There’s a new “number one” guy in the group.
Former “Vanderpump Rules” stars Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor welcomed their first child, a son named Cruz Michael Cauchi on April 12.
“Yesterday, April 12th at 1:51 pm, our lives changed forever in the absolute best way possible,” Cartwright wrote on her Instagram Tuesday evening. “Our beautiful son Cruz Michael Cauchi was born and we have never been more in love. He is the most precious gift and I am so blessed to be his Mommy. 💙 We are soooooo so happy, he is a dream come true!! 😭🥰💙- Both Mommy & Baby are doing great! 💙”
“I’ve never in my life thought it was going to be like this,” Taylor wrote on his own Instagram. “It’s 10,000 times better. Dad mode just kicks in. I don’t think I have ever been as happy as I am right now, everything else in life seems so insignificant now. I am crying just writing this message.
“I have the most beautiful son a man could ask for, he’s an absolute blessing from god,” Taylor continued. “I just want to say how absolutely amazing my wife has been through this whole process, it has not been an easy pregnancy for her but she did an absolute amazing job all the way till the end. I have always been in awwh of Brittany but I fell in love with her all over again. She is our families’ rock. We are so in love 💜”
Taylor, 41, and Cartwright, 32, first announced that they were expecting a baby in September and hosted an elaborate gender reveal party later that month.
In December, the couple announced they were leaving the Bravo show.
“We are excited to take this time to focus on our growing family and share with you our new endeavors,” Taylor said in a statement at the time.
Like her former co-star Stassi Schroeder, Cartwright also felt insecure about her pregnancy body.
“She’s already beautiful, she’s already gorgeous, but I always see Brittany looking at herself and I know in her head she’s just thinking sometimes that she think she’s not pretty,” Taylor said.
He added of their pregnant friends Stassi Schroeder — who welcomed her baby in January — and Lala Kent, “Their bodies are changing and they’re not used to that and they’re very insecure. They know they’re excited to be moms, but at the same time, they’re like, ‘Am I gonna get back into that bikini again?’”