Oh, baby! Bartise Bowden sent shockwaves throughout the Love Is Blind and Perfect Match fandom when he announced on Friday, April 7, that he became a first-time father.
“Might’ve been the villain on TV, however I’m gonna be the hero for him. Instagram, meet my little man,” the Netflix character, 27, captioned an Instagram carousel of snaps of the newborn, including one the place Bowden and his son watched an episode of Love Is Blind season 4.
The Texas resident, who appeared on season 3 of the Netflix pod experiment, added by means of his Instagram Story: “We went from zaddy onscreen to daddy in real life. Yep, have a look at that, he simply spit up everywhere us, didn’t he?”
While Bowden did not reveal his son’s name nor the identity of the infant’s mother, several of his Netflix costars quickly offered him their congratulations.
“Bartise being the primary dad after Perfect Match was now not on my bingo card,” Sexy Beasts alum Kariselle Snow quipped by the use of Instagram comment on Friday.
Bowden and Snow, 27, had been each solid as contestants on Perfect Match, which dropped on Netflix in February. On the reality TV pageant show, the streaming giant gave several of its fan-favorite personalities a second chance to find love following failed stints on the likes of Love Is Blind, The Circle and Too Hot to Handle. Bowden, for his section, ended the display partnered with Izzy Fairthorne earlier than ultimately calling it quits when they returned home. Snow chose to match with former hookup Joey Sasso on Perfect Match, with the Circle champ even proposing during the finale. They also split shortly after heading home following the tropical-set competition.
Bowden joined Perfect Match lower than one year after fans watched his Love Is Blind journey, which ended when he known as off his engagement to Nancy Rodriguez.
“Part of the reason why I stated no [is] because I simplest wanna make that call one time. Let’s say I say ‘yes,’ and we encounter issues or whatever, we’re sticking together,” the senior analyst exclusively told Us Weekly in November 2022 of choosing to finish his pod-based romance. “[Nancy’s] parents are divorced; my oldsters are divorced. I’m no longer going via that. So yes, if I stated yes, we might still be together.”
He added on the time: “We decided to move forward trying to be friends. Fast ahead a few more months, [and] now we’re both in other relationships. And I found it exhausting to maintain the level of friendship that Nancy wanted with me whilst I was additionally seeking to be respectful of a brand new girl I was dating as a result of, you know, she would get jealous that I was chatting with Nancy.”
While it is unknown if Bowden is nonetheless courting his mystery girlfriend or if she is his son’s mother, the truth TV alum and his former fiancée, 32, don't seem to be on talking phrases anymore.
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“I feel me realizing that, because the 12 months went via, there have been simply too many makes an attempt of him seeking to be a excellent friend that don’t align with what [I think] a just right pal is,” the speech pathologist told Us in February. “I really was once this type of other folks pleaser [in my twenties] and it was once always, ‘Yes,’ it was always like, ‘I can wreck my again for whoever, like, wishes my lend a hand.’ And so, so much of this last two years … since Love is Blind, is that I’ve actually tried to determine where my obstacles are [and] grasp them strong.”
Scroll beneath to read the Love Is Blind and Perfect Match forged’s sweetest messages about Bowden’s baby boy:
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