Inside Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan’s Highway to Twins

Having dated long-distance, briefly cut up, and reconnected in 2022 after Francesca’s run on Excellent Match, the pair introduced their engagement in April 2023 and shortly after shared they’d be suspending wedding ceremony planning whereas they targeted on having a child.

“We wish an enormous wedding ceremony, however I believe it might be so cute if we had a bit of child in our arms or two infants in our arms on the wedding ceremony,” Francesca informed Laverne Cox at E!’s 2024 Folks’s Alternative Awards in February. “So, hopefully we are able to have a child first after which do the large wedding ceremony after.”

By that time, Jesse—who got here out as transgender in 2019—and Francesca had already begun exploring in vitro fertilization (IVF), an expertise they’d doc on social media.

“We’re actually excited to get it began and take you together with us as a result of I do know lots of people don’t present this course of,” Francesca mentioned in a 2023 YouTube video with Jesse. “He was even attempting to lookup trans males who’ve accomplished this, and it’s so laborious and there’s not plenty of data on the market. So, we acquired you guys.”

Jesse began the IVF course of first, along with his egg retrieval happening on his 34th birthday in August 2023.

“He had eight eggs retrieved,” Francesca later shared on TikTok. “Out of the eight, 5 had been become embryos and three survived. So we now have three of Jesse’s embryos able to go within the freezer.”