Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard's Kids: Meet Lincoln and Delta

When it comes to famous families in Hollywood, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard like to keep things low-key. So much so, the A-listers — who share daughters Lincoln and Delta — have made it a rule to keep photos of their children’s faces off social media.

Even without seeing their sure-to-be adorable mugs, the girls are still featured on Instagram in other ways. More often than not, the Good Place actress will simply place an emoji over Lincoln and Delta’s faces. For instance, Kristen gave fans a glimpse inside the couple’s lives as parents when they celebrated Father’s Day in June 2021.

“To the man who wants to start a family band. Our ring leader. Our turkey cutter. The one who patiently puts together all the toys Christmas morning. Who keeps us all laughing. Who will ignore all of his own physical pain, even when his bones are literally shattered, to hold his girls tight. Who slays when he wears pink. Who encourages us to stay up later than we all should just talking, because he thinks deep talks are important. Who guides me patiently through parenting when Im fed up and need it most,” the Veronica Mars alum wrote on Instagram next to the “Armchair Expert” podcast host and their family of four. “@daxshepard I love you so dearly and I wish there were 364 more fathers days a year, because you deserve it. Happy Father’s day.”

While the acting pair’s sweet smiles were on full display, Kristen placed a heart sticker over each of her kiddo’s faces. As much as fans would love to gush over what her little ones look like, sharing vulnerable mommy moments is just as important. Unfortunately, not everyone sees it that way, as Kristen and Dax have faced backlash in the past for keeping their children’s identities so private.

In February 2020, Kristen appeared in a commercial for Hello Bello, a plant-based baby products company, alongside a toddler. After sharing the video on social media, followers began to question her methods. “So your kids deserve privacy, but you don’t mind exploiting other people’s children for monetary gain?” one person wrote.

“Well, there’s a big difference. If [Dax and I] expose our kids’ faces, there is a real threat of them getting stalked, or of a stranger coming up to them and knowing their name,” Kristen replied. “It’s a safety thing … I don’t fault other parents for showing their kids when they don’t have the same safety concerns.”

It looks like fans will have to patiently wait to see if the doting mom starts to feel more comfortable sharing pics of her kids as Lincoln and Delta get older. In the meantime, listening to Kristen fawn over her daughters is sweet enough, especially when she’s discussing how much motherhood has truly impacted her life.

While chatting with Redbook magazine in July 2016, the Golden Globe nominee revealed why she doesn’t mind choosing her family over her Hollywood career. “I don’t let myself feel guilty about not committing to things anymore,” she shared. “How I position it in my head is that I have more of an obligation to my daughters than I do to anybody else.”

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Lincoln Bell Shepard

The couple’s first daughter was born on March 28, 2013. Dax announced the exciting news of Lincoln’s arrival on Twitter, “Lincoln Bell Shepard is here. She has mom’s beauty and dad’s obsession with breasts. Hooray!!!”

At the time Kristen held baby No. 1 in her arms, she had an overwhelming feeling of love. Though she joked she didn’t know “what do I do with” her newborn at first, everything changed when she “started breastfeeding.”

“When Lincoln came out … I was like, ‘Eh … I can take it home?’” she explained to the Huffington Post in 2015. “But [then] the oxytocin or my hormones or hundreds of thousands of years of evolution kicked in. I didn’t want to let her go. Having kids feels like that first seventh-grade crush that overwhelms every molecule in your body, but it’s permanent. Other than the sleep deprivation in the beginning and trying to figure out how not to screw your kid up, the rewards are mountains larger than the battles.”

Now that Lincoln is a little girl, Kristen and Dax are teaching their youngster all about respect and how to be a good person. “We have very strict rules in our family about how we treat people with respect, especially our family members,” she told Us Weekly in May 2016. “We are going to be with each other in the long haul, so it’s important to always be respectful and treat your sister the way you want to be treated.”

Delta Bell Shepard

Kristen and Dax’s second child arrived on December 19, 2014. Like her older sister, the Hit and Run actor shared the happy news via Twitter. “Delta Bell Shepard is here. She doesn’t look like either @IMKristenBell or me, but we’re gonna keep her anyway,” he jokingly wrote, adding the hashtag, “Christmas came early.”

As for Kristen, she also announced the arrival of their new addition. “The estrogen has now hit critical mass! Good luck, Dax,” she adorably penned. “And welcome to the world DELTA BELL SHEPARD.”

Though she’s younger, the Bad Moms actress revealed Delta has quite the “sassy” personality. While adjusting to homeschooling her daughters amid the coronavirus pandemic, Kristen revealed she was having a hard time teaching Delta.

“To be honest, I threw in the towel,” Kristen dished during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May 2020, noting homeschooling went downhill after she “attempted to give [Delta] some math problems” at the beginning of quarantine.

“I handed them to her, and she answered the first and second one,” Kristen hilariously recalled. “And then she got real sassy and in the answer grid of the rest of the questions, she just wrote ‘No.’ What’s four plus four? ‘No.’ What’s 10 minus one? ‘No.’ Three minus two? ‘No.’”

Because life was a little different amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Kristen said “balancing work and parenting and online learning” during the pandemic was “really hard.” In order to make the situation a little earlier for her family, the duo focused on the mental health of their girls.

“Kids and mental health is interesting,” she told People in March 2021, noting they’ve been open about the severity of the pandemic. “We’re always honest with our kids, and sometimes, it’s been really hard. We explained what COVID was and why it exists, and we told them everything really early on and we just reminded them [we] have to do what we can to help others during this time.”

In addition to being candid about mental health, Kristen has made it her priority to teach her kids the importance of staying grounded. Speaking about the new highly contagious strain of the coronavirus, the Delta variant, the Lifeguard alum joked it’s been “a big, big bummer” for her daughter to have the same name.

However, Kristen teased that “maybe it’s a good thing” in order to keep Delta humble. “Her life’s really easy, because she’s privileged and she’s got a little charisma,” she said on her “We Are Supported By … ” podcast in July 2021. “She’s a little ball of magic and she gets away with everything because of that, so she can either give you puppy dog eyes or make you laugh and because of that her life is too easy.”

Despite having the same moniker as the deadly disease, Kristen revealed her daughter doesn’t mind since she’s so young and doesn’t really understand. “She’s impressed every time she sees a Delta Airlines ad or anything,” the mom continued. “She’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, my name!’ So every time she hears anyone talk about the variant, she’s like, ‘My name!’ She’s still excited about it.”