Cody Johnson and his wife Brandi are officially parents of three! Over the weekend, the country star appeared on Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton, where he dropped the major news that they welcomed their first son, Jaycee Daniel Johnson, on October 21.
The couple has yet to formally share the news with fans via social media. Jaycee joins his older sisters Clara, 10, and Cori, 8.
Fans first learned that the lovebirds were expecting their third child back in May when they stepped onto the red carpet for the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards. While posing for photos in their elegant attire, it was clear that Brandi was showing off her growing baby bump.
At the time, Johnson told Cody Alan on SiriusXM’s The Highway that unveiling the surprise on the red carpet was all his idea.
“Jessie, my publicist, best publicist in the world. She’s like, ‘We need to figure out a way to release this.’ And I was like, ‘I think when she shows up at the ACMs and she looks like she’s smuggling a volleyball in her dress, it’s gonna be pretty obvious’… what better way to do it,” he explained.
That same night, the Texas native also revealed that they were expecting their first baby boy.
Before sharing their exciting news publicly, Brandi wanted to find the perfect way to tell her husband first. Johnson shared that she came up with a sweet and creative idea that was simple but memorable.
“So Brandi did this weird thing where she was like, she texted me, she ran to town and she’s like, ‘Hey, can you come out to the barn and help me unload my truck?’ And I was like, ‘Okay.’ Like, you know, I go out there and it’s this like little bitty box and I’m like, ‘You 100% could have done this yourself.’ And so I unload the box and she’s like, ‘Oh, and I do have one more thing in there if you can get that.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay.’ It’s this little bitty box,” Johnson recalled. “I unload it and I’m trying to figure out what’s going on. And she’s like, ‘Oh, by the way, here you can have this too.’ And it was a pregnancy test.”
After the initial shock settled in, Cody Johnson says his first thought was when they were going to let their girls in on the exciting news. Once they did, they immediately joined in on the anticipation of the upcoming arrival.
“I’m like, ‘Are we gonna tell the girls? Like, when do we tell them? Are we waiting?’ You know. And Clara, my oldest, we call her the cry police because if you ever like tear up over a movie or something, she’ll look you up and down. She’s like, ‘Are you crying?’…yeah, I was crying…And she burst into tears, happy though, ‘Oh my God, I’m gonna be a big sister.’ And then Cori does it too, so that’s awesome.”
He continued, “They’re all, they keep calling it our baby. ‘Well when our baby gets here, when our baby we are.’ And I’m like, ‘This is not a we, y’all are still kids.’ But then it hit me. I’ve built in babysitters. Clara’s 10, Cori’s 8. So like, this boy is screwed.”
This is a big moment in the singer/songwriter’s life because while he loves his role as a girl dad, he admits he has always wanted a little boy to introduce to the cowboy lifestyle as soon as possible.
Cody Johnson and his wife’s love story began back when they were teenagers. She was the one to notice him first back when he was still riding bulls. It took a few years before he noticed her back, but once they had their first meeting, their relationship timeline moved pretty quickly. They moved in together just a month after their first date and got engaged a year later. They’ve been married since 2008.
The “I’m Gonna Love You” singer was recently forced to cancel all remaining shows through the end of the year in order to heal from a surgery to repair a ruptured ear drum.
He is expected to return to the road sometime in 2026.
