Josh Duhamel gave fans a rare look at his 12-year-old son Axl Duhamel during a family outing at Universal Studios Hollywood on Aug. 26, and the photo made one thing hard to miss: Axl is now nearly the same height as his father.
The image showed Duhamel smiling by the Universal globe with Axl, Audra Mari and Shepard, while he held Shepard in his arms. It was the kind of family snapshot that lands because it captures a visible milestone, not just a posed moment, and it arrived as readers are looking for fresh news about Josh Duhamel son Axl birthday and how quickly he is growing up.
Axl is one of the few parts of Duhamel’s life that usually stays out of public view, which is why this post drew attention so quickly. He shares Axl with Fergie, and the pair split in 2017 before finalizing their divorce two years later. Even so, Duhamel has described their arrangement as unusually steady, saying on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show in September 2023 that Fergie is an amazing woman, that she has taken Audra Mari in, and that they have a really civil situation.
That civility is part of what makes the photo stand out. Family pictures like this do not appear often, and the public record around Axl has mostly come in brief glimpses from Fergie, who wrote last August that she was proud to see how independent he is becoming and how kind he is. Earlier photos have shown the family at a Pandora Summer Crush event in Los Angeles in 2016, at a Los Angeles Dodgers game against the Boston Red Sox that same year, and in a 2017 outing at a SiriusXM Studios event in New York.
What Duhamel shared on Aug. 26 does not point to a bigger announcement. It does, however, confirm that Axl is now in that in-between stage where childhood is still visible but nearly gone from the frame, and the next time the family appears in public, that height gap may be gone altogether.
