{"id":16420,"date":"2021-11-16T08:17:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2023-01-15T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:44:14","slug":"agency-confirms-exos-chen-and-his-wife-are-expecting-their-second-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/agency-confirms-exos-chen-and-his-wife-are-expecting-their-second-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Agency confirms EXO&#8217;s Chen and his wife are expecting their second child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family grows! 29-year-old <strong>Chen<\/strong> and his wife are awaiting the birth of his second child. Agency <strong>SM Entertainment<\/strong> confirmed the news of the pregnancy on Tuesday, November 16, and fans of the K-pop artist are celebrating on social media. Currently, <strong>Kim Jongdae<\/strong> is serving his mandatory period of military service.<\/p>\n<p>Following a first report from <strong>Newsen<\/strong> about the sweet waiting in <strong>EXO<\/strong>&#8216;s main vocalist&#8217;s family, SM Entertainment released an official <strong>statement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>It is true that Chen&#8217;s wife is pregnant with her second child<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, declared the agency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1460531833645543427\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to this, EXO Chen and his wife are currently expecting their second child<\/p>\n<p>He announced his marriage to non-celebrity girlfriend in January last year and welcomed their first child on April 29 of the same year<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8zVq7tgWjm\">https:\/\/t.co\/8zVq7tgWjm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZeJD0XhAPp\">pic.twitter.com\/ZeJD0XhAPp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Seoul Story (@theseoulstory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theseoulstory\/status\/1460531833645543427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chen and his partner got <strong>married<\/strong> in 2020. The first-born of the young family was born in April, so their <strong>baby<\/strong> is currently 1 year and 7 months old. In this period, Kim Jongdae is not active as an idol in EXO due to the fact that he began his military service in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The stage lasts 18 months and will culminate in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>The reaction on social networks was immediate. EXO fans made the \u201c<strong>Beautiful goodbye<\/strong>\u201d performer top trending on Twitter on Tuesday morning. Fans recalled the wish that Kim Jongdae expressed on <strong>The Return of Superman<\/strong> where he pointed out that he would like to have a daughter and a son.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohsenh\/status\/1460536053127806977\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">jongdae said he wants a daughter and son (in this specific order)! i hope it&#39;s a baby boy this time. congratulations jongdae \ud83e\udd7a\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vu8OaJAG3E\">pic.twitter.com\/Vu8OaJAG3E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; maria \u263d\u0336\u263e (@ohsenh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohsenh\/status\/1460536053127806977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Let&#8217;s hope so Chen, you have your partner<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; said one user.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>The vocalist&#8217;s followers also form his &#8220;<em><strong>defense army against malicious comments<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, this refers to what happened in 2020, when a group of <strong>antifans<\/strong> reacted by asking that he be removed from the K-pop group after becoming a <strong>father<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family grows! 29-year-old Chen and his wife are awaiting the birth of his second child. Agency SM Entertainment confirmed the news of the pregnancy on Tuesday, November 16, and fans of the K-pop artist are celebrating on social media. Currently, Kim Jongdae is serving his mandatory period of military service. Following a first report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":16426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[939],"class_list":{"0":"post-16420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}