Penn Badgley, Domino Kirke. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Giorgio Armani
Penn Badgley and wife Domino Kirke are expanding their family with not one — but two — babies.
“Babies #3 and #4 coming this Summer! Talk about a PLOT TWIST!” Kirke, 41, captioned an Instagram post on Friday, February 28, alongside a photo of her, Badgley and their 4-year-old son, James. “Spontaneous twins are beyond magical.”
She continued: “We are stunned. We are in awe. Can’t think of anyone else I’d rather be on this ride with @pennbadgley 👶♥️👶🎢#handsoffthewheel #monoditwins.”
The couple, who got married in 2017, are already parents to son James and to Kirke’s eldest son, Cassius, whom she welcomed in a previous relationship.
Penn Badgley and Domino Kirke found their happily ever after — and even celebrated it with two wedding ceremonies. Badgley and Kirke initially sparked romance rumors in 2014. Four years later, the doula admitted that their early relationship didn’t feel too serious. “I was sort of getting used to being a single mom, maybe a […]
“He’s a really good stepdad,” Kirke exclusively told Us Weekly in 2019 of Badgley. “He doesn’t have to be ‘dad’ so he can have more fun with him. It’s really nice. The stepparent thing is definitely uncharted territory for me ’cause I didn’t grow up with one, but … he takes care of him really well.”
Kirke gushed to Us about watching Cassius grow into his own, adding, “Boys at 10 have the same amount of testosterone as they will have when they’re 18, so there’s a sass, but when I speak to him on the phone, he’ll be like, ‘Hey mom, you sound tired. You should go to bed.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, OK, thanks.’ Like, ‘Whoa, who am I talking to?’”
Badgley, 38, has also spoken about taking on the role of a stepfather.
“I was curious [how] my new fatherhood would influence my experience with Joe and acting with him,” he told Access Hollywood in 2021. “But sometimes, it was almost not helpful because I was having such a light and joyful experience [and] still am, and Joe was, like, so petrified and so scared. Of course, I can identify with the fear, but he’s just so morbid in his obsessive self-preservation and primal instinct that sometimes I almost found it harder.”
At the time, Badgley reflected on becoming a first-time “biological father” amid COVID pandemic, telling InStyle, “It’s just been us, my wife and I, taking care of him. And as a result, in some ways, we’re thrilled, there’s a beautiful joy and lightness to our connection with him. He seems to reflect that. And at the same time, it’s so hard.”
While filming season 3 of his hit Netflix series You, Badgley found himself connecting to his character, who welcomed a son on screen.
“I certainly had the great bounty of drawing on my own experience, becoming a new biological parent, and that was quite natural,” he recalled to Elle in October 2021. “There are some definitely sweet moments where I was able to do that, but I think by and large, [Joe’s] paternal instinct is at best primal. I think to be a good father or a parent, you need to really rise several orders above primal, but he’s at least primal, I guess.”