Former Bachelor Ben Higgins and his wife, Jessica ClarkeThey expand their family.
“The world is blessed as @jessclarke_ becomes a mother of two girls and Winona is so excited to become a big sister!” Higgins, 37, wrote about Instagram on Sunday, July 5th. “Waylon still has the pressure of carrying on the Higgins name and I personally am overwhelmed with the joy of experiencing it all! Higgins Girl #2 is nearing (the) end of the year. In the words of Jessica’s Grandma, “If you do certain things, certain things happen.”
Alongside the message, Higgins posted a photo of the couple’s daughter holding a doll upside down. Clarke, for her part, shared the happy news with the family of three in a post.
“Baby #2 makes her debut this holiday season 🩷,” Clarke wrote via Instagram on Sunday.
Courtesy of Jess Clarke/Instagram Ben Higgins and his wife Jessica Clarke have chosen a name for their future baby girl — but they’re not sharing it yet. “It won’t be weird enough for people to say ‘Whoa’.” But it’s a part of my life,” Higgins, 35, teased during the Tuesday, November 5, episode (…)
Higgins and Clarke welcomed their first baby, daughter Winona “Winnie” Elane, in 2025.
“At first I didn’t know I could be more in love and impressed with @jessclarke_, but after the last 48 hours my heart has exploded for her and our new baby,” Higgins wrote via Instagram at the time. “Winona (Winnie for short if she agrees) Elane Higgins was born on February 12th at 2:53am. Words are still hard for me, I can’t express exactly what just happened.”
He continued, “But the last two mornings I wake up feeling like it was a dream, remembering the blessings of Jesus, then looking at Jessica and Winona and feeling spiritually reunited with the truth that I am a father and a husband and that we are a family. Life begins anew for us, a new chapter begins for us and there are so many moments when we cannot find words but feel the love inspired by God.”
The year 2025 was definitely the year of Bachelor Nation babies, as three stars from Ben Higgins’ season of The Bachelor prove. Higgins, who led season 20 in 2016, became a father in February when his wife Jessica Clarke Higgins gave birth to their daughter Winona “Winnie” Elane after a horrific delivery. “Your blood pressure and (…)
Higgins, who tied the knot with Clarke in 2021, shared that the couple conceived daughter Winnie through intrauterine insemination (IUI).
“We planned this and we didn’t know how many steps we had to take. We didn’t know how much help we would need,” Higgins said exclusively Us weekly in August 2024. “We have a lot of friends who are struggling with infertility and have struggled through the process, and just hearing from them and learning from them, we knew we wanted to plan and be ready. … We set that date and started trying, and it went easier for us than we expected.”
