​”Sorry, it’s a lot of them,” Hegseth said as he fumbled on Rex’s name. But he did not actually forget the name. He just got stuck which he admitted and overcame. ​Out of the seven children, four are Hegseth’s biological and three are his stepchildren. He shares one daughter with his current wife Jennifer and shares three other kids with his second wife Samantha Deering. Hegseth is a stepdad to Jennifer’s three children.