Being a first-time mum has it’s challenges but Carly insists she’s counting her blessings. “He’s a great baby! He eats and sleeps like a champion and I had a really trouble-free pregnancy, so I’m just grateful everything turned out so well,” she said.
Asked about how the couple decided on the name Bruce, Carly says: “It was always his nickname before he was born, so it stuck. We just liked Montgomery.”
“He probably won’t get picked on at school, because it’s a strong, manly name”.
The happy couple met each other in 2010 when Leighton came knocking on Carly’s door looking for a room to rent.
“It was love at first sight on the doorstep,” she smiles. “Six weeks later, that spare room was up for grabs again because he’d moved in with me! We got together very quickly, but we are best friends and soulmates.”
The former reality TV star believes winning House Rules has “fast-tracked” their life as they paid off their mortgage and purchased to buy a $1.01 million “fixer-upper” property in Sydney.
“But it also fast-tracked our relationship,” says Carly. “It made us so much stronger as a couple,” she says of her time on the show.
Leighton Brow and Carly Schulz won the first series of House Rules in 2013.