The Jenner Family Just Got Bigger — and Linda Thompson Is Already in Full Grandma Mode
Brody Jenner and Tia Blanco welcomed daughter Dolly Jane, giving big sister Honey a new role and Linda Thompson another reason to gush.
The Jenner family has added another tiny member to its already very complicated family tree. Brody Jenner and Tia Blanco welcomed their second child, a daughter named Dolly Jane, and Linda Thompson is responding exactly as you would expect from a proud grandmother: with a heartfelt Instagram announcement, a supermodel comparison and enough exclamation points to power a family group chat.
Thompson shared her celebration shortly after Brody announced the birth, calling Dolly “another precious angel” and saying she was already “so deeply in love” with her newest granddaughter. According to Thompson, Dolly was born on September 21, which the family marked as International World Peace Day. The timing gave the announcement an especially on-brand Jenner flourish: a new baby, a meaningful date and a caption that moved briskly from spiritual gratitude to praise for the new mother’s postpartum glow.
Meet Dolly Jane, the newest Jenner
Brody and Blanco are already parents to daughter Honey, born in July 2023. Now Honey is officially a big sister, and Thompson says she is taking the assignment seriously. “Honey is already the best big sister,” Thompson wrote, describing her as loving and protective of her new sibling.
Brody shared that both mother and baby were healthy after what he described as an intense but quick unmedicated labor. His message was less celebrity birth-card formal and more deeply personal, praising Blanco directly for going through the experience again. “Tia, I’m so proud of you,” he wrote, adding that watching her become a mother all over again reminded him how amazing she is.
That family-of-four framing is the real emotional center of the announcement. Brody wrote that their family had grown from three to four, a deceptively simple sentence that carries the full soft-focus power of a celebrity baby post: a new person, an exhausted but glowing mother, an older sibling being promoted and a father suddenly narrating his life like the closing scene of a very expensive lifestyle campaign.
From beach soft launch to baby number two
The couple announced Blanco’s pregnancy in March with a joint Instagram post featuring Brody, Blanco and Honey on a beach. Brody held up ultrasound images while kissing Blanco, and Honey kissed her mother’s pregnant belly. It was a family photo, a pregnancy announcement and a carefully composed piece of social storytelling all at once.
The post also captured the particular visual language of Brody and Blanco’s relationship: beachy, affectionate and built for Instagram without looking too corporate. Their romance had already been public for three years by the time they married in July 2025, making Dolly’s arrival the latest chapter in a relationship that has moved from coastal couple content to a full household.
Blanco, a professional surfer, has often brought a distinctly outdoorsy energy to the family’s public image. Brody, meanwhile, has spent much of his adult life existing in the cultural shadow of the Kardashian-Jenner machine while maintaining his own reality-TV history and a lower-volume public presence. Together, they have settled into a recognizable celebrity-family lane: pregnancy announcements on the beach, proud-parent captions and children with names that sound perfectly at home in a glossy family album.
Linda Thompson is making this a whole family event
Thompson did not merely congratulate the couple. She narrated the emotional atmosphere around the birth. She praised Blanco for powering through pregnancy and delivery, celebrated Brody for being present with “love and comfort,” and thanked everyone sending good wishes to the family.
Her tone was especially warm when addressing her son. The line about Brody being there “as a good man should be” gives the post a little more weight than a standard grandmother’s congratulations. It reads as public pride, but also as a pointed celebration of the kind of father and partner Thompson believes her son is choosing to be.
That detail lands because the Jenner family story has never been short on complicated parental dynamics. Thompson has previously spoken publicly about Brody’s distant relationship with his father, Caitlyn Jenner, telling Us Weekly that Caitlyn “was not there.” The birth announcement does not reopen that conversation directly, but it sits in the background, giving Thompson’s praise of Brody’s presence with Blanco an added layer.
In other words, this is not just Linda Thompson welcoming a granddaughter. It is Linda Thompson celebrating the family her son is building, in public, on his own terms. The Jenners have spent decades being discussed through the lens of famous parents, famous siblings and famous last names. Brody’s announcement is much smaller and much more intimate: a wife, two daughters, a labor story and a grandmother who cannot wait to hold the baby.
And yes, the grandmother caption came with a beauty review
Thompson also praised Blanco for looking “like a supermodel” even moments after giving birth. It is the kind of line that could inspire a thousand internet reactions because celebrity culture remains bizarrely committed to the fantasy of immaculate maternity. But in context, the comment is clearly Thompson’s exuberant admiration for her daughter-in-law, folded into a larger tribute to what Blanco had just gone through.
There is something very modern about the whole announcement: the birth arrives through a carefully worded caption, the grandmother posts her own emotional companion piece, and the family’s timeline is assembled across several Instagram uploads. First came the beach pregnancy reveal. Then came the wedding. Now comes Dolly Jane, with Honey cast as the adorable big-sister lead and Thompson stepping in as the delighted narrator.
Brody and Blanco have not treated the new arrival like a splashy celebrity spectacle. The mood is softer than that. It is less “look at our dynasty” and more “our house is louder now.” Still, the Jenner name guarantees that even the gentlest family update becomes part of a larger pop-culture conversation—especially when it includes a new baby, a famous grandmother, a complicated family history and an Instagram caption ready to be screenshotted into the group chat.
Brody Jenner Is Officially a Girl Dad of Two—and Baby Dolly Jane Has Already Joined the Family Group Chat
The Hills alum and Tia Blanco welcomed their second daughter, turning their little family of three into a very Jenner-Blanco party of four.
Brody Jenner has entered his girl-dad era twice over. The Hills alum and his wife, Tia Blanco, have welcomed their second child together, a daughter named Dolly Jane Jenner, and the name alone feels like it arrived wearing a tiny pair of cowboy boots.
Jenner shared the news on Instagram September 26 alongside sweet photos of the family meeting their newest member. According to his announcement, Dolly was born on September 21—International World Peace Day—after Blanco experienced what he described as an “intense but quick unmedicated labor.” Mother and baby are healthy, and the family has officially expanded from three to four.
“Officially a girl dad to 2,” Jenner wrote, in the sort of caption that makes a celebrity announcement feel less like a press release and more like a man who has just discovered he is outnumbered by tiny women.
Meet Dolly Jane Jenner, the newest family celebrity
Dolly joins big sister Honey, who is three. Jenner and Blanco announced they were expecting their second baby in March with a family photo that had all the classic soft-launch ingredients: the couple sharing a kiss, toddler Honey planting one on her mother’s stomach, and a caption declaring that “our little Honey is going to be a big sister this September.”
Now the September baby has arrived, and the family’s original trio has become a quartet. Jenner’s caption was openly emotional, describing his wife as someone he was proud to watch become a mother “all over again.” He added that their family is “everything” to him and that seeing it grow from three to four was a feeling he would never forget.
Blanco, a professional surfer and model, and Jenner married in 2025 after welcoming Honey in 2023. Their relationship has mostly occupied the sunnier, lower-drama corner of the extended Kardashian-Jenner universe, a welcome contrast to the family’s more famously televised storms. There are no televised courtroom battles here, no suspiciously timed unfollows, no reunion couch ambushes—just a newborn, a toddler, and a father proudly announcing that he now lives in a permanent pink-team huddle.
Linda Thompson is already in full grandmother mode
The first family reaction came from Jenner’s mother, Linda Thompson, who made it clear she had been waiting for permission to show off her new grandbaby. In the comments, Thompson wrote that she was “absolutely thrilled” to have another baby girl to love and called Brody and Tia “the most amazing parents.”
She also admitted she had been “chomping at the bit to show her off,” which is perhaps the most relatable sentence ever written by a grandmother adjacent to a celebrity birth. The family, apparently, had to hold the line until the parents gave the green light. Even in a famous family, there is still a newborn-photo approval process—and a grandmother waiting impatiently in the comments.
Thompson’s message also gave the announcement a little emotional texture. She described Brody and Tia as everything a mother and father should be, adding that she was already in love with Dolly. It is a warm response, but it also lands in the larger story of Brody’s relationship with his own father, Caitlyn Jenner.
Brody has been candid about building the fatherhood he wanted
Brody has spoken publicly about how his strained relationship with Caitlyn shaped the kind of father he wanted to become. In a 2025 interview with People, he said Caitlyn was not completely absent but “wasn’t around for me growing up that much.” He framed that experience as motivation to be more present with his own children.
“I still say I definitely am going to be much more present as a father,” he said, adding that the experience taught him to show up differently. Brody has said the two are now “in a good place,” but the history remains part of the way he talks about parenthood: less as a glossy celebrity accessory and more as a chance to rewrite a family pattern.
That theme was already visible when Honey was born. In a 2023 YouTube video documenting her arrival, Jenner said he had not been sure he could have children and credited Blanco with making the possibility feel real. He called her his “better half” and said she was the perfect person for him.
Three years later, that first-time-parent awe has become a two-kid household. The sentiment is still there, but now it comes with the logistical reality of a newborn, a preschool-age child, and a mother recovering from labor. Jenner’s post focused on the gratitude and emotion of the moment, while the family’s next era will presumably involve the glamorous celebrity-parent essentials: sleep deprivation, tiny socks, and trying to keep Honey from attempting to “help” with the baby at the exact wrong moment.
The Jenner family baby boom keeps getting busier
Dolly’s arrival also places Brody inside a particularly crowded celebrity baby season. The source announcement arrives alongside news of new children welcomed by names including Taylor Lautner and Tay Lautner, Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi, Lena Dunham and Luis Felber, Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky, and Marc Anthony and Nadia Ferreira.
That is an unusually starry nursery roll call, but Brody’s announcement has its own specific hook: it is not just another famous couple introducing a baby. It is a recognizable reality-TV family member leaning into a version of fame that feels more domestic than chaotic. Brody first became widely known through The Hills, later appeared in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and spent years orbiting a family brand built on public drama. These days, his most personal updates are about fatherhood, marriage, and the people he wants closest to him.
And then there is the name: Dolly Jane. It sounds classic, bright and slightly old-Hollywood, with just enough country sweetness to make it instantly memorable. Honey and Dolly also make a very deliberate sibling pairing—short, vintage-leaning names that sound less like a celebrity branding exercise and more like characters who would run away to open a flower shop together.
For now, Jenner is simply celebrating the newest member of his family. “Mama & baby are in perfect health,” he wrote, before turning the spotlight back to Blanco and the experience of watching her become a mother again. The Hills may have been about glossy apartments, complicated romances and people dramatically announcing that they wanted to make it work. Brody’s current storyline is quieter, but the stakes are considerably cuter: two daughters, one wife, and a new family photo every time the grandmother gets the green light.
Julia Haart’s Divorce Didn’t Just Get Messy — It Became a Full Netflix-Adjacent Corporate War
The My Unorthodox Life star’s split from Silvio Scaglia spiraled from a divorce filing into restraining-order claims, a Bentley dispute, competing accusations over company money and a reality show filming in the middle of it all.
Some divorces end with a sad statement, an unfollow and a suspiciously serene beach photo. Julia Haart and Silvio Scaglia’s breakup chose a different genre: corporate warfare, emergency court filings, a luxury car dispute, accusations of financial misconduct and a Netflix camera crew hovering nearby like it had been summoned by the drama gods.
Haart, the star of My Unorthodox Life, filed to end her marriage to Scaglia in February 2022, after two years together. Within days, the split had detonated across multiple fronts. There were allegations of threatening and abusive behavior, claims involving company funds, a fight over Haart’s position at Elite World Group and a police complaint concerning a $401,500 Bentley.
It was not simply a celebrity breakup. It was a breakup with a boardroom, a family history, a luxury fashion wardrobe and an active television production attached.
The marriage was already a business partnership with excellent lighting
Haart and Scaglia’s relationship had always occupied that glossy, slightly unstable space where romance and empire blur together. Scaglia, the tech entrepreneur behind Fastweb, owned Elite World Group, the modeling and talent agency that Haart later ran as CEO. Their marriage was also folded into the broader architecture of the companies they controlled, making the eventual split less “who gets the good sofa?” and more “who controls the company, the accounts and the story?”
Before the breakup, Haart described their working dynamic to The New York Times in unusually candid terms. She joked that she was “horrible” to him professionally, while also saying she respected how worldly he was and enjoyed that he could absorb her intensity. It was a very Haartian portrait of a relationship: sharp, glamorous and powered by a mutual fascination with control.
By early 2022, that chemistry had curdled. Us reported that Haart was removed from her role at Elite World Group before the divorce news became public. An insider said she was blindsided and was consulting an attorney. Scaglia’s side, meanwhile, alleged that Haart had misused company money and described the dispute as a factual financial matter rather than a romantic collapse.
Haart disputed those accusations. Her attorney, Marty Singer, said the claims were an attempt to distract from Scaglia’s own business history and argued that the company’s value had increased substantially under Haart’s leadership. In other words: the divorce came with competing narratives about who built the house, who owned the house and who had allegedly started taking furniture out after being locked out.
Then came the restraining-order claims
Shortly after filing for divorce, Haart petitioned for a restraining order against Scaglia, alleging that she felt terrified of him and describing a pattern of verbal abuse. Her filing claimed that he called her names including “a venomous snake,” “a monster” and “a liar,” and alleged that he threatened her after she confronted him about his behavior.
Those were Haart’s allegations, not findings by a court. But the language in the filing was severe enough to shift the story from rich-people divorce spectacle into something much more serious. Her daughter Miriam also submitted a statement alleging that she once found Haart crying on a bathroom floor and feared for her safety.
Haart’s filing included another deeply personal point of conflict: religion and family. She alleged that Scaglia insulted her youngest son over his religious beliefs and objected angrily to Shabbos in their home. The details connected the marriage’s collapse to the larger story of Haart’s life, which My Unorthodox Life had already framed around leaving a strict Jewish community and building a new identity on her own terms.
Scaglia’s representatives denied the allegations and questioned whether Haart had actually served him with a restraining-order motion. A spokesperson characterized the claims as an attempt to divert attention from the company’s financial allegations. His side also denied that he had shown disrespect toward Judaism or Jewish tradition.
The Bentley became a supporting character
The corporate fight soon acquired the most reality-TV object imaginable: a very expensive car.
After Haart was terminated from Elite World Group, Scaglia reported a Bentley worth $401,500 as stolen, alleging that she was no longer authorized to use it. According to Us, he gave her seven days to return the vehicle before contacting police. Haart could potentially face a misdemeanor charge for unauthorized use, although a source close to the situation said the NYPD did not plan to arrest her and would instead issue a summons.
That episode was perfectly on-brand for a feud that refused to remain in one lane. The argument was simultaneously about employment, property, money, access and humiliation. A former CEO allegedly holding on to a luxury company car after being fired is not just a legal subplot; it is the sort of detail that makes a television audience sit forward and say, “Wait, the Bentley too?”
Scaglia’s legal claims also accused Haart of spending more than $2 million in company money during 2021 on items including designer clothing, shoes, vacations and cosmetic procedures. His representatives described the company as having been treated like a personal piggy bank. Haart denied taking money that did not belong to her and called the allegations “ludicrous” in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
She also filed her own lawsuit, alleging that Scaglia withdrew $1.5 million from an account holding her CEO compensation and that he had misled her about the ownership and control of their business structure. Her complaint described the arrangement as “indentured servitude,” a phrase that instantly transformed a complicated corporate dispute into a headline with a pulse.
And, naturally, Netflix was already filming
The most surreal part was the timing. Production on the second season of My Unorthodox Life had reportedly begun before the breakup became public. A source told Us that cameras would capture everything, turning the implosion of Haart’s marriage and business life into potential television material.
Scaglia’s lawyer later challenged Netflix’s right to continue filming while the legal battles were underway. That added yet another layer to the spectacle: the private conflict was not only playing out in court and through statements to the press, but potentially inside a reality series built around Haart’s family, ambition and reinvention.
Haart told Entertainment Tonight that the breakup was not how she planned things, but said the experience forced her to confront her dependence on male approval and her desire to become more independent. It was a familiar theme from her public story, only now with lawyers, corporate accounts and a disputed Bentley crowding the frame.
The result was a split that became bigger than the marriage itself. It touched Haart’s children, her religious history, her fashion-business persona, her television narrative and the question of who gets to control a shared empire once the romance is over. Most celebrity divorces produce a statement. This one produced a franchise.