There’s not anything Liza Miller wouldn’t do for her daughter on Younger — including pretending to be part her age to score a job, and the show’s forged are equally proud of their little ones in real lifestyles.
“She’s still just a pleasure,” Sutton Foster, who starred as Liza at the TV Land comedy, exclusively gushed to Us Weekly in June 2019 of her daughter, Emily. “She’s just a outstanding child. I’m in awe of her each day. … Numerous people have warned me, [saying], ‘It’s not really the twos, it’s the threes.’ She’s very strong-willed so I do know that that might come, but right now she’s improbable. She’s, like, a great dangle.”
The Bunheads alum and her husband, Ted Griffin, adopted their little girl nearly two years earlier. Foster and Emily have since developed a sweet mother-daughter bond — at house and behind the scenes at Younger.
“We introduced both our babies to work so much,” the Tony Awards winner instructed Us on the time, relating to costar Hilary Duff, who's a mother of three. “Banks was there so much and Emily came to visit three or four times a week. Emily would go, ‘Baby Banks! Baby Banks!’ and wanted to carry the infant.”
The Lizzie McGuire alum — who portrayed Kelsey Peters on the seven-season sitcom — stocks daughters Banks, born in 2018, and Mae, born in 2021, with husband Matthew Koma. Duff additionally coparents son Luca, born in 2012, with ex-husband Mike Comrie.
Seeing Banks and Emily play on the set of Younger — which wrapped in June 2021 — as well as portraying an onscreen mother or father of their own inspired Nico Tortorella (Josh) to start out their own family. “They’re like, ‘If I could breast-feed I would,’” Duff teased to Us in June 2019.
The Make It Or Break It alum, who wed Bethany C. Meyers in March 2018, has been candid about looking to expand their brood after looking at their character of Josh carry daughter Gemma all the way through season 7.
“[Josh] is this kind of nice dude and he likes to maintain the people that are around him and now he has a toddler,” Tortorella gushed to Us in 2019. “It’s really been a dream come true running with a toddler on set this season.”
Their needs paid off as the Walking Dead alum and Meyers, who both identify as nonbinary, announced in August 2022 that the fitness trainer was pregnant with the couple’s first kid after years of fertility struggles.
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“There is such a lot to tell you all about this unexpected story of how we finally conceived, but nowadays I just need to sit in the pleasure of getting to share our information with all of you. Our 🌈 child is in my belly,” Meyers wrote by means of Instagram, sharing maternity footage. “For the ones of you who are still on your journey to parenthood, I do know this news may really feel painful. I do know a few of you may have just had every other failed cycle, or came upon your being pregnant wasn’t viable, or every other hiccup on this wild recreation they name trying to conceive. … Permission to mute me, step away or feel all of those feels. I’ve been there too.”
Tortorella and Meyers welcomed their first child, daughter Kilmer Dove, in March 2023.
Scroll beneath to fulfill the Younger cast’s youngsters:
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