Paul, 29, took to Instagram to share the excellent news alongside a maternity photoshoot of her and Mortensen. The loved-up photographs see the pair in a subject of untamed flowers, as Paul, wearing a child blue matching shirt and pants set, embraces Mortensen, who lovingly cradles the his girlfriend’s pregnant stomach.

“One yr later we have been blessed with our rainbow child. It has been an very emotional journey from final yr until now and I can actually say I am so excited for this new chapter of life with Dakota, my youngsters and this child,” Paul wrote alongside the pics.

She continued, “Floods of feelings have got here via together with a unique sort of pleasure and fear you’re feeling after dropping, nonetheless to this point the whole lot is wholesome and on observe and my coronary heart is full🤍.”

Mortensen additionally shared his pleasure over the information in his personal Instagram submit, writing, “There’s one factor I’ve at all times felt within me that I’ve dreamed about changing into, and that is a father,” he captioned the identical set of photographs. “I by no means thought I’d ever get to say these phrases in my life and I’ll do the whole lot and something to be the most effective accomplice and father to our little rainbow child.”

The kid would be the couple’s first collectively, and Paul’s third, with the Mormon influencer sharing children Indy, 6, and Ocean, 3, with ex-husband Tate Paul.

The announcement comes practically 10 months after Paul revealed she skilled an ectopic being pregnant. Paul opened up in regards to the being pregnant loss in a traumatic TikTok during which she revealed that she miscarried after beginning to bleed “rather a lot.”

After being handled, Paul shared that she was not pregnant. Talking on to her followers, the social media character supplied phrases of assist to these struggling an analogous state of affairs.

“My coronary heart goes out to all who’ve suffered via this, in even a lot scarier circumstances,” she wrote. “Was a gradual and painful course of. Nonetheless within the technique of restoration.”

The being pregnant loss isn’t the one traumatic occasion to impression the TikToker and her boyfriend. Paul was additionally charged with home violence in February, following an alleged incident with Mortensen.

She was charged with two felony counts of home violence within the presence of a kid, one felony depend of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor depend of kid abuse and felony mischief (by way of CBS Information).

Per a possible trigger assertion, Paul started hitting boyfriend Dakota Mortensen when he tried to depart throughout an argument. Video from the incident allegedly reveals the influencer throwing barstools at Mortensen, hitting him with one which additionally hit her daughter. In keeping with Web page Six, the police report mentioned the lady sustained a bump on her head — with authorities calling it a “goose egg” — whereas the chairs reportedly left holes within the partitions.

Paul pleaded responsible to a third-degree felony depend of aggravated assault in late August, whereas the opposite costs have since been dismissed. In keeping with the Salt Lake Tribune, who cited courtroom paperwork, Paul’s cost will probably be entered as a misdemeanor, on the situation she abides by the phrases of her plea settlement over the subsequent three years.

Mortensen, who has been open about his personal struggles with drug habit, voiced assist for his girlfriend within the wake of her authorized troubles, telling followers he can be there for her amid the drama.

“If there’s one factor I do know and I’ll proudly say that, she’s an unbelievable mother and she or he loves her children a lot,” Mortensen mentioned in a February TikTok. “Clearly, you guys all can assume the worst of the whole lot, as a result of that is all you guys do. However I’ve seen it and I simply know.”

“I will probably be there for her,” he continued, “however I am a recovering addict, all-time low is the place I have been many instances in my life and I want that I had those that I liked at these instances that left and walked away from me. I am not going to try this to her. I will probably be there for her and assist her any manner I can.”

Paul says that the pair has grown nearer because the incident, with the couple spending time with Mortensen’s household as they labored to develop their very own.

“I went and spent a while in Logan, Utah with Dakota’s household, his siblings, his mother and father and the Mortensen household is simply superb,” Paul mentioned in a video the next month. “I like all of them a lot.”