President Biden Is a Great-Grandfather as Granddaughter Naomi Biden Welcomes First Baby with Husband
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01/08/2025 02:54 PM
The President announced the news during a press conference in Los Angeles
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President Biden and granddaughter NaomiNaomi Biden is officially a mom.
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday, Jan. 8 that his granddaughter Naomi, 31, has welcomed her first baby with husband Peter Neal in a Los Angeles press conference about the continuing California fires.
"The good news is I'm a great-grandfather as of today," President Biden said according to a White House pool report. Ahead of the press conference, President Biden stopped by Cedars Sinai Hospital and spent around 40 minutes meeting his new great-grandbaby.
The new addition marks President Biden becoming a great-grandfather for the first time. Speaking about the milestone in a recent interview with USA Todayat the White House, Biden remarked, "I'm about to be a great-grandfather, Jesus God."
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Naomi first shared that she was expecting on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Nov. 5, on Election Day. In her mirror selfie, her growing baby bump was decorated with a voting sticker.
"(We) voted," she wrote on top of the photo, adding an American flag and upside-down smiling face emojis.
Naomi is the daughter of the President's son Hunter Biden and his ex-wife Kathleen Buhle.
Naomi married her husband in November 2022, exchanging vows in a private ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. Naomi's wedding was the first one held at the White House in nearly a decade — and the first-ever for a grandchild of a sitting president.
Both of her grandparents, the president and First Lady Jill Biden, were in attendance. The Columbia Law graduate was walked down the aisle by both her father and her mother, a source close to the family told PEOPLE at the time.
In another nod to Naomi's closeness with her mother, the bride carried Lilies of the Valley, a tradition in her mother's family.
The pair announced their engagement in September 2021 and confirmed earlier in 2022 that they had chosen the White House as their venue. Their nuptials marked the first wedding on the White House grounds since 2013 when presidential photographer Pete Souza married Patti Lease in the Rose Garden.
