‘Summer House’ star Silas Cooper will miss the birth of his son
Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard star Jasmine Ellis Cooper looks forward to the birth of her son, but is disappointed with her husband, Silas Kuiper, will not be present at the delivery.
“He supported us as much as he could from thousands of miles away. And he knows I’m in good hands with my housemates, so that’s been great,” Jasmine, 31, shared exclusively We weekly at BravoCon on Friday, November 3. “But we’re also both strong as individuals, so I’ll keep it down here. He’s holding it there for the country.”
Silas, 32, announced in March 2022 via Instagram that he had become a commissioned officer in the Army Reserve after training 1,000 miles from his home in New York City. His family is from Liberia, and he noted that one of the reasons he joined the Army Reserve was because America “embraced my family and me at a time when my native country was at war.”
Jasmine, meanwhile, announced in November that she and Silas are expecting their first child. “Silas and I will welcome Baby Cooper in February 2024!” she wrote at the time via Instagram.
Fellow cast member Bria Flemingmeanwhile told Us that a change in Jasmine’s appearance made her suspect she was pregnant.
‘When I first saw her I thought: your breasts look big. Did you get a boob job? And then she says: no. And I’m like, okay, cool,” Bria shared Us. “But when I found out, I thought, ‘I knew it.’ It was just the breasts that gave it away.”
Jasmine Ellis Cooper, Silas Cooper.
Bravo (2)According to Bravo, Jasmine and Silas met through the Hinge dating app. The couple got engaged in 2021 and married in June 2022 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
When it came to starting a family, the former Playboy Bunny wasn’t concerned about whether their child would be a boy or a girl.
“Honestly, I just wanted a healthy baby. I don’t think we cared what the gender was,” Jasmine explained. “We were just excited to start our family, and moving into a new chapter space last year was very complex, but we have a really good village and great friends, and it feels like a really good start to something new.
With her husband in the military, Jasmine said Silas was definitely missed when they filmed season two of the series this summer.
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“He introduced me to Martha Vineyard,” she noted. So it felt strange that he wasn’t there.”
Bria also felt that their Summer house family was not complete.
“It was a missing piece for our group of friends because he would, like, walk around the house. He was just really happy and you can hear him, so if he wasn’t there he would always mediate a lot of the drama too,” Bria recalled to Us. “You feel his presence is gone. So we have that missing piece. Wow. We miss him. We have to do a few FaceTimes, but it’s not the same.
The original Summer house premiered on Bravo in January 2017 and followed a group of friends who share a house in the Hamptons on the weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The success led to two spin-offs; Winter house And Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard.
A Bravo employee saw a photo of Silas and his friends vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard on Instagram and contacted him to part of the series. Filming of the first season of the Vineyard series took place over the course of 15 days in the late summer of 2022 in the town of Edgartown. After a successful season 1, which premiered in May 2023, season 2 will debut in 2024.
Fleming said local residents have given the cast a warm welcome for their return to the vineyard in August 2023.
“It was a lot of activities, a lot of trips, a lot of rebuilt relationships,” she noted. “We became known everywhere. People loved having us there.”
Season 1 also had some drama Maria Torres was kicked out of the house in the third episode after pushing Bria during an argument. Mariah, 32, did not appear in any of the remaining five episodes of the season.
Jasmine wouldn’t reveal any details about season two, but she did say it will be entertaining.
“It’s a different rollercoaster this season. I know we took you guys on a roller coaster ride last season,” she said. “Emotional, but you’re going to enjoy the ride this season.”