{"id":2511263,"date":"2026-07-21T17:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2511263"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:38:25","slug":"marc-anthony-welcomes-baby-no-8-2nd-with-wife-nadia-ferreira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marc-anthony-welcomes-baby-no-8-2nd-with-wife-nadia-ferreira\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Anthony Welcomes Baby No. 8, 2nd With Wife Nadia Ferreira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/marc-anthony\/\"><strong>Marc Anthony\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> family has expanded once more following the birth of his eighth baby.<\/p>\n<p>The singer\u2019s wife, <strong>Nadia Ferreira<\/strong>, announced the arrival of their second child on Tuesday, July 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a great blessing to be able to share with you the arrival of our precious MYLA \ud83e\udd0d,\u201d Ferreira wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DbD5Yp7EZnI\/?img_index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine the happiness we have at home, we are over the moon \ud83d\ude0d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira shared a black-and-white photo of her and Anthony\u2019s son, Marco, holding the newborn, as well as a snap of the family holding the baby\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, 57, and Ferreira, 27, tied the knot in January 2023. The couple welcomed Marco in June 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/celebrity-babies-of-2026-stars-who-gave-birth-this-year\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/pictures\/celebrity-babies-of-2026-stars-who-gave-birth-this-year\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Celebrity Babies of 2026: Stars Who Announced Their Children\u2019s Births<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMany stars grew their families in 2026. Becca Kufrin, Justin Theroux, MLB player Freddie Freeman, TikTok star Allison Kuch and NFL star Baker Mayfield all welcomed little ones into their respective families in April, followed Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden\u00a0in May. That month also brought new arrivals to Stephen Coletti, Josh Duhamel and Pat McAfee\u2018s [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthony and Ferreira <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/marc-anthony-is-expecting-8th-baby-his-2nd-with-wife-nadia-ferreira\/\">announced her pregnancy<\/a> with their second baby in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy 3rd anniversary!! What a great gift life gives us,\u201d they captioned a joint Instagram post at the time. \u201cGod is great \u2728 Marquito is going to be a big brother. \u2764\ufe0f.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying photo showed Ferreira\u2019s pregnant belly with her, Anthony\u2019s and Marco\u2019s hands resting on her bump.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to starting his family with Ferreira, Anthony was already a father of six. The Puerto Rican singer previously welcomed daughter Arianna in 1994 and son Chase in 1995 with ex-girlfriend <strong>Debbie Rosado<\/strong>, sons Cristian in 2001 and Ryan in 2003 with ex-wife <strong>Dayanara Torres<\/strong> and twins Max and Emme in 2008 with ex-wife <strong>Jennifer Lopez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Amid Ferreira\u2019s pregnancy, Anthony debuted his first Las Vegas residency, <em>Vegas \u2026 My Way<\/em>, in February. Before his tenure at Fontainebleau began, he teased how his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/marc-anthony-reflects-on-fatherhood-and-his-las-vegas-residency\/\">children influenced his performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have kids and everything comes with a sense of responsibility, every time I put a show together, I wonder what all my kids would think if they were all sitting there at the same time,\u201d he exclusively told <em>Us Weekly<\/em> in a December 2025 interview. \u201cI want them to be proud and I always take that into account, you know, what my kids, if I had all them sitting in the front row, what they would say, that\u2019s always in the back of my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>He added: \u201cBut everything I\u2019ve done in my life has been with my family in mind and that\u2019s how I\u2019ve been able to manage, not so much, how I create, if not just the end product, does it represent not only me, but us as a family. So always keep them in mind. I\u2019m looking forward to them seeing the show and going and seeing what Daddy does, so they\u2019re ever present.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/marc-anthony-nadia-ferreiras-relationship-timeline-photos\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia.jpg?crop=0px%2C121px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"GettyImages-2189311654-marc-anthony-nadia\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/marc-anthony-nadia-ferreiras-relationship-timeline-photos\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Marc Anthony and Wife Nadia Ferreira\u2019s Whirlwind Relationship Timeline<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMarc Anthony and Nadia Ferreira announced their engagement weeks after taking their romance public. The twosome solidified their couple status via Instagram in March 2022, going on to celebrate their big milestone that May. \u201cEngagement partyyyyy!!! \ud83d\udc8d @marcanthony,\u201d the former Miss Paraguay \u2014 who is 30 years Anthony\u2019s junior \u2014 captioned an Instagram Story of [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the past, Anthony has been forthcoming about balancing fatherhood with his career, admitting in an April 2016 interview with <em>CBS Sunday Morning<\/em> that he wished he\u2019d spent more time with his older children when they were growing up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one regret would be that what I chose to do took so much of my time. What I would have done to have been a stay-at-home dad and, you know, witnessed every second of everything,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cI would have loved that. Didn\u2019t work out that way. So it\u2019s the one thing that just tugs at me \u2026 that\u2019s the biggest sacrifice. And you sort of start to wonder, was it all worth it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Anthony\u2019s family has expanded once more following the birth of his eighth baby. The singer\u2019s wife, Nadia Ferreira, announced the arrival of their second child on Tuesday, July 21. \u201cWhat a great blessing to be able to share with you the arrival of our precious MYLA \ud83e\udd0d,\u201d Ferreira wrote via Instagram. \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[30055,42463],"class_list":["post-2511263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-moms","tag-moms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Marc-Anthony-Welcomes-Baby-No-8-2nd-With-Wife-Nadia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2511263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511265,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511263\/revisions\/2511265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}