{"id":90463,"date":"2025-09-03T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=90463"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:29:34","slug":"penn-badgley-and-wife-domino-kirke-welcome-identical-twin-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/penn-badgley-and-wife-domino-kirke-welcome-identical-twin-boys\/90463\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Badgley and wife Domino Kirke welcome identical twin boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Badgley and his wife, Domino Kirke, have joyfully expanded their family with the arrival of identical twin boys. The <em>You<\/em> star shared the news quietly on September 3 via an Instagram video promoting a live event for his upcoming book, <em>Crushmore<\/em>. In the clip, he whispered about the newborns and showed their tiny feet, adding, \u201cThere\u2019s tiny little baby feet right there. I don\u2019t want to wake them up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These twins are the first children Penn and Domino have together, joining their 4-year-old son and Kirke\u2019s 16-year-old son, Cassius, from a previous relationship. Kirke had previously shared a photo of her baby bump on Instagram Stories, hinting at the happy news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Penn Badgley on parenting twins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the premiere of Netflix\u2019s final season of <em>You<\/em>, Badgley reflected on the responsibility of raising four boys. \u201cThey\u2019re identical boys, so now we have four boys,\u201d he said. \u201cThe world needs more good men, so, you know, pressure\u2019s on us to raise them well.\u201d When asked about his \u201cdad superpower,\u201d he joked about his patience: \u201cWell, it\u2019s my patience until I\u2019ve lost it, and then I\u2019m just as bad as anybody else. But, I can be very patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on <em>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>, Badgley shared the excitement of expecting twins. \u201cIt\u2019s thrilling. Every time I see the sonogram, it just feels so good,\u201d he said. As an only child himself, he found the connection between the twins deeply moving, describing how they seemed to face each other in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about his older children\u2019s reactions: \u201cThe 4-year-old we have, he\u2019s stoked because he really wants to be a big brother. The 16-year-old, he\u2019s excited for us, but he\u2019s also, like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna leave in two years.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Badgleys\u2019 family is now complete with four boys, and Penn\u2019s reflections show his mix of awe, humor, and dedication as a father navigating life with twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn Badgley and his wife, Domino Kirke, have joyfully expanded their family with the arrival of identical twin boys. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":90464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[26334],"class_list":["post-90463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-penn-badgley"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}