Olympian Ryan Lochte and Wife Kayla Rae Reid Welcome Baby No. 3: ‘We Are So Excited’
22.06.2023 - 03:01
/ usmagazine.com
A new recruit to the Lochte family swim team! Olympian Ryan Lochte and his wife, Kayla Rae Reid, welcomed their third child, a baby girl, on Wednesday, June 21.
“[We’re] thrilled. We are so excited,” the model, 31, exclusively told Us Weekly before giving birth. “Ryan is such a great dad; I can’t wait to see him as a father to 3. He’s so great with kids in general, they always gravitate towards him.”
She added: “I am excited as well, [but] I am more of the worrier, the strict one, the not-as-fun parent, let’s just say. It makes for a good balance.”
Reid and Lochte, 38, opted to name their little one Georgia June Lochte, which they “easily” agreed upon.
“Her middle name has a play on the timing of her birth and a family member,” the proud mom told Us, before teasing the infant’s nursery design. “[It’s] pink and green tones with a southern eclectic feel, [that] is what I was going for.”
The gold medalist and Reid — who are also parents to son Caiden, 5, and daughter Liv, 3 — first met and began dating in 2016.
“We physically ran into each other. We grabbed each other’s hands and were looking into each other’s eyes. We clicked,” Reid dished to New York Post that August.
The couple tied the knot twice — first in a Florida courthouse in August 2018, then at a Palm Springs ceremony with family and friends in September of the same year. Caiden, then 2, served as his parents’ ring bearer.
Lochte previously gushed about his son’s 2017 birth exclusively to Us. “As soon as I saw the head pop out, I immediately bawled my eyes out,” the swimmer reflected in June 2017. “We’re on cloud nine. It’s a dream come true. I’m still in shock. I can’t believe we made a baby!”
In June 2019, the twosome welcomed their second baby, daughter Liv.
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