- Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are expecting their third child.
- “Excited to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!” he wrote on Instagram.
- Zuckerberg and Chan were college sweethearts and have been married since 2012.
Mark Zuckerberg is going to be a father for the third time.
The Meta CEO announced Wednesday that he and his wife Priscilla Chan are expecting their third child, a girl.
“Lots of love,” Zuckerberg wrote An Instagram post, With Chan and a selfie of him. “Excited to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!”
Zuckerberg and Chan, who are college sweethearts, have been married since 2012 — their wedding day was one day after Facebook’s initial public offering. Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta in 2021.
Their eldest daughter, Max (short for Maxima), was born in 2015, and on the day the couple announced her birth, they also unveiled their philanthropic fund, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The fund is backed by Zuckerberg’s meta fortune and aims to cure the world’s disease in their daughter’s lifetime.
The couple’s second daughter, was born in August, 2017. Before her birth, Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave. (Meta offers four months of leave to all new parents.)
Zuckerberg was previously one of the richest people in the world, but his net worth took a hit this year. Although he began 2022 with a fortune of $125 billion, it has since shed $70 billion, or about 55%, since Facebook’s Meta rebrand and the company’s first-ever decline in user numbers this year. Zuckerberg is currently the 20th richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
