Donald Glover has three “Baby Boys” in his life.
Otherwise known by his stage name Childish Gambino, Glover shares three sons with his longtime partner, Michelle White: Legend, 8, Drake, 6 and Donald III, 4. The couple welcomed all three kids before quietly tying the knot in 2023.
Although Glover is notorious for keeping his personal life private, he has occasionally opened up about the impact of fatherhood. In February 2018, Glover spoke with Esquire about how parenthood has shifted his perspective on life.
“Every step of your life once you’re an adult, you realize what being a teenager is. Once you’re a teenager, you realize what being a child is,” he said, explaining that each phase of life provides context for the one that came before it.
He continued, “Children are life’s greatest context. Parenthood really does make you something more. It asks you questions that no one is ever ready for, and that you’re always ready for. It’s like ayahuasca.”
But for the Grammy-winning artist, becoming a father has also meant adjusting his relationship with work.
“I do block off time now [to work on music] because I’m like, ‘I want to be there for them at this time, and I want to make sure I see his game.’ That takes a lot of scheduling,” Glover said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in March 2022.
From how they’re following in their father’s footsteps to how they keep him humble, here’s everything to know about Donald Glover’s children.
Legend Glover, 8
In January 2018, Glover’s second child — a son named Drake — was born. Glover first announced he had another child on the way at the Emmy Awards in September 2017, during his acceptance speech for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series.
“I want to thank my baby, my son, for just being the joy in my life,” Glover said. “I want to thank my unborn son — we’re listening to Stevie [Wonder] tonight.”
In September 2024, Glover told WSJ. Magazine that he always wanted multiple children because he feels bad for only children who don’t have siblings.
“Yeah, they get a lot more attention probably, but if you’re like, ‘Is mom and dad crazy?’ You have nobody to bounce that off with. You’re like, ‘Maybe! I don’t know. Are they?’ Cause like that’s what’s helpful with brothers and sisters, they’ll be like no, I remember that and this is what I remember and it helps,” he told WSJ. Magazine.
In March 2022, Jimmy Kimmel asked Glover what his kids thought of him shaving his head bald, and Glover shared Drake’s response that kept him humble.
“My middle child says, ‘Daddy looks weird.’ Which I do, to him. He only has four years life experience, so to him, he’s like, ‘Daddy’s been this way for a long time,’ ” Glover said.
Donald Glover III, 4
In a September 2020 conversation with actress Michaela Coel for GQ, Glover revealed that he had quietly welcomed a son named Donald Glover III earlier that year in June.
“You know, I had [a kid] during the coronavirus,” he told Coel, before explaining that the birth came amid nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death.
“Yeah, it was nuts,” Glover added. “I was in the hospital bed. My son had just been born, like, an hour before and I was watching the George Floyd video. It was such a weird moment.”
In the GQ interview, Glover also shared that his new baby boy was named after his father Donald Glover Sr., who died in 2018.
“It was such an intense, weird moment, because I’m watching that video and it’s like eight minutes long, so you’re sitting there and I had just had this amazing, joyful, expanding moment, plus my dad had passed away recently, so [my son] was named after my father,” he explained. “I don’t even know what, really, the word is to describe it. It was just expanding: the empathy and compassion and the terror and the joy of it.”
According to Glover, his youngest son has a habit of being particularly honest. In a conversation with WSJ. Magazine in September 2024, he recalled a time at the grocery store when he asked his youngest son if it was annoying that he talked to himself.
“He said, ‘No, well, it’s weird and annoying.’ That’s him in a nutshell. He is very truthful in that sense, which is awesome,” Glover said about his youngest son.
Source: People
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