Everything Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra Have Said About Having Kids

Baby fever. Long before Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas welcomed their first child, the couple spoke about their desire to become parents.

Us Weekly exclusively revealed Chopra Jonas, 39, and the Jonas Brothers frontman, 29, began dating in May 2018 and two months later, sources confirmed to Us that the pair had gotten engaged. “They want to get married very soon,” an insider said at the time, adding that they were already eager to start a family. Jonas married the Quantico alum in December 2018 in a three-day ceremony that combined both of their cultures and faiths.

That same month, the singer confirmed that he and Chopra Jonas were thinking about children. “I definitely want to be a father someday,” Jonas said on Spotify’s “The Rewind With Guy Raz” podcast at the time. “I think that’s a real dream.”

“I think I’ve had to grow up pretty quick. With that, you could look at it two ways,” the “Sucker” singer continued. “You could say that was unfair or you could say it’s given me some real perspective at an early age and I’ve seen a lot of life at an early age, and I hope to be able to share that with a kid of my own someday.”

One year later, Chopra Jonas revealed that she and her husband wanted to start a family as soon as possible. “Buying a home and having a baby are on my to-do list,” the actress told Vogue India in September 2019. “For me, home is wherever I’m happy, as long as I have the people I love around me.”

However, the Matrix star acknowledged that she and Jonas had busy schedules, which meant finding the right time to become parents was tricky. “Right now, this year’s really packed for me in terms of the work that I’m doing and the work that I’ve taken on,” Chopra Jonas told Tatler magazine in March 2020. “But having a family is very important to me and it always has been.”

After four years of marriage, the couple secretly welcomed their first child in January 2022. “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate,” the couple shared via Instagram at the time. “We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much.”

Now that their dream of becoming parents has come true, keep scrolling to read everything the couple have said about having children over the years.

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Looking Forward

Even before they tied the knot, the former Miss World confessed that she was thinking about becoming a mother. “I am a very live in the today, maximum live in the next two months kind of person,” Chopra Jonas told People in June 2018. “But [in] 10 years, I definitely want to have kids. That is, it’s going to happen in the next 10 years. Well, hopefully earlier than that. I’m very fond of children and I want to be able to do that.”

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Packed Schedule

While she planned on having children with the Camp Rock star, Chopra Jonas explained to Tatler in March 2020 that her career and relationship took top priority at the time. “It is something that I definitely want to do and I’m hoping that whenever God wills it, at the right, opportune time, it’ll happen,” the actress said.

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The More the Merrier

“I do want children, as many as I can have,” Chopra Jonas told The Sunday Times in January 2021. However, when the interviewer asked if she was aiming for her own “cricket team,” which consists of 11 players, the actress explained that she had a more reasonable goal in mind “A cricket team? I’m not so sure.”

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A Blessing

One month later, the Voice coach opened up about his plans to have a child with Chopra Jonas. “We’d be blessed with any child, son or daughter or anything,” Jonas told Extra in February 2021. “Just knocking wood that it happens.” The Jumanji star added that choosing a name for their future children would likely be a family affair. “I’m sure her mother will want to weigh in [on names], and my family would want to weigh in too,” he said.

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The Right Time

“[Having kids] is certainly something we’re both looking forward to,” Jonas told Zane Lowe during an interview in March 2021, adding that he was excited to become a father. “And know that it’ll happen when it’s supposed to and we’re ready for that.”

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Big Announcement

Chopra Jonas mentioned the couple’s baby plans while making fun of her husband as part of Netflix’s Jonas Brothers Family Roast. “I love that I married a man who, like myself, values family. If you don’t know, we’re the only couple who doesn’t have kids yet, which is why I’m excited to make this announcement,” she said. “Nick and I are expecting … to get drunk tonight and sleep in tomorrow!”

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Making Plans

Just weeks before welcoming their first child via surrogate, Chopra Jonas revealed that kids were “a big part of our desire for the future” in a January 2022 interview with Vanity Fair. “By God’s grace, when it happens, it happens.”