‘The Bachelor’ alum Ben Higgins and spouse Jessica Clarke anticipating first kid

Ben, 35, and Jessica took to Instagram with a candy video on Sunday, August 18 pronouncing that Jessica is pregnant.

“The next chapter of our love story! Baby girl coming in February,” Ben and Jessica captioned a joint Instagram put up.

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The video, i’m ready to “On My Way to You” through Cody Johnson, captured main highlights from Ben and Jessica’s dating through the years — together with the couple’s engagement, marriage ceremony, and the welcoming of a pet into their lives.

Photos upcoming flashed to Jessica giving herself a shot within the abdomen, apparently revealing that she and Ben had long gone during the IVF procedure to conceive their child.

The video concluded with Jessica and the Season 20 The Bachelor celebrity revealing the excellent news to their crowd in addition to a temporary glimpse of considered one of Jessica’s ultrasounds.

Congratulatory feedback poured in from Bachelor Crowd.

“I’m going to be the best uncle,” Wells Adams wrote.

“You guys are going to be amazing parents. Dad mode activated,” Adam Gottschalk gushed.

“Yay!!! I’m so so happy for you two!!!” JoJo Fletcher exclaimed.

And Becca Tilley commented, “So beyond happy! That baby girl hit the jackpot with y’all as parents.”

Ben then took to Instagram Tales, admitting that he’s “kind of speechless for the first time” in his moment.

On Monday, August 19, Ben shared on “The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast” that he’s been beaten with feelings in recent times now that he has a child woman at the approach.

“If I’m honest with you, my emotions are all over the place. They are all built and founded with excitement and anticipation,” Ben stated.

“But I’m super nervous to be a girl dad. If you talk to Jess, she would tell you that she cannot wait to see me as a girl dad, and I would tell you that this is one of my biggest fears because I’m a softie and I cry a lot.”

Ben quipped that having a daughter will most certainly construct him yell much more .

Ben teased how he and Jessica will proportion information about the being pregnant and child names they’ve mentioned at the “Almost Famous” podcast upcoming occasion.

“I’ll share how [Jessica] has been feeling. I will say this: she’s a trooper and I’ve been so impressed. Ican already see the mama bear coming out,” Ben gushed.

“She already loves that baby so much, which is really awesome. So we’re so excited to share this time with you.”

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Ben and Jessica met on social media and went Instagram official in January 2019. They got engaged in March 2020.

Ben and Jess purchased their first home in combination in Denver, CO, in December 2020, and the couple got married in a romantic Tennessee marriage ceremony in November 2021. (Ben and Jess to start with deliberate to wed in 2020, however they pushed back their nuptials to please see time because of the coronavirus pandemic).

Ben up to now open in June 2020 that he’d like to start out a crowd inside a time or two and probably adopt no less than one kid with Jessica.

“[Jess] comes from a family of three siblings in total, and I am an only child. I would love to have two kids,” Ben instructedUs Weekly on the past.

“And when I say ‘two kids,’ I don’t know what that looks like. Jess and I are very interested in adopting. I definitely am excited about the idea of adopting… It would be such a gift to our family I think to do that.”

Ben persisted, “So if that means that we have two adopted kids, if that means we have three adopted kids, if that means we have kids that are biologically ours, I don’t know yet. But we definitely want a family.”

Ben admitted, alternatively, he does now not need “a massive family.”

“I am a pretty big introvert and I really do enjoy my time alone. In a huge family of chaos, it kind of makes me anxious. But I do want our kids to have siblings, if possible, to grow up in this world with,” Ben shared.

So far as adopting youngsters is going, Ben stated he likes to enjoy and proclaim other cultures and so elevating kids from other backgrounds could be a blessing.

“How cool would it be if we have a family of all different cultures coming together to celebrate each other?” Ben prompt. “That is heaven to me. That sounds awesome.”

Ben had decided on former gliding caregiver Lauren Bushnell as his The Bachelor winner and the pair were given occupied at the display’s Season 20 finale that aired in March 2016.

Then The Bachelor wrapped, the pair starred on Ben & Lauren: Thankfully Ever Then? , however they introduced their break in Might 2017, about six months later the derivative’s finale aired on Freeform.

“I believe doing that show was a mistake for our dating. It was once now not a mistake professionally, essentially, nevertheless it was once a mistake for our romantic dating,” Ben instructed The Bachelorette alum Jason Tartick at the September 4 episode of his “Trading Secrets” podcast.

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Ben elaborated how his priorities have been “misaligned at the time,” including, “I was young and naive. I thought we could get through [it] . So when we broke up,Happily Ever After? stopped… I don’t know why I said ‘yes’ to it.”

Ben recalled being extra like “working partners” than enthusiasts with Lauren time filming Thankfully Ever Then? . He additionally stated their conversation opposed for months and so they have been in “survival mode.”

Ben insisted that time Thankfully Ever Then? portrayed him as coming ailing with a case of chilly toes earlier than his marriage ceremony, he was once in reality simply having doubts about whether or not he and Lauren have been actually intended to be.

Ben stated his break from Lauren was once in the end a mutual resolution. Lauren went on to marry nation singer Chris Lane in October 2019. Lauren and Chris now proportion two sons, Dutton and Baker.

“Personally, I hear her now say that maybe love feels differently for her than it did back on her time on the show. And I go, ‘I’m glad! Like, you’re married with kids. I’m married [too] and, like, yes, love does feel different,'” Ben showed.

“I’m glad you’re in love with your husband more than you liked me — or if you liked me at all, like, I’m just glad you like him! That’s cool!”

However Ben confessed Lauren “should’ve gone home” and abandon The Bachelor if she wasn’t positive about him or enthusiastic about their dating and year in combination.

“That show was really real for me… I invested, personally, a lot of effort into trying to figure out if it was the path that was going to help me find my partner or not,” famous Ben, who additionally had a temporary stint onThe Bachelor Iciness Video games in 2018.

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