Garrett Yrigoyen will become a father! of Single alum wife, Alex Yrigoyenis pregnant with their first child, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.
Alex said exclusively us that she found out about the pregnancy while Garrett, 35, was at work. “I was at home for a few days just keeping the secret to myself,” she recalls. “I didn’t know if it was true. I was, like, cautiously optimistic.”
After Garrett, who is a firefighter, came home from his shift, Alex surprised him with “lit candles” to set the mood and tell him her good news.
“I wrote a little card and shared the news with just him, and afterwards we were both very excited,” Alex said, noting that they “kept it to themselves for a while.”
Garrett, who fans met during his time Bachelorette in 2018, recalled being “super excited” when he found out he was going to be a father.
“I was immediately very upset. I stood up,” he said. “She ran and said, ‘Oh, my God, can you believe it?’ I was like, ‘No way,’ because I was thinking, like, this happened so fast.” (The couple revealed that Alex found out she was expecting in the summer of 2024 and was 16 weeks along when she spoke to us in mid-December.)
The pair decided not to tell their families until they saw them in person during the holiday season. Garrett’s parents were the first to receive Christmas ornaments on Thanksgiving to discover their grandson would be born in June 2025. Alex’s family received the happy news over Christmas after the couple reunited with them in San Diego for a week .

While Garrett and Alex have had time to process her pregnancy, they are not planning to reveal the baby’s sex. “We feel like there are only a few surprises you can get in life. So we’re going to wait until the end,” Garrett said us.
The mother-to-be agreed, saying: “We want to share that moment (between) just the two of us. So we’ll wait until the day he or she comes, whether it’s a boy or a girl.”
Garrett noted that he doesn’t have a preference for sex as long as he can teach his child to fish. “I’m just hoping to have a little fishing buddy, boy or girl,” he revealed. “Someone to go on adventures with us, traveling the world together. I need someone to fish with me.”
Garrett shot to fame when he won The Bachelorette Becca KufrinThe finale aired during season 14 of the ABC dating series in 2018. The pair got engaged during the season finale, but she announced their split in September 2020.

Kufrin, 34 years old, found love with Thomas Jacobs after meeting in season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise. The couple married in October 2023 after welcoming their son, Benson, a month earlier.
Meanwhile, Garrett moved on with Alex in the fall of 2020. The pair went public with their romance that October and were engaged two years later.
The couple said “I do” in November 2023 on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. “Forever until the end of time… what a magical moment and the most perfect day,” Garrett wrote on Instagram at the time. “I couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful bride and now wife.”

A year later, as the couple prepares to become parents, they couldn’t be happier. “I can’t wait to see her as a mom and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun together,” Garrett said. us of his wife. “She’s going to spend all her smarts and her athleticism and everything like that, just adventuring around.”
Alex added that she knows Garrett “is going to be great” as a dad, especially since he’s “been talking about it for so long.” She said: “Seeing him light up every time we talk about things definitely gives me so much confidence that he’s going to be a great dad.”
With reporting by Amanda Williams