Milo Ventimiglia talks about being a new father and expecting baby No. 2
Milo Ventimiglia talks candidly about a huge year, in which he lost his home to the fires in LA and welcomed his first child with his wife Jarah Mariano just two weeks later and they are now expecting their second child together.
Appears in the Thursday, February 5 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ventimiglia, 48, joked that the chaos made him forget what day it was and that they “had to be crazy” to be chasing each other with a second pregnancy.
“I have a beautiful daughter, she’s amazing. What day is it?” Ventimiglia joked to the host Kimmel, 58, as he shared details about how he was adjusting to fatherhood after welcoming daughter Ke’ala in January 2025. “Thursday, great. It’s the same as Wednesday or Tuesday, yes. They’re all the same. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday…”
After Kimmel asked if Ke’ala was the This is us Being awake at night, Ventimiglia said that while their daughter slept into the early hours, he and Mariano still worried about her.
“She’s actually doing fine, she sleeps through the night. She loves waking up at 5:40 in the morning and talking to herself. Just chatting and stuff. My wife and I are in bed, like, ‘Does she have hair?’ [pacifer]?’ “I don’t know, I can’t see it on the monitor.” “Did she poop herself?” “I don’t know, I can’t see it on the monitor,” he recalled. ‘And then you think, after a certain period of time, you know this. When you walk in there you think, she didn’t poop herself, and she has hair [pacifier]so the world is good.”
Ventimiglia also admitted that while he initially had big plans to become a “miracle parent,” he was forced to take a step back and acknowledge that the couple had had a “difficult and wonderful” year after losing their Malibu home and becoming first-time parents in a short period of time.
Jarah Mariano.
Courtesy of Jarah Mariano/Instagram“Listen, my wife is the most incredible — Jarah, if you look, you’re the most incredible human being, creature, kind of everything. She can handle everything amazingly. But you know, I mean, when you’re also a first-time parent, you kind of think you’re going to be this miracle parent,” he explained.
He continued, “That’s what I was striving for. I was like, ‘Cool man, I’m going to be the healthiest, we’re going to feed this baby organic, we’re going to buy blenders, do all this stuff, we’re going to argue with a guy named Kale over blueberries at the farmers market.’ Then after a while you think, ‘Oh man, we’ve had quite a year.’
Ventimiglia was one of many celebrities and California residents who lost their homes last year when fires devastated the region. Mariano was heavily pregnant at the time and during his Kimmel appearance, Ventimiglia talked about the experience.
“If anyone doesn’t know, we lost our home in the Malibu fires at the height of the year. It’s okay, it happened, thank you. Two weeks later we got the best blessing and our daughter was born. Six weeks later, on our way to make this movie coming out this month, I can only imagine 2. Literally on the road,” he said.
Milo Ventimiglia and wife Jarah Mariano made their first public appearance since announcing they are expecting their first baby. Ventimiglia, 47, and Mariano, 39, posed for some sweet photos together while attending photographer Brian Bowen Smith’s “Joyride” exhibition at Studio CT in Agoura Hills, California, on Saturday, October 19. In an instant, Ventimiglia leaned forward […]
Ventimiglia joked that reality thwarted his ambitions as a super parent, continuing, “While you’re on the road, you’re thinking, ‘Where’s my blender?’ It’s dawn. You don’t make organic food anymore.”
After Kimmel the Gilmore girls Ventimiglia talked about how much harder it will be to be a father of two children and also joked about his anxiety about what will happen next.
“You saw me swallow hard, right? I swallowed hard,” he noted. “Now I know it’s coming. But don’t they start entertaining each other at some point?”
