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Updated · The Daily Beast · Aug 10

Jon Hamm, 55, Expects First Child With Anna Osceola After Therapy Shifted His View

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Updated · The Daily Beast · Aug 10

Jon Hamm, 55, Expects First Child With Anna Osceola After Therapy Shifted His View

Q: What unexpected emotional shift caused this famously hesitant actor to finally embrace fatherhood in his mid-fifties?

It was the emotional impact of marrying Anna Osceola that appears to have changed Jon Hamm’s mind. Hamm had long been publicly ambivalent about children, describing fatherhood as “TBD” and saying earlier in life that he was not sure it was for him. But after his 2023 wedding, he said something shifted: he felt unusually settled, comfortable and emotionally grounded. In a 2024 interview, he called the wedding “perfect,” said it was “so emotional,” and that it simply “felt right.” He also tied that feeling to a broader reassessment of his life. Hamm said marriage gave him a sense of stability and opened up “the possibility” of being married, having kids and defining “a new version of happiness.” He explicitly said he hoped the marriage would “turn into kids,” even while acknowledging he would be an older father. So the unexpected shift was not a single dramatic event so much as the emotional reset brought on by marrying Osceola: a feeling that this relationship, and that moment in his life, finally made fatherhood feel right.

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Jon Hamm and Anna Osceola are expecting their first child together, with Osceola, 38, showing her baby bump during a Hamptons beach outing reported on Aug. 10.
A 2022 SiriusXM interview tied that change to therapy: Hamm said working through childhood trauma after his mother's death opened him to marriage and having children.
Hamm had long expressed doubts about parenthood, telling The Guardian in 2008 he did not necessarily want kids and was unsure family life would feel celebratory for him.
Osceola also marked a broader shift in his outlook: the pair met on Mad Men in 2015, began dating in 2020 and married in 2023, when Hamm said he would be "the old dad."