Shonda Rhimes attended the Season 4 world premiere of Bridgerton in Paris on Wednesday, January 14, with all three of her children.
The television creator and her daughters Harper, 23, Emerson, 12, and Beckett, 11 dazzled on the red carpet as they posed for photos.
The night marked a first for Emerson and Beckett, who had not previously attended a red carpet event with their mother. Harper, the eldest of the three, has joined Rhimes at industry premieres before and most recently accompanied her to the Los Angeles premiere of The Residence in March 2025.
Rhimes became a mother in 2002 after adopting Harper. She later adopted Emerson in 2012 and welcomed Beckett via surrogacy in 2013. Over the years, she has spoken openly about raising her children while working long hours in television.
During a past appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Rhimes reflected on becoming a first-time mom around the same time Grey’s Anatomy premiered.
“I became a mom at the same time that Grey’s Anatomy came out,” Rhimes said while speaking about Harper. “And that was like, as a working mother, that was the hardest, most devastating, most amazing situation to be in the middle of.”
“My daughter grew up thinking I worked in a hospital. She did, because that’s where she was all the time,” she continued. “And so then, like ten years on, I thought, okay, so I’ve had one daughter and 37 actors, but she doesn’t have any siblings.”
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“And so then it was the middle of Scandal, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna have two more kids.’ And that was a plan.”
The Paris premiere comes ahead of the upcoming season of Bridgerton, which remains one of Netflix’s most-watched series.
