The Bachelor alum Lauren Bushnell has welcomed her second child with husband Chris Lane.
|
ADVERTISEMENT
|
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW: WHO IS STILL TOGETHER?? (PHOTOS)
Lauren shared the news with her Instagram followers on Tuesday when she posted a video of her 16-month-old son, Dutton Walker Lane, meeting his baby brother for the first time.
In the sweet video, Chris walked into Lauren's hospital room carrying Dutton.
Lauren had the newborn in her arms while Dutton got to sit in the bed next to his mother. Dutton could be heard giggling when he got his first look at the new addition to their family.
Lauren and Chris announced they had Baby No. 2 on the way in June, with Lauren writing on Instagram, "Party of 4, coming October 2022. I cannot wait to see you as a big brother, Dutty!"
Dutton was wearing a "brother" shirt for the photo shoot.
Chris shared the same family photo on his own Instagram account and captioned it, "I guess it's no secret to what's been goin' on in the Lane household. Dutty is gonna be a brother!"
And the couple revealed the baby's sex in September.
"We can't wait to meet you baby BOY," Lauren captioned an Instagram slideshow of photos from her maternity photo shoot with Chris and Dutton.
In the pictures, Lauren was wearing a baby blue sundress with a matching pearl headband, and her 37-year-old country singing husband was sporting a white T-shirt with khakis. Dutton's outfit also matched what his father had on.
For Chris' part, he posted a video of himself swinging a baseball bat that revealed blue smoke.
FOLLOW REALITY TV WORLD ON THE ALL-NEW GOOGLE NEWS!
Reality TV World is now available on the all-new Google News app and website. Click here to visit our Google News page, and then click FOLLOW to add us as a news source!
"Dutty's gonna have a little brother," Chris captioned the Instagram video last month.
When asked if the second pregnancy was a surprise, Lauren shared earlier this summer, "Very much so."
"I went out on the road baby less ONE time and that's when it happened," Lauren shared. "We were planning on waiting a little longer but excited about what God has in store for our family."
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOW: WHOM DID 'THE BACHELORETTE' STARS AND THEIR BACHELOR PICKS ULTIMATELY END UP WITH?! (PHOTOS)
Chris said back in January that he and Lauren were "not trying" for a second baby and he was actually working on getting his "dad bod" back into shape.
"Every time I'm eating something I shouldn't, Lauren's like, 'Oh, let's make better choices,'" he explained earlier this year. "But having a [toddler], I've definitely not been able to stay in the kind of shape that I have been in for quite some time, but I'm getting back."
Lauren, however, said in March she had "developed a pretty thick skin" in regards to people shaming her post-baby body.
"It doesn't really bother me a whole lot, but it definitely stings more when [comments are made about] my child," Lauren explained. "I've noticed that anyone can say anything about me, and it doesn't really bother me too much."
ADVERTISEMENT
"The day [Dutton] was born, and I haven't told anybody this, but I cried my eyes out, because I felt like I was praying, just, 'Lord, thank you so much for not listening to me for all those years that I said I never wanted that,'" Chris said in February.
"I wouldn't have known what I was missing out on and it's truly the best thing in the world."
Lauren competed on The Bachelor's 20th season starring Ben Higgins, which aired in 2016.
Lauren accepted a marriage proposal from Ben during the show's finale but they split and called off their engagement over a year later in May 2017.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' COUPLES NOW: WHO DID 'THE BACHELOR' STARS AND THEIR BACHELORETTE PICKS ACTUALLY END UP MARRYING? (PHOTOS)
Lauren previously said how she felt a lot of stress after The Bachelor ended in 2016.
Not only did she choose to move away from her family in Los Angeles, CA, to join Ben in Denver, CO, but she was also dealing with headlines about Ben's love for runner-up JoJo Fletcher and the pair quickly jumped into filming a The Bachelor spinoff, Ben & Lauren: Happily Ever After?, which aired on ABC's Freeform sister network.
Lauren acknowledged to Us Weekly that being engaged when her fiance had just been in love with another woman was "a really hard place" to start off a relationship in the real world. She eventually hit rock bottom during her relationship with Ben.
After a year-long romance with real estate investor Devin Antin ended in Summer 2018, Lauren and Chris sparked dating rumors in November of that year when The Bachelor alum accompanied the country crooner to the 66th Annual BMI Country Music Awards in Nashville.
Not only did Chris and Lauren arrive at the event together, but they also looked like a couple.
Lauren got engaged to Chris in June 2019 and then they got married just four months later in Nashville, TN.
Following their October 2019 wedding, Lauren and Chris welcomed Dutton in June 2021.
ADVERTISEMENT
Ben and Jess went Instagram official in January 2019, got engaged in March 2020, and then got married in November 2021. They have a dog together and plan to expand their family, but not in the immediate future.
Lauren and Chris still watch The Bachelor franchise together while Ben has admitted it's not healthy and causing problems for his marriage to bring up those memories.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW: WHO IS STILL TOGETHER?? (PHOTOS)
Interested in more The Bachelor news? Join our The Bachelor Facebook Group!
About The Author: Elizabeth Kwiatkowski
