{"id":265259,"date":"2019-01-11T18:55:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T01:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1004493"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T01:55:05","slug":"deena-cortese-says-she-sees-so-much-of-her-late-father-in-newborn-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/deena-cortese-says-she-sees-so-much-of-her-late-father-in-newborn-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Deena Cortese Says She Sees &#8221;So Much&#8221; of Her Late Father in Newborn Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.5\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201908\/rs_1024x1163-190108164844-deena-cortese-baby-christopher-john-buckner.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Deena Cortese, CJ Buckner\" alt=\"Deena Cortese, CJ Buckner\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19\">\n<p>It looks like Deena&#8217;s son shares more in common with his late grandfather than we originally thought.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deena Cortese<\/strong> shared that she sees &#8220;so much&#8221; of her dad&#8217;s smile in son\u00a0<strong>Christopher John Buckner<\/strong>, who they call CJ. &#8220;He has an amazing guardian angel looking over him,&#8221; the new mom wrote alongside a photo comparison of CJ and his grandfather\u00a0<strong>John Cortese<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It has been almost three years since the\u00a0<em>Jersey Shore\u00a0<\/em>star&#8217;s father died of leukemia. She announced the news of his death on Instagram, where she wrote, &#8220;Last night I lost the first man I ever loved my biggest supporter and best friend .. My dad was one of the toughest people I know and had such a big sense of pride and fought until the very very end and I couldn&#8217;t be more proud of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His death took place just months before Deena would walk down the aisle to marry husband\u00a0<strong>Christopher Buckner<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.918367346939\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.5714285714286\">\n<p>At her wedding to Christopher, Deena revealed the touching way she paid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/890084\/jersey-shore-s-deena-cortese-to-honor-late-dad-at-her-wedding\" target=\"_blank\">tribute to her father<\/a>. Insider her wedding dress she sewed a piece of her dad&#8217;s shirt by her chest. &#8220;Even though you won&#8217;t be with me tomorrow physically .. I&#8217;ll have a piece of you with me and close to my heart while I&#8217;m walking down the isle (sic),&#8221; the bride shared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57.534161490683\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.8012422360248\">\n<p>Now that CJ is a part of the family, he is being showered with love by his parents and the\u00a0<em>Jersey Shore\u00a0<\/em>family. When he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/994069\/jersey-shore-s-deena-cortese-gives-birth-to-a-baby-boy\" target=\"_blank\">was born<\/a>, his mom excitedly wrote on Instagram, &#8220;Uhg (sic) mommy and daddy love you so much CJ .. youre our everything.\u00a0i never thought i could love Chris anymore than i did until i saw him hold CJ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.508571428571\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.4742857142857\">\n<p>And Deena has clearly been anxiously awaiting the arrival of her little boy. When she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/948609\/jersey-shore-s-deena-cortese-is-pregnant-expecting-baby-boy-with-christopher-buckner\" target=\"_blank\">announced her pregnancy<\/a> in July, she and Christopher already had his name all picked out!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1004493\/deena-cortese-says-she-sees-so-much-of-her-late-father-in-newborn-son?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram It looks like Deena&#8217;s son shares more in common with his late grandfather than we originally thought. Deena Cortese shared that she sees &#8220;so much&#8221; of her dad&#8217;s smile in son\u00a0Christopher John Buckner, who they call CJ. &#8220;He has an amazing guardian angel looking over him,&#8221; the new mom wrote alongside a photo comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-265259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:05:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}