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Garrett Yrigoyen going to be a father! The Bachelorette alum wife, Alex Yrigoyenpregnant with their first baby, Us Weekly can only disclose.
Alex just said Us that she find out about the pregnancy while Garrett, 35, was at work. “I was home for a few days just keeping the secret to myself,” he recalled. “I didn’t know if it was real. I was, like, cautiously optimistic.”
Once Garrett, who is a firefighter, returned home from his shift, Alex surprised him with “lit candles” to set the tone and tell him her good news.
“I wrote a little card and just shared the news with him, and then we were both really excited,” Alex says, noting that they “kept it to ourselves for a while.”
Several Bachelor Nation stars have welcomed little ones into the world this year or announced they have babies on the way. In August, Bachelor season 24 alum Madison Prewett and her husband, Grant Michael Troutt, revealed they were expecting their first baby. “We’re pregnant!!!!!!!!” the couple captioned the maternity photo shoot via Instagram. “Baby Trout we are (…)
Garrett, who the fans met during his time on it The Bachelorette in 2018, remembers being “super stoked” when he heard he was going to be a father.
“I immediately got very dizzy. I was pumped up,” he gushed. “She ran over, and she’s like, ‘Oh, my God, can you believe it?’ I was like, ‘No way,’ because I thought, like, that’s happening so fast.” (The couple revealed that Alex found out she was expecting in the summer of 2024 and was 16 weeks when he spoke to Us mid December.)
They both decided not to tell their families until they saw them in person over the holiday season. Garrett’s parents were first, receiving Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving which revealed their granddaughter was due in June 2025. Alex’s family received the happy news over Christmas as the couple reunited with them in San Diego for a week.
While Garrett and Alex have had time to process her pregnancy, they do not plan to find out the gender of the baby. “We feel that you can only have a few surprises in life. So we’re going to wait until the end,” Garrett said Us.
The mother-to-be agreed, saying, “We want to share that moment (between) just the two of us. So we’re going to wait until the day it comes, one way or another, boy or girl.”
Courtesy of Garrett Yrigoyen/Instagram Bachelorette alum Garrett Yrigoyen and Alex Farrar are officially married — and basking in newlywed bliss. Yrigoyen, 34, and Farrar are currently celebrating their honeymoon in Kauai, Hawaii, a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. The insider notes that Farrar is “having a great time” hanging out at the pool, (…)
Garrett noted that he has no preference for sex as long as he can teach his child to fish. “I’m just hoping to get a little fishing buddy, boy or girl,” he revealed. “Someone to go out and take risks with us, traveling around the world together. I need someone out there fishing with me.”
Garrett rose to fame when he won Bachelorette Becca Kufrin‘ final rose during season 14 of the ABC dating series in 2018. The pair get engaged during the season finale, but she announce their split in September 2020.
Kufrin, 34, found love with Thomas Jacobs after meeting on season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise. The couple got married in October 2023 after welcoming their son, Bensona month previously.
Garrett, meanwhile, she moved on with Alex in autumn 2020. The pair went public with their romance in October and got engaged two years later.
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The pair said “I do” in November 2023 on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. “Forever until the end of time… what a magic moment and the most perfect day,” Garrett wrote via Instagram at the time. “I couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful bride and now wife.”
A year later, as the couple prepare to become parents, they couldn’t be happier. “I can’t wait to see her as a mom, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun together,” Garrett said. Us of his spouse. “She’s going to pass on all her smarts and her athleticism and everything like that, just hanging around.”
Alex added that she knew Garrett was “going to be amazing” as a father, especially since he had been “talking about it for so long.” She gushed, “Seeing him light up every time we talk about things definitely gives me so much faith that he’s going to be an amazing dad.”
With reports from Amanda Williams
