Jade Roper has apparently decided to say farewell to diapers, bottles and swaddles.
The Bachelor in Paradise alum revealed that she and husband Tanner Tolbert, whom she met on season 2 of the Bachelor franchise spinoff, are finished having kids.
“I think we are done,” Roper, 37, wrote on her Instagram Story during an Ask Me Anything. “Which is very bittersweet. I’m that person that I guess I don’t think I’ll ever feel that feeling of ‘our family is complete.’”
Roper and Tolbert, 37, share three kids — a daughter Emmy, 7, and sons Brooks, 5, and Reed, 4. Roper also experienced a “missed miscarriage” at five months pregnant in August 2023.
During an Instagram Story Q&A in September of that year, Roper shared more about her experience with pregnancy loss.
“I didn’t have any symptoms except that I stopped feeling pregnant in certain ways, like my nausea lessened a lot and my belly where my uterus is stopped feeling hard and springy,” Roper replied to a follower’s question. “I also just had this inner knowing that I felt he was gone.”
Later that year, Roper shared that her unborn baby’s heart condition might’ve led to the miscarriage.
“Our sweet Beau was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, so we think his tiny heart wasn’t strong enough,” she explained via Instagram at the time. “A lot of DS diagnoses are accompanied with congenital heart conditions.”
Roper recently celebrated the birth of fellow Bachelor alum Sydney Hightower’s son Beau, sharing on her Instagram Story earlier this year, “I’m so happy for Sydney, how beautiful it is [that] another sweet Beau will be so incredibly loved. He will be such a light, just like mine. ❤️.”
Hightower, 29, welcomed her first baby with husband Fred Warner in March.
In her November AMA, Roper also discussed how she and Tolbert balance the needs of each child, admitting she still worries if all of her kids “feel loved enough/feel time is equally spent with each kid.”
“I read once, just 15 minutes a day of true quality one-on-one connection with your child creates the security and bond a child needs to feel safe and connected to their parent/caretaker,” she wrote in response to a question about focusing on each child. “So creating a routine or ritual of that 15 minutes of quality time they can look forward to is key, I feel. Simple as reading books at bedtime and snuggling and talking about the day.”
Roper and Tolbert moved back to Kansas City, Missouri from California over the summer, returning to his home state.
“The Tolberts are home! 🥰,” she wrote alongside a video of footage from their California life. ‘So many memories we’ll take with us from the past three years in our old house in the canyon (5 1/2 years in CA total), and so many more we’re ready to create in this new chapter. Wherever we are together, that is home. ❤️.”
Suffice it to say, the Tolberts are big Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs fans. Roper and Emmy attended the Eras Tour in Indianapolis last week, and the family went to their first Chiefs game on October 7.
