After years in the Hollywood spotlight as Eleven in \u201cStranger Things,\u201d Millie Bobby Brown is taking on the role of a lifetime at the tender age of 21: motherhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The actress and husband Jake Bongiovi, 23, stunned the world last week when they announced that they had adopted a baby girl.<\/a><\/p>\n The big news comes just over a year after the pair married <\/a>\u2014 and raised eyebrows because Brown was too young at the time to legally take part in a Champagne toast. The young couple settled on a Georgia farm with animals aplenty.<\/p>\n In an age where mothers are having children later and later and with many eschewing starting a family altogether, the move led some fans \u2014 not all charitably \u2014 to call Brown a \u201ctradwife\u201d \u2014 a reference to the typically religious women on Instagram who have embraced traditional gender roles, often taking homemaking to pastoral extremes.<\/p>\n Millie Bobby Brown and husband Jake Bongiovi welcomed an adopted daughter into their lives, they recently announced. Matt Agudo\/INSTARimages<\/p>\n The actress, who is 21, and Bongiovi, 23, stunned the world last week when they announced that they became parents. BACKGRID<\/p>\n The young couple drew attention earlier this year after they settled on a Georgia farm, leading some fans to call Brown a \u201ctradwife\u201d \u2014 a reference to the often religious women who have embraced traditional gender roles. @milliebobbybrown\/Instagram<\/p>\n But, insiders say Brown is happy and doesn\u2019t care what others think of her unconventional-for-Hollywood choices.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s too confident to mess with,\u201d an insider told The Post. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t give a crap. Why should she?\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, the blonde starlet exuded joy on Aug. 22 in the Hamptons, as she pushed a stroller in a baby pink \u201cMother\u201d crewneck alongside Bongiovi.<\/p>\n \u201cThis summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,\u201d the two wrote\u00a0in a joint statement on Instagram<\/a>. \u201cWe are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n Insiders say Brown is happy and doesn\u2019t care what others think of her unconventional-for-Hollywood choices. \u201cShe\u2019s too confident to mess with,\u201d one told The Post. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t give a crap. Why should she?\u201d FilmMagic<\/p>\n The pair shared the sweet baby news on social media last week, asking for \u201cpeace and privacy.\u201d Instagram\/@milliebobbybrown<\/p>\n They punctuated the message: \u201cAnd then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi.\u201d<\/p>\n The child star and rock scion \u2014 his dad is Jon Bon Jovi \u2014 met on Instagram in the summer of 2021. <\/p>\n The pair tied the knot in May 2024, and, shortly after, bought a farm in rural Georgia near Atlanta with more than 30 dogs, goats and a donkey named Bernard.<\/p>\n This past March on the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast, Brown told host Alex Cooper that she understood why her married life had led some fans to call her a \u201ctradwife\u201d \u2014 but also explained her unusual choices.<\/p>\n This past March on the \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d podcast, Brown told host Alex Cooper that she understood why her married life had led some fans to call her a \u201ctradwife\u201d \u2014 but also explained her unusual choices.<\/p>\n \u201cI love my job, I love being untraditional and unconventional in so many ways,\u201d Brown has said, admitting she cooks dinner for her model husband \u201cevery night.\u201d @milliebobbybrown\/Instagram<\/p>\n \u201cI love my job, I love being untraditional and unconventional in so many ways,\u201d she told Cooper, admitting she does cook dinner for her model husband \u201cevery night.\u201d<\/p>\n On the \u201cSmartless\u201d podcast in March,<\/a> Brown noted that her mother had been 21 and her father just 19 when they\u2019d had their first child. Starting a family young, she said, was a priority for her as well, though Bongiovi was insistent they get married first.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really want a big family. I\u2019m one of four. He\u2019s one of four,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to be a mom just like the way my mom was to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Brown comes from humble beginnings. She was born in Marbella, Spain, to English parents and spent her early years in Bournemouth, a British seaside town. The family eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue Millie\u2019s acting dreams. She landed small parts on hits like \u201cModern Family\u201d and \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy,\u201d but money was tight.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brown and Bongiovi met on Instagram in 2021. The pair tied the knot last May, when she was just 20. Millie Bobby Brown\/Instagram<\/p>\n \u201cWe did not have enough money for gas, dad wouldn\u2019t drive me [to auditions] unless I knew every line,\u201d Brown told The BBC Radio in 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n At one point, her manager, Melanie\u00a0Greene, reportedly had to loan the family money.<\/p>\n Her big break came in 2016, when she was just 11, with her career-defining role as Eleven on the Netflix supernatural mega hit \u201cStranger Things,\u201d alongside veteran actors Winona Ryder, 53 and David Harbour, 50.\u00a0<\/p>\n Playing a young girl with a shaved head and psychokinetic abilities, the young beauty jumped off the screen.<\/p>\n Brown has been working since she was a child, landing her big break in 2016 as Eleven on \u201cStranger Things.\u201d Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n For \u201cStranger Things,\u201d Brown played a young girl with a shaved head and psychokinetic abilities. \u201cShe\u2019s definitely by far, the best actor on the show,\u201d\u00a0 Alexei Afonin, an actor who had a role the show in 2020, told The Post. \u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n The role earned Brown a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series when she was 13. At 14, she became the youngest woman to ever be featured on the Time 100 list.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s definitely by far, the best actor on the show,\u201d\u00a0 Alexei Afonin, an actor who had a role on \u201cStranger Things\u201d in 2020, told Page Six.<\/p>\n Another fellow \u201cStranger Things\u201d actor, Chantell D. Christopher, recalled Bobby Brown\u2019s nurturing and down-to-earth nature on set.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have really worked on creating this special family life in Georgia. She loves her farm \u2014 it\u2019s going to be such a special place for the baby to grow up,\u201d a source told People. Jordan Hinton\/Image Press Agency \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s going to be a wonderful mother,\u201d she told Page Six.<\/p>\n