Marc Anthony welcomes baby number eight, a daughter named Myla, his second child with wife Nadia Ferreira. The couple announced the birth on July 21 in a joint Instagram post that revealed both the arrival and the name at the same time, ending months of speculation from fans who had been tracking the pregnancy since January.
The announcement photo is black and white and built around the family of four. Anthony stands on one side, Ferreira on the other, and their 3 year old son Marco sits in the middle holding his newborn sister in his arms. A second image shows all four sets of hands together, the parents’ and both children’s. The caption, written in Spanish, read that it was a great blessing to share the arrival of their precious Myla, that no one could imagine the happiness in their home, and that they were over the moon.
Keeping the name under wraps until the birth was intentional. The only clue the couple offered came at Ferreira’s baby shower in June, where the letter M turned up throughout the decor without any further explanation. Fans guessed for weeks. Myla now joins Marco, whose full nickname in the family is Marquito, in a household that has doubled in size in just over three years.
The pregnancy news arrived on January 28, the couple’s third wedding anniversary. They marked both at once with a photo of Anthony’s hand, Ferreira’s hand, and Marco’s small hand resting on her belly, writing in Spanish that life had given them a huge gift and that God is great. They added that Marquito was going to be a big brother. In March, Ferreira revealed the baby was a girl by holding up a pair of blush pink baby shoes.
That detail mattered to her. Ferreira told HOLA! that she and Anthony had always wanted another baby and that their dream was specifically for a girl. She said God blessed them with one. The couple had been open about wanting to try again almost from the moment Marco was born, and the timeline moved quickly once they did.
Anthony, 57, and Ferreira, 27, married in Miami in January 2023 after first sparking romance rumors during an outing in Mexico City the year before. Marco was born that June, six months into the marriage. Ferreira is a Paraguayan model who was crowned Miss Universe Paraguay in 2021 and finished as first runner up at Miss Universe that same year. She is 30 years younger than her husband, a gap that has followed the couple through every public appearance since they got together.
For Ferreira, Myla is her second child. For Anthony, she is the eighth, and the family tree behind that number stretches back more than three decades. He shares daughter Arianna and son Chase with former girlfriend Debbie Rosado. He has sons Cristian and Ryan with ex-wife Dayanara Torres. He has 18 year old twins Max and Emme with ex-wife Jennifer Lopez, whom he divorced in 2014 after a marriage that made the two of them one of the most photographed couples of the 2000s. Marc Anthony welcomes baby number eight into a blended family that now spans children in their thirties and a newborn in the same year.
The four time Grammy winner has not always been comfortable with how that fatherhood played out. In a September 2025 interview with Hello!, Anthony said his one regret is that the career he chose took so much of his time. He said he would have loved to be a stay at home dad and witness every second of everything, and that it simply did not work out that way. It was an unusually direct admission from a performer who spent the bulk of his kids’ childhoods on tour buses and in arenas, and it landed differently coming months before he became a father again.
Whether Myla gets a version of that stay at home father is the open question. Anthony has kept a full schedule into his late fifties, and the Miami base he shares with Ferreira has been the anchor for the family since the wedding. Marco turned 3 in June, an occasion Ferreira marked on Instagram by writing that her little boy was turning three, that she could not believe how fast time flies, and that she hoped God would always bless him.
The response to the announcement came fast from the couple’s circle, the same way it did when Marco was born in 2023 and Anthony revealed it in a Father’s Day post. That earlier announcement did not include a name or a birth date, and it took a year before Ferreira used a birthday caption to confirm what the baby was called. This time they moved faster, giving fans the name and the first family portrait in a single post.
Myla arrives as the youngest member of one of the largest blended families in entertainment, and the first photo of her already tells the story the couple wanted told. Marco is holding her. Everyone else is just there to catch them.
