Milo Ventimiglia‘s wife Jarah Mariano is sharing a rare glimpse into their life as parents as the couple prepare to welcome baby number two.
Taking to her Instagram on Saturday, June 13, Mariano, 42, posted a carousel of photos and images which featured the This Is Us alum and their 18-month-old daughter Ke’ala.
One wholesome image showed Mariano holding Ke’ala as she stretched out to touch a horse.
Another snap featured Ventimiglia, 48, posing with Ke’ala strapped to his back and a dog in front of him.
Other pictures displayed Mariano’s growing baby bump as the couple gear up to welcome their second child together. Ke’ala’s face was obscured in all photos, seemingly to protect her privacy.
“Some different views of the first half of 2026 in no particular order. Being present, being grateful, just being. Sending out the love to you all,” Mariano captioned the post.
Mariano and Ventimiglia welcomed Ke’ala in January 2025 two weeks after the couple’s Malibu home burned down in wildfires that devastated California. A year after Ke’ala’s birth, they announced they were expecting their second child together.
The Gilmore Girls alum appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in February and spoke about how he was adjusting to fatherhood as well as joking they “must be crazy” to go back-to-back with a second pregnancy.
“She’s actually doing great. She’s sleeping through the night. She loves to wake up at 5.40 in the morning and talk to herself, kinda jabber on and whatnot. My wife and I are lying in bed like, ‘Does she have her [pacifier]?’ ‘I don’t know. I can’t tell from the monitor.’ ‘Did she poop herself?’ ‘I don’t know. I can’t tell from the monitor,’” he said. “And then you’re kind of like, after a certain period of time, you know this. You walk in there, you’re like, well, she didn’t poop herself, and she’s got her [pacifier], so the world’s good.”
Ventimiglia added that he initially had big plans to be a “wonder-parent” but was forced to be more realistic and do the best he could after a tough year.
“Listen, my wife is the most unbelievable — Jarah, if you’re watching, you are the most unbelievable human being, creature, species of everything. She handles everything great. But, you know, I mean, when you’re a first parent too, you kind of think you’re going to be this wonder-parent,” he explained.
He continued, “I was striving to. I’m like, ‘Cool, man. I’m going to be the healthiest. We’re going to feed this baby organic. We’re going to buy blenders, do all this stuff. We’re going to go argue with some dude named Kale about blueberries at the farmers’ market.’ Then, after a while, you’re like, ‘Oh, man, we had quite a year.’”
