ABC News’ Selina Wang Welcomes Her First Baby with Husband Evan Ramsey (Exclusive)
ABC News’ Selina Wang Welcomes Her First Baby with Husband Evan Ramsey (Exclusive)
Hannah SacksTue, August 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC
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Selina Wang with her husband Evan and their new baby boy.Credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman -
ABC News’ Selina Wang and her husband Evan Ramsey have welcomed their first baby, a boy
The two chose to name their son Atlas as a way to commemorate their extensive travels
Wang and Ramsey say baby Atlas has brought their families closer and shifted their focus to parenthood and family life
Selina Wang is officially a mom!
The ABC News senior White House correspondent, 32, has welcomed her first baby with husband Evan Ramsey, a rep for Wang confirms to PEOPLE. Atlas Wang Ramsey was born on Monday, July 13, weighing 7 lbs., 7 oz., and measuring 21 inches long. Wang explains the meaning behind her son’s name, telling PEOPLE that the moniker embodies the couple’s long list of adventures across the world.
“Atlas has many meanings, including ‘enduring,’ ” Wang shares. “It’s also a bound collection of maps. On the journey leading up to his birth, Evan and I lived in five countries and eight cities: New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Along the way, we visited 12 countries in all.”
Selina Wang with her husband Evan and their son.Credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman
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“When it came time to choose a name, we exhausted list after list before landing on the one that felt like the embodiment of those adventures across the globe, and a reminder of the endurance he’ll need to thrive,” she continues.
Wang shares that she and Ramsey would often joke that their baby would be “forged from steel.”
“He was my little companion during constant travel while covering the President,” she says. “During my third trimester, I had to duck and cover during two active shooter incidents — one during the White House Correspondents Dinner and then weeks later while I was reporting at the White House North Lawn.”
The new mom began having contractions two days before her expected due date. They weren’t painful, so Wang went to bed thinking she was just in false labor.
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“I woke the next morning at 5:30 a.m. to painful contractions. My husband and I grabbed the go bag, and we were off to the hospital,” Wang explains. “When we arrived, I was already 8 c.m. dilated. After hours and hours of painful labor, Atlas appeared, his bicep flexed in triumph! No joke! When I first held him in my arms, it was hard to believe he was with me the entire time.”
Selina Wang and her husband Evan with their son.Credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman
As Wang and Ramsey have adjusted to their new normal, the couple shares that their little one has already brought their families even closer.
“The unpredictability of the news cycle has been replaced by the unpredictability of breastfeeding and his crying and bowel movements,” Wang says. “But his cuteness overwhelms any exhaustion or frustration.”
“There is magic to how he changes day by day. He already appears so alert and aware of the world — we’re glued to his ever-changing facial expressions. Every new smile, grimace or twitch feels like an exciting new breakthrough,” she adds.
“Just in the first weeks, Atlas has brought our families even closer together. My husband and I have been abroad over the last decade, and it felt like things sped up even more when we returned to the U.S. These are the first moments in a long time I have felt like family has been the focus.”
Selina Wang and her husband Evan with their son.Credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman
Wang says she’s been spoiled with a “conveyor belt of traditional Chinese postpartum food” from her mom, and has been giving her work brain a break for a period. When she looks forward to this next stage of life, Wang says she can’t even comprehend everything that’s to come.
“There is something profound about having a child, as cliché as it sounds. You are watching this small, helpless thing try and make sense of the world around it,” explains Wang. “More than that, you are searching for yourself in them. Did he get that from me? Or from his dad? You are again gripped by the ‘what ifs?’ — I look forward to seeing what kind of person Atlas will grow up to be.”
“Giving birth to Atlas has changed the aperture with which I view the world. I have even more respect for all the parents out there, for the rollercoaster of pain and emotion that comes with motherhood, and for the primal need and desire to care for my baby.”
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