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Garrett Yrigoyen he’s going to be a dad! The Bachelorette party alum’s wife Alex Yrigoyenis pregnant with her first child, My Weekly can exclusively reveal.
Alex exclusively said Our that she found out about the pregnancy while Garrett, 35, was at work. “I was at home for a few days and kept the secret,” she recalled. “I didn’t know if it was real. I was like a cautious optimist.”
When Garrett, who is a firefighter, came home from his shift, Alex surprised him with “lit candles” to get him in the mood and tell him her good news.
“I wrote a little card and shared the news with him, and then we were both really excited,” Alex said, noting that they “kept it to themselves for a while.”
Garrett, who fans met during his tenure Bachelor he recalled in 2018 that he was “super excited” when he found out he was going to be a father.
“I immediately got really dizzy. I was pumped,” he gushed. “She ran over and said, ‘Oh, my God, can you believe it?’ I was like, ‘No way’ because I thought it happened so fast. (The couple revealed that Alex found out she was expecting in the summer of 2024 and was 16 weeks along when she spoke to Our in mid-December.)
The two decided to hold off telling their families until they saw them in person during the holidays. Garret’s parents were the first to receive Christmas decorations on Thanksgiving, revealing that their grandchild was due in June 2025. Alex’s family received the happy news at Christmas when the couple joined them in San Diego for a week.
While Garrett and Alex have had time to process her pregnancy, they have no plans to find out the gender of the baby. “We feel that you can only experience small surprises in life. So we’re going to wait until the end,” Garrett said Our.
The mom-to-be agreed, saying: “We want to share the moment (between) just the two of us. So we’ll wait until the day he or she comes, one way or the other, boy or girl.”
Garrett noted that he had no preference for sex as long as he could teach his child to fish. “I’m just hoping to have a little fishing buddy, boy or girl,” he revealed. “Someone who would go on adventures with us and travel the world together. I need someone to fish with me.”
Garrett rose to fame when he won The Bachelorette Becca KufrinThe Last Rose during season 14 of the ABC dating series in 2018. The couple got engaged during the season finale, but she announced their separation in September 2020.
Kufrin, 34, found love Thomas Jacobs after meeting in season 7 Bachelor in Paradise. He got a couple married in October 2023 after welcoming their son, Bensona month ago.
Garrett meanwhile, continued with Alex in Fall 2020. The couple went public with their romance in October and got engaged two years later.
The couple said “I do” in November 2023 on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. “Forever until the end of time… what a magical moment and the most perfect day,” Garrett wrote on Instagram at the time. “I could not have asked for a more beautiful bride and now wife.
A 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 it’s going to be a lot of fun together,” Garrett said. Our his husband. “He’s going to give away all his smarts and his athleticism and everything like that, it’s just going to be an adventure.”
Alex added that she knows Garrett “is going to be amazing” as a dad, especially since he’s “talked 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 father.”
With reporting by Amanda Williams