Garrett Yrigoyen He's going to be a father! the Bachelorette young man's wife, Alex YrigoyenPregnant with her first child, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.
Alex said exclusively we that it I found out about pregnancy While Garrett, 35, was at work. “I was home for a few days just holding the secret to myself,” she recalls. “I didn't know if it was real. I was cautiously optimistic.”
Once Garrett, a firefighter, got home from his shift, Alex surprised him with “lit candles” to set the mood and tell him her good news.
“I wrote a little card and just shared the news with him, and then we were so excited,” Alex said, noting that they “kept it to ourselves for a while.”
Garrett, whom fans met during his time Bachelorette In 2018, he remembers being “very emotional” when he learned he was going to be a father.
“Immediately I felt so dizzy. I was pumped. She ran over the car and said, 'Oh my God, can you believe that?' I said, 'No way,' because I was thinking, 'This happened so fast.' (The couple revealed that Alex found out she was pregnant during the summer of 2024 and was 16 weeks along when she spoke to… we In mid-December).
The couple decided to hold off on telling their families until they could see them in person during the holiday season. Garrett's parents were the first to receive Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving that revealed their grandchild would be born in June 2025. Alex's family received the happy news over Christmas as the couple gathered with them in San Diego for a week.
While Garrett and Alex have had time to process her pregnancy, they don't plan to find out the baby's gender. “We feel like there are only so few surprises you can have in life. So we'll wait until the end,” Garrett said. we.
The mother agreed, saying, “We want to share that moment[just between]the two of us. So we will wait until the day he or she comes, either way, boy or girl.”
Garrett indicated that he does not prefer sex as long as he can teach his child to hunt. “I just hope I have a little fishing buddy, boy or girl,” he revealed. “Someone to go out on an adventure with us, travel the world together. I need someone to hunt with me.”
Garrett gained fame when he won the Bachelorette Becca KufrinThe latter rose during Season 14 of the ABC dating series in 2018. The couple got engaged during the season finale, but she They announced their split In September 2020.
Kufrin, 34, has found love with… Thomas Jacobs After the meeting in the seventh season of Bachelor in Paradise. The couple got She got married in October 2023 After welcoming their son Bensonone month ago.
Garrett, meanwhile I moved in with Alex in the fall of 2020. The couple went public with their romance in October of that year, and got engaged two years later.
The pair said “I do” in November 2023 On the island of Oahu In Hawaii. “Forever until the end of time,” Garrett wrote on Instagram at the time. “What a magical moment and the most perfect day.” “I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful bride and wife now.”
One year later, as the couple prepares to become parents, they couldn't be happier. “I can't wait to see her as a mom, and I think we'll have a lot of fun together,” Garrett said. we From his wife. “She's going to bring all her intelligence and athleticism and everything like that, just taking chances.”
Alex added that she knows Garrett “would be great” as a father, especially since he's been “talking about it for so long.” “Seeing him light up every time we talk about things definitely gives me a lot of faith that he's going to be an amazing dad,” she gushed.
With reporting by Amanda Williams