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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
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Blue Bloodsstar Vanessa Ray welcomed an adorable new addition to her family! The actress adopted a new baby with her husband, Landon Beard. See photos of her newborn below.
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Ray revealed exclusively to People on March 1 that she welcomed a baby boy via adoption. “Isaac Ray Beard was born on November 7th and he kind of came into our life, it was quite a whirlwind,” the actress, who is currently starring in her tenth season of the CBS drama, said.
TheBlue Bloods star explained that she and her husband, fellow actor and producer Landon Beard, weren’t initially set on having kids. “My husband and I weren’t totally sure if we were going to have kids, at what point in our life that made sense and all those things,” she explained. “I was at work one day, honestly I was about to do a family dinner and I just had this overwhelming sensation of family and what I love about our life and all of these things.”
The actress recalled calling her husband crying and saying to him, “I think we’re supposed to be parents” and “I think we’re supposed to adopt.”Ray revealed that she talked to actor Peter Hermann, the husband of Law & Order: SVUstar Mariska Hargitay. Hermann and Hargitay adopted their son Andrew and daughter Amaya.
“Graciously, he [Peter] really held our hand and walked us through everything that we would need to know about adoption,” Ray explained. “It’s a lot of first dates almost. It almost feels like there’s a ton of heartbreak that comes along with it.”
Ray said that they put their information up on an adoption website on a Monday and by the following Saturday, the two were on a plane to meet a potential birth mother. “It went super fast,” Ray said. “She was like, ‘He’s due in four weeks, so we have to do this quickly.’ We were like, ‘Whoa, okay.'”
Their newborn son Isaac was born a week early, which corresponded one day before the actor’s strike ended. “So we can attribute Isaac [to] ending the strike,” the actress joked to the site. “It all happened in three weeks, really from zero to three weeks. Then we were bringing him out and it was incredible.”
Although the couple has only had Isaac for three months, Ray said the transition went smoothly. “I don’t want moms and dads to come for me everywhere, but he does sleep. He’s just like me. He’s just like his mama. He loves to sleep and he loves to eat.”
She also recalled telling Blue Bloods executive producer Kevin Wade about the exciting news. “I was like, ‘Just so you know, I’m not in New York at the moment,’ ” she remembered. “I was like, ‘Here’s the thing I got to let you know. I have a baby. He was just born and I’m not sure when we’re going to be back.'”
Ray also called herBlue Bloodscostars to tell them about their new baby, including Bridget Moynahan and Donnie Wahlberg. “Of course I called Bridget right away and she was thrilled. Then I FaceTimed Donnie [Wahlberg] and I go, ‘We have something to tell you.’ He was like, ‘Are you pregnant?’ ” the star revealed, noting that Wahlberg knew right away.
She shared People’s exclusive photos on her Instagram on March 1. “💙Isaac Ray Beard born 11.07.23💙
Oh the love you have coming your way in this life baby boy… and you are worthy of every last bit of it! The adventures the 3 of us have already had together could fill a novel. Thanks for making us your parents. We love you… like, the MOST. 💙💙💙💙” she captioned the post.
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<p>The real-life Reagans! The<a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/gallery/reagan-family-tree-blue-bloods/" target="_blank"><em> Blue Bloods</em> cast’s children </a>show that the stars of the police drama are just as close with their family off-screen as they are on.</p><p><a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/tag/blue-bloods/" target="_blank"><em>Blue Bloods</em></a> is CBS’ police procedural drama following the Reagan family, a Catholic, Irish-American family in New York City with ah istory of work in law enforcement. Patriarch Frank Reagan is the New York Police Department Police Commisioner. His eldest son, Danny, is an NYPD Detective. His youngest son, Jamie, is an NYPD Sergeant. His daughter, Erin, is an Assistant District Attorney.</p><p>In an interview with <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/tom-selleck-blue-bloods-250th-episode/" target="_blank">CBS News</a> in 2022, Tom Selleck, who has played Frank since Season 1 of <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/675687/blue-bloods-tom-selleck-kiss-judith-chapman/" target="_blank"><em>Blue Bloods</em></a>, explained how the cast is a family both off screen and on. “We have this actors’ family, and it’s a great big family, and we all kind of love each other. Don’t tell them, but we do,” he said.</p><p>Selleck also recalled how his co-stars were “scared” of him while filming the pilot. “I was scared … And they all looked like they weren’t scared, and then they’ve all confessed that they were scared and I didn’t look like I was scared, so we got through it,” he said.</p><p>So who are the <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/666221/blue-bloods-renewed-cancelled-season-14/" target="_blank"><em>Blue Bloods</em></a> cast’s children? Read on for what we know about their real-life families.</p>
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<p>Tom Selleck — who has played Commissioner Frank Reagan since Season 1 of<em> Blue Bloods</em> — <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/668982/tom-selleck-children/" target="_blank">has two children</a>, son Kevin Shepard and daughter Hannah Margaret.</p><p>Selleck shares Kevin with his ex-wife, model Jacqueline Ray, whom he was married to from 1971 to 1982. Selleck adopted Kevin, who was Ray’s son from a previous relationship. Kevin was 21 years old when he was adopted.</p><p>In 1993, Kevin formed the rock band Toxic with fellow members Emerson Hart, Jeff Russo, Dan Lavery and Dan Rothchild. The group release their debut album, <em>Lemon Parade</em>, in 1996 before Kevin quit the band due to issues between him and another member.</p><p>Like Selleck, Kevin was also an actor. He starred alongside his Selleck in an episode of <em>Magnum, P.I.</em> in 1987, accordin to his <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2383501/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0" target="_blank">IMDb</a>. He also wrote a song on the soundtrack of the 1997 movie <em>Scream 2</em>. According to <a href="https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/tom-selleck-kids-4534407/" target="_blank">HollywoodLife</a>, Kevin is married to designer Annabel Selleck and has six children.</p><p>Tom shares Hannah with his wife, Jillie Joan Mack, whom he married on August 7, 1987. They welcomed their first and only child together, Hannah, on December 16, 1988.</p><p>Hannah is a professional equestrian rider who has won several horeback riding competitions including the 2010 Blenheim Summer Classic in California. She revealed in an interview with <a href="https://eqliving.com/hannah-selleck/" target="_blank"><em>Equestrian Living</em></a> magazine in 2011 that her parents encouraged her to pursue horseback riding. “Because [my parents are] both artists, they believe in the idea that you have to be very passionate about what you do to be successful,” she said. “They encouraged me to be passionate about it and immersed in it, and from there it was kind of on me how much I wanted it. They always let me take the lead. If I wanted to move barns or trainers, that was my decision.”</p><p>Hannah is also the founder of the horse breeding farm Descanso Farm. “We want to show that we can produce horses in the States, having them on the ground as foals and bringing them up through the young horse classes,” Hannah told <em>Equestrian Living</em>. “But we don’t want to just get the horse to the ring quickly; I want to make it right so that it has a long career.”</p><p>In an inteview with <a href="https://people.com/all-about-tom-selleck-daughter-hannah-selleck-7554702" target="_blank"><em>People</em></a> in 2012, Selleck revealed that he left <em>Magnum, P.I.</em> — in which he played Thomas Magnum for eight seasons from 1980 to 1988 — to raise his family. “I quit Magnum to have a family,” he said. “It took a long time to get off the train, but I try very hard to have balance, and this ranch has helped me do that.”</p><p>Mack also told People at the time about why she and Selleck decided to raise Hannah in the country of Southern California away from the spotlight. “We both thought it was the best environment for her to grow up,” Mack said.</p>
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<p>Donnie Wahlberg — who has played Detective Danny Reagan on <em>Blue Bloods</em> since Season 1 — has two children, sons Xavier Alexander and Elijah Hendrix, with his ex-wife, Kimberly Fey.</p><p>Wahlberg and Fey wed in 1999 and divorced in 2008. They welcomed their first child, Xavier, in 1993. Their second child, Elijah, was born in 2001.</p><p>Wahlberg’s cihldren were featured on his 2015 reality TV show<em> Donnie Loves Jenny</em>, which starred him and his now-wife, Jenny McCarthy. In an interview with <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/31/donnie-wahlbergs-children-didnt-love-reality-show-with-wife-jenny-mccarthy-16383387/" target="_blank">Metro</a> in 2022, he revealed that his children “didn’t love” the series and weren’t fans of starring on reality TV.</p><p>“Jenny and I knew with all the camera intrusions that it would be challenging, so we made a commitment to always stay communicative through all of that and we set out to make a show showing our love and not our conflicts,” he said. “We did fine with it, it’s just our children didn’t really love it very much, they didn’t love having the cameras around.”</p><p>He continued, “If her and I were to do another reality show, it would maybe have to be about us empty nesting, because we couldn’t do it until the children are grown and out of the house, because they do not like it.”</p><p></p>
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<p>Bridget Moynahan — who has played Assistant District Attorney Erin Reagan since Season 1 of Blue Bloods — has one child, a son named Jack Edward Thomas Moynahan, with her ex-boyfriend, Tom Brady.</p><p>Moynahan and Brady dated from 2004 to 2006. In February 2007, a representative for Moynahan announced she was three months pregnant with Brady’s child months after their breakup. Moynahan welcomed her and Brady’s child on August 22, 2007. “She is thankful for a healthy baby and is excited about being a mother,” her representative Christina Papadopoulos said in a statement to <em>People</em> at the time.</p><p>In an interview with <em><a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/news/a302/bridget-moynahan-interview-0708/" target="_blank">Harper’s Bazaar</a></em> in 2008, Moynahan called the experience of being pregnant with Brady’s child while he was dating his future wife and mother of his child, Gisele Bündchen, “traumatic.”</p><p>“Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me,” she said. “But I got so much out of that … Now I have a child, and it’s the best thing in the world.”</p><p>Moynahan also confirmed that she, Brady and Bündchen didn’t have any drama in an interview with <em>More</em> magazine in 2011. “I never made a comment about Gisele or Tom publicly,” she said. “I have a relationship with these people on a daily basis. I’m raising a child, and it’s public. My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it’s cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.”</p>
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<p>Amy Carlson — who played Linda Reagan from Season 1 to Season 6 of <em>Blue Bloods</em> — has two children, daughter Lyla and son Nigel, with her husband, musician Syd Butler.</p><p>Carlson and Butler married in 2004. In August 2021, Carlson posted a photo of her son on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTGBJ_JJQi5/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> in honor of his 12th birthday. “Happy 12th birthday to this charmer- Nigel. Humorist. Artist. Kind, thoughtful, delightful, hilarious,” she captioned the post. She shared an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CX9znHSvtWY/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> photo of her family together the day after Christmas in December 2021. “Happy #BoxingDay from our family to you and yours! And #MerryChristmas,” she captioned the post.</p><p>Carlson looked back at how much her kids had grown up in an Instagram post in September 2021 of them entering 7th and 10th grades. “First day of school!!! 7th and 10th grades- so grateful for the opportunity to be in person and the relief and joy it gives the kids (parents feeling more than relief more like ebullience) it has been such a year and I’m so grateful for vaccines that allow them to safely return,” she captioned the post. “Still masked but our school is at 100% vaccinated (for eligible kids) so grateful to know that we have mitigated the risks and can get back to school!!! My deepest gratitude to the teachers who carried them through this last year. happy and excited kids ready to learn.”</p>
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<p>Marisa Ramirez — who has played Detective Maria Baez since Season 3 of <em>Blue Bloods</em> — has one child, daughter Violet Rae.</p><p>Baez announced her daughte’s birth in a tweet in May 2020. “She’s here!! Little Miss Violet Rae born on Sunday May 29th!!” she wrote. “She’s so happy and healthy and we are so in love!!!”</p><p>She announced her pregnancy in an interview with <a href="https://people.com/parents/marisa-ramirez-welcomes-daughter-violet-rae/" target="_blank"><em>People</em></a> in January 2020. “It gives me such a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that my Blue Bloods family is there to help me transition into this new chapter of my life,” Ramirez said at the time, adding that her co-star, Donnie Wahlberg, “did a little happy” dance when he learned her pregnancy news.</p><p></p>
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