Jessica Batten is EXPECTING her first child with husband Benjamin McGrath: 'We're excited!' - Daily Mail

Jessica Batten kicked disconnected her 2023 by announcing to her followers connected Instagram earlier Thursday that she was expecting her archetypal kid with Benjamin McGrath. 

The Love Is Blind alum, 38, shared an adorable drawback of herself cradling her tiny babe bump with her hubby and doctor, 36, lovingly lasting down her. 

The TV personality, who eloped with Benjamin past twelvemonth successful August during an intimate courthouse ceremony, penned successful the caption of her station they determination were some 'excited and humbled' to invited babe fig 1 together. 

The model, who starred successful the archetypal play of Netflix's Love Is Blind, shared a fewer adorable photos on with her babe announcement. 

Jessica was stunning wearing a cocoa brownish velvet formal with 3 cutouts connected the beforehand information for a stylish touch. 

Her blonde locks were parted to the side, and effortlessly flowed down past her shoulders successful elegant waves. A brace of fashionable, dangly rhinestone earrings were added to accessorize her look. 

The talented quality flashed a joyful grin arsenic Benjamin, who donned a classical bluish suit, besides mildly cradled her tiny babe bump successful the snap. 

In the caption, the world prima gushed to her implicit fractional a cardinal fans, 'New Year, Same Me, New Mom!'

'Sending the champion wishes and blessings your mode successful 2023,' Jessica continued. 'We’re excited and humbled to stock we volition invited our babe into the satellite and into our increasing household successful aboriginal June. Ahh!!!' 

Upon saying 'I do' to her now-husband and doctor, the TV property besides became stepmother to Benjamin's 2 children, whom helium shares with an ex. 

In different representation successful the photograph series, her hubby laid a gentle buss connected Jessica's forehead arsenic she tilted her heads up towards him, with the past drawback being a close-up of her bump. 

The remark conception was flooded with good wished and congratulatory messages to the blessed couple, including Benjamin himself who typed, 'Ahhh!! love you! You’re the cutest small [pregnant parent emoji].'

Comedian Whitney Cummings expressed her excitement for the 2 lovebirds and simply wrote, 'Yesssss!' portion chap Love Is Blind star, Giannina Gibelli, penned, 'Omggggg yayyyy congrats!!' 

Shortly aft her engagement to Benjamin which took spot successful September 2021, Jessica opened up to People about becoming a parent to his 2 children. 

'It's been awesome and 3 for the terms of 1 for me. I didn't cognize this would beryllium successful my future, but I couldn't ideate my beingness without them,' adding that, 'They're truthful ace peculiar to me.' 

The histrion and exemplary further explained to the work that the acquisition was 'a batch of sacrifice,' but astatine the extremity of the day, 'so rewarding.' 

Jessica besides hinted astatine the clip that some she and Benjamin had plans to turn their family, revealing, 'We can't hold to start.' 

The prima explained that aft 'a abbreviated engagement,' the 2 lovebirds were, 'definitely going to person kids down the road. Whatever that looks similar for us, immoderate God blesses america with.' 

During an interrogation with Brides past twelvemonth successful September wherever she opened up astir her romanticist elopement successful Santa Barbara, Jessica revealed that she archetypal met Benjamin, '...in Venice the nighttime earlier L.A. unopen down for COVID. It was genuinely emotion astatine archetypal sight, comic enough.' 

The media property besides explained the determination to elope, alternatively than tying the knot during a lavish ceremony. 

'Considering the timing we are looking for successful presumption of household planning, we came to the decision that we would elope successful 2022 and marque large plans for a solemnisation down the road,' she stated. 

Jessica expressed that connected the wedding day, which had a full of 4 guests successful attendance, some she and Benjamin, 'felt precise contiguous and relaxed, genuinely capable to bask each moment.' 

The TV property was antecedently engaged to Mark Cuevas, whom she met connected play 1 of Love Is Blind successful 2020.