The Bachelor alum Shanae Ankney has welcomed her first child into the world with her boyfriend Nate Ebner.
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Shanae gave birth to a baby girl on April 11.
Shanae uploaded several photos of her newborn wrapped in a blanket and captioned them, “Maven Jane. 4-11-2024,” adding, “You were worth the wait my sweet girl.”
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In one of the pictures, Nate, a former NFL player, was shown holding his daughter in the hospital.
Congratulatory messages poured in from Bachelor Nation.
“Welcome to the world Maven Jane,” Michael Allio wrote.
“Congratulations baby!!!! So happy for y’all!” Danielle Maltby commented.
“Congratulations, beautiful mama!” gushed Genevieve Parisi.
“Congratulations!!!! So happy for your little family!!!” Jill Chin exclaimed.
Shanae announced she was expecting a little bundle of joy in late October 2023, and then she and Nate enjoyed an intimate and personal gender reveal in the kitchen of their home together.
“I cannot wait to become a girl mom. Baby Ebner arriving April 2024,” Shanae captioned photos of the couple celebrating after biting into a cake that revealed pink frosting inside.
Shanae told People she had discovered she was pregnant in July 2023 and that she was 16 weeks at the time she made her public pregnancy announcement.
“I knew I was pregnant before I even took the test. I just had a gut feeling,” Shanae shared. “We waited and waited for the double lines to show up, and boom! The double lines appeared.”
The Bachelor alum continued, “Nate and I were looking at each other, just smiling and in awe.”
Nate, who previously played for the New York Giants as well as the New England Patriots in the NFL, told People last year, “I think Shanae is a wonderful human with a beautiful soul, and I can’t wait to watch her be an amazing mother to our child.”
Nate predicted that the Bachelor in Paradise alum would be “the absolute best” mother, adding how she has “so much love to give.”
The athlete noted, “I know it will be difficult, but I think I have a lot to offer, and I’m excited about the experience, the challenge and the learning along the way.”
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Nate was apparently looking forward to becoming a father due to the close relationship he shared with his own dad.
“I know that, if I can be a fraction of the father he was to me, our child will be a lucky one,” Nate said. “I believe parenting is the first step to a better society.”
And Nate gushed about how he planned to be “the best girl dad out there” for his little one.
“I never really thought the baby would be anything other than a boy,” he admitted.
“[But] I can’t wait to have a one-of-a-kind relationship with this little girl, and I hope to be a great example for her of how a man should act, what strength looks like, and how you treat the people you love in your life.”
Shanae pointed out how Nate’s desire to have kids attracted her to him from the get-go.
“I knew he wasn’t messing around,” The Bachelor alum said of Nate’s willingness to commit and settle down.
“Him asking me how serious I was about children was very attractive to me because I knew how serious he was about children, wanting a family and looking for that special someone to share that with.”
And Nate chimed in and shared, “There’s no one else I’d rather go on this journey with than Shanae. I think together we will make great parents.”
After teasing how she had already been in a new relationship for several months, Shanae and Nate went Instagram official with their relationship in April 2023.
“Always laughing when I’m with you! [Heart emoji],” Shanae captioned three photos with her new man.
In the picture, Shanae was walking arm-in-arm with her beau, although she had chosen not to identify him by name at first.
Shanae sparked drama and was viewed as a villain on Clayton Echard’s The Bachelor season, which aired in early 2022.
Shanae, for example, called fellow The Bachelor 26 alum Elizabeth Corrigan “fake” and “two-faced,” and she mocked Elizabeth’s ADHD disorder.
Clayton asked Shanae to apologize for rubbing everyone the wrong way, and so Shanae delivered a totally insincere — although convincing — apology to the cast.
“I am really sorry and I hope we can get past this, because I really want to talk to you guys and confide in you and be there for one another. I am truly sorry,” Shanae announced.
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But then the blonde beauty bragged in a confessional, “I’m not sorry, hoes, you mean-ass b-tches! I need an Oscar award for that performance. Fake it until you make it! I never thought I could act before but I’m f-cking good.”
Shanae was called “a Herpes outbreak” and “a puppeteer,” and Clayton’s bachelorettes agreed that they would view Clayton in a different light if he continued to keep Shanae around.
“Shanae likes to push people to the limit and be cute, calm, and collected when it’s all so phony and calculated,” Mara Agreat said in a confessional on the show.
“She’s a roller coaster, she’s dramatic, she’s erratic, she’s unnecessary. She’s not wife material, she sucks.”
Clayton ultimately decided to eliminate Shanae in Niagara Falls, Canada, during a February 2022 episode of The Bachelor’s 26th season, and she claimed she was totally shocked and taken aback by her ouster.
Clayton decided to keep Genevieve over Shanae on a two-on-one date.
Clayton has said he would’ve sent Shanae home earlier had he known more about her antics and rudeness, but Lyndsey called him out for lying about the extent of knowledge he really had.
Clayton also suggested, totally under the radar, that producers made him give Shanae roses for the sake of drama and entertainment value, which “killed” his credibility.
Shanae went on to appear on Bachelor in Paradise’s eighth season in 2022, hoping to rehab her image and find lasting love.
Shanae made many girlfriends while filming this time around, including Genevieve, but she refused to commit to one bachelor in Mexico. Shanae made it known that she was having a good time and trying to keep her options open.
Shanae bounced from Logan Palmer to James Bonsall to Tyler Norris to Joey Young in Paradise.
Shanae fell the hardest and deepest for Logan, whom she wanted to return to after a string of dates, but he ultimately dumped Shanae in order to pursue a relationship with Kate Gallivan.
Neither Shanae or Logan left Bachelor in Paradise in a relationship in 2022.
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