‘A heart doesn’t divide, it multiplies’: Actor Desmond Tan and wife welcome second child

SINGAPORE – Singaporean actor Desmond Tan and his wife have welcomed their second child, a boy.

The 39-year-old Mediacorp artiste announced that “Didi (Chinese for younger brother) is here” via Instagram on Sept 23.

“Now we are four! It’s gonna be a handful, but I’m loving it.

“My heart had already known a love so profound when I became a father for the first time that I wondered if there was room for more,” he wrote in the post, which includes a photo of him cradling the newborn, who weighed about 3.5kg.

“Then you arrived and showed me that a heart doesn’t divide... it multiplies! Welcome to the world, my son!”

Tan married his university sweetheart, whose identity has never been disclosed, after a 12-year courtship in 2021 in a destination wedding held at a chateau in France. Their daughter was born in March 2024.

The images on Instagram include one of the hands of two adults and two kids stacked together, as well as of handwritten cards and a “Lil Bro” onesie for the newest member of the family.

In August, the local star – who won his ninth Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes award at the Star Awards in July – announced on his birthday that he had achieved his dream of owning a landed home for his growing brood.

Tan posted a photo of himself in front of his two-storey house. “There’s a lot of work ahead for this new place,” he wrote on Instagram. “I’m excited to transform this space into something truly special.”