Don’t worry,Tyler CameronthinksTate Maddenis lighter than a rose.
Moments after the Bachelor Nation alum and his fiancée revealed duringDancing With the Stars’ Dedication Night that they areexpecting their first baby, she explained the fear she had before joining him for his routine, which included a jaw-dropping lift and spin.
“I was like, ‘Oh yeah, he lifted me over his head,’” Madden quipped in an exclusive interview with E! News following the Oct. 20 episode. “He mustered up every ounce of strength he had because he knew I’d probably start crying if he couldn’t get me over his head anymore.”
However, Cameron—whoconfirmed his engagementto Madden in August—was quick to assuage the mom-to-be, adding in the joint interview, “No, you were up there like a feather, baby.”
Meanwhile, Madden detailed her mindset for the rest of the contemporary dance routine alongside Cameron and his pro partnerSharna Burgess, which was dedicated to Cameron’s late momAndrea Cameron.
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“Once we got to that point and I felt stable up there,” she shared, “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh! I didn’t trip, I didn’t fall. We made it through. We got this now.’ And then the adrenaline started to come down as I came down from the lift, and that’s when I just kind of lost it a little bit there for a second.”
Despite the range of emotions that Madden felt throughout the night, she emphasized how special it was to return to dancing after stepping away 12 years ago.
“To be able to come back to it in this way, with this dance, means everything to me,” she said. “[And] to be able to honor his mom? I mean, I get to marry and have kids with the most wonderful man that I’ve ever met, and that’s because of how his mom raised him.”
As Madden put it, “Everything that I love was in one room tonight, and it just was so special. I couldn’t have asked for a better way to be reintroduced to dance.”
While Cameron and Madden prepare to become parents together, read on for other Bachelor Nation alums who have welcomed babies recently.
Nick Viall/InstagramNick Viall & Natalie JoyThe Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise and The Bachelor alum received his best rose yet when his fianceé gave birth to their daughter River Rose Viall Feb. 2.
Sharing a series of sweet images of their baby girl, the couple wrote, “The best part of life starts now.”Instagram / Amanda StantonAmanda Stanton & Michael FogelThe Bachelor season 20 alum, who won season three of Bachelor in Paradise and also competed on the following season of the spinoff in 2017, welcomed her first baby, Rosie, with her husband Jan. 24, 2024. This is her third daughter, as she is also a mom to Kinsley and Charlie from a previous marriage.InstagramAstrid Loch & Kevin WendtThe Bachelor in Paradise alums welcomed son Nash Lochland Wendt just before Thanksgiving in Canada. The little one joins brother August.
“Happy Thanksgiving from our now family of 4,” Kevin wrote on Instagram Oct. 8. “Everyone meet our son Nash Lochland Wendt 10.7.23. Astrid and baby boy are doing great and ready to come home today. Our new favourite moment in life was watching August meet Nash, smiling the whole time and kissing his new baby brother.”Instagram/Becca KufrinBecca Kufrin & Thomas JacobsThe Bachelor in Paradise couple found paradise in parenthood when they welcomed son Benson Lee Jacobs Kufrin on Sept. 21, 2023.Instagram/Tia BoothTia Booth & Taylor MockNearly eight months after getting engaged at The Bachelor Live On Stage show, the couple welcomed their first child together, a baby boy named Tatum Booth Mock, on Dec. 6, 2022 at 6:13 a.m.Instagram/Vanessa GrimaldiVanessa Grimaldi & Joshua WolfeWhat a gift! The former Bachelor contestant gave birth to son Winston on her 35th birthday on Sept. 29, 2022.InstagramRaven Gates & Adam GottschalkWe’re not calling it the most dramatic birth story ever, but “in a wild turn of events,” shared the finalist from Nick Viall’s season, after 90 minutes of pushing, she and her husband of nine months welcomed their honeymoon baby in an emergency C-section Jan. 18, 2022. “What was life before him???” the Arkansas native pondered of 8-pound, 6-ounce Gates Zev Gottschalk. “I can’t recall.”But she is certain she and her Bachelor in Paradise love match aren’t done building their family. “We’d like two or three,” she told Us Weekly. “But Adam has said, you know, we’ll see how I do with two and then go from there.”Instagram/Jared HaibonAshley Iaconetti & Jared HaibonThe Bachelor in Paradise fan-favorites welcomed son Dawson—named after Leonardo DiCaprio’s Titanic character—in January 2022.Instagram/Courtney RobertsonCourtney Robertson & Humberto PreciadoIs this winning? Seventeen months after the Bachelor season 16 victor gave birth to her first child, son Joaquin, in June 2020, she and her husband set an extra seat at their Thanksgiving table for the early arrival of daughter Paloma.
A “small, but mighty” 4 pounds, 15 ounces, their newest addition “is the sweetest girl in the whole-wide-world,” she raved on Instagram at the time. “Her smile lights up our days & warms my little mama heart.”InstagramAstrid Loch & Kevin WendtConsider Nov. 20, 2021 arrival August the couple’s final rose at the end of a long journey. Referencing their cycles of intrauterine insemination and IVF—one of which resulted in an ectopic pregnancy—the Canadian-bred firefighter raved of his bride-to-be, “She is my absolute hero for everything she went through the last 2 days in the hospital, and the last 2 years doing everything it took to get this perfect munchkin.”Their plans for a family actually dated back to some early conversations on 2018’s Bachelor in Paradise, she shared on Instagram, and yet “even in my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined how amazing this would all feel.”Instagram/Arie Luyendyk Jr.Arie Luyendyk Jr. & Lauren BurnhamHaving raced into the world of parenting—welcoming daughter Alessi four months after their January 2019 vows and her little brother and sister in June 2021—the retired driver is ready to pump the brakes.
“I think we’re so happy because we have our boy, we have the two girls,” the season 22 lead said in 2022 of twins Senna and Lux completing their family. “And I’m already 40, guys. I can’t be having kids any later than this in life. I want to be like an active dad. So, I think three is OK.”Instagram/Lauren Bushnell LaneLauren Bushnell & Chris Lane”Big, Big Plans”, they said? On June 8, 2021, Bachelor season 20 final rose recipient and her country singer husband invited all nine pounds of Dutton Walker Lane onto the ranch.
The couple had another run around the rodeo on Oct. 16, 2022, when they welcomed son Baker Weston Lane.InstagramKrystal Nielson & Miles BowlesYears after failing to collect a rose in week six of Arie Luyendyk Jr.’s Bachelor season, the health coach grew her own little flower, giving birth to daughter Andara Rose Bowles Mar. 31, 2021 less than a year into her new romance with the San Diego-based entrepreneur. Though she admitted on pal Scheana Shay’s podcast it was “scary” to learn she was pregnant “so soon in a relationship” and while still wed to Bachelor in Paradise love match Chris Randone, she “just knew this was an incredible lesson for me to grow, to lean into love, to have faith in myself and Miles and my future and know that God gives us only what we can handle.”InstagramLesley Murphy & Alex KavanaghThe cutest little stowaway you ever did see. On Feb. 12, 2021, The Road Les Traveled creator and her fiancé invited daughter Nora Blanche Kavanagh along for the ride and she’s already proven herself to be a natural adventurer. “Someone told me not too long ago that traveling with a baby isn’t a vacation,” The Bachelor and The Bachelor Winter Games alum admitted. “It’s a trip. A change of scenery. A relocation of parenting. I feel this in my bones.” And yet following jaunts to Hawaii, Miami, New York and Kavanagh’s native Australia, “I wouldn’t trade a thing if it means I get to show this girl the world.”InstagramJade Roper & Tanner TolbertThree’s a crowd? Hardly. Since youngest Reed joined the mix in November 2020, the Bachelor in Paradise OG sweethearts have strongly considered rounding out their family with a fourth.
Tolbert told People he’s “10 percent open to the idea,” but his bride’s baby fever burns much stronger.
Agreed the mom of Emmy and Brooks, “Four would be a great number. They’d have the buddy system! There’s just something special about the mother-child bond and I just love it.”For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App
