{"id":558120,"date":"2026-08-03T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558120\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:42:08","slug":"the-challenges-jenna-compono-zach-nichols-welcome-baby-no-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558120\/","title":{"rendered":"The Challenge&#8217;s Jenna Compono, Zach Nichols Welcome Baby No. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Challenge\u2019s Jenna Compono and Zach Nichols Expecting Baby No. 4<\/p>\n<p>For Jenna Compono, parenthood is the best kind of challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/the_challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Challenge<\/a> alum announced that she and husband Zach Nichols welcomed their fifth baby together, a boy, on Aug. 2, less than a year after giving birth to their daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With a 2-week early grand entrance, we&#8217;d like to welcome Vincent John into the world,&#8221; Compono wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dbll0p9FaOg\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Instagram Aug. 3<\/a>. &#8220;What originally was a checkup due to cramping led to a medically necessary induction due to low fluid (Oligo). Love you to bunches, my little Vinny boy.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old noted that their kids Anthony, 4, Liliana, 3, Carmella, 2, and Francesca, 11 months, have loved having the newest addition in their home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As she put it, &#8220;The other 4 are head over heels and just want to hold him every second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the couple\u2014who met on The Challenge: Battle of the Exes 2 in 2014\u2014growing their family has been a priority, although neither expected Compono to get pregnant so soon after welcoming Francesca.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Challenge\u2019s Jenna Compono and Zach Nichols Expecting Baby No. 4 For Jenna Compono, parenthood is the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-558120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}