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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How Pregnant Domino Kirke and Penn Badgley Are Preparing for Twins
Originally appeared on E! Online Domino Kirke is saying hello to two. Two months after her husband Penn Badgley announced they are expecting twins, the "Teething" singer shared how they're going with the flow while getting ready to welcome babies no. 3 and 4. "Everyone is in the same boat, very, very fluid with it," Domino told E! News in an exclusive interview. "I think they're taking my lead. No one's holding on too tight. It's just an expansion—that's what we're here for." After all, the duola—who shares a 4-year-old son with the Gossip Girl alum, as well as 16-year-old son Cassius with ex Morgan O'Kane—has a lot of experience with motherhood. This time around is a little different, however, since she and Penn will be going through double the newborn milestones as parents to twin boys. "It's humbling," Domino reflected. "It's so overwhelming. The idea of two at once, it's one of those things where you just take your hands off the wheel, and you say, 'I'm just on the ride.' That's what pregnancy and childbirth are for me." More from E! Online Sean "Diddy" Combs Trial: Cassie Ventura Says Period Blood, Urine Were Involved in "Freak Offs" Bindi Irwin Shares Update From Hospital After Multiple Procedures What Is a 'Freak Off'? What to Know About the Sex Parties in Sean "Diddy" Combs' Trial "After attending so many births, it's the thing that you actually can't hold," she continued. "There's so much mystery. You just have to trust. With twins, I'm like, 'Oh, it's that times 1,000' and I'm up for it." With so much experience and adoration for the birthing process, the music video for her song "Teething" emulated her goal to one day highlight the beauty and reality of the experience—especially for young people. "There's health class and there's sex education," Domino—whose new album The Most Familiar Star was released in April—explained, "but there's no conversation about how we get here." The 41-year-old had conversations with her friends born in the '70s, who said they were "freaked out" by seeing videos of women giving birth in high school. However, Domino asserted that they were shown a "gory misrepresentation of birth." The "Half Blood" singer wanted to shift that perspective with the help of Cassius and other high school students, whose reactions to watching a birth were used as a visual for the song. "How do I bring my profession and my service that I do outside of music to my music?" Domino, who also directed the video alongside Gregory Mitnick, thought. "I was like, 'Oh, it would be so cool for the one song I really wrote about my clients and my kids simultaneously—if I could find a way to capture that in a visual." "I did it by bringing this information to my co-director and saying, 'Hey, could we capture the expressions and feelings and reactions and responses of teenagers watching birth?'" she continued. "He thought it was brilliant with the song and it worked really well in the end." As Penn and Domino prepare to welcome their twin babies, keep reading for a look back at their relationship. November 2015February 2017April 2017September 2019August 2020June 2022October 2022March 2023October 2024February 2025April 2025 For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
News.com.au
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley spills on Blake Lively romance: ‘A struggle'
Penn Badgley admits that dating Blake Lively was a 'struggle' while they were filming 'Gossip Girl' together back in the day. During his appearance on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, the You star — who played Dan Humphrey on all six seasons of the hit teen drama — talked about how his on- and off-screen romance with Lively and her character, Serena van der Woodsen, was hard to separate. 'There are many differences between film and television. One of them is that when you do a film, you do it once. And you kind of give it your all and then you move on — whether you want to or not,' Badgley, 38, told host Cooper, 30, per Page Six. Badgley further stated that when you shoot a TV show, 'you're doing it constantly.' Due to how successful the series became, fans began associating him with his character. 'What starts to happen when you're in this one role for a long time — the aspect of celebrity being a part of it, a huge part of it — there is not enough separation, I think, for anybody,' he explained. 'You're seen as this person, you're called their name out on the street. You also constantly have to be that person at work.' Badgley, who was in his early 20s during filming, said he didn't have the 'emotional maturity to understand how to differentiate' himself from his role as Humphrey 'in terms of self-worth.' 'What people seemed to think of Dan seemed to be what people thought of me,' he said. Lively, 37, and Badgley dated on and off from 2007 to 2010. After the actors split, they remained cordial on set. 'They're professionals,' a source told Us Weekly at the time. 'They're still good friends and hang out on the set.' Two years later, the A Simple Favor actress tied the knot with Ryan Reynolds on a South Carolina plantation. Lively and the Deadpool star, 48, have welcomed four kids together. Meanwhile, Badgley married Domino Kirke in 2017. The couple share son James, who was born in 2020, and the Half Blood singer, 41, is currently pregnant with twins.
