Jenna Compono and her fiancé Zach Nichols shared the happy news that they’re expecting their first child together on Sunday.
The stars of MTV’s The Challenge revealed they had a baby on board in a joyous Instagram post featuring a sonogram photo of their future child.
‘Happy Valentine’s Day! Zach & I are expecting our first baby,’ Jenna, 28, gushed in her caption.
The post featured a black board with ‘Baby Nichols — Coming 2021’ written in the center, with candy hearts strewn around it and a sonogram photo placed next to it.
Jenna sweetly rested her head on Zach’s shoulder in another picture while he held multiple red heart-shaped ballons.
She had on a cozy brown sweater pulled down to show off one shoulder, along with slim dark jeans and brown suede hiking boots.
Zach, 33, was dressed even more casually in a burnt orange T-shirt and khaki pants with white sneakers.
He kissed the side of Jenna’s head in another snap while she held up a tiny denim jacket that said ‘Baby Nichols’ on the back.
Growing family: The Challenge’s Jenna Compono and her fiancé Zach Nichols announced Sunday on Instagram that they were expecting their first child together
‘Happy Valentine’s Day! Zach & I are expecting our first baby,’ Jenna began her caption.
She revealed that the two opted to have a child after their other plans were put on hold due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
‘After our wedding was postponed, we decided to start the next chapter of our lives. It really wasn’t a hard decision for us, we were both super excited and ready,’ she continued.
‘Luckily, we were fortunate enough to get pregnant on our first try and have had zero complications regarding my first trimester. We are truly blessed and we can’t wait to meet our little one in August.’
Jenna and Zach also shared that their baby now had its own Instagram page, which currently only includes the same pregnancy announcement.
Moving on: ‘After our wedding was postponed, we decided to start the next chapter of our lives. It really wasn’t a hard decision for us, we were both super excited and ready,’ Jenna wrote
Zach shared a smaller subset of the same photos on his Instagram page, along with some words of his own.
‘Happy Valentine’s Day! I gave Jenna some lovin, and she’s giving me a family,’ he said.
‘I have never been this excited. August couldn’t come soon enough… because that is when Jenna will officially be a milf ❤️,’ he concluded casually.
Jenna revealed that she had gotten pregnant while using the pregnancy tracker Ava Woman in a brief interview Sunday with E! News.
The reality star said she had ‘lucked out’ in her first trimester and was mostly free of any negative side effects.
Great experience: Jenna star said she had ‘lucked out’ in her first trimester and was mostly free of any negative side effects; seen in 2014 in NYC
Loving it: ‘It’s been an exciting journey so far,’ she gushed. ‘We take weekly bump photos and are in the middle of planning our gender reveal. Our family and friends are all excited, as are we’
‘It’s been an exciting journey so far,’ she gushed. ‘We take weekly bump photos and are in the middle of planning our gender reveal. Our family and friends are all excited, as are we.’
Zach was looking forward to expanding his family and didn’t have any doubt that his fiancée would be a stellar mother.
‘Jenna will be a great mom. She’s always had a way with kids. They love her so I know she’ll be a natural,’ he enthused.
‘She’s been an absolute trooper through the pregnancy and I’m so proud and impressed. It’s a beautiful thing to be a part of. I’m also excited for our kid’s friends to tell them their mom’s a total MILF, because I think we can all agree that Jenna’s gonna be a really hot mom.’
Looking forward to it: ‘I’m excited to see Zach as a father because he’s already a great fiancé, uncle, brother and friend,’ Jenna gushed
Jenna also shared what he was looking forward to from Zach once their baby arrived.
‘I’m excited to see Zach as a father because he’s already a great fiancé, uncle, brother and friend,’ she said. ‘I can only imagine how great of a dad he will be. He’s been super involved with planning for the baby and seems really excited, which makes me excited.
‘This baby was fully planned so Zach and I had time to mentally prepare and plan, which also helped out a lot. It’s going to be funny to see such a big guy be a complete mush over this baby. I am also excited to see how Zach handles the actual birth! He passes out if he sees the tiniest drop of blood, so this will be interesting!’ she joked.
Valentine’s Day weekend would have originally been when the couple got married, after they got engaged just before Christmas 2019 at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, but the pandemic has forced them to move it back a year.
The beginnings of their relationship were documented back in 2014 on Battle Of The Exes II, though they separated for a short time while filming The Challenge Rivals III for MTV.
Jenna and Zach later reunited while filming Invasion Of The Champions.
Work romance: The beginnings of their relationship were documented back in 2014 on Battle Of The Exes II