{"id":288009,"date":"2020-02-10T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1121622"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:55:00","slug":"penn-badgleys-wife-domino-kirke-is-pregnant-with-their-first-child-after-suffering-2-miscarriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/penn-badgleys-wife-domino-kirke-is-pregnant-with-their-first-child-after-suffering-2-miscarriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Badgley&#8217;s Wife Domino Kirke Is Pregnant With Their First Child After Suffering 2 Miscarriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2017127\/rs_1024x759-170227122056-1024-penn-badgley-domino-kirke-married.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Penn Badgley, Domino Kirke\" alt=\"Penn Badgley, Domino Kirke\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Isadora\/BFA.com\/REX\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.338983050847\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.728813559322\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/penn_badgley\">Penn Badgley<\/a><\/strong>is going to be a dad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday,&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/m.eonline.com\/news\/1105861\/you-season-2-certainly-did-not-go-in-the-direction-we-were-expecting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>You&nbsp;<\/em>star<\/a> and wife&nbsp;<strong>Domino Kirke<\/strong>&nbsp;announced&nbsp;that they are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1104635\/penn-badgley-shares-rare-insight-into-married-life-with-wife-domino-kirke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expecting their first child together<\/a>. Taking to Instagram, the 36-year-old musician shared the exciting news with fans and used the opportunity to candidly address the couple&#8217;s fertility struggles. Treating her followers to a bird&#8217;s eye view of her bump, Kirke&#8217;s post revealed that she had suffered two miscarriages since welcoming her 10-year-old son <strong>Cassius Riley<\/strong> in 2009 with ex <strong>Morgan O&#8217;Kane<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the road again&#8230; pregnancy after loss is whole other thing,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;After two miscarriages in a row we were ready to call it. I stopped trusting my body and started to accept the fact that I was done. As a birth attendant, I&#8217;ve seen and heard it all. It takes everything I&#8217;ve got to detach lovingly from the losses I&#8217;ve been present for and be in my own experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After explaining that she was &#8220;blissfully unaware&#8221; during her first pregnancy at age 25, Kirke, who is now a doula, shared that in light the loss she has suffered, she is happy to have a decade of learning under her belt this time around.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;When I was pregnant at 25, I knew nothing. I had no community,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I dove in blissfully unaware about birth and its mysteries. Now, with 10 years worth of experience to pull from, I treasure my birth community and the knowledge I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.611374407583\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.78672985782\">\n<p>Concluding her post&nbsp;on a heartwarming note, Kirke said, &#8220;You&#8217;re already teaching us how to stay in the day in a way we&#8217;ve never had to, little one. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2017, Kirke and Badgley&nbsp;tied the knot in a small Brooklyn courthouse ceremony.&nbsp;Since officially becoming a step-father to Cassius, the DOMINO band member can&#8217;t help but gush over how he&#8217;s settled into the role. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t have to be \u2018dad&#8217; so he can have more fun with him,&#8221; she told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/penn-badgley-pregnant-domino-kirke-expecting-1st-child-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Us Weekly<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;2019. &#8220;It&#8217;s really nice. The stepparent thing is definitely uncharted territory for me cause I didn&#8217;t grow up with one, but \u2026 he takes care of him really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.589743589744\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10.717948717949\">\n<p>Kirke isn&#8217;t the only one with nice things to say. Speaking with&nbsp;<em>People<\/em>, Badgley gave the outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1005907\/sorry-we-only-have-eyes-for-you-penn-badgley-inside-his-marriage-faith-and-struggle-with-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a rare glimpse<\/a> into their relationship and&nbsp;shared that he and Kirke have&nbsp;a &#8220;divine love.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love,&#8221; the&nbsp;<strong><em>Gossip Girl <\/em><\/strong>alum said.&nbsp;&#8220;[Domino and I] very much had a romantic beginning, and I think that you discover in marriage that what sustains a marriage for decades\u2014there are less and less people who can tell us this\u2014but I think it has something to do with [divine] love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1121622\/penn-badgley-s-wife-domino-kirke-is-pregnant-with-their-first-child-after-suffering-2-miscarriages?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isadora\/BFA.com\/REX\/Shutterstock Penn Badgleyis going to be a dad.&nbsp; On Monday,&nbsp;the You&nbsp;star and wife&nbsp;Domino Kirke&nbsp;announced&nbsp;that they are&nbsp;expecting their first child together. Taking to Instagram, the 36-year-old musician shared the exciting news with fans and used the opportunity to candidly address the couple&#8217;s fertility struggles. Treating her followers to a bird&#8217;s eye view of her bump, Kirke&#8217;s [&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":["post-288009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-30 20:40:11","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\/288009","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=288009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}