Kristen Doute and her fiancé, Luke Broderick, are formally mother and father after welcoming their first child, Us Weekly can solely verify.
“She’s right here, and we nonetheless can’t imagine it. Luke is even hotter as a dad, and I simply really feel so fortunate,” Doute, 42, tells Us Weekly. “And although I haven’t slept or showered in two days, seeing our daughter and eventually having the ability to maintain her makes all of it price it. We’re fully overwhelmed with love and so grateful for her— our lives are already modified fully.”
Doute and Broderick, 34, named their daughter Kaia Lily. The couple formally welcomed their new child on Wednesday, June 11. The inspiration for Kaia’s identify, which is Hawaiian for “the ocean,” got here from the couple’s affinity for the Aloha State the place they finally received engaged.
“We knew we wished our child identify to have one thing to do, or revolve round, water,” Doute explains of her infant’s moniker. “Lillies are my favourite flower. They’re related to new beginnings, magnificence, and in addition the identify Lily signifies a ‘mild and compassionate nature, suggesting a sort and caring character.’”
Many celebrities expanded their households in 2025. The Duggar household celebrated the beginning of their thirty fourth and thirty fifth grandchildren after Jed Duggar welcomed new child twins with spouse Katey Duggar. “They’re right here!! 💕 Introducing Elsie Kate and Emma Kate,” Katey wrote through Instagram on January 9. “Each women are wholesome and delightful!” Jed and Katey, who […]
Doute and Broderick started courting after assembly at a good friend’s marriage ceremony in June 2022. They went public with their relationship that December.
Us Weekly broke the information of the couple’s engagement in September 2024, revealing that Broderick proposed to Doute on a ship in Maui, Hawaii, earlier that month. “It was a complete shock,” she instructed Us on the time.
“I knew from the second we met that Luke was my particular person,” Doute gushed. “I’m so excited to proceed this journey collectively, now as fiancés.”
In November 2024, Doute introduced that she and Broderick had been anticipating their first child.
“After our being pregnant loss final yr, we determined to begin attempting in early 2024. I knew my age could possibly be a think about conceiving, so Luke and I mentioned going for an additional push, just a little assist,” she instructed Folks on the time. “In late summer season, we determined to fulfill with a fertility specialist to find out about our choices and what could possibly be the subsequent step if we determined to go that route. The subsequent month was a whirlwind — getting educated on fertility, and finally hormone photographs and getting ready my physique for IUI (intrauterine insemination).”
Bravo star Kristen Doute has been exhibiting off her rising child bump whereas getting ready to welcome her first youngster with fiancé Luke Broderick. The Vanderpump Guidelines alum introduced her being pregnant in November 2024 following a previous miscarriage. “After our being pregnant loss final yr, we determined to begin attempting in early 2024. I knew my age […]
Two weeks after present process the IUI process, the pair discovered of their infant on the best way.
“To get an accurate final result on a being pregnant check, two weeks’ time needed to go and I needed to wait it out however in my coronary heart I knew it had labored. I examined in the future early and received the massive PREGNANT end result staring again at me,” she continued. “I used to be relieved, overwhelmed, pleased, excited and nervous. The second I instructed Luke, he wasn’t stunned, however was SO pleased that IUI labored the primary time (we had been ready that it might not). He was joyful and past excited, to say the least! Our due date is in June and we’re actually wanting ahead to increasing our little household and turning into mother and father!”
Kristen Doute’s romance with Luke Broderick began as a summertime hookup, however rapidly turned one thing extra. The Vanderpump Guidelines alum met Broderick in June 2022 whereas serving as a bridesmaid and groomsman of their mutual good friend’s nuptials. “Proper after we met on the marriage ceremony, or, like, frolicked on the marriage ceremony, we had intercourse,” Doute […]
The next month, Us solely confirmed that Doute and Broderick had been anticipating a child lady.
Doute instructed Us in December 2024 that the duo “couldn’t be happier” to welcome a daughter, although she initially believed they had been having a boy. “I guessed mistaken one hundred pc of the time when it got here to my pals’ pregnancies and never shockingly, I wasn’t proper for mine both,” she quipped.
As for Broderick, Doute raved that he was “made to be a lady dad.”