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At Just 22, Millie Bobbie Brown Welcomes SECOND Child With Hubby Jake Bongiovi · I Do, Part 2

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Saturday, September 19th. And right
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  Speaker 1: before we started recording this, I asked Robes, what's the
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  Speaker 1: big deal? And what's the big deal to what, you
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  Speaker 1: might ask? The big deal to a 22-year-old successful young
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  Speaker 1: woman already having two kids that she's adopted. And with that,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes, you
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  Speaker 1: got me straight. I get it. I get where we're
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  Speaker 1: coming from, but my first reaction... Good for her. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bon Jovi. But
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  Speaker 2: if this is not what these aren't the headlines you
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  Speaker 2: hear when you hear 22 year old Hollywood stars, 24
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  Speaker 2: year old singers, and certainly a legend's son, John Bon
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  Speaker 2: Jovi's son, they are already on baby number two. That
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  Speaker 2: is pretty remarkable. Two kids themselves, I would say very young,
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  Speaker 2: now just welcomed their second daughter via adoption. So they
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  Speaker 2: adopted their first baby last year in August of 2025,
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  Speaker 2: and now they have baby daughter number two in, they believe,
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  Speaker 2: August of 2026 or September of 2026. That is pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: That was my first reaction that, okay, I guess, Romes,
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  Speaker 1: where is my head in not finding it, even though I, granted,
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  Speaker 1: It is not the norm. I still didn't find it
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  Speaker 1: odd for some reason, and I was almost kind of
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  Speaker 1: wanting to celebrate it. I thought it was cool that
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  Speaker 1: a young woman, that a young couple has their ish together,
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  Speaker 1: that they seem to be focused on something this young.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think about Hailey Bieber and Justin Bieber young,
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  Speaker 2: and she's an unbelievable businesswoman, and obviously both of these
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  Speaker 2: two are successful in their own right, but I think about, look,
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  Speaker 2: I have a 24-year-old and a soon-to-be 21-year-old. The idea
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  Speaker 2: of them being like, married with two children is laughable
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  Speaker 2: to me. We've gotten away from that, that's the way
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  Speaker 2: it used to be. No, of course, they're doing their
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  Speaker 2: thing and they would laugh at it too. They would say,
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  Speaker 2: oh my God, you and I got married young. We
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  Speaker 2: both got married the first time when we were 23,
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  Speaker 2: but my mom was a mom of two at 21.
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  Speaker 2: That is unheard of these days. And in fact, when
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  Speaker 2: you talk about adopting children, like look, when you usually
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  Speaker 2: hear about young moms, let's be honest, it's because something
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  Speaker 2: happened with the birth control. It was not necessarily a
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  Speaker 2: planned pregnancy. An adoption is beyond a planned birth. That
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  Speaker 2: takes a ton of work, a ton of dedication, a
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  Speaker 2: ton of patience. And yes, they have means, but that
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  Speaker 2: is something that is a choice and deliberate and not
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  Speaker 2: something you, I mean, it is something you rarely see
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  Speaker 2: in a young starlet like that.
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  Speaker 1: But just take the population.
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  Speaker 2: Only 3% of adoptive mothers are between the ages of
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  Speaker 2: 18 and 29. 3% are between what?
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  Speaker 1: 18 and 29. Oh, the 29 number. Robe, that's a big...
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  Speaker 1: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Young women don't adopt. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Only 3% of adopted mothers are between ages 18 to 29,
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  Speaker 1: compared with 27% of biological mothers are between the ages
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  Speaker 1: of 18 and 29.
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  Speaker 2: That's the distinction. It's not just that she got pregnant
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  Speaker 2: and had two kids. That would still be pretty impressive
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  Speaker 2: and fairly rare. But to have adopted both of these
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  Speaker 2: children is exceptionally rare.
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  Speaker 1: She's choosing and wants to be a mom. And Robes,
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  Speaker 1: you said the number, just 3%, 18 to 29. She's 22. Robes-
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  Speaker 1: I bet the number, 18 to 22-year-olds that adopt.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, probably 0.025%.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, more than one half of all
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  Speaker 2: adoptive moms, guess what their ages are between what and what.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're a mom, you want to adopt or
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  Speaker 2: you want to become a mom, you want to adopt
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  Speaker 2: a baby, more than half of adoptive mothers are between
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  Speaker 2: what ages?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, 39 and 49. Pretty close, 40 and 44.
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  Speaker 2: So that age group between 40 and 44- 51% of
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  Speaker 2: all adoptive moms are in that four-year.
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  Speaker 1: That's a much smaller range than I thought it would be. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: But those are usually women who probably are past their
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  Speaker 2: prime in terms of their eggs. They don't necessarily, maybe
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  Speaker 2: they had trouble getting pregnant. They couldn't get pregnant naturally,
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  Speaker 2: and so they decided to adopt. That makes a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense for that age group. But look, just in general,
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  Speaker 2: can you guess what the median age for a first
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  Speaker 2: baby in the United States is?
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  Speaker 1: This has been going up.
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  Speaker 2: It has.
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  Speaker 1: It's around 26, 27 now, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty damn good, babe. CDC latest number 27.6. That's the
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  Speaker 2: oldest it's been. That is the median age for a
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  Speaker 2: woman to have, and that's to give birth to, get pregnant,
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  Speaker 2: her first baby. Or I guess adoptions are included in
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  Speaker 2: that as well. So by all accounts, this young woman,
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  Speaker 2: Millie Bobby Brown, is young.
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  Speaker 1: We're bucking the trend. More women are waiting... later to
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  Speaker 1: have babies. That has to do with opportunities that women
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  Speaker 1: are having in the workforce, but also with advances in
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  Speaker 1: medicine that allow women to wait later. That's awesome. So
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  Speaker 1: to hear a 22-year-old is making these decisions robes, not
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  Speaker 1: just getting pregnant, she's making decisions to be a young mother. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that is worth examining.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And look, she has 70.6 million followers. So
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  Speaker 2: she is.
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  Speaker 1: Stranger Things was a big show, wasn't it? It really was.
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  Speaker 2: She is an icon, a role model. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: young women look up to her. And I looked at
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  Speaker 2: her birthday. She was born February 29th. Oh, she's a
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  Speaker 2: leap year baby.
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  Speaker 1: 2004.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. She was born in 2004 and she already
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  Speaker 2: has two kids.
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  Speaker 1: That is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But look, she, um, she put this up on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone went crazy different in the Dolomites.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: She's got, she's holding, um, the first adoptive daughter. And
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  Speaker 2: then it looks like Jake Bon Jovi has another newborn
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  Speaker 2: swaddled in his arms and this gorgeous Italian mountain chain
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  Speaker 2: in the background. And yes, it's a gorgeous photo. And
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  Speaker 2: you know what it, I, yes, I know it's romanticizing.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the only thing I think about when
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  Speaker 2: I maybe see a young woman who looks to her.
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  Speaker 2: Most young women don't have their means, their financial situation,
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  Speaker 2: and probably their flexibility was scheduled because of all of
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  Speaker 2: that earned money. But it does romanticize this perfect family,
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  Speaker 2: these two gorgeous people with these two beautiful babies, and
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  Speaker 2: they're in the Italian Dolomites. Look, it's nice to have
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  Speaker 2: something that's different than the rest you're not looking at
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  Speaker 2: her with her lip flip and you know posing in
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  Speaker 2: a sexy bikini and you know doing all sorts of
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  Speaker 2: other things that we see influencers and young women do
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  Speaker 2: on so it is kind of wholesome and beautiful to
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  Speaker 2: see her present a very different image of what a
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  Speaker 2: 22 year old woman can look like you know.
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  Speaker 1: And i didn't piece it together in that way and
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  Speaker 1: you are so right we don't roams when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to influence oftentimes How do you want to influence young women?
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  Speaker 1: And it's often to buy this product because it'll make
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  Speaker 1: you look like this. To buy this product because it'll
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  Speaker 1: make your hair look like this. Buy this skirt because
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  Speaker 1: it'll make your butt feel, right? You just go on
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  Speaker 1: and on and on. You're influencing and appealing to these
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  Speaker 1: young women in very specific ways. And they're paying attention. Robes,
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  Speaker 1: give them another option. Give them another something else to see.
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  Speaker 1: A young woman, young love. You can be young and
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  Speaker 1: want a family and do it this way, right? You
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  Speaker 1: can even do it this way. She's showing a different
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. Robes, I didn't put enough emphasis
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  Speaker 1: on what you are saying. Just showing a different option.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought it was cool that she decided to adopt.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously she's young and healthy enough and we
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  Speaker 2: have no reason to believe she can't have her own children.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, she was just on Kylie Kelsey's podcast and
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  Speaker 2: she talked about adoption. She said, it was always a
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  Speaker 2: part of my childhood dreams. She said, every time I
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  Speaker 2: was at home, I was five or six years old.
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  Speaker 2: My parents were like, you had your baby dolls. And
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  Speaker 2: I told them they were all adopted. I never had
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  Speaker 2: any of them myself. And I never pretended I was pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: She said, she's just always wanted to adopt a child.
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  Speaker 2: But she told Kylie Kelsey that, that she does hope
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  Speaker 2: that one day pregnancy is in her future. So it
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  Speaker 2: looks like she's given Angelina Jolie a run for her money.
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  Speaker 2: She's adopting, and then she said she would like to
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  Speaker 2: be pregnant one day too. I just think that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not something we see very often.
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  Speaker 1: I forget the order they did it in. Did she
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  Speaker 1: adopt and then had babies?
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  Speaker 2: Angelina Jolie adopted first. I think she had two or
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  Speaker 2: three adoptions and then ended up having three of her
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  Speaker 2: own with Brad. So that's what happened. But when we
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  Speaker 2: come back, we're going to go back because I had
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  Speaker 2: to scratch my head a little bit. She's 22, has
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  Speaker 2: two kids, and Jake's 24. When did they start dating?
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  Speaker 2: When did this all begin? So we'll get into their
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  Speaker 2: relationship history. And I wanted to share some really fun, awesome,
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  Speaker 2: supportive online support that she and Jake are getting. It's
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  Speaker 2: nice to see people saying positive things. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 2: Amy and TJ. I remember when I told you that
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  Speaker 2: Millie Bobby Brown is 22. She's already married and she's
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  Speaker 2: just adopted her second child. And you said, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she feels like she's grown up and she had to
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  Speaker 2: grow up so fast. You were not surprised by it
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  Speaker 2: because you kind of feel like she's lived a lot
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  Speaker 2: of life.
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  Speaker 1: The most. She's still a baby in a lot of ways, right? 22,
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  Speaker 1: given the ages we are and Given the ages of
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  Speaker 1: the people we are caring for still, right? She feels
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  Speaker 1: so young. But yeah, she was introduced to us as
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  Speaker 1: a child.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What was she? What was her actual age when that
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  Speaker 1: show started?
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  Speaker 2: No, her name was 11. But I can't remember how
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  Speaker 2: old she was when she came on to Stranger Things.
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  Speaker 2: But certainly she was.
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  Speaker 1: She was a baby. Was she 13, 14, 15, 16?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely oh no she was younger than that yeah so
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  Speaker 2: she might have been 11.
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  Speaker 1: To see her now in this way and i it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool i was when i first heard what
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  Speaker 1: was it i don't know if i knew before the
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  Speaker 1: wedding was announced like wait a minute the the girl
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  Speaker 1: from stranger things is is dating Bon Jovi's son. Right.
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  Speaker 1: That was kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: It is very cool. So they began dating back in 2021.
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrible with, but that means when she was 17,
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  Speaker 2: they started dating. They married in 2024 when she was 20.
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  Speaker 2: Think about that. She was not even legal to drink
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  Speaker 2: and she got married. So she couldn't have a legally,
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't have a glass of champagne to toast her
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  Speaker 2: new husband. That's how young she was when she got married.
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  Speaker 2: And then they had a larger wedding ceremony in Italy.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, now in 2026, they are a family of four.
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  Speaker 2: And people, I was really curious to see what the
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  Speaker 2: reaction would be. And I was so pleasantly surprised. I
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  Speaker 2: kept seeing positive comment after positive comment. So I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to share some because I thought people might be negative.
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  Speaker 2: People might just throw shade at them for being too
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  Speaker 2: young and But no, it's pretty cool. Amy writes, I
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  Speaker 2: see comments that they're too young. I got married young
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  Speaker 2: and had three kids all under the age of five
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  Speaker 2: when I was 25. I too heard that my husband
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't know what we were doing. Fast forward
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  Speaker 2: 30 years and my husband and I are still happily
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  Speaker 2: married and we'll celebrate our wedding anniversary in October and
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  Speaker 2: all of our kids are in their 20s and thriving
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  Speaker 2: with their own lives. So I don't subscribe that they're
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  Speaker 2: too young. I think they got lucky and found each
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  Speaker 2: other early and started their family. Congratulations to them.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's really what it is. I would never
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  Speaker 1: tell somebody you're getting married too young. I would caution
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  Speaker 1: you about some things that are working against you. But
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, I would say getting married young is a
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  Speaker 1: bad idea because you're not done becoming the adult you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be later. Your partner isn't. And in five years,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be two different people. So I subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to that. But Robes, there are cases where you meet
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  Speaker 1: that person early and then you actually grow together in
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  Speaker 1: the same way that continues to work. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: getting lucky that some people get.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that gives me chills. My mom describes that as
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  Speaker 2: her story because she met my dad in middle school.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I think about Millie Bobby Brown and Jake
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  Speaker 2: Bon Jovi. We obviously don't know them personally, but think
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  Speaker 2: about the shared experiences they have that bind them together.
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  Speaker 2: They both know what it's like to be thrust into
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  Speaker 2: the spotlight at an early age. And so they've got,
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  Speaker 2: and they've got the means and they, they've got shared
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  Speaker 2: goals and shared experiences. I also think about that with
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  Speaker 2: Justin Bieber and, um, Haley Bieber. She was the daughter of, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what's the, uh, yeah, Baldwin, the Baldwin, the William, Stephen Baldwin. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Baldwin. But I think about those two, the same
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing where you feel like that, I'm rooting
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  Speaker 2: for those couples because I feel like they've come up
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  Speaker 2: together and they have a shared experience. They've had a
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  Speaker 2: shared trauma and a shared privilege at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: And so I hope they can make it. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to read another one. Emma T wrote, maturity is relative.
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  Speaker 2: There are some young adults who are very responsible and
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  Speaker 2: have the resources to care for a child. And there
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  Speaker 2: are some much older parents who have neither.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Right? I don't see any indication. that she's an irresponsible parent,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope she continues to have lots of support
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  Speaker 2: from her friends and her family to help give her
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  Speaker 2: kids a wonderful life. God bless their family.
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  Speaker 1: That's really cool.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, people do leave nice comments online.
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  Speaker 2: We always talk about the negativity, and I just thought
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  Speaker 2: this is such a beautiful story. It's an unexpected one,
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  Speaker 2: and I just thought it was fun to maybe highlight
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  Speaker 2: it and just show that people are rooting for them,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope they feel that love because it's important
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  Speaker 2: when you're first starting out.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to root for them. It's fun to have
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  Speaker 1: somebody like that to root for, and the story is different.
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  Speaker 1: And ropes, they could use some help and support. They
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  Speaker 1: got family around, I'm sure. Like you said, they got means.
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  Speaker 1: But it is more than that still when you're that young.
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  Speaker 1: But it's hopeful, man.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing more hopeful than young love and new babies.
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  Speaker 1: They got it all.
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  Speaker 2: Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bon Jovi got them both.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations to their growing family. And we always appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk soon.