Love Is Blind’s Bartise Bowden Welcomes 1st Child: Photo

His entire world! Love Is Blind’s Bartise Bowden has welcomed his first youngster, a child boy.

“May’ve been the villain on television, however I’m gonna be the hero for him. Instagram, meet my little man ❤️ #bigfella,” the Netflix star, 27, introduced through Instagram on Friday, April 7, alongside a collection of snaps that present him cuddling his new child.

Bartise confirmed the toddler — whose title has but to be revealed — was his youngster within the feedback part. “Nephew?” one social media consumer requested, to which the Texas native replied, “Son!” The fact star didn’t reveal the id of his son’s mom on the time.

The senior analyst went looking for love on season 3 of the favored Netflix collection, which aired in October 2022. Whereas within the pods, he established a reference to each Nancy Rodriguez and Raven Ross, ended up leaving the pods with Nancy, 32, and proposed.

Nonetheless, the finance govt later found himself in hot water after he referred to as issues off together with his fiancée on their wedding ceremony day. Earlier than strolling down the aisle, Bartise confessed that he was not bodily drawn to Nancy and instructed her that he was extra drawn to Raven, 30. She later referred to as out the College of Texas alum for gaslighting her on the collection.

Bartise completely opened as much as Us Weekly about his resolution and what he thought would occur if he hadn’t rejected the speech pathologist on the altar.

“That’s a part of the rationale why I stated no, as a result of I solely wanna make that call one time. Let’s say I say ‘sure,’ and we encounter issues or no matter, we’re sticking collectively,” Bartise, instructed Us in November 2022. “Her dad and mom are divorced; my dad and mom are divorced. I’m not going by means of that. So sure, if I stated sure, we might nonetheless be collectively.”

The fact TV star additionally revealed that he and Nancy were still friends.

“We determined to maneuver ahead making an attempt to be buddies. Quick ahead just a few extra months, [and] now we’re both in other relationships,” he defined on the time. “And I discovered it exhausting to take care of the extent of friendship that Nancy needed with me whereas I used to be additionally making an attempt to be respectful of a brand new lady I used to be relationship as a result of, you already know, she would get jealous that I used to be speaking to Nancy.”

Three months later, Nancy completely gave Us an replace on where she and Bartise stood.

“I believe me realizing that, because the 12 months glided by, there have been simply too many makes an attempt of him trying to be a good friend that don’t align with what a very good pal is,” she claimed in February, revealing that her former fiancé barely spoke to her at a Halloween social gathering that she hosted. “As soon as he got here [inside] with [his new girlfriend], it was simply him appearing very odd. He stated hello to me when he walked within the door … and I by no means heard or noticed him once more. After I did see him, they had been, like, making out in the lounge. [It was] simply little issues that I’m identical to, ‘Sir, like, that is my Halloween social gathering. Like, what are you doing?’”