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Milo Ventimiglia has opened up about life as a new dad after losing his home<\/p>\n
The Heroes star, 48, became a first time dad in January 2025 when he welcomed daughter Ke’ala with his wife Jarah Mariano just two weeks after the couple lost their home in the California wild fires – and Milo has now admitted the disaster made him rethink his big plans for being a new dad.<\/p>\n
During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he explained: “Listen, my wife is the most unbelievable – Jarah, if you\u2019re watching, you are the most unbelievable human being, creature, species of everything. She handles everything great. <\/p>\n
“But you know, I mean, when you\u2019re a first parent too, you kind of think you\u2019re going to be this wonderparent.<\/p>\n
“I was striving to. I\u2019m like: ‘Cool man, I\u2019m going to be the healthiest, we\u2019re going to feed this baby organic, we\u2019re going to buy blenders, do all this stuff, we\u2019re going to go argue with some dude named Kale about blueberries at the farmers\u2019 market.’<\/p>\n
\n“Then after a while you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, man, we had quite a year’ …<\/p>\n
\n“If anybody doesn\u2019t know, we lost our home in the fires in Malibu top of the year. It\u2019s okay, it happened, thank you. Two weeks later, got the best blessing and our daughter was born. <\/p>\n
\n“Six weeks later, on the road to do this movie that is coming out this month, I Can Only Imagine 2. Literally on the road … <\/p>\n
\n“While you\u2019re on the road you\u2019re like: ‘Where\u2019s my blender?\u2019 It\u2019s dawn. You\u2019re not making organic foods anymore.”<\/p>\n
\nMilo recently confirmed the couple are expecting baby number two and he joked about his apprehension when host Kimmel asked him about the pregnancy news.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “You saw me hard swallow, right? I hard swallowed,. Now I know it\u2019s coming. But at a certain point, don\u2019t they start to entertain each other?”<\/p>\n
\nDuring the interview, he added of his firstborn: “Got a beautiful daughter, she\u2019s wonderful. What day is it? … Thursday, wonderful. It\u2019s the same as Wednesday or Tuesday, yeah. They\u2019re all the same. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday …<\/p>\n
\n“She\u2019s actually doing great, she\u2019s sleeping through the night. She loves to wake up at 5.40 in the morning and talk to herself. Kinda jabber on and whatnot.<\/p>\n
\n“My wife and I are laying in bed, like: ‘Does she have her [pacifer]?’ ‘I don\u2019t know, I can\u2019t tell from the monitor.’ ‘Did she poop herself?’ ‘I don\u2019t know, I can\u2019t tell from the monitor’.<\/p>\n
\n“And then you\u2019re kind of like, after a certain period of time, you know this. You walk in there, you\u2019re like, well, she didn\u2019t poop herself, and she\u2019s got her [pacifier], so the world\u2019s good.”<\/p>\n
\nWhen they welcomed their little girl last year, Jarah posted a photo of the tot’s feet along with her dog’s paw on Instagram and explained the situation involving their home.<\/p>\n
\nShe wrote: “Houseless, never homeless. Welcome back Ke\u2019ala Coral Ventimiglia [rainbow emoji] 1.23.25 .<\/p>\n
\n“Jan 7th my family + I evacuated from the Palisades Fire. We lost our home that we were living in everything we own, as well as our home under construction that we were about to move into. I was 38 weeks pregnant + I had done an evacuation only a few weeks prior during the Franklin Fire as well. <\/p>\n
\n“I take it as a gift that I was able to essentially do a practice run for what was inevitably to come. I\u2019m also forever grateful that we were able to evacuate from the Palisades Fire in the daytime, when we could feel more prepared + not caught completely off guard in the middle of the night, for example. <\/p>\n
\n“My family + I are together, happy, healthy _ safe, which is truly all that matters. <\/p>\n
\n“We are deeply grateful to all of the heroes who help battle fires, as well as care for everyone affected by the aftermath for years to come. <\/p>\n
\n“This will be an extended process of rebuilding and grieving for many, but we are feeling optimistic + inspired to welcome all of the exciting newness of our fresh start!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 February 2026 Milo Ventimiglia wanted to be a “wonderparent” when his first child was born but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,136795,136794],"class_list":["post-283859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jarah-mariano","tag-milo-ventimiglia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}