Newlyweds Blake Horstmann and Giannina Gibelli have something else to celebrate with their second baby on the way.
“We were aiming to have a honeymoon baby, so by the time it would’ve popped up on an at-home pregnancy test, I ended up taking it too early so it showed negative,” Giannina, 33, told People on Thursday, September 24. “Then the next day, I felt some pressure around my abdomen, just a very distinct feeling, so I thought, ‘Why not? I’ll take it again.’ I was shocked when I saw two little pink lines pop up.”
Giannina and Blake, 37, are already the parents of son Heath, 2, and are expecting their new arrival in March 2027.
The pregnancy news comes months after the couple tied the knot in Croatia in June surrounded by Bachelor and Bachelorette stars like Jason Tartick and Astrid Loch. Giannina also received support on her special day from her fellow Love Is Blind alums, including Jessica Vestal and Taylor Krause.
“It was the best day of our lives, literally. And for, like, a week after when we came home, I was just, like, jet-lagged,” Giannina exclusively told Us in July, revealing that she and her husband experienced some post-wedding “anxiety” after getting home. “And I was like, ‘Who am I now?’ Being a bride for a year and a half was lovely, and now just settling into our new, like, solid foundation, which was nice.”
Giannina, who appeared on season 1 of Love Is Blind, confessed, “I baked, like, five loaves of bread. I just couldn’t stop baking. Yeah, I was stress baking.”
While taking time to acclimate to their lives as husband and wife, Blake and Giannina confirmed they were ready to have more children while also expanding their podcast.
“We’ve been working really hard on that,” Giannina told Us of their “He Said, G Said” podcast. “Now we can dive fully into that because we kind of started that in the middle of wedding planning, like, the tail end of wedding planning. We can dive fully into that, and hopefully, yeah, expand the family.”
Giannina and Blake met in 2021, with Us exclusively confirming in January 2022 that they were dating. The pair announced in November 2023 that they were expecting their first baby.
“First comes love, then comes baby H 🤍” the duo announced via a joint Instagram statement. “We’re so grateful that life has led us here and over the moon to be parents to our sweet baby come spring 2024!”
Their son, Heath Orion, was born in March 2024.
“Our baby is his father’s twin!” Giannina exclusively told Us the following month. “There are so many similarities it’s adorable to see them light up in each other. As far as personality goes, he’s an Aries like his mama so we’ll see, he just might be the perfect mix of both of us.”
Giannina gushed about her husband and their partnership after giving birth, saying, “So far we love doing everything together, the only time we see us ‘dividing’ our time is when he’s off to work, but we have our village that’s with us 24/7 so it’s been a beautiful thing to be able to focus just on our baby and our time as a family together.”
That October, Blake proposed while the couple were traveling to Spain. When they said “I do” this summer, their son served as the ring bearer.
While sharing photos from the magical wedding, Giannina teased that she and Blake were already gearing up to be a family of four.
“Making sure the ruins are still ruined so I can go make baby No. 2,” she captioned an Instagram video from Europe in August.
Blake playfully replied in the comments section, “Ruins first baby second 😂.”
