All About Jimmy Kimmel’s 4 Kids, Katie, Kevin, Jane and Billy

Jimmy Kimmel may joke about his kids on Jimmy Kimmel Live! — but at home, he’s the punchline.

The comedian first became a dad in 1991 when he welcomed his daughter, Katie, with his first wife, Gina Maddy. Their son, Kevin, arrived in 1993. Kimmel and Maddy ultimately split a decade later.

In 2013, he married Molly McNearney, an executive producer and co-head writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. They share two children: daughter Jane and son Billy, who was born with congenital heart disease and has faced significant health challenges.

Kimmel told PEOPLE in September 2022 that Jane and Billy share his sense of humor. “They are very funny,” he said. “Well, they have no respect for me whatsoever. They make fun of me. They’re just goofballs.”

The talk show host became a grandparent for the first time in May 2025 when Katie and her husband, Will Logsdon, welcomed a baby girl.

Here’s everything to know about Jimmy Kimmel’s four children: Katie, Kevin, Jane and Billy.

Katie Kimmel, 34

Katie Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel in 2015.Donato Sardella/WireImage

Kimmel and his first wife welcomed their first child — a daughter named Katharine — on Aug. 28, 1991, in Tampa, Fla. The talk-show host was just 24 years old at the time, and the young parents struggled to make ends meet, Kimmel later recalled to Vulture. When Katie was born, Kimmel lost his job working in morning radio in Tampa and found a new one in Palm Springs, Calif.

“We moved across the country, and I would work from four in the morning till around 11 in the morning, and at the time my ex-wife worked too,” Kimmel explained. “So I’d pick Katie up from daycare as quickly as I could, because we couldn’t afford the $5 an hour to keep her there longer.”

He added, “I’d have her all day till 6 or 6:30, when my ex-wife got home. That was a hard schedule. I was exhausted all the time … I used to beg Katie to go to sleep, almost in tears, just so I could take a nap.”

Kimmel was also candid about the stresses he felt when Katie was young. “Most of the pressure I felt with Katie came from me being a 25-year-old guy who had to keep the family afloat,” he said. “It was not easy.”

As Katie has grown into an adult herself, Kimmel has been supportive of her creative career path. She received her BFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, moved to California to work as an artist after graduation, and has been selling her own home goods, apparel and artwork since 2017. That same year, Kimmel defended his daughter’s work when he accused the clothing brand Reformation of copying her designs.

“Scumbag move by @reformationx stealing ideas from a young artist (who happens to be my daughter @katiekimmel),” he wrote on X, shortly after Reformation had posted an Instagram of their designs.

Other social media messages referring to his eldest child have been more light-hearted. Kimmel posted on Instagram in August 2021, sharing a photo of himself with Katie as a baby to commemorate her 30th birthday.

“Happy 30th birthday to this talented and delightful baby @katiekimmel (who no longer fits on my head) I am so proud of what a great person you’ve become. Thanks for making me a Dad, Little Head,” Kimmel wrote in the caption.

Shortly after her 30th birthday, Katie wed her longtime partner, Will Logsdon, in September 2021. Kimmel made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show shortly before the ceremony and opened up about what it felt like to be the father of the bride.

“She actually turned 30 two weeks ago, which is strange to have a 30-year-old daughter,” Kimmel said to DeGeneres. “And she is getting married this weekend, as a matter of fact, which is a big deal.”

Kimmel also said he approves of his daughter’s new husband. “I’ll tell you, the guy is great,” he shared. “His name is Will and he’s a great guy. And if he wasn’t, he’d be dead right now … That’s how we operate in my family.”

In May 2025, Katie and Will welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Patti Joan. Kimmel canceled the taping of his late-night show on May 19 to be at the hospital for his first grandchild’s arrival.

“Katie and her husband Will had a baby girl right at the time we shot our show last night. So I decided to be there instead of here,” he explained during his opening monologue on May 20, before making a joke about his granddaughter’s name.

“The baby’s very healthy,” Kimmel said. “Her name, they gave her a very cute name. Her name is Melania. It’s Melania Thee Stallion. Her name is [actually] Patti. Like the melt, but with an ‘I’ not a ‘Y.’ “

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Kevin Kimmel, 32

Kevin Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel in 2018.Kevin Mazur/WireImage

On Sept. 19, 1993, Kimmel’s second child — a son named Kevin — was born. Kevin, along with his older sister Katie, grew up prior to Kimmel’s major success as a comedian and television host.

“I didn’t make any money when I was in radio and I got fired a lot,” Kimmel told PEOPLE in 2016 about his experience as a young parent. “It’s stressful enough to get fired and have to move to another town, but when you have little kids, it’s even more stressful.”

But Kevin — who appears to have inherited his father’s sense of humor — has joked about his modest childhood on Instagram. He posted a photo of himself holding a tabloid with the headline “Hollywood’s Richest Kids” in August 2021. The caption reads: “I’m so f—ing embarrassed rn, I didn’t even make the top 10.”

Though Kimmel’s work schedule may have been less busy when Katie and Kevin were growing up, it was still a struggle to spend quality time with his two older children — purely out of stress and exhaustion. The late-night host told Vulture in October 2017 that he didn’t miss those early, tiring days.

“You want to have quality time with them — it’s much harder for parents who are with their kids 24/7 to enjoy that time together,” Kimmel confessed.

As adults, Kevin — who works in television doing sound and as a production assistant — and Kimmel are able to spend more of that quality time together. Kevin has posted photos on his Instagram of the two playing baseball, fishing and sitting courtside at NBA games.

Kevin married his wife, Nicole, at his father’s fly fishing lodge in Idaho in September 2022.

Jane Kimmel, 12

Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney with their two kids.Jimmy Kimmel Instagram

Kimmel’s second wife, McNearney, gave birth to their first child together — a daughter named Jane — on July 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. Kimmel announced the birth via X, and then spoke more in-depth about Jane’s arrival on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

“We had a little girl, we named her after my grandmother — her name is Grandma Kimmel,” Jimmy shared in his opening monologue. “She weighed 6 lbs., 1 oz. at birth. Twenty inches long, just above the legal limit — sometimes, they make you throw them back.”

The late-night host added, “I’ve been taking somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 pictures of her a day. She thinks I’m with TMZ now.”

Though Kimmel was initially “nervous” about having another baby, he quickly found out there was nothing to worry about. He told PEOPLE in October 2015 that parenting 15-month-old Jane was “really great.” He added, “It does add a little bit of joy to each day. Maybe more than a little bit.”

Even throughout toddlerhood with Jane, Kimmel always focused on the positive side of parenting.

“Everything’s great about it — even the bad things are great,” he told PEOPLE in 2016 when Jane was 2 years old. “When I come home, the level of excitement is something that you really can only get from a pet. She goes crazy.”

Kimmel even managed to find the humor in potty training Jane. “She’ll only go to the potty on the trampoline, which is insane,” he shared. “But that’s her. She’s a weird kid.”

As for her comedy skills, Jane put them on display with her Father’s Day card for Kimmel in 2021. “Happy… Farters-Day” Jane wrote on the outside of the card. She illustrated her point with a drawing of a person’s buttocks and an angry green cloud. Kimmel shared Jane’s artistic creation — and funny phrasing — on Instagram.

“My 6 yr old daughter Jane might have a future at Hallmark,” Kimmel joked in the caption of his post.

Kimmel continues to share adorable stories about Jane as she grows up and hits more milestones. In September 2022, the comedian revealed that his youngest daughter had received her first visit from the tooth fairy — and it was a lucrative one.

“I forgot and I had to throw a much too large $20 bill under her bed because that’s all I had,” Kimmel told PEOPLE exclusively. “We had to explain, ‘Oh, it’s the first tooth. Don’t expect $20 every time.’ “

He added, “My daughter is very precocious.”

Billy Kimmel, 9

Billy Kimmel.Jimmy Kimmel Instagram

Kimmel’s youngest child, son William John “Billy” Kimmel, was born on April 21, 2017, in L.A. Two weeks after his birth, Kimmel tearfully revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that Billy — who is named after Kimmel’s longtime TV partner Guillermo — underwent open-heart surgery at just 3 days old.

“We call him Billy. Six pushes, he was out. He appeared a normal healthy baby,” Kimmel began. He went on to describe how a few hours after Billy was born, it was discovered that he had a congenital heart condition called tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia.

“Basically, the pulmonary valve was completely blocked and he has a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of his heart,” the comedian explained.

Even in the emotional monologue, Kimmel was still able to crack a joke. “Poor kid. Not only did he get a bad heart, he got my face,” he said.

Since his birth, Billy has undergone two more open-heart surgeries — one at 7 months old and another at age 7.

“This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open heart surgery. We went into this experience with a lot of optimism and nearly as much fear and came out with a new valve inside a happy, healthy kid,” Kimmel wrote on Instagram in May 2024.

Despite Billy’s successful surgeries, the experience during his first year of life was an emotional one for Kimmel and McNearney. Kimmel told Oprah Winfrey in 2018. “There were secrets we kept from each other that we revealed only after the second surgery. The biggest one was that, I think subconsciously, we didn’t want to get too close to the baby because we didn’t know what was going to happen.”

Kimmel hopes that Billy remains in that same state of blissful ignorance as he continues to grow up. “My problems and my worries shouldn’t be his problems or his worries,” the late-night host said in his emotional monologue. “I think he’s going to have enough to worry about growing up with this questionable heart in his body, and I just want him to worry about hitting a home run in Little League.”

In October 2023, Kimmel and McNearney surprised Billy and Jane when Olivia Rodrigo hitched a ride with them on their way to school. Billy and Rodrigo then sang along to his favorite song of hers: “Get Him Back.”

“He wants to get him back for you. What do you want to do when you get him back?” McNearney asked Billy. “Punch him in the penis,” he responded, much to the pop star’s amusement.

Over the years, Kimmel has marked each of Billy’s birthdays by expressing how “grateful” he and McNearney are — not only for Billy’s health, but for the nurses and doctors who cared for him.

“Our boy Billy turns 9 today and is doing great, thanks to the doctors, nurses, therapists, and many more at @ChildrensLA & @CedarsSinai,” he wrote on Instagram in April 2026.