Tori Spelling and Kids in 2026 , How a Hollywood Family Keeps Reinventing Itself

A certain type of celebrity family tale aged oddly. Liam was only a few months old when Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott began documenting their lives on Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood in 2007. The camera crews followed the family through what appeared to be a charming, slightly chaotic domestic adventure in Los Angeles.

Nineteen years later, the five children who grew up in front of those cameras are now navigating adolescence under the peculiar burden of becoming household names without ever having signed up for it, the baby is a teenager old enough to vote, and the marriage has ended in public dissolution. The plot has the feel of an ongoing drama that no one has finished writing.

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Liam, Stella, Hattie, Finn, and Beau are the five children; the youngest was born in 2017, while the oldest was born in 2026, little under twenty. The unusual structure of the blended family comes from McDermott’s prior marriage to Mary Jo Eustace, which produced an older son named Jack.

Observing how Spelling has shared pictures of all six of her children on social media gives the impression that she has made an effort, sometimes with success and other times with less success, to preserve continuity even while the marriage deteriorated.

Even while the underlying family situation was altering in ways that the captions didn’t fully address, the Instagram posts from 2018, 2021, and 2024 all read like dispatches from the same household.

One of the more depressing storylines to follow has been Liam’s. Spelling has talked candidly about the bullying he endured in middle school—possibly more candidly than many famous parents would. The family was finally compelled to change schools due to reports of authorities rejecting him as “lazy” or “unmotivated,” as well as peer harassment that was severe enough to cause bodily symptoms.

Spelling’s description of that time period—the migraines, the stomach ache, the gradual loss of confidence—suggests that the experience affected her as a parent in ways she wasn’t entirely prepared for. By 2023, Liam was experimenting with vibrant hair colors, going to Pride events with his father and stepbrother Jack, and gradually establishing his own identity apart from the damaged school dynamic.

The second oldest, Stella, has handled a similar arc with her own unique style. Her hobbies include modeling, makeup, baking, and what her Instagram bio confidently describes as “anti-bullying activist.” It’s difficult to ignore the connection between her and Liam’s experiences. Her parents withdrew her out of one school to attend another when she experienced bullying severe enough to cause bodily issues.

She appeared on MasterChef Celebrity Family Showdown, got her first modeling job with Petite ‘n Pretty, and appeared to have stabilized until early 2023, when she ended up in the emergency room with what was eventually identified as a hemiplegic migraine, the type that can mimic stroke symptoms and frighten everyone involved.

Hattie, Finn, and Beau, the youngest three, are part of a little distinct chapter in the family narrative. Born in 2011, Hattie’s mother has called her a “free-spirited fiery soul” who enjoys horror, makeup, and the kind of creative energy that doesn’t necessarily fit into a school day.

After a high-risk pregnancy that involved placenta previa and emergency post-delivery surgery, Finn—the family’s “miracle baby”—has developed into their active middle child. When Beau, the youngest at nine, was born in 2017, Spelling said that the family “all needed a little hope.”

Reading Spelling’s posts on Beau gives me the impression that the framing wasn’t coincidental. A new baby represented a physical and metaphorical restart for the already strained couple.

An eighteen-year partnership came to an end in 2023 when McDermott announced the split in a since-deleted Instagram post. Soon after, he checked himself into rehab for abusing alcohol and prescription drugs. In March 2024, Spelling filed for divorce, asking for joint legal custody as well as sole physical custody.

Compared to the years that resulted in reality TV, paparazzi calls, and tabloid headlines, the family situation has been more subdued since. With the kind of carefully controlled public persona that implies they have eventually figured out how to co-parent under scrutiny, both parents have continued to post about the children, sometimes together and sometimes apart.

Over the course of these children’s lives, it’s difficult to ignore how the societal definition of “celebrity family” has changed. Reality television was at its height when Liam was born, and documenting a child’s early years on camera seemed like a common decision made by the entertainment business.

The calculus had evolved by the time Beau showed there ten years later. Privacy was more important. The children themselves were active on social media. The lines separating exploitation and documentation have become increasingly contentious.

Observing this family over the course of 19 years gives the impression that Spelling has progressively changed her strategy without ever really identifying it: less reality TV, more carefully manicured Instagram, and more direct authorship of her children’s introduction to the world. The question of whether such recalibration is sufficient to provide the children with the version of maturity they would have selected for themselves is one that doesn’t have a definitive answer until much later.