Milo Ventimiglia is getting candid about a massive year, which included losing his home in the L.A. fires, welcoming his first child with wife Jarah Mariano just two weeks later and now expecting their second baby.
Appearing on the Thursday, February 5, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Ventimiglia, 48, joked he’d lost track of what day it was amid the chaos and that he and Mariano, 42, “must be crazy” to go back-to-back with a second pregnancy.
“Got a beautiful daughter. She’s wonderful. What day is it?” Ventimiglia joked to host Jimmy Kimmel as he shared details of how he was adjusting to fatherhood after welcoming daughter Ke’ala in January 2025. “Thursday, wonderful. It’s the same as Wednesday or Tuesday, yeah. They’re all the same. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday …”
After Kimmel, 58, asked whether Ke’ala was keeping the This is Us alum awake at night, Ventimiglia shared that their daughter slept until the early hours of the morning, but he and Mariano still fretted over her.
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“She’s actually doing great. She’s sleeping through the night. She loves to wake up at 5.40 in the morning and talk to herself, kinda jabber on and whatnot. My wife and I are lying in bed like, ‘Does she have her [pacifier]?’ ‘I don’t know. I can’t tell from the monitor.’ ‘Did she poop herself?’ ‘I don’t know. I can’t tell from the monitor,’” he recalled. “And then you’re kind of like, after a certain period of time, you know this. You walk in there, you’re like, well, she didn’t poop herself, and she’s got her [pacifier], so the world’s good.”
Ventimiglia also admitted that while he initially had plans to be a “wonder-parent,” he was forced to take a step back and acknowledge the pair had faced a “hard and wonderful” year after losing their Malibu home and becoming first-time parents in a short period.
“Listen, my wife is the most unbelievable — Jarah, if you’re watching, you are the most unbelievable human being, creature, species of everything. She handles everything great. But, you know, I mean, when you’re a first parent too, you kind of think you’re going to be this wonder-parent,” he explained.
He continued, “I was striving to. I’m like, ‘Cool, man. I’m going to be the healthiest. We’re going to feed this baby organic. We’re going to buy blenders, do all this stuff. We’re going to go argue with some dude named Kale about blueberries at the farmers’ market.’ Then, after a while, you’re like, ‘Oh, man, we had quite a year.’”
Ventimiglia was one of many celebrities and Californian residents who suffered the loss of their homes when fires wreaked havoc on the region last year. Mariano was heavily pregnant at the time, and during his Kimmel appearance, Ventimiglia touched on the experience.
“If anybody doesn’t know, we lost our home in the fires in Malibu top of the year. It’s OK. It happened. Two weeks later, got the best blessing, and our daughter was born. Six weeks later, on the road to do this movie that is coming out this month, I Can Only Imagine 2. Literally on the road,’” he said.
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Joking that reality thwarted his super-parent ambitions, Ventimiglia continued, “While you’re on the road, you’re like, ‘Where’s my blender?’ It’s dawn. You’re not making organic foods anymore.”
After Kimmel trolled the Gilmore Girls alum about how much harder it will be to be a dad of two children, Ventimiglia also joked about being apprehensive about what’s on its way.
“You saw me hard swallow, right? I hard-swallowed,” he remarked. “Now I know it’s coming. But at a certain point, don’t they start to entertain each other?”
