It can be ruff having a sibling!

Millie Bobby Brown reveals how her dog Winnie reacted to her and Jake Bongiovi’s daughter

It can be ruff having a sibling!

By Emlyn Travis

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December 8, 2025 11:04 a.m. ET

Millie Bobby Brown and Winnie on 'The Tonight Show' in 2024. Credit:

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Millie Bobby Brown is revealing how her beloved dog Winnie is dealing with having a new sibling after she and husband Jake Bongiovi adopted a baby girl over the summer.**

The actress explained that her precious poodle is still coming to terms with having to share the spotlight with her parents’ new bundle of joy. **

“She’s been… It’s a hit to the ego,” Brown said on* The Tonight Show *on Sunday. “I think she doesn’t understand it. She hasn’t acknowledged her presence yet, but my daughter now has totally figured out that she’s an animal.”

Millie Bobby Brown attends the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Feb. 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif.

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The *Stranger Things* star said that Winnie is just trying to act like the newest addition to the family isn’t a permanent one. (Which, sorry Winnie, but she definitely is!) **

“It’s a power play for her. She knows what she’s doing. She’s like, ‘I’m going to ignore you until you disappear,’ basically,” Brown said. “And I’m like, ‘Winnie.’ I have sit-downs with her. I’m like, ‘She’s not going anywhere now.’”

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Brown believes it’s because Winnie fully thinks she’s a human, not a dog. **

“Winnie understands the English language. I don’t think you understand,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “Last night, she took one of my daughter’s bath toys and ran it up the stairs and I said, ‘I saw you do that!’ And she poked her head around the corner and just death-stared me.” **

Brown continued, “She knew! She stopped on the stairs to be like, ‘Yeah, that’s right. What are you gonna do about it?’”

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A proud animal advocate, Brown is the proud owner of at least 62 pets right now. That list includes Winnie, who joined her for an appearance on *The Tonight Show *last year.

“She doesn’t really care about human attention, she cares about an audience,” Brown said of her pup at the time. “She loves a camera.”

In August, Brown and Bongiovi announced that they had welcomed their first child together.**

“This summer, we welcomed our sweet baby girl through adoption,” they wrote in a joint Instagram statement. “We are beyond excited to embark on this beautiful next chapter of parenthood in both peace and privacy.”**

They continued, “And then there were 3.” **

Watch Brown discuss Winnie’s reaction to their little one in the clip above.

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