One of Hollywood and the NFL’s favorite power couples just made their biggest announcement yet. Hailee Steinfeld and Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl, as announced on April 2, 2026, through Steinfeld’s Beau Society newsletter. “Our baby girl has arrived!!” Steinfeld wrote. “We’re feeling incredibly grateful and blessed and savouring these early moments.” The couple chose not to share their daughter’s name just yet, keeping true to their longtime habit of guarding their most cherished moments with intentional privacy.
The arrival of their daughter caps off what has been a remarkable two-and-a-half-year journey for one of the most talked-about couples in recent pop culture memory. Hailee Steinfeld, 29, is an actress and singer from Tarzana, California, known for her Oscar-nominated role in True Grit, and acclaimed performances in Pitch Perfect 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and most recently the hit film Sinners, which earned a record 16 Academy Award nominations this year. Josh Allen, also 29, is the star quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, the reigning NFL MVP, and widely regarded as one of the best players in the league today.
The two were first spotted together in New York City in May 2023, shortly after Allen’s decade-long relationship with Brittany Williams quietly came to an end. What started as casual outings, a night on the town, a sushi date in Chelsea with friends, quickly blossomed into something real. Sources close to the couple confirmed to Us Weekly at the time that the two were laughing constantly and always smiling when together. By July 2024, Allen made things Instagram official with a carousel of photos captioned simply “Onward,” featuring several images of Steinfeld alongside his family, including a snapshot from Paris.
The relationship moved with quiet confidence from there. Allen popped the question on November 22, 2024, in Malibu, California, a sunset proposal under a flower-covered arch that Steinfeld later described as “magical.” She told Who What Wear in early 2025 that she had absolutely no idea it was coming, and that every time she told the story, she started crying. The couple announced the engagement a week later in a joint Instagram post. Their first-ever red carpet appearance came in February 2025 at the NFL Honors in New Orleans, where Allen accepted the MVP award and ended his speech with a heartfelt tribute to Steinfeld: “You’ve been my rock. You are my best friend. I would not be standing on this stage if it weren’t for you.”
They married on May 31, 2025, in an intimate ceremony in Montecito, California. Steinfeld wore a strapless gown with long white gloves, and the venue was adorned with clusters of white flowers. True to their personalities, the couple went mostly unplugged for the weekend, choosing presence over performance. By December 2025, they revealed another major milestone; Steinfeld’s pregnancy, through a sweet Instagram video showing Allen kissing her growing bump while she wore a top that read “mother.” She was 29 at the time and reflected on the news in her Beau Society newsletter as one of her favorite moments of the year.
Steinfeld’s pregnancy played out publicly but gracefully. She debuted her baby bump at the Golden Globes in January 2026.
She was a notable absence at the Oscars in March — where her Sinners co-star Michael B. Jordan, accepting the Best Actor award, told the audience, “Hailee at home, she’s getting ready to have the baby right now.” Allen, for his part, spoke about becoming a father with the same grounded sincerity that has defined his public persona. “This is the most important thing I’ll ever be in my life,” he said at a press conference, “being a dad.”
Now, with a baby girl at home and two thriving careers between them, Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen have entered an exciting new chapter, one that, if their track record is anything to go by, they’ll navigate with the same grace, warmth, and quiet strength that has defined their love story from the very beginning.
