The Bachelor’s Ben Higgins and Wife Jessica Clarke Are Expecting First Child

Bachelor‘s Ben Higgins you will be a father.

Wife of a Bachelor Nation alum Jessica Clarke she is pregnant with their first child. The Colorado-based couple announced the news on social media on August 18—and also took the opportunity to reveal the gender of their baby.

“The next chapter of our love story!” Jessica, 29, wrote an Instagram post on both of their pages. “The baby girl is coming in February.”

She and Ben, 35, shared a video of their road to the baby. It also includes a photo of Jessica giving herself a hormone injection in her stomach area. She and Ben also added a clip of one of her ultrasounds, which shows she was 12 weeks pregnant at the time.

The Instagram video also features photos of the couple celebrating the pregnancy news with family and sharing a group hug with their dog Waylon, as well as throwback clips of the dad-to-be proposing to his now-wife and both appearing in their 2021. marriage in Tennessee.