Welcome to Chapter 2.
Gina Rodriguez and her husband Joe LoCicero predict their second baby.
The “Jane the Virgin” star, 40, debuted her child bump whereas on the purple carpet for Netflix’s “Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 3” struggle at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis on Friday.
Rodriguez and LoCicero, 38, who welcomed son Charlie in 2023, smiled as they cradled the “Will Trent” star’s abdomen.
The couple’s information comes six years after they tied the knot in 2019. Rodriguez and LoCicero first met in 2016 when the actor performed a stripper throughout season two of “Jane the Virgin.”
Nevertheless, the 2 didn’t get collectively till after their preliminary episode.
“It was the boxing gym that brought [us] together,” the CW star stated whereas on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in 2019.
Seems, when Rodriguez and LoCicero met a second time, she didn’t even acknowledge him.
“He came in through the door and I was like, ‘Good God!’ and I fell into his eyeballs,” she gushed to Bust Journal in 2017. “On the fourth day [that we saw each other at the gym], he asked me out, and I have been dating him ever since. Now I know what it means to date your best friend.”
Each stars have saved their romance largely non-public over time.
Whereas speaking to Cosmopolitan in 2019, Rodriguez opened up about what makes their relationship totally different.
She admitted that relationship the “Bold and the Beautiful” actor was a “new experience for me because I put myself first.”
“For so long, I put every man in front of me,” Rodriguez defined. “As a successful woman, it’s so hard because of our cultural norms that, like, the man has to be the breadwinner! And the man has to be the more powerful one. It was so difficult for me to find a man who didn’t want me to dim my light for his ego.”
In 2022, LoCicero sweetly celebrated the information of changing into a father for the primary time.
“The love of my life is now carrying the new love of my life inside of her!” he captioned an Instagram video of non secular guru Sadhguru speaking about children. “I am exploding with joy every minute of the day. I could not be more excited for this incredible responsibility! #pregnant.”
On his first Father’s Day, Rodriguez praised her partner-in-crime.
“I knew it when I met you that I found a man like no other,” she penned on Instagram beneath a collection of household photographs. “When I walked down the aisle and you cried tears of joy, I knew I found someone extra special. I knew a great man would make a great dad.”
The “Not Dead Yet” alum has additionally shared glimpses of Charlie in small doses since his beginning.
“I wanna post everything about him but I limit it,” Rodriguez confessed to Folks in January. “I know at some point I’m gonna have to stop because it’s his life, but I’m just so in love.”
“His communication is unbelievable,” she stated about her toddler, “and I’m so grateful for it because he communicates what he wants, what he needs, his boundaries—he’s teaching me boundaries!”
