The Bachelor stars Matty J and Laura Byrne have announced they are expecting their third child!
Sharing the exciting news on their respective podcasts, Life Uncut and Two Doting Dads, the couple revealed that they will soon be welcoming another addition to their growing family.
“I’m 18 weeks pregnant, everyone. Even Matt was shocked because he thought it was 13 weeks. I’ve been keeping a little secret for quite some time,” Laura told listeners on April 30.
As she enters her second trimester, Laura also revealed the unusual circumstances in which she revealed the news to her husband.
“You all know Matt went into the jungle and he was doing I’m a Celebrity… The whole time he was in the jungle, I wasn’t able to tell him, and then it was really tricky because I didn’t want to tell him when it was the finale.”
Reflecting on their decision to welcome another addition to their young family, Matty shared, “The plan was, we said this year, 2025, if we were going to have a third, this will be the year that it happens.”
As they prepare for baby number three, Matty continued, “It is a real emotional rollercoaster, and it’s hard as well, because when you’re in that first 12 weeks, we’ve been conditioned not to tell people… You just got to be a passenger on the journey and hope and pray that you know it’s going to turn out alright.”
During Brittany and Laura’s radio show The Pickup, the couple also did a gender reveal. Cutting into cake to find out they were expecting their third daughter.
As the couple continue to count down the days until their newborn’s October due date, we take a closer look at Matty J and Laure Byrne’s family life.
How many children do Matty J and Laura Byrne have?
Matty J and Laura Byrne are the proud parents of two daughters, Marlie-Mae and Lola Ellis, and are currently expecting their third child.
Announcing the arrival of their first child on June 6, 2019, Matty wrote to Instagram, “Still letting the last 24hrs sink in… they’ve been the most rewarding, loving and emotional I’ve ever experienced. Becoming a Dad was better than I ever could have imagined.”
Described by her parents as a “sassy, funny, sensitive, wonderfully quirky kid,” Marlie-Mae is known for her energetic spirit. Since welcoming their eldest daughter, Laura has frequently shared humorous anecdotes about Marlie’s adventures, including her reactions to birthday celebrations.
For instance, during her third birthday party, Marlie initially resisted going to her own party, but eventually warmed up when it came time for the piñata
Lola Ellis Johnson, born on February 4, 2021, is the couple’s second daughter and has already shown her own unique charm.
Laura humorously announced Lola’s arrival by joking about her previous predictions regarding the baby’s gender.
” I said I would eat my own poop if you were a girl, and yet HERE YOU ARE! Already teaching me the worldly life lessons that come with being a mama,” Laura wrote on Instagram in Lola’s birth announcement.
“Lola Ellis Johnson, you had us all fooled!” Matt wrote in his own announcement. “Nana, the neighbour and even the postman thought you were going to be a boy. Playing pranks on us all already… I love it!”
“I also love that I’m now well and truly outnumbered by 3 beautiful and rambunctious girls at home. Welcome to the family. ❤️”
In 2023, the parents spoke with Mia Freedman on the No Filter podcast, sharing insight into how they share the responsibilities of caring for their two children.
“Matt is the primary carer,” Laura shared. “As soon as Dancing with the Stars finished, that’s when he really picked up all the pieces at home. He does the daycare drop-offs, he does the pickups, he does the dinners. He does all of that because my career has continued to grow.”
“There’s definitely been periods where [parenting] it’s fallen on me, and there’s definitely been periods where it’s fallen on Matt. At the moment, in our parenting arrangement, it falls on Matt,” she continued, adding, “I wish there were more dads like Matt in the world because if there were, it would be a better place. And I’m proud – I’m so proud of that.”
Throughout their journey to become parents, the couple also spoke candidly about their pregnancies, sharing that Laura had sadly suffered two miscarriages.
“Pregnancy after miscarriage is weird and crazy and wonderful. It brings with it all the joy, but also a niggling anxiety that something might go wrong and the painful reality that it could,” she wrote for Kidspot after falling pregnant with Marlie-Mae.
Sadly, Laura suffered a second miscarriage in between the birth of Marlie-Mae and their second daughter, Lola.
“Just two months ago, Matt and I went through our second miscarriage and that still feels raw and very bizarre to even say out loud,” she said on her podcast, Life Uncut.
“It’s not something I’ve really spoken about, not something that I’ve talked to many people about, but I feel very, very passionately that miscarriage is a conversation that needs to be had in an open forum.”
