{"id":240747,"date":"2026-05-17T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/josh-duhamel-is-a-dad-again\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T08:00:21","slug":"josh-duhamel-is-a-dad-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/josh-duhamel-is-a-dad-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Duhamel is a dad again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-05-17\" datetime=\"1779004821\" pubdate=\"\">17 May 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Josh Duhamel has become a father for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Josh Duhamel&#8217;s baby girl (c)Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old actor and wife Audra Mari are delighted to have welcomed a little girl, who they have named Rocca de Leon Duhamel, into the world, a sister for their two-year-old son Shepherd and Josh&#8217;s 12-year-old son Axl, who he has with ex-wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/fergie\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,fergie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fergie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The couple shared a joint Instagram post featuring a carousel of images of the new arrival and simply wrote: &#8220;Rocca de Leon Duhamel<\/p>\n<p>our baby girl is here (sic)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although they didn&#8217;t share when the tot was born, a hospital tag seen on the baby&#8217;s wrist on on one of the photos bore the date 05\/05\/26.<\/p>\n<p>\nA few weeks ago, the Transformers actor shared his excitement about being a &#8220;girl dad&#8221; for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told E! News &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to make of it. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m just so [excited] &#8230; I cannot wait to meet her. And I think there&#8217;s something about dads and their little girls. It&#8217;s different, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh recently opened up about the couple&#8217;s relationship prior to their marriage in 2022 &#8211; revealing they first met during a barbecue at his house and he ruled out dating her because of the 21-year age gap between them.<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh made the confession during an appearance on The Skinny Confidential podcast, saying: &#8220;We had a barbecue at my house .. &#8220;She and I had been in contact because I knew she was from North Dakota, she&#8217;d done really, really well in Miss USA [beauty pageant]. I wasn&#8217;t even inviting her because I wanted to date her because she was too young for me to be honest. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t looking for [that]. I&#8217;m not going to be that dude. So I invited her and she comes to the door and I&#8217;m like: &#8216;Holy s***. [She&#8217;s] so beautiful.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I was still like: &#8216;No, no, no&#8217;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, Josh was won over by Audra after seeing the way she interacted with the children at the barbecue &#8211; admitting she came across as &#8220;really wholesome&#8221; and reminded him of &#8220;home&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: &#8220;I remember her taking care of these kids at the party, making sure they had enough [to eat] and I was like that reminds me of home and the kind of girl I want to really be with. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And I&#8217;d gone through a couple of relationships with girls here in LA and it just wasn&#8217;t the same. There&#8217;s something really wholesome about it and I think that was when I was like: &#8216;Maybe she&#8217;s not too young&#8217; &#8230; Maybe I am that dude. I don&#8217;t know. &#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\nHe went on to add: &#8220;[Now] we have a two year old &#8230; [We&#8217;ve been married for] three years and we&#8217;ve been together for like seven &#8230; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/josh-duhamel-dad-1444543.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 May 2026 Josh Duhamel has become a father for the third time. Josh Duhamel&#8217;s baby girl (c)Instagram The 53-year-old actor and wife Audra Mari are delighted to have welcomed a little girl, who they have named Rocca de Leon Duhamel, into the world, a sister for their two-year-old son Shepherd and Josh&#8217;s 12-year-old son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11152,3800,15307],"class_list":{"0":"post-240747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-audra-mari","9":"tag-fergie","10":"tag-josh-duhame"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}