Millie Bobby Brown dropped the ultimate bombshell yesterday when she revealed she had welcomed a baby girl, explaining she and husband Jake Bongiovi had adopted.
Naturally, with no baby bump to flaunt in the months leading up to the announcement, it came as a huge surprise to fans, who were thrilled for the newly expanded family.
While some people were concerned that the couple were too young to become parents – Brown being 21, Bongiovi two years older at 23 – others quickly came to their defence on social media.
One wrote: “Good for them. I don’t quite understand the ‘she should be at the club’ comments I keep seeing on Twitter. Some people want kids young, it’s not like they can’t support a kid on their current combined incomes - lol.”
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Another agreed: “My mom had her first child at 21 and did well. I am 34 and can’t barely take care of me. Ultimately we need to stop universalising our own experiences and infantilising young adults.”
But as that debate raged on, some others found themselves by another detail altogether.
Honing in on Brown's Instagram announcement, people wondered if it contained her daughter’s name without people actually realising.
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“I thought the baby’s name was Love when I first read this,” one person pondered on Instagram, while another replied: “Honestly, could be a sneaky way of announcing her name lol.”
In her Instagram post, Brown wrote: "And then there were 3. Love, Millie and Jake Bongiovi."
Of course, most people would take that to mean:
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Love,
Millie and Jake Bongiovi
As this is how cards and letters are sometimes written, although not everyone includes a comma after ‘love’, while some prefer to say 'love from' or 'with love'.
However, eagle-eyed social media users wondered if she was actually listing her family out: Love, Millie and Jake.
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You never know, they could just be HUGE fans of Victoria Pedretti's character in Netflix hit You.
In pictures published by the Daily Mail, Brown was also spotted walking with a pushchair, wearing a jumper that said 'MOTHER' and the initials 'RWB' on her phone case - potentially a nod to her new child? Her late grandmother - who was incredibly close to Brown - was named Ruth, so could this be another theory?
Time may tell, of course, although Brown and Bongiovi don't always pander to the public's desire to know more, having famously left people guessing when they tied the knot.
They also asked for 'privacy' in their new roles as parents, so those theories may only continue to multiply...
Topics: Millie Bobby Brown, Celebrity
Jess Hardiman