Proud papas! Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita love to dote on their little ones ever since their respective arrivals.The Modern Family alum and Mikita — who wed in July 2013 — first announced their family planning news in January 2020, revealing they were expecting a baby via surrogate.“[Turning 40 is] when you finally become an adult, I feel,” Ferguson said on The Late Late Show With James Corden in January 2020, revealing they were expecting their first child. “Like, ‘I need to start getting serious about things.’ This is something I haven’t even mentioned to anyone if we could just keep it between the three of us and you all, but I’m actually expecting a baby in July with my husband.
Thank you, but shh, don’t tell anyone. Let’s just keep it between us.”Us Weekly confirmed in July 2020 that Ferguson and Mikita had welcomed their firstborn son, Beckett Mercer.“It’s a new person in your life and just like anyone else … you’ve gotta figure out if you like him,” Ferguson said of fatherhood during a March 2021 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “It takes a little bit of time.
I really do like him. It’s been a lot of fun.”He continued at the time: “We’re raising him gay until he decides he’s straight.
On the way back from the hospital, we played Britney Spears because that was what Justin demanded we listen to [as Beckett’s] first exposure to music.”As the Montana native and the attorney were eager to start their parenting journeys, they received a mountain of advice from Ferguson’s Modern Family costars.“It all contradicts itself,” the former child star jokingly told Us Weekly in March 2020. “Julie [Bowen] has advice that contradicts Sofia [Vergara’s] that contradicts Ty [Burrell‘s], you know. … [and Ed O’Neill
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