Earlier this year, Sia quietly embarked on a new chapter as a mother of three. According to divorce documents procured by PEOPLE, the 49-year-old musician welcomed her third child, her first with her estranged husband Dan Bernad, eleven months prior. On March 27, 2024, Sia gave birth to Somersault Wonder Bernad, amid the process of filing for divorce from Bernad.
In her divorce filings, Sia is seeking both legal and physical custody of Somersault, while remaining open to granting Bernad visitation rights. The specifics of physical custody arrangements will be mutually decided by the parents, as stated in the documents. Representatives for Sia did not promptly respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
On Tuesday, March 18, after two years of marriage, Sia cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for her divorce filing from Bernad. She has also requested that the court deny her ex-spousal support. Known for keeping her personal life private, Sia tied the knot with Bernad in an intimate Italian ceremony attended by only six guests, including the bride and groom, in May 2023.
Prior to her marriage to Bernad, Sia became a mother to two teenage boys in 2019. Both boys were 18 years old at the time and on the brink of aging out of the foster care system. In a 2020 interview with InStyle, Sia opened up about her lifelong desire to become a mother and her struggles with infertility, including undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments with her ex-husband, filmmaker Erik Anders Lang. "Eventually, we did get embryos, but then we also got a divorce, so I wasn't able to use them," she shared.
Sia's journey to motherhood began after watching the 2016 HBO documentary Foster, which shed light on the foster care system. Two years later, she found the boy she had previously seen in the documentary and decided to adopt him. Though her initial plan was to adopt him alone, he asked if his "cousin Che" from his group home could also join them. "I had two spare bedrooms, so I said, 'Sure!'" she recalled. "And even though I'd never met Che before, he also moved in with me that evening." After adopting her sons, she discovered that they were not related but had become close friends while in foster care. "I just felt so blessed to have them both with me," she said. "And I've realized over the past year that Che was meant to be my son, too."
She revisited this topic during an interview with the Australian television program The Project in January 2021. "Most of their lives they've been conditioned to lie and manipulate, so the past year has been all about teaching them how to become rigorously honest and live in the moment without using any substances," Sia said. Admitting that there had been "a lot of heartache," she expressed her trust and pride in both her boys. "And I'm proud because they've come a very long way."
