Former “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Monica Garcia is pregnant with baby No. 5.
Garcia is expecting her first child with her boyfriend of more than a year, Braxton Knight, People reported. Garcia and Knight posed together in a photoshoot for the publication that highlighted Garcia’s baby bump. In one sweet pic, the couple share a kiss as Knight cradles’s Garcia’s bump in his hand. In another, Knight leans down to kiss Garcia’s belly.
Garcia re-shared People’s images on her official Instagram page.
The couple’s news comes less than a year after Garcia announced in April 2024 that she suffered a pregnancy loss just weeks after announcing that she was expecting again.
Garcia shares daughters Bri, 19, Jaidyn, 14, West, 8, and Kendall, 7, with her ex-husband, Mike Fowler.
Garcia told People that her pregnancy so far had been a little rocky, with her feeling “so sick” that she’s thrown up regularly.
She also shared that she and Knight won’t know the baby’s sex ahead of time and have no baby names picked. “We have no names!” she said. “We are really struggling in the name department. Send us all your name suggestions!”
Garcia also opened up to the publication about the “complete mind shift” she experienced last year after suffering a miscarriage amid multiple personal upheavals.
“It was difficult coming off such a tumultuous whirlwind with ‘RHOSLC’ and all the love and hate I received from all of that,” she shared. “Old friends turned on me, I was iced out by the cast, I lost my job, my relationship with my mother has never recovered, my world was crumbling. Then I had an unexpected pregnancy and miscarriage at 40.”
Making an already difficult time even more painful were the online accusations that Garcia was lying about the pregnancy and the miscarriage. “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,” she said.
This time around, Garcia, who is due in April, decided to keep her pregnancy a private affair to “protect” herself and her baby on the way.