Monica Garcia is a mom of five after welcoming her first baby with boyfriend Braxton Knight.
“Getting pregnant at 40 was never the plan, but just like the last couple years of my life, nothing has gone to plan,” Garcia, 41, wrote in an Instagram video documenting the arrival of her newborn uploaded on Thursday, April 17. “Dear God & body … thank you. Thank you for holding this baby safely through 9 months and a delivery.”
Garcia added that she was “grateful” for her baby and was going to miss “every hiccup and every kick felt.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum already shares daughters Bri, Jaidyn, West and Kendall with ex-husband Mike Fowler, whom she was married to from 2009 to 2023.
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Garcia announced in March that she and Knight were expecting again nearly one after her miscarriage.
“It was difficult coming off such a tumultuous whirlwind with RHOSLC and all the love and hate I received from all of that,” she told People at the time. “Old friends turned on me, I was iced out by the cast, I lost my job, my relationship with my mother has never recovered, my world was crumbling. Then I had an unexpected pregnancy and miscarriage at 40. The entire time I was going through all of that, the world chose to spit on me and continue to kick me while I was down. The accusations of me lying about a pregnancy and miscarriage that I received daily while dealing with such an unexpected loss was a pain that I will never forget. I was losing a baby while being shredded apart by some of the most awful comments I’ve ever had said to and about me.”
Garcia — who appeared on season 4 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City from September 2023 to January 2024 — met Knight while filming a snowmobiling scene for the Bravo reality series. She revealed in April 2024 that the couple were expecting their first baby together, but she suffered a miscarriage later that month.
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After her previous experience, Garcia chose to keep this pregnancy private until one month before her due date, telling People, “That miscarriage was my lowest point with being in the public eye and I wasn’t going to put myself through that again, for the sake of the pregnancy and the baby.”
“God has been there for me every single step of the way,” she added. “I have been so blessed and been silent about all of it. I just hope someone reads this and it resonates with them on some level. Reminds them that no matter what people do to you, say about you or try to take from you, they can NEVER take what God has for you.”
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