{"id":388026,"date":"2026-01-24T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:26:15","slug":"bachelorette-star-emily-maynard-becomes-a-grandmother-at-age-39-as-daughter-ricki-20-welcomes-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/388026\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelorette star Emily Maynard becomes a grandmother at age 39 as daughter Ricki, 20, welcomes baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily Maynard of The Bachelor<\/a> fame has become a grandmother.<\/p>\n

On Friday the 39-year-old former reality TV<\/a>\u00a0star’s 20-year-old daughter Ricki Hendrick took to Instagram to announce that she has welcomed her first child.<\/p>\n

Then, in a joint Instagram post, she and husband Tyler Johnson shared photos holding the baby in the hospital and wrote, ‘We became grandparents today!! The feeling is inexpressible. This is love,’ adding the bible verse, ‘1 John 4:7-11.’<\/p>\n

Hendrick previously shared two black and white photos from the hospital, including one of a medical professional holding her swaddled newborn at her head as she rested in bed.<\/p>\n

The second image showed her stepfather holding the baby as her mother looked on and affectionately placed a hand on the child’s arm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Best day ever,’ she captioned the precious pair of snapshots.<\/p>\n

It comes after she took to social media in August to announce her pregnancy with an ultrasound photo.<\/p>\n

\"Emily <\/p>\n

Emily Maynard of The Bachelor fame has become a grandmother at age 39<\/p>\n

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Maynard’s daughter Ricki Hendrick (seen left on Maynard in this family photo) announced on Friday that she has welcomed her first child<\/p>\n

According to Us Weekly<\/a>, she wrote in another post at the time, ‘My heart is so full, yet my stomach is so empty because she hates all food. I\u2019m convinced,’ revealing she was having a baby girl.<\/p>\n

Hendrick’s dad, Maynard’s fianc\u00e9 Ricky Hendrick, died in a 2004 plane crash when he was 24 years old.<\/p>\n

Maynard didn’t find out she was pregnant until after his untimely death, and gave birth at 19 years old.<\/p>\n

Hendrick’s full name is Josephine Riddick Hendrick, but her mom has called her Ricki in honor of her late father.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mother-of-six \u2013 who shares five young kids with Johnson \u2013 appeared on The Bachelor in 2011.<\/p>\n

She beat the other contestants and was engaged to Brad Womack by the end of season 15, but the couple split shortly after the finale.<\/p>\n

Maynard later became The Bachelorette in 2012’s season eight. She got engaged to Jef Holm, but they also split before walking down the aisle.<\/p>\n

She married Johnson in 2014 and they share sons Jennings, 10, Gibson, nine, Gatlin, eight, Jones, three, and daughter Nola, five.<\/p>\n

\"Hendrick <\/p>\n

Hendrick shared two black and white photos from the hospital, including one of her stepfather Tyler Johnson holding the newborn as her mother looked on and affectionately placed a hand on the baby’s arm<\/p>\n

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The new mom also shared a photo of a medical professional holding her swaddled newborn at her head as she rested in bed after giving birth<\/p>\n

\"In \"They <\/p>\n

In a joint Instagram post, Maynard and husband Tyler Johnson shared photos holding the baby in the hospital and wrote, ‘We became grandparents today!!\u00a0The feeling is inexpressible. This is love’<\/p>\n

\"Hendrick <\/p>\n

Hendrick is big sister to five younger siblings \u2013 four brothers and one sister \u2013 who surrounded her after she gave birth<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The father of Hendrick’s newborn baby girl appears to be a young man named\u00a0Carter Dyer, who was tagged in social media photos<\/p>\n

\"Maynard <\/p>\n

Maynard famously appeared on The Bachelor in 2011 before later starring on The Bachelorette<\/p>\n

Following Hendrick’s pregnancy announcement, Maynard took to social media to share her reaction to the news.<\/p>\n

The now-grandmother is open about her strong Christian faith, but revealed she was not upset that her daughter was having a baby out of wedlock.<\/p>\n

Hendrick posted a question from a follower who asked what her family thinks of her having a ‘baby outside marriage.’<\/p>\n

Maynard appeared in a video and facetiously responded, ‘Very against it. I cannot believe anybody would ever do that. Unforgivable.’<\/p>\n

Her daughter playfully piled on, ‘My mom is truthfully so devastated, she\u2019s so upset,’ while showing baby items her mom bought in anticipation of her grandchild.<\/p>\n

‘She\u2019s not excited at all for me to have a baby. She\u2019s pissed, actually. She\u2019s super angry. She can\u2019t even look at me. She doesn\u2019t support it at all. She is pissed,’ she joked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emily Maynard of The Bachelor fame has become a grandmother. On Friday the 39-year-old former reality TV\u00a0star’s 20-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[97,96,103,100731,45354,391,478,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-388026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-instagram","tag-the-bachelor","tag-the-bachelorette","tag-tv","tag-tvshowbiz","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}