Clare Crawley and her husband, Ryan Dawkins, welcomed their first baby by way of surrogate on Monday, January 15.
“She’s here!” Crawley, 42, introduced by way of her Instagram Story, sharing a photograph hugging Dawkins in a hospital room. “Healthy + Beyond Loved. Dream come true.”
The previous Bachelorette and Dawkins introduced in July 2023 that their household was increasing.
“Our laundry is about to get a whole lot cuter in 2024,” Crawley wrote by way of Instagram. “This TRULY is what my dreams are made of! I can’t tell you how hard it has been to hold this secret in!”
She added: “That is one journey that Ryan and I’ve been preserving near our hearts as we navigated the unsure world of IVF and all that comes with it up till this level. I can’t wait to share all of it with you quickly what it’s been like for us, and till then, we’re so extremely grateful to [Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh] for making miracles occur!“
Crawley met Dawkins — who shares two daughters, 12 and 10 respectively, from a earlier relationship — in late 2021.
“I wasn’t ready to date again,” Crawley completely instructed Us Weekly in October 2022 of assembly her now-spouse shortly after ending her engagement with Dale Moss. “The second that I was single he was like, ‘Let me take you out.’ And he knew that I was in such a low point and I told him I wasn’t even ready to go out to dinner. I needed to take the space to have time to myself to heal. I didn’t want him to be a rebound.”
After practically one 12 months collectively, Dawkins proposed in October 2022 on the RISE Competition in Las Vegas.
“Everything in my world has changed since I met her, she’s the love of my life and I wish the world knew the Clare that I know,” he instructed Us on the time. “She is one of the strongest women I know and is truly a light. I love our life and [am] beyond excited about our future.”
The twosome wed in February 2023 in entrance of Dawkins’ eldest daughters. “Ryan, by nature, is an event planner, so he planned the whole wedding,” Crawley recalled throughout an look on the “Most Dramatic Podcast Ever” in Could 2023. “But he took the reins, he planned everything. We had a little ceremony. We had the best vows to each other, super personal. It was in the spot [where] we had our first kiss. It was just the greatest little spot.”
Crawley — who rose to fame as a finalist on Juan Pablo Galavis’ season 18 of The Bachelor in 2014 — was beforehand engaged to Benoit Beauséjour-Savard after assembly throughout Bachelor Winter Video games in 2018. After calling off their whirlwind engagement, she led season 16 of The Bachelorette and met Moss. Crawley and the previous soccer participant acquired engaged after simply 12 days and left the present early. The now-exes have been collectively on and off earlier than they cut up for good in September 2021.