Emily Maynard went on a robust journey of motherhood earlier than and after her appearances on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
After accepting a proposal from Brad Womack on The Bachelor in 2011, the couple referred to as off their engagement three months later. Emily returned for her personal season of The Bachelorette the next yr, although she additionally cut up from winner Jef Holm earlier than they ever tied the knot.
Emily was already a mom to her first little one, daughter Ricki, earlier than she made her actuality TV debut and finally welcomed 5 extra youngsters after marrying Tyler Johnson in June 2014. (Tyler and Emily share Jennings, born in July 2015, Gibson, born in September 2016, Gatlin, born in November 2017, Nola Belle, born in October 2020, and Jones, born in August 2022.)
Talking to Folks in December 2017, Emily remembered being up entrance with Tyler from day one about desirous to have a big household.
“I’ve at all times needed a whole lot of youngsters,” she shared on the time. “I made it clear on our first day, Pay attention, my clock’s ticking, and I’m able to get on this. I wouldn’t change any of this for the world.”
Hold scrolling to satisfy Emily’s six youngsters beneath:
Ricki Hendrick
Emily found she was pregnant with Ricki a couple of days after her fiancé, racecar driver Ricky Hendrick, was killed in an airplane crash in Martinsville, Virginia, in October 2004. 9 others additionally died within the crash.
The longer term Bachelor Nation favourite gave beginning to her first daughter in June 2005 and named her Ricki in reminiscence of her late companion.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Ricky’s loss of life in October 2024, Emily confessed in a poignant tribute that she’d generally felt “paralyzed at age 18” as a result of trauma.
“It’s so unusual to have a selected marker in time that utterly modified my life and soul endlessly,” she mirrored through Instagram. “I take a look at footage and don’t even acknowledge that woman anymore, irrespective of how a lot I want I might. [On] one hand I really feel like I’ve modified a lot after which within the different, that I’ve been paralyzed at age 18 endlessly.”
She went on, “I’ve so many issues I can’t wait to inform him. I can’t look ahead to him to satisfy my Tyler. I do know they’ll love one another and that Ricky is so grateful for the way effectively he has taken care of his ladies. Thanks, God, for letting me be part of his life and for permitting me the reward of being cherished by him.”
Later that yr, Emily assured her social media followers that her daughter Ricki was “alive and effectively” after mentioning through Instagram that her “coronary heart [hurt] in a bodily means” over lacking her little one.
“Ricki is alive and effectively in school. Sorry for any confusion,” she adopted up.
Ricki introduced the beautiful information in August 2025 she was pregnant together with her first little one by sharing a photograph of a sonogram through her Instagram Story and quoting Love Island USA’s Huda Mustafa: “Netflix instructed me I’m not allowed to speak about it.”
Accompanying a video of the newborn shifting, Ricki quipped: “My coronary heart is so full, but my abdomen is so empty as a result of she hates all meals. I’m satisfied.”
Jennings
Emily and husband Tyler confirmed the arrival of their first little one collectively, Jennings, in July 2015 by sharing a photograph of the brand new mother and her toddler son cuddling in mattress.
“God is nice,” Emily beamed through Instagram on the time. “My coronary heart can’t even deal with it.”
Previous to Jennings’ beginning, Emily provided a tongue-in-cheek clarification to North Carolina TV station WCCB about how the couple deliberate to call their son.
“We’re excited. I instructed Tyler that if he will get to select the final identify for everyone, then I ought to get to select the primary identify and if he needs to select the primary identify, then he can take my final identify and be a Maynard. He didn’t like that,” she teased in Could 2005. “So, we’re nonetheless compromising.”
Gibson
Gibson adopted Jennings simply over one yr later in September 2016. Throughout her being pregnant, Emily admitted to E! Information that it felt as if she’d “simply had Jennings final week,” although she and Tyler had an excellent cause for having one other child so shortly.
“I simply figured we have already got one in every of every,” she defined. “As an grownup, there are few surprises that you simply really get and I simply thought it might be enjoyable and it’s been actually thrilling.”
Following her son’s beginning, Emily stated that she picked “Gibson” as a result of it’s her center identify. Gibson’s personal center identify, “Kyle,” was Tyler’s grandmother’s maiden identify.
Gatlin
Emily and Tyler have been stumped on a reputation for his or her third son when he was born in November 2017, so that they requested their social media followers for ideas.
“Welcome New Child Johnson to the world. If anybody has any good boy names ship them my means! We’d like assist,” she wrote through Instagram.
Commenters recommended names like Walker, Truett, Luke, Parker, Jack and Leo earlier than the brand new mother and father shared their alternative a couple of days later.
“We lastly got here up with a reputation and have been capable of depart the hospital! Meet Gatlin Avery Johnson,” she disclosed. “The sweetest little brother this household ever might’ve requested for.”
Nola Belle
The Bachelorette star confirmed she was anticipating child No. 5 in October 2020 simply two days earlier than she really gave beginning.
Emily’s fifth being pregnant took a toll on her bodily and emotionally as a result of she was recognized with Bell’s Palsy within the latter phases of being pregnant. Based on the Mayo Clinic, the often-temporary situation causes “sudden weak point within the muscular tissues on one facet of the face” that make it seem as if one facet is drooping.
In Emily’s case, she needed to put on a watch patch all through her restoration, although she clarified that this wasn’t her first expertise with Bell’s Palsy.
“I had it in highschool and fortunate me am one of many only a few people who get it twice,” she wrote through her Instagram Story in December 2020. “It began with a nasty headache that received progressively worse and went into my jaw. Thought it was an ear an infection however then awakened one morning and couldn’t spit out my toothpaste or placed on mascara. I knew precisely what it was so [the] physician prescribed me a steroid.”
Jones
In November 2022, Emily introduced that she and Tyler realized throughout the beginning of their “candy son, Jones West Johnson” that he had Down Syndrome and a colon abnormality.
“Whereas it was definitely a shock, we’ve got a lot peace in God’s excellent plan and know Jones goes to be a blessing to our household,” Emily wrote through Instagram.
Jones spent one month within the NICU earlier than the household might take their child dwelling for the primary time.
“[He] is fortunately now dwelling in all of the chaos and we couldn’t love him extra,” she wrote. “Thanks to everybody at [Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina] for all that you simply did for our household. I’m so pleased to lastly share the information and might share all the photographs with you guys! He’s completely the cherry on prime! 🍒.”
Jones underwent an ostomy reversal process at 7 months previous to reconnect his bowel. Shortly after the surgical procedure, Emily assured her apprehensive followers that Jones was on the mend regardless of present process such a severe operation.
“I really like him a lot,” she wrote through her Instagram Story. “And for many who have requested, he had an ostomy reversal and it went nice.”
Emily and Tyler have been even capable of shock their then-2-year-old daughter Nola with Mattel’s first-ever Barbie with Down syndrome as her brother recovered.’
“I could also be new to this group, but it surely makes my coronary heart so pleased to see big corporations like @barbie together with Down syndrome of their lineup,” she added. “Nola Belle was clearly simply thrilled to get a brand new Barbie. Thanks @barbie for the sweetest reward ever.”
