Millie Bobby Brown Is Normal, Not Celebs Doing Surrogacy In Their 50s

Millie Bobby Brown Bongiovi is not your average Hollywood woman — and that’s a good thing.

Sure, Brown still walks the red carpets at her movie and TV show premieres and makes headlines for her unique “style evolution,” but the similarities between the Stranger Things star and other actresses stop there.

Brown’s quest to separate herself from the scandals that tend to define celebrities’ lives all started in April 2023 when she shocked fans by announcing that she, at 19 years old, became engaged to 20-year-old celebrity son Jake Bongiovi. By May 2024, the couple had officially tied the knot.

A year and some change later, the founder of Florence by Mills beauty company caught her followers off guard again with an Instagram post declaring she, now 21, and Bongiovi, now 23, had become parents to a “sweet baby girl through adoption.”

“We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy,” the graphic states. “And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi.”

The Bongiovis’ decision to get engaged young, get married quickly, and start a family soon after is a refreshing change from the behavior often observed in Hollywood stars.

Celebrity culture is littered with decades-long engagements that follow decades of highly public philandering, breakups, and even abortions. Many times, the relationships that routinely make headlines happen between already divorced people who end up cohabitating and often start a family together without ever getting married.

In some cases, the rich and famous who seek to preserve their figure, save their work schedules, or choose the sex of their children resort to assisted reproductive technology such as life-destroying in vitro fertilization and surrogacy. Some who claim they’ve given up on finding true love and have aged out of natural conception even use Big Fertility’s gamete buying and womb rental services to secure single parenthood.

The Bongiovis, on the other hand, appear to have chosen a different path than the one trodden before them by their peers. As long as the “adoption” Brown referenced in her post is not doublespeak for surrogacy, which creates broken situations, what she and her husband did is seek to redeem a broken situation by giving a baby girl in need a loving home stewarded by married parents.

It would have been easy for Brown and Bongiovi to date for years, let their acting careers take precedence, and delay children. After all, both were fully immersed in the wild world of showbiz during the most moldable years of their short lives.

Despite practically growing up in front of TV and paparazzi cameras, however, the Bongiovis seem to have resisted some of the most toxic messaging spewed by the entertainment industry and its allies in the corporate media.

The world, especially the entertainment industry, sees Brown’s order of operations as an upside-down way to live. Hollywood says shout your abortion(s), sleep around, string along your partner, and put yourself and your career above all. The movies and the people who write them are also defined by dysfunction, treat kids as a nuisance and expendable (with few exceptions), and frown upon traditional marriage and gender roles.

The Bongiovis’ decision to successfully tune out that noise to focus on what’s truly important, however, doesn’t mean they are living in an alternate universe. In reality, they are doing things the “right way.”

People who go to the altar early in their adult years have more opportunities to do life together, start their families when their fertility and health are still intact, and give the kids they have or adopt the best future possible because they are married and live together.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.