90 Day Fiance stars Emily and Kobe Blaise I welcomed baby #3! The couple welcomed their third child, their son Atem, into the world on Friday, March 15, at 3:34 p.m. He weighed 10 pounds, 2 ounces.
Atem joins his older siblings, Koban, 4, and Scarlett, 2.
“Kobe and I are so excited to announce that we have welcomed a beautiful, healthy baby boy into our family!” Emily says. “Our hearts are overflowing with love as we watch Koban and Scarlett love their new little brother, Atem. He is the perfect addition to our family and we are so excited about this new journey as a family of five!”
The announcement was a combined birth and gender reveal for the reality TV stars who told ET exclusively in November that they were waiting to find out if the baby was a boy or a girl.
“Kobe and I couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome another beautiful baby into our family!” Emily shared at the time.
The excited mom also shared that her two oldest children were thrilled to become big brothers and were impatiently awaiting the baby’s arrival.
“Koban and Scarlett are very excited. They sing, kiss and hug mommy’s belly every day,” she said. “We can’t wait to become a family of 5 in 2024!”
The couple is now settling in Kansas, where Emily is from. It’s a happy update to a story full of bumps along the way.
Emily and Kobe met in China while she was teaching English abroad and Kobe, who is Cameroonian, was working as an underwear model. What was initially a one night stand It turned into something more quickly, and he proposed in China. Four weeks after the engagement, she discovered that she was pregnant with Koban.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Emily returned home to the United States and Kobe returned to Cameroon as they worked to get him a visa. Ultimately, he was able to move to the US, almost a year and a half after his son was born.
When they finally reunited, Kobe ended up moving in with Emily’s parents, David and Lisa. Her father asked that while they lived under her roof and establishing yourself financially, they hope to have additional children. They soon after, however, discovered they were expecting their second child, which Emily told ET they hadn’t intended and found to be a complete surprise.
“We actually use an app,” she says. “The problem is, I thought, ‘OK, so we use condoms now. We’re not going to have another child.’ But when he got here, it had been two years and I was like, ‘Wow, I want to have so much sex with you.’ And so I downloaded this app and we are both Catholic. I was like, ‘Let’s do, like, natural birth control, like, parental planning.’ And then I downloaded this app and I was like, ‘This is when you don’t need to go out and this is when you do.’ And you know what, before we took that pregnancy test, like, two weeks before I actually took another one just to make sure I wasn’t pregnant and I wasn’t. So I thought, ‘Oh, okay. It’s working.’ We’re, like, working on my ovulation or something… I haven’t been on birth control in years and Kobe was like, ‘Don’t take that.’ So I thought, ‘OK, I love you. Let’s use an app and everything will be fine.'”
Overall, though, Emily says her parents reacted to the surprise pregnancy in a better way than expected, sharing that they “handled it really, really well.”
In the premiere of the 10th season of 90 Day Fiance in New York City, the couple told ET that after their daughter’s arrival, they were certainly planning to expand their family.
“When we moved out of my mom’s house and my dad’s house, we kept saying, like, as soon as we move, because, you know, he comes from 10 siblings, I come from five and then we want, like, four or five, I think it would be good,” said Emily.
Kobe added: “We want to have a big family and I used to, you know, grow up thinking I was going to beat my dad’s record, but after seeing the reality of life I’m like, we’re not beating my dad’s record. record in the USA. If it had been in Africa, it would have been totally different, but in the US, raising kids, man, it’s a different thing.”
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