Pro-life football star Tim Tebow and his wife, South African model and former Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Tebow, have announced that Demi-Leigh is pregnant with their first child together.
The couple announced the news with a reel on Instagram, and spoke about their excitement in an interview with PEOPLE. “We are just so excited and so over the moon to be having a baby together,” said Demi-Leigh, with Tim adding that he is “honored for the privilege of getting the responsibility and the joy of being mom and dad.”
Tim and Demi-Leigh met in 2018 and got married in 2020. Demi-Leigh is currently 16 weeks pregnant, and while she said she struggled with morning sickness early on, she added that she has loved being pregnant.
“I have gained the absolute just new respect for moms, especially moms that are working,” she said, adding, “[T]his is the most important thing that my body can do right now.”
For Tim, finding out he was going to be a dad was a life-changing moment.
“It’s just amazing how it also reprioritizes and changes what you put an emphasis on and what you value most,” he said. “News like that just supersedes the level of importance and the level of joy that you have. It’s just so cool.”
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Feeling “over the moon” to be a mom, Demi-Leigh said she knows Tim is going to be an incredible father. “I’m so grateful because I just couldn’t imagine a better life partner to do life with, first and foremost,” she said. “To be able to raise a little tiny human being together. I’m so grateful that Tim is my husband… that we get to do parenting together.”
Tim likewise had high words of praise for his wife, who he said would be a fierce defender of their child.
“She will be extremely loyal and loving. Demi is someone that is extremely determined. When she sets her mind to something, she goes all the way in — and I know that she will do that as a mom, too,” he said.
Tim Tebow has been an outspoken pro-life activist, and gave the keynote speech at the 2021 March for Life Rose Dinner Gala. He also spoke at the Kansans for Life annual Valentine’s Day banquet in 2020.
“It really does mean a lot more than winning the Super Bowl,” he said, adding, “One day, when you look back and people are talking about you and they say, ‘Oh my gosh, what are you going to be known for?’ Are you going to say Super Bowl, or we saved a lot of babies?”
His mother notably refused to have an abortion while pregnant with Tim while the family was living in the Philippines. In a speech at the 2018 March for Life, his mother, Pam Tebow, said she bled and cramped throughout the pregnancy. “The best doctor in town did some tests. She determined that Timmy was a ‘mass of fetal tissue – a tumor,’ and I needed to abort immediately or I would die,” she said. “Because of our love for the life in the womb, we chose to trust God and refused to have an abortion.”
Tim survived, but was born malnourished because only a tiny piece of the placenta was left intact. The doctor called it a miracle, while for his siblings, it was the opportunity for a running joke: they referred to him at “Timmy the Tumor.” That story was recounted by both Pam and Tim in a Super Bowl commercial, where Pam showed a baby picture of Tim and called him her little miracle.
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