Siesta Key alum Kelsey Owens and her husband, Max Strong, welcomed their rainbow baby on Wednesday, August 26, after the couple previously navigated a 2025 pregnancy loss.
“Our lives were changed forever. Words can’t begin to express the kind of love our hearts feel getting to call ourselves your parents,” Kelsey, 29, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, August 30, announcing their daughter’s arrival and revealing her name: Blaine Grace. “We love you more than you’ll ever know sweet girl, and we’ll spend every day for the rest of our lives showing you just how loved you are.”
Kelsey and Max announced in February that the couple were expecting a baby.
“The best parts of both of us… in one tiny heartbeat 🤍,” they wrote via Instagram at the time.
The next month, the couple found out that they were expecting a baby girl.
“I’ve always been someone who wants to hang onto moments, so when it came to your gender reveal I knew I wanted more than just the countdown and smoke cannons,” Kelsey wrote in a Instagram letter to her unborn child in March. “I wanted something I could carry with me forever. Something that would always remind me of the moment we found out who you are.”
She continued at the time, “In our backyard, at the house we spent over a year turning into a home, the place where we’ll bring you home, fill with laughter and memories, surrounded by your aunt, uncles, and grandparents we discovered you’re our beautiful baby girl 💗. … I’ve dreamt of having a little girl my whole life! Bows in your messy hair, dance parties in the kitchen, inside jokes only we’ll understand, and teaming up to drive your daddy crazy.”
Kelsey and Max got married in 2024 after four years of dating. The couple announced the next year that the reality TV alum had suffered a miscarriage.
“This past week was a really bad one. Max and I have been trying to get pregnant, and we were blessed to find out in August that we were pregnant,” Kelsey began in a September 2025 social media video. “I did find out yesterday [that] I miscarried. I just want to say that any woman who has gone through this, I am sending so much love. You are not alone. This can feel so lonely ‘cause we’re told not to share about this [until you are 12 weeks along]. No matter what, this baby’s a part of my story.”
At the time, Kelsey broke down in tears while revealing it was “the first time” she had been pregnant.
“It will always be so special to me, and I’m just praying for anyone else going through it that you guys will have healthy beautiful babies one day — and that will be the same for me,” she tearfully added. “Please keep me in your prayers, and I’ll be praying so much for all the other women going through it.”
