Baby On Board: Barbara Palvin And Dylan Sprouse Are Expecting Their First Child

Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse just turned their Cannes sidewalk moment into a life update: they are expecting their first child. The reveal landed the same day they dressed in coordinated black-and-blue and hit the Croisette — very them, very controlled, and yes, the ultrasound is doing rock hands.

The reveal (and the timing)

On Thursday, May 14, the couple confirmed the pregnancy in a joint Instagram post. Palvin, 32, is in a baby-blue gown; Sprouse, 33, is in a black suit with a hand on her bump. They included an ultrasound edited to make it look like the baby is flashing the 'rock hands' gesture, plus a shot of the two of them doing it, too. The caption kept it simple: '🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼'.

Just before they posted, the two stepped out at the 79th Cannes Film Festival in those same black-and-blue looks — they were also spotted at the Hotel Martinez in Cannes on May 14, 2026 — and then made it Instagram-official. It is their first child, coming two years after they tied the knot.

How we got here (the short version)

• August 2017: They meet at a Harper's Bazaar party. He slides into her DMs; she lets it sit for months because she is wary of the attention that would follow.
• June 2018: They start dating.
• February 2020: Palvin explains she initially ignored his DM because she was nervous about being chased by paparazzi and the general circus that comes with it.
• March 2023: Engagement rumors kick up when Palvin is seen wearing a diamond ring at the Mammoth Film Festival. At the time, chatter around them was that they prefer to keep things private but were already talking marriage and kids.
• June 2023: They confirm the engagement with a V Magazine cover that leans into the bit — posing as a bride and groom in front of a giant wedding cake — and reveal he actually proposed back in September 2022. Sprouse says they did not feel the need to share every step in real time; they wanted to play with the line between what is public and what stays theirs. Palvin is on the same page: they built the story their way, on their timeline.
• Also June 2023: They say they plan to marry in her home country of Hungary. Palvin wants to show people where she is from, and jokes there was no skipping a Hungary wedding unless she wanted to hear about it from her parents forever.
• July 2023 (the month after the engagement went public): They get married. What was meant to be small swells to 115 guests because there are, in her words, a lot of people they care about.
• May 14, 2026: They make the Cannes rounds in black and blue, then post the 'rock hands' ultrasound and confirm they are having a baby two years after their wedding.

The part that says a lot about them

If you have followed these two at all, the baby reveal fits the pattern: have the big public moment, then punctuate it with a knowingly stylized image that says, 'We are in on the image-making.' That V Magazine shoot — bride, groom, giant cake — was basically a mission statement for how they share their life.

'Marriage is a promise of kind of loving you endlessly and being your partner.'

That is how Sprouse described it, which also explains the controlled rollouts: personal first, public second, with a wink.

One tiny timeline note

For anyone trying to do the math at home: they publicly revealed the engagement in June 2023, married the next month, and now — after a Cannes appearance on May 14, 2026 — they have announced baby No. 1, described as coming two years after the wedding. Either way, the Palvin-Sprouse story keeps moving fast and on their terms.

Congrats to them — and yes, we will keep an eye out for the next art-directed update.