Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman and his wife Chelsea have announced they are expecting a baby girl via surrogacy.
Freeman, a three-time World Series champion, already has three sons with Chelsea in Charlie, 9, Max, 5, and Brandon, 5.
Yet in a heartwarming gender reveal video on Instagram, the couple confirmed their three young boys are about to get a sister.
The video shows Charlie, Max and Brandon guessing whether their new sibling will be a boy or girl, before they each hit baseballs off a tee filled with pink smoke.
Chelsea then holds up a ball with the words ‘It’s a girl!’ written on it to reveal she is welcoming her first daughter with Freddie.
The Dodgers first baseman and his model partner announced last month that they are expecting a fourth child after turning to surrogacy in the wake of previous fertility issues.
Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman and wife Chelsea are expecting a baby girl
Freddie and Chelsea, who got married in 2014, shared a heartwarming gender reveal video
They welcomed their eldest child in 2016, two years after getting married, before going down the surrogacy route after struggling to get pregnant again.
But days before the crucial embryo transfer, Chelsea discovered she was pregnant and the family then grew from three to five within a matter of months.
Now the Freeman family is expanding once more thanks to surrogacy, with a daughter on the way later in 2026.
Freddie and Chelsea’s five-year-old son Max was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that left him with full-body paralysis, in 2024.
He spent time in the pediatric ICU and Chelsea provided regular updates to the public as the family dealt with significant challenges behind closed doors at the time.
Eventually, Max regained mobility and reflexes, and ahead of the 2025 MLB season, Chelsea said he is ’80 per cent recovered’.
It is unclear whether Max’s health is among the reasons for Freeman’s recent withdrawal from the World Baseball Classic, but it would be no surprise to see him want to spend more time with his family ahead of a grueling 162-game Dodgers season coming up in 2026.
