Current:Home > MarketsOlympian Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black Welcome Baby No. 2-DB Wealth Institute B2 Expert Reviews
Olympian Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black Welcome Baby No. 2
View Date:2024-12-23 15:42:06
Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black just dove into a new parenthood milestone.
The couple announced that they have welcomed their second child together, a baby boy named Phoenix Rose. The Olympian, 28, and the screenwriter, 48—who are also parents to four-year-old son Robert "Robbie" Ray—shared the news of their little one's arrival on Instagram alongside a snap of the new family of four.
"PHOENIX ROSE BLACK-DALEY," Tom captioned the April 5 Instagram. "Our family has grown in the last week, we welcomed Phoenix to the world on 28/03/23 and he's just perfect. Robbie is loving being a BIG BRO!"
Reposting the photo on his own account, Dustin wrote, "And then there were four. Our second son, Phoenix Rose Black-Daley, arrived at 3:34pm on March 28, 2023."
The sweet baby news comes a month after Tom—who wed Dustin in 2017—got candid about his and the Oscar winner's path to parenthood.
"It is a lot more complicated for same sex parents to have children," the gold medalist said on the Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast in May 2022, "and you have to really think about it and like really, really want to have kids in order to be able to make it work and it's extremely complex for same sex couples in a number of different ways."
He added, "For as long as I could remember, I have wanted to be a parent."
And he noted that experiencing loss—including his father dying from cancer in 2011 and Dustin's brother passing from the disease the following year—played into the couple's urge to start their family.
"Lance and I had lost so many people in our families and there was something about surrogacy that we were drawn to that just meant that we could pass on the people that we'd lost," Tom explained on the podcast. "Their genes and their thoughts, their feelings, their personalities and being able to bring someone into the world, that felt so extremely special."
And having welcomed Robbie via surrogacy, the process has a special place in Tom's heart.
"Surrogates are guardian angels, they are so incredible," he noted. "There are no words to explain as to how grateful you can be to someone and they are so incredibly special. Our surrogate is so special we speak to her all the time, on Facetime with Robbie and we explain to Robbie that she is his tummy buddy and that is how he came into the world."
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
veryGood! (5)
Related
- Officer injured at Ferguson protest shows improvement, transferred to rehab
- Why Kim Cattrall Says Getting Botox and Fillers Isn't a Vanity Thing
- Summer House Cast Drops a Shocker About Danielle Olivera's Ex Robert Sieber
- Bling Empire's Kelly Mi Li Honors Irreplaceable Treasure Anna Shay After Death
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Take the Day Off
- How Solar Panels on a Church Rooftop Broke the Law in N.C.
- Women face age bias at work no matter how old they are: No right age
- An Android update is causing thousands of false calls to 911, Minnesota says
- Arbitrator upholds 5-year bans of Bad Bunny baseball agency leaders, cuts agent penalty to 3 years
- You'll Love Ariana Grande Harder for Trolling Her Own Makeup Look
Ranking
- Where is 'College GameDay' for Week 12? Location, what to know for ESPN show
- Chuck Todd Is Leaving NBC's Meet the Press and Kristen Welker Will Become the New Host
- How Much Global Warming Is Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Locking In?
- Interactive: Superfund Sites Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Michigan soldier’s daughter finally took a long look at his 250 WWII letters
- Droughts That Start Over the Ocean? They’re Often Worse Than Those That Form Over Land
- The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Climate Change. Is it Ready to Decide Which Courts Have Jurisdiction?
- Biden lays out new path for student loan relief after Supreme Court decision
Recommendation
-
Megan Fox Is Pregnant, Expecting Baby With Machine Gun Kelly
-
Clean Energy Soared in the U.S. in 2017 Due to Economics, Policy and Technology
-
Elle Fanning Recalls Losing Role in Father-Daughter Film at 16 for Being Unf--kable
-
Young Republican Climate Activists Split Over How to Get Their Voices Heard in November’s Election
-
Alexandra Daddario Shares Candid Photo of Her Postpartum Body 6 Days After Giving Birth
-
Photos: Native American Pipeline Protest Brings National Attention to N.D. Standoff
-
Read the full text of the dissents in the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling by Sotomayor and Jackson
-
Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis