All About Hallmark Actress Rachel Boston's Family (Including Her Mini-Me Daughter Grace)
Rachel Boston welcomed her daughter Grace with Tolya Ashe in 2022
When Rachel Boston isn’t winning over viewers’ hearts in the latest Hallmark movie, she’s likely at home with the ones who have hers.
She and chef Tolya Ashe got engaged in 2021 and welcomed their daughter, Grace, a year later.
Shortly after, Boston was back on set filming Hallmark Channel's Dating the Delaneys, where she was joined by her mom and baby Grace.
"It was so wonderful, knowing that my daughter is just so loved and cared for like that. It is such a good feeling for me," she told PEOPLE in 2022. "Then, to be making a movie every day, where I'm going to set and we have my mother in the movie coming over to check on my daughter, who's with my actual mother, and check on me, [is special]. ... We're all looking out for each other."
From how her on-screen roles have mirrored her own motherhood journey to her sweetest moments with her daughter, here's everything to know about Rachel Boston's family.
She got engaged to Ashe in 2021
Boston announced her engagement to Ashe — a private chef — in an Instagram post on June 15, 2021.
“My forever love ❤️❤️❤️,” she captioned a romantic photo of the couple, simply adding “engaged” as their location.
Boston previously revealed she and Ashe were first introduced by one of his sisters in 2010.
"We actually had the classic Hallmark start where you've known each other for a long time, family is involved," she said during a joint appearance on Home & Family in Dec. 2020, before sharing that they didn’t immediately begin dating. “But then we reconnected and it was just divine timing.”
They welcomed their daughter in 2022
Boston shared the happy news of her pregnancy on Instagram in October 2021.
“It’s a girl!!!! 💗💗💗 Thank you for choosing me to be your mama,” she wrote alongside a stunning photo of herself cradling her baby bump with the sun setting in the background. “I am so excited for our journey ahead and can’t wait to show you this beautiful world! You are a light on this earth. I can already see it and feel it. 💗.”
She and Ashe went on to welcome their daughter, Grace, on January 14, 2022.
Boston announced the baby girl’s arrival on Facebook, writing, “Welcome to the world my little angel!!!! 💗💗💗 Baby Grace is here and our hearts are so very full!!! Thank you to everyone surrounding us with so much love. 💓💓💓 #amazinggrace #2022 #welcomehome.”
Grace visits her on set
Over the years, Boston has shared sweet images of Grace, including the little girl visiting her on a Hallmark movie set in July 2022. Alongside the photo, the doting mom shared what the moment felt like for her.
“This smile!!! My favorite person came to see me at work,” she wrote. “Being a new mom while playing a mom is an incredible feeling. Thank you to our producers and crew and the entire team @hallmarkchannel for supporting women and working mothers and to @paulcampbellofficial for all the dad jokes.”
In August 2022, Boston spoke to PEOPLE about playing an on-screen mom for the first time since becoming a real-life mom.
"It is so interesting to think back on how different I would have played certain aspects of new motherhood," she said. "It's just really exciting to be able to claim motherhood and be able to tell these stories now with this understanding."
Boston was also joined by another special woman on set: her own mother, bringing together three generations of women in her real life at her workplace.