'Glee' Alum Ali Stroker and Husband David Perlow Welcome First Baby Together: 'We Are So Lucky'

Mar. 15, 2025

Photo: Ali Stroker/Instagram

Ali Strokeris officially a mom!

“World meet Jesse Kenneth Perlow! Born 11/8 healthy and so happy to be here!” she captioned a carousel of photos where she and Perlow pose with the newborn.

“Life will never be the same. We are so lucky that you are our boy! 💙💙💙💙,” she concluded the caption.

The Tony Award winner announced in July that she and Perlow wereexpectingtogether with a sweet post onInstagramalso celebrating the couple’s wedding anniversary.

Stroker shared a sonogram and a photo of the happy parents-to-be in her exciting post.

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Stroker and Perlow tied the knot in July 2021, after first meeting in college and then reconnecting during the 2015 Deaf West Theatre revival ofSpring Awakening.

Stroker, who rose to national attention onThe Glee Projectand subsequently appeared onGleeravedto PEOPLEin 2019 that Perlow is “just gorgeous.”

“As a lit­tle girl I think I was al­ways afraid of not find­ing some­one who would choose this,” she said of using a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury she sustained in a car accident at age 2.

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Perlow was there to support her that year when she became thefirst actor in a wheelchair to win a Tony Award, taking home Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Ado Annie in the St. Anne’s Warehouse revival ofOklahoma!

“To ar­rive at this place in my ca­reer and to have this re­la­tion­ship — it just means so much to me,” Stroker added.

source: people.com