Former Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr. is taking precautions after spouse Lauren Luyendyk gave beginning to the couple’s fourth child.
“Making THAT name for the third time … Want a punch card,” Arie, 44, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, December 7, alongside a video of him calling the physician’s workplace to schedule an appointment.
“Howdy, it’s me,” he instructed a receptionist over the cellphone. “So now, I’d wish to get one other vasectomy. Snip snap, snip snap.”
Arie laughed as he famous there was a “lengthy awkward pause” on the opposite line. On the finish of the video, Arie mentioned, “Sounds good,” and flashed a thumbs up for the digicam. He paired the video with Adele’s “Howdy.”
“She’s most likely heard it a thousand occasions lol,” he captioned the submit.
Arie’s submit comes lower than three months after he and Lauren, 34, welcomed their fourth child, daughter Livvy. The pair introduced the beginning through Instagram in September, writing, “Welcome to the world livvy rowe luyendyk.🪽9/18/25. Love you our candy little angel woman!”
Arie and Lauren initially crossed paths throughout The Bachelor season 22, the place he in the end acquired engaged to Becca Kufrin. Arie, nonetheless, went on to interrupt off their engagement in pursuit of Lauren, whom he proposed to in 2018. The couple tied the knot in Hawaii in January 2019. Arie and Lauren welcomed daughter Alessi and twins Lux and Senna in Might 2019 and June 2021, respectively.
In February, Arie shared that he underwent a vasectomy reversal within the hopes that he and Lauren may increase their household.
“We mentioned we have been finished having youngsters, like, a pair years in the past, however I feel we’re gonna do it yet another time,” Lauren mentioned in a YouTube video on the time. “That sounded humorous, like, we’re solely going to do it one time.”
Arie defined that he “rushed” having a vasectomy in 2022 after the pair’s twins have been born, explaining that having Senna and Lux was “arduous at first.” Lauren, in the meantime, famous that he scheduled the vasectomy “with out consulting” her.
“He was like, ‘OK, it’s occurring. We gotta do that,’” she recalled. “And we did. I acquired on board.”
After present process the reversal, Arie shared that he was “completely” prepared so as to add to their household. “If we had a singleton, we may completely deal with that,” he added.
Lauren, in the meantime, was barely on the fence about attempting for child No. 4.
“He completely satisfied me that, like, chapter’s closed and I got here to phrases with that,” she mentioned. “Now, I’ve to simply get out of that once more. So I’m getting there [while] Arie is completely there. … However yeah, we’re going to do it once more.”
When Arie and Lauren shared that they have been anticipating their fourth child, the pair additionally confirmed in a YouTube video uploaded the identical day that the previous Bachelor’s vasectomy reversal occurred in summer time 2024. The couple, nonetheless, selected to not publicly share the information till earlier this 12 months.
“Lots has occurred since then,” Arie mentioned, whereas Lauren defined that they tried to conceive however she skilled a chemical being pregnant. Regardless of the ups and downs, Lauren shared that they have been “tremendous excited” for “our final child.”
