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Monica Garcia’s rainbow baby has arrived!
The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” alum gave birth to her fifth child, her first with boyfriend Braxton Knight, she announced via Instagram Thursday.
Garcia shared several clips of herself and Knight with their bundle of joy in the NBICU unit of the hospital.
“Getting pregnant at 40 was never the plan, but just like the last couple years of my life, nothing has gone to plan,” she wrote atop one of the clips, adding, “Dear God & body … thank you. Thank you for holding this baby safely through 9 months and a delivery.”
The couple looked overjoyed while bonding with their newborn and were later seen taking their baby home.
“💫🤍,” Garcia, 41, captioned the video.
The duo started dating in 2023.
The former Bravolebrity kept Knight’s identity a secret when she announced on the “Viall Files” podcast in April of the following year that she was pregnant.
She told listeners she was taking birth control at the time.
“I literally went into urgent care for something totally unrelated that I thought was wrong, and the doctor came in and was like, ‘You’re pregnant,’” she recalled.
However, a “heartbroken” Garcia suffered a miscarriage later that same month and told her followers there was “no heartbeat.”
She noted, “I don’t have many words, and I’m still processing all of this myself. As quickly as this happened, that’s how quickly things have changed.”
By March, the reality star was expecting again.
While sharing her pregnancy news in a People interview, Garcia opened up about the “pain” of her previous miscarriage — and social media “accusations” that she was lying.
“The world chose to spit on me and continue to kick me while I was down,” she said. “I was losing a baby while being shredded apart by some of the most awful comments I’ve ever had said to and about me.”
After surviving the “lowest point” of her life, the Brea Baby founder kept her subsequent pregnancy under wraps to “protect [her] peace” until close to her April due date.
She explained, “I have been so blessed and been silent about all of it.”
Garcia is a mother to four other children with her ex-husband, Mike Fowler, whom she divorced in 2023.
The former couple welcomed daughters Bri, Jaidyn, West and Kendall during their time together.
