his long list of accomplishments. He and theater director Sophie Hunter welcomed a baby boy, after having married four months prior. The pair met on the set of the 2009 thriller “Burlesque Fairytales.”
(Ari Perilstein / Getty Images)Actress Emily Deschanel and husband David Hornsby have welcomed a baby boy, who joins older brother Henry. Deschanel’s first pregnancy was actually woven into the sixth and seventh seasons of “Bones,” the drama she stars in.
(Matthew Simmons / Getty Images)Actor Theo Rossi and wife Meghan McDermott welcomed baby boy Kane Alexander Rossi. When the couple arrived at the Tribeca Film Festival, they let McDermott’s belly do all the talking.
(Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival)After fertility struggles, reality TV starlet Kim Kardashian announced she is expecting baby No. 2 with husband Kanye West. The Internet agreed that the name of their second child, whether it’s a boy or girl, should be “South.” That way, the couple’s daughter North would have a matching pair.
(Denise Truscello / Getty Images)Hello, baby No. 4! Terrence Howard and his wife, Miranda, whom he married in 2013, have welcomed their first child together, baby boy Qirin Love Howard, named after qilin, a mythic Chinese creature. Howard is already a father to three children from his first marriage.
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“The Good Wife” actress Melissa George and her French businessman boyfriend, Jean-David Blanc, are expecting their second child. The little tot will join older brother Raphaël Blanc, born in February 2014.
It’s another girl for Ludacris! He and his new wife, Eudoxie Mbouguiyengue, are expecting their first child together. The singer is already a father to two other girls from previous relationships.
(Larry Busacca / Getty Images)Model Marisa Miller is now a mother for the second time. She and her husband, Griffin Guess, welcomed son Grayson Lee Bazyl Guess, who joins big brother Gavin Lee. “Being a mother has been the biggest blessing in my life,” Miller told People magazine. “To get to experience it all over again is really exciting.”
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Actor Chad Michael Murray and his wife, Sarah Roemer, are parents to their first child, a baby boy. The pair tied the knot in January 2015 and shortly announced they were expecting.
(Peter Kramer / Getty Images)Actress Haylie Duff, sister of Hilary Duff, is now a first-time mother to daughter Ryan Ava Erhard Rosenberg, with fiance Matt Rosenberg. The pair, who got engaged on April Fool’s Day 2014, are over the moon about the arrival of their little one.
(Valerie Macon / Getty Images)While appearing on “Dancing with the Stars,” actor Alfonso Ribeiro announced he and wife Angela Unkrich were expecting their second child together. Now, baby boy Anders Reyn Ribeiro has arrived! The couple tied the knot in October 2012 and welcomed their first baby boy, Alfonso Lincoln, in October 2013.
(Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images)“New Girl” actor Max Greenfield and his wife, Tess Sanchez, are in for another round of sleepless nights -- they’re expecting! The two are already parents to a little girl named Lilly, born in 2010.
(Michael Buckner / Getty Images for Fox)Actor Donald Faison and his wife, CaCee Cobb, have welcomed their second child together, daughter Wilder Frances Faison. The pair announced their second pregnancy on Instagram with a photo of thier young son in a shirt that read “I’m a big brother!!”
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