Nancy Grace delighted fans this week with a rare family photo — and one surprising detail quickly went viral.On November 2, 2025, the veteran journalist shared an Instagram picture from her family’s annual trip to Burt’s Pumpkin Patch with her 18-year-old twins, John David and Lucy Elizabeth. Surrounded by fall colors, Grace beamed beside her children — though it was her son’s towering height that stole the show. “Yearly trek for pumpkins and boiled peanuts!” she captioned the post. Within minutes, fans flooded the comments: “He’s twice your height!” one joked.
Others marveled that the twins were already adults: “It feels like yesterday you were talking about them as babies on air!” Days earlier, Grace had marked their milestone birthday with a touching Facebook tribute, posting a baby photo and calling them her “miracle babies.” The description was no exaggeration. Born prematurely in 2007 when Grace was 48, the twins arrived after a difficult pregnancy that nearly took her life.
Just a week after their birth, Grace suffered a pulmonary embolism and spent months recovering in a wheelchair — an ordeal she largely kept private while continuing to work. “Before I had the babies, I never really let myself love 100%,” she later said. “Lucy and John David changed all that.”
Eighteen years later, the viral photo reminded fans how far they’ve come — from fragile newborns to young adults towering over their mother. As one commenter put it perfectly: “They didn’t just grow tall — they grew into your biggest blessing.”