Baring it all. Bekah Martinez gave an inside look at her home water birth even though she was “scared of the mean things people might say.”
The Bachelor alum, 25, welcomed her son, Franklin, in June. His arrival was a “dream come true,” she captioned the Tuesday, August 4, Instagram video, adding, “It was ecstatic. I was literally laughing and joking between contractions and smiling through pushing.”
The “Chatty Broads” podcast cohost felt “uncomfortable” watching the “raw and primal” footage, however. “I sat with this feeling for a while, and I came to a couple conclusions,” she explained. “I realized I still had so many negative, subconscious, deeply-embedded thoughts telling me that I wasn’t feminine enough; that I looked and sounded weird. I projected so many insecurities onto an experience that was truly one of the most powerful, magical moments of my life.”
The former reality star concluded, “This is a moment worth sharing; so in advance — f–k the haters.”
In the birth video, the then-pregnant star paced and was fanned by her family before sitting in a pool to push. She caught her baby boy when he came out.
Martinez and her boyfriend, Grayston Leonard, also share their 18-month-old daughter. Before Ruth became a big sister, the former ABC personality exclusively told Us Weekly about her birth plan.
“With my first daughter, Ruth, we had her at a birth center,” she told Us in May. “This time, we decided we were going to do a home birth with midwives. So that was already the plan. Now with quarantine and COVID-19, it’s kind of nice that I don’t have to be at the hospital. … If anything, some people think I’m a little less crazy, so good.”
When Franklin arrived, Martinez and the rock climbing gym owner, 31, waited five days to choose a name. “It was, like, we just couldn’t ever agree,” she explained to Jess Ambrose in a June podcast episode. “There were names that we both liked, but then we were like, ‘They don’t fit him.’ We went through like every f–king name imaginable.”
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