Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith welcome first child together
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Joshua Jackson and wife Jodie Turner-Smith are first-time parents, Page Six can reveal.
“The couple has welcomed their first child. Both mother and baby are happy and healthy,” a rep for the couple told Page Six.
The rep did not reveal the sex of the baby, but Turner-Smith set off speculation they were having a girl when she referred to the baby using the “she” pronoun last month.
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“Can you see her dancing in there? Every time I try to record she stops,” she said in a video of her stomach.
The pair reportedly got hitched last year and on February 14, Turner-Smith posted what looked like wedding photos of the couple and a poem by Pablo Neruda on Instagram, writing: “Happy Valentine’s Day to the man who sees my soul and holds my heart. Love you baby daddy.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The pair have been nesting at home in LA, and “The Affair” star Jackson confessed he was nervous about being a new dad at this difficult time.
Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson attend the "Queen & Slim" Premiere at AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi at the TCL Chinese Theatre on November 14, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)
“I’ve never been a parent before, so I’m not quite sure how much of this is just first-baby anxiety and how much of this is pandemic anxiety,” he said last month.
He then told “Good Morning” on March 25: “Obviously, it’s a bit stressful right now and we’re just trying to figure out how to be smart about being quarantined.
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“The medical system right now is a little bit difficult, so we’re figuring it out day by day.”Jackson added, “But she’s healthy and the baby’s healthy, so that’s important.”
The actor — who found fame in “Dawson’s Creek” — is currently starring alongside Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon in Hulu’s “Little Fires Everywhere” and said both moms had given him advice on being a new parent.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This story originally appeared in the New York Post.