{"id":802229,"date":"2026-05-17T05:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802229\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:55:21","slug":"josh-duhamel-welcomes-baby-no-3-his-second-with-wife-audra-mari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/802229\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Duhamel Welcomes Baby No. 3, His Second with Wife Audra Mari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Josh Duhamel has welcomed his third baby, his second with wife Audra Mari<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He revealed the baby girl&#8217;s unique name and shared photos of the newborn on Instagram on Saturday, May 16<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Duhamel is already dad to son Shepherd, 2, with Mari and he shares son Axl, 12, with ex-wife Fergie<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/josh-duhamel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Josh Duhamel;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Josh Duhamel&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Josh Duhamel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/josh-duhamel-and-audra-mari-pregnant-with-baby-no-2-adding-a-little-girl-11920755\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Audra Mari;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Audra Mari&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Audra Mari<\/a> have a new addition!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actor, 53, has welcomed his third baby, his second with his wife, 32. He announced the happy news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYa2aD5FLx_\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> on Saturday, May 16, revealing the newborn girl&#8217;s unique name and sharing a series of photos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Rocca de Leon Duhamel our baby girl is here \ud83e\udd0d\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f,&#8221; he wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Duhamel and Mari are already parents to son Shepherd, 2. The actor is also dad to 12-year-old son Axl, whom he shares with ex-wife <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/fergie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Fergie;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Fergie&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Fergie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Josh Duhamel and Audra Mari's newborn baby girlCredit: Audra Duhamel\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"960\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/af4ab1279a7d602d0d560629361f6399.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Duhamel and Audra Mari&#8217;s newborn baby girl<br \/>Credit: Audra Duhamel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One photo in the carousel showed a series of polaroids of the newborn sleeping, her proud dad holding up a celebratory bottle of champagne by her bassinet, and Duhamel and Mari posing together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other shots showed Shepherd meeting his new baby sister and the infant snuggling against her mom&#8217;s chest in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead of welcoming his baby girl, Duhamel shared his <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/josh-duhamel-shares-excitement-for-baby-girl-on-the-way-11932465\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:excitement about becoming a girl dad;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;excitement about becoming a girl dad&quot;}\" class=\"link \">excitement about becoming a girl dad<\/a> while speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dMkJXsbCDmc?si=BKTUBwvnsKeJtAzQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:E! News;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;E! News&quot;}\" class=\"link \">E! News<\/a> about his new comedy Preschool. The actor told fellow new dad <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/derek-hough\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Derek Hough;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Derek Hough&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Derek Hough<\/a> that he &#8220;cannot wait to meet her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to make of it. I&#8217;m just so \u2014 I cannot wait to meet her,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think there&#8217;s something about dads and their little girls. It&#8217;s different, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Josh Duhamel with son Shepherd and daughter Rocca de LeonCredit: Audra Duhamel\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"960\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2c777a6ae0b610742637692686725331.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Duhamel with son Shepherd and daughter Rocca de Leon<br \/>Credit: Audra Duhamel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mari first revealed that she was pregnant again in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVh1pYTlOM2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Instagram carousel;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram carousel&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram carousel<\/a> filled with black-and-white photos of herself baring her baby bump. In the first image, Mari sat in a bed with her legs crossed while wearing a half-buttoned top with her stomach exposed as she smiled at the camera. A second image showed her beaming as she looked down to cradle her belly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAdding a little girl to our story. We can\u2019t wait to meet you,\u201d she captioned her post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In August, the Life As We Know It actor spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/josh-duhamel-on-being-a-dad-to-2-sons-if-he-hopes-for-a-daughter-exclusive-11800193\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:being a father to two sons;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;being a father to two sons&quot;}\" class=\"link \">being a father to two sons<\/a> and addressed whether or not he&#8217;d want to be a girl dad.\u00a0&#8220;I just love being a dad. I love every single milestone,&#8221; Duhamel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time, the now dad of three shared that his two sons are quite different from each other and unique in their own ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My wife&#8217;s father is a big car guy and a collector of cars, and I think that Shepherd is very much like his grandfather,&#8221; Duhamel told PEOPLE. &#8220;He just loves cars&#8230; and all he wants to do is get up in the seat and just pretend like he&#8217;s driving. Even if it&#8217;s a little tricycle, he wants to get in there and pretend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Josh Duhamel and his newborn daughterCredit: Audra Duhamel\/Instagram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"864\" height=\"960\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/61bfcba529689f5c98136075e26fc074.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Josh Duhamel and his newborn daughter<br \/>Credit: Audra Duhamel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Axl, on the other hand, &#8220;doesn&#8217;t really care so much&#8221; about cars, according to his famous dad, who said his eldest is fond of sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He&#8217;s more about soccer and basketball stats,&#8221; Duhamel continued. &#8220;But that&#8217;s the beauty of genetics. They all come out a little bit different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/josh-duhamel-welcomes-baby-no-3-his-second-with-wife-audra-mari-11961531\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Josh Duhamel has welcomed his third baby, his second with wife Audra Mari He revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":802230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[326609,171,40004,58469,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-802229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-audra-mari","tag-entertainment","tag-josh-duhamel","tag-shepherd","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116588376362386550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}