Former Bachelor Ben Flajnik is a dad!
“Baby boy Flajnik made us a family of three on December 22,” Ben, 43, and wife Christina Flajnik wrote via Instagram on Thursday, January 1, sharing a photo of the newborn’s feet. “He has shown us a new level of love we didn’t know was possible. Our hearts are forever changed.”
Ben and Christina announced late last year that they were expanding their family.
“Chapter 2 🍼,” they jointly wrote via Instagram in October 2025, alongside maternity snaps.
Ben and Christina have primarily kept their relationship out of the limelight, including details from their 2023 wedding.
“Last month, in an intimate ceremony surrounded by family I married my best friend and it was the most incredible day of my life,” the former Bachelor Nation star wrote via Instagram in November 2023. “Tears and laughs were had and I’ve never felt so present with another person in my life. I’m so grateful to do life with you and thank you for your unwavering love and support.”
Ben rose to fame in 2011 during Ashley Hebert’s season 7 of The Bachelorette, where he left as the runner-up. The winemaker subsequently led his own season of The Bachelor, which aired in 2012. While Ben proposed to finalist Courtney Robertson during the season 16 finale, they split several months later. (Robertson, 42, is now married to Humberto Preciado, with whom she shares three children.)
Three years after their split, Robertson broke down her side of the story in a tell-all memoir.
“I was not happy about the book. I didn’t read the book. I flipped through it,” Ben later exclusively told Us Weekly in July 2021. “People do things for different reasons — who knows, you know, what she was going through at the time. We’ve since made amends. We’re fine. We’re cool. We didn’t speak for probably six years after that book came out and then I reached out and just kind of extended the olive branch.”
Ben further told Us that Robertson is also still on good terms with his sister.
“She talks to my sister a lot still,” he told Us. “They’re still very quite friendly. I think she is happy living in Scottsdale, at least it looks that way. And, you know, Courtney was always a really nice person, deep down. She got a pretty raw deal with the [villain] edit.”
While Ben stressed that he was glad to see his ex-fiancée find her Happily Ever After, he was navigating the trenches of single life at the time.
“I sporadically go on Hinge every once in a while, so yeah, I suppose I’m on the apps,” Ben quipped at the time. “I live in Sonoma now, which is a fairly small town and that makes dating fairly difficult. … If I go on a bunch of first dates in the town of Sonoma then everyone probably just assumes I’m back being the Bachelor, which is not the case.”
Ben further revealed that he had even been approached to appear on Bachelor in Paradise.
“They’ve asked me to do it, like, five times,” he said. “My handler at the time, Adam Mansfield, is now working on that show, so he always reaches out and I’m just too busy. I have too many projects and companies and I’m too old.”
Sometime after turning down the beachy Bachelor Nation spinoff, Ben found love with Christina.