{"id":2130825,"date":"2025-11-02T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2130825"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:50:10","slug":"love-is-blind-star-sparkle-megan-details-frightening-labor-after-secretly-welcoming-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/love-is-blind-star-sparkle-megan-details-frightening-labor-after-secretly-welcoming-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love is Blind\u2019 star \u2018Sparkle Megan&#8217; details \u2018frightening\u2019 labor after secretly welcoming baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cLove is Blind\u201d star \u201cSparkle\u201d Megan Walerius had a \u201cfrightening\u201d labor and delivery experience while <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/10\/29\/parents\/love-is-blind-star-sparkle-megan-walerius-confirms-she-welcomed-baby-during-shocking-reunion\/\">secretly welcoming a baby boy<\/a> after wrapping the Netflix show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy labor and delivery did not quite go as planned,\u201d she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/love-is-blind-sparkle-megan-opens-up-about-welcoming-first-baby-exclusive-11841755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told People<\/a> in an interview published on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI had planned for an unmedicated birth at a birthing center, but after laboring for about 20 hours, some complications arose and I ultimately needed an emergency C-section.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was frightening for a moment, but the second I heard his cry and saw him safe, I was overcome with so much love and joy,\u201d she added. \u201cEvery part of the journey was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cSparkle\u201d Megan Walerius opened up about her \u201cfrightening\u201d labor and delivery experience after she secretly welcomed a baby boy.  <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cMy labor and delivery did not quite go as planned,\u201d she recalled, revealing that she needed an emergency C-section.  <span class=\"credit\">Megan Walerius\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Walerius announced at the \u201cLove Is Blind\u201d Season 9 reunion that she had welcomed a baby boy, named Brooks, with her partner, Paul Wegman.<\/p>\n<p>Walerius, 35, explained that she was introduced to Wegman through a mutual friend three months after she ended things with her fianc\u00e9, Jordan Keltner, on the show. She then got \u201cpregnant three months into dating\u201d Wegman. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely had our ups and downs. I\u2019m not going to say it was perfect, but Paul\u2019s been amazing and we\u2019re \u2014 we\u2019re very happy,\u201d she divulged. <\/p>\n<p>Fans began to speculate on the state of Walerius\u2019 life after Page Six <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/10\/23\/entertainment\/love-is-blind-star-sparkle-megan-spotted-with-mystery-man-baby\/\">published photos<\/a>\u00a0of an unidentified man \u2014 who was later identified to be Paul \u2014 carrying a baby from the reality star\u2019s Denver home on Oct. 19 and 20.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, an eyewitness told The US Sun that the man \u201cseems to be living in Megan\u2019s home\u201d and \u201chas been in and out at all hours of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Walerius announced that she welcomed a baby boy with her partner, Paul Wegman, after she wrapped filming on \u201cLove is Blind\u201d Season 9. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>She met Wegman three months after she ended her engagement with Jordan Keltner.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In her People interview, the reality TV star recalled feeling \u201ca wave of emotions all at once\u201d when she found out she was pregnant with her first child. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was excited and happy, but also surprised and a little scared,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100% \" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/7243f1477b3245f2f0745dd957e58dbc\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019d been told by multiple doctors in the past that getting pregnant naturally would likely be very difficult for me because of a congenital condition, so when it happened so quickly, I was a little taken aback.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The reality TV personality feared that she \u201cmight not be ready to be a mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Walerius said she felt a \u201csense of relief\u201d to finally share the news of her family after keeping her son\u2019s birth private.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a sense of relief in finally being able to share this part of my life and to just live normally as a family without feeling like we\u2019re hiding,\u201d she said.  <span class=\"credit\">meganwalerius\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut I can confidently say that those doubts and fears feel very far away today, and motherhood has easily turned into my favorite and most fulfilling chapter of life thus far,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>While she decided to keep the first few months of her baby\u2019s life private, Walerius reflected on her journey of becoming a mom while also navigating her new life as a public figure, saying she feels a \u201csense of relief\u201d to be able to share the happy news about starting a family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a sense of relief in finally being able to share this part of my life and to just live normally as a family without feeling like we\u2019re hiding,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLove is Blind\u201d star \u201cSparkle\u201d Megan Walerius had a \u201cfrightening\u201d labor and delivery experience while secretly welcoming a baby boy after wrapping the Netflix show. \u201cMy labor and delivery did not quite go as planned,\u201d she told People in an interview published on Sunday. \u201cI had planned for an unmedicated birth at a birthing center, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2130826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[70626,344976,24003,360791,350831,23191,22507,21913],"class_list":["post-2130825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-pregnancies","tag-love-is-blind","tag-netflix","tag-parents","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Love-is-Blind-star-\u2018Sparkle-Megan-details-\u2018frightening-labor-after.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130827,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130825\/revisions\/2130827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}