
Bekah Martinez and Grayston Leonard. Courtesy of Bekah Martinez/Instagram
Bachelor Nation simply received just a little bit greater as Bekah Martinez and her fiancé, Grayston Leonard have welcomed their third youngster.
“Born on the morning of his daddy’s birthday, September twenty eighth 🕊️,” Martinez, 28, captioned an Instagram video on Monday, October 2, that includes the pair’s daughter, Ruth, 4, and son, Franklin, 3, studying a e-book to their new sibling.
A number of followers and celebrities congratulated the couple within the submit’s feedback part. “Welcome candy one,” wrote Rumer Willis, whereas Lauren Burnham Luyendyk commented, “Awwwww🥹 congrats.”
The Bachelor alum and Leonard, 34 — who started relationship in early 2018 — introduced in April 2023 that they had been increasing their household additional.
“You solely get so many social media being pregnant bulletins… would possibly as properly have just a little enjoyable with it!” Martinez captioned a claymation video of a cartoon model of herself taking a being pregnant take a look at and exhibiting the constructive outcomes to Leonard.
Martinez and the health coach’s reveal got here lower than one yr after they received engaged in July 2022. Their relationship didn’t observe a standard path, as she introduced her first being pregnant just a few months into her romance with Leonard.
“I used to be in disbelief and thought, ‘Is that this actually taking place?’” Martinez informed PureWow in September 2018. “I instantly known as Grayston after which went throughout the road to the Greenback Tree and purchased two extra being pregnant checks. They, in fact, had been each constructive.”
Six months after welcoming their daughter in February 2019, Martinez shared her ideas on having extra kids.
“I’d be wonderful with 5 or 6,” Martinez completely informed Us Weekly in August 2019. “Perhaps simply 5. However for now, we need to hold it simply [Ruth] for a few years. We will journey along with her actually simply, so we need to stick along with her after which go for the remainder.”
By November of that yr, the twosome had been anticipating one other child. One month later, Martinez revealed that her second being pregnant felt like “evening and day” in comparison with her first.
“12 weeks. I can’t imagine how briskly this being pregnant is transferring,” Martinez wrote by way of Instagram alongside a photograph exhibiting her naked child bump. “I felt embarrassed and ashamed [last time] and I imagined everybody round me whispering about how ‘irresponsible’ we had been. Grey[ston] and I had met for the primary time February twenty fifth, 2018, and I grew to become pregnant in Might. Going by such a life altering shift with somebody you barely know is worrying, scary and sometimes full of doubt. All that modified the second Ruth was born. Really. I do know it’s a cliche, however love blossomed so deeply between us the second she took her first breath. That very evening we danced collectively in the lounge whereas she slept.”
Martinez gave beginning to the duo’s second youngster in June 2020.
Earlier than welcoming her and Leonard’s third infant, Martinez shared that she was within the strategy of turning into a foster mum or dad.
“I haven’t up to date y’all however I [was] sworn in for CASA [Court-Appointed Special Advocate] throughout my Oregon journey and I’m within the strategy of getting paired with a foster youth!” she wrote by way of Instagram Tales in August 2022. “Ready on [an] official courtroom appointment order, and within the meantime I’ve to look over the kid’s paperwork and historical past with DCFS [Department of Children and Family Services]. [N]ot a lightweight activity.”



