Bachelor in paradise‘S Jade Roper feels all the love on her birthday, especially from her late son.
“Baby Beau sent me the beautiful sunset,” Roper, 37, wrote via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, December 19, as she filmed an orange sunset while sitting in the car.
Roper’s husband Tanner Tolbertpreviously posted a sweet photo of her sipping drinks during the couple’s “birthday night.”
“My little birthday queen,” Tolbert, 36, wrote via Instagram Story on Tuesday. “37 never looked so good. I love you @jadelizroper.”
Roper and Tolbert married in 2016 after meeting BiP season 2. They welcomed daughter Emerson in 2017, son Brooks in 2019 and son Reed in 2020. In August, Roper announced that she suffered a “missed miscarriage” while pregnant with the couple’s fourth child, a son she wanted to call Beau.
“I’ve had a hard time [with] what should I write here while I am going through a miscarriage,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “It felt like all my dreams came true to welcome another baby into our lives, to love and complete our family. While our hearts [are] completely broken and dealing with the deep and complex grief of loss, we are blessed to have been touched by his soul during his short time. I am changed forever.”
Roper explained that even though Beau’s “heart has stopped and he hasn’t been growing (for a while), my body hasn’t released the pregnancy yet.” She said she hoped to get through the rest of the miscarriage “naturally.”
She was later briefly hospitalized for a possible infection and ultimately underwent surgery, despite hoping to avoid medical intervention.
“Well, here we are,” Roper wrote via Instagram in August as she prepared for surgery. “I didn’t want or expect it to be like this, but it is. I wanted so badly to bury him under a beautiful tree in our garden, just to get a glimpse of his tiny body, and that’s why I put up with it for so long in an attempt to trust my body. But it’s time to heal and see the other side of this loss.
A month later, Roper opened up about having no “symptoms” before her miscarriage, but revealed during an Instagram Story Q&A that she “stopped feeling pregnant in certain ways, like my nausea went down a lot and my stomach where my uterus stopped feeling hard . and resilient.” She also recalled having an “inner knowing” that Beau was “gone.”
In November, Roper shared in another Instagram Story Q&A that her late son was diagnosed with Down syndrome, “so we think his little heart wasn’t strong enough.”
“Many DS diagnoses are associated with congenital heart disease,” she wrote.