Welcome to Chapter 2.
Gina Rodriguez and her husband Joe LoCicero are expecting their second child.
The “Jane the Virgin” star, 40, debuted her baby bump while on the red carpet for Netflix’s “Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 3” fight at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Friday.
Rodriguez and LoCicero, 38, who welcomed son Charlie in 2023, smiled as they cradled the “Will Trent” star’s stomach.
The couple’s news comes six years after they tied the knot in 2019. Rodriguez and LoCicero first met in 2016 when the actor played a stripper during season two of “Jane the Virgin.”
However, the two didn’t get together until after their initial episode.
“It was the boxing gym that brought [us] together,” the CW star said while on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in 2019.
Turns out, when Rodriguez and LoCicero met a second time, she didn’t even recognize him.
“He came in through the door and I was like, ‘Good God!’ and I fell into his eyeballs,” she gushed to Bust Magazine 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.”
Both stars have kept their romance largely private over the years.
While talking to Cosmopolitan in 2019, Rodriguez opened up about what makes their relationship different.
She admitted that dating 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 explained. “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 news of becoming a father for the first time.
“The love of my life is now carrying the new love of my life inside of her!” he captioned an Instagram video of spiritual guru Sadhguru talking about kids. “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 series of family photos. “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 also shared glimpses of Charlie in small doses since his birth.
“I wanna post everything about him but I limit it,” Rodriguez confessed to People 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 said 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!”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
