Kieran Culkin’s wife, Jazz Charton, is pregnant with the couple’s third child.
Stepping out for opening night of the Broadway production of Waiting for Godot in New York City on Sunday, September 28, Culkin, 42, held a loving hand on Charton’s belly as the couple smiled for photos published by People that night.
Charton, 37, opted for a figure-hugging cream dress while the Succession actor sported a sweater and dark pants.
The couple’s baby news comes six months after Culkin publicly requested more children while on stage accepting the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film A Real Pain. “Let’s get cracking on those kids, what do you say? I love you,” Culkin directed at his wife during his speech.
The couple, who married in June 2013, share two children: daughter Kinsey, born in September 2019, and son Wilder, born in August 2021.
Culkin’s Oscars declaration began by revisiting a previous public request to grow the couple’s family. “Please don’t play the music, because I want to tell a really quick story about Jazz,” the actor said. “A year ago, I said that I want a third kid — because she said if I won the [Emmy] award [for Succession], she would give me the kid. Turns out she said that because she didn’t think I was going to win.”
As the audience laughed, Culkin continued, “People came up to me and were like, you know … it got to her. After the show, we’re walking through a parking lot, she’s holding the Emmy, she goes, ‘Oh, god, I did say that. I guess I owe you a third kid.’ I turned to her, I said, ‘Really, I want four. And she turned to me, I swear to God this happened, she said, ‘I will give you four when you win an Oscar.’ I held my hand out, she shook it and I have not brought it up once until just now.”
The actor then turned to face Charton in the crowd to offer his plea. “You remember that, honey? Then I just have to say to you, Jazz, love of my life, ye of little faith, no pressure,” he said. “I love you. I’m really sorry I did this again.”
Culkin met Charton in a New York bar in 2012, with the child star recalling their initial interaction during a 2021 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I said, ‘I’m Kieran. You have an English accent. What’s your name?’” Culkin told the outlet at the time. “She said, ‘I’m Jazz.’ I said, ‘J-A-Z-Z, like the music?’ And she said, ‘Yeah.’ And I said, ‘Well, that’s f***ing stupid.’”
The duo married one year later, in June 2012, while road tripping together in Iowa.
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