Bachelor Nation Star Just Announced Baby No. 2 in the Cutest Way: VIDEO
ecca Kufrin is a true Bachelor Nation star. You may recognize her from “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette,” and “Bachelor in Paradise.” Now, Becca has another role: mom. The mother of Benson (or Benny) who she welcomed in September 2023, Becca has now announced that she’s pregnant with her second child. And she did so in an adorable way!
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, October 30, Becca shared a video that shows little Benny in front of a cauldron making a special concoction with his mom and dad, Thomas Jacobs, looking on. When Benny’s done, Becca pulls out ultrasound photos revealing the big news.
In the caption, Becca wrote, “Something’s brewing ✨ Another little boo coming April, 2026 👻♥️”
Friends, Fans & Followers Are Definitely Excited
From the looks of the video, Becca and Thomas are thrilled that another baby is on the way. And from the looks of the comments left on Becca’s post, they’re not alone.
“Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!! 🩵 So so so so happy for your growing family 🥰💕,” wrote fellow Bachelor Nation alum Kendall Long.
Vanessa Grimaldi left a comment with simple yet expressive emojis: “😍😍😍😍”
Annaliese Puccini wrote, “OBSESSED with this announcement and so flipping excited for you guys!!! Congratulations!!!”
While Tia Booth Mock added, “So THAT’S how babies are made!!!”
Another follower wrote, “The best announcement!! 😍 Congratulations!”
“Congratulations! So excited for you and your family! ❤️,” came from another fan.
Becca Has Opened Up About Being a Mom (& Hoping for Baby No. 2)
Becca has admitted that she faced a few struggles when she first became a mom. However, she’s also revealed how she dealt with the challenges.
“I really think what helped me the most, for me personally, was having other friends and family members talk me through it,” Becca told People in August. “And realizing they all went through the same thing and their babies all are beautiful and growing so well.”
“My sister has two little ones who are older than my own son,” she said. “And just talking to her through everything. She was like, ‘Becca, this is a phase. Everything will pass, and you’ll look back on this and it’s going to be such a blip on the radar and in the future for you.'”
Beyond that, Becca was already thinking about having another child.
“We want a second for sure,” she said. “We started trying earlier this year. And with Benny, I feel like I got pregnant so easily. This time, it’s been more of a struggle.”
“We’re in the process. But we’re hoping, fingers crossed, we have another little one,” she added. “Hopefully, in the near future, we would love that.”
Are Viewers Really Quitting 'The Last of Us'?
I’ll admit, I was impressed that The Last of Us really went ahead and killed off Joel in the second episode of this season. It didn’t drag things out to get more screentime with the show’s most bankable star, Pedro Pascal, and it didn’t try to rewrite the narrative to avoid one of the most polarizing decisions from the game. I’m still unsure how the show will balance the Abby story moving forward, which was the other big narrative swing from “The Last of Us: Part II,” but I’m satisfied with how the show handled Joel.
Turns out not everybody feels the same as I do on that front.
There’s been a lot of chatter around various corners of the internet recently, from Reddit to actual websites I respect, shouting — in either panic or glee — some variation of “The Ratings Are Tanking!” But are viewers truly abandoning the show in droves since it killed off Joel? I’m not so sure. So I did some digging into the rumors and the numbers, to try and figure out what’s really going on.
The first thing I noticed is that the “ratings” being discussed aren’t necessarily the viewership numbers. Some sources are citing Nielsen data, but others are referring to a far squishier metric: Audience Scores. According to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic,
As for the actual viewership numbers, there may be a decline happening — but it’s too early to know for sure. Anybody comparing week-to-week viewership for this season is operating off of Nielsen’s Live + Same Day numbers, which is essentially just a count of who tuned in for the broadcast itself, and that’s only a small part of the picture. It doesn’t tell us about all the people who caught up on the episodes through repeat broadcasts or on streaming, and that figure takes longer to report — and will be much, much larger. For example, the second season premiere saw an increase in viewers over the season one premiere, reaching 5.3 million viewers according to HBO (compared to 4.7 million viewers in season one). This number comes from the Nielsen Live + Same Day, which reported 938,000 linear viewers in the US, plus Warner Bros. Discovery’s own data about viewings on Max. This isn’t the full Nielsen data, but it is likely pretty accurate. At the very least, it shows that viewership grows by millions once catch-up viewing data is captured.
Unfortunately, we’ve only got those Live + Same Day numbers for subsequent episodes: 643,000 viewers for episode two and 768,000 viewers for episode three (I couldn’t find the numbers for episode four). So sure, it appears that there was a nearly 30% decline in linear viewers from episode one to episode two. It doesn’t look good, but there are a few things people aren’t saying when they’re busy projecting doom and gloom for
The point is, same-day viewership data is just a drop in the pail, and we really need to wait for the full Nielsen data before determining that viewers are quitting
The internet remains full of angry weirdos with axes to grind and websites desperate to turn vague vibes into a story. The water! It is wet, I say!
