“Survivor 46 ”winner Kenzie Petty welcomes first baby: 'Of everything I've ever done, this is by far the best'
"I don't have the words to fully encompass everything, but it was perfect."
Kenzie Petty is a mom!
The Survivor 46 winner announced via Instagram that she and her husband, Jackson Petty, have welcomed their first child.
"Out of everything I’ve ever done, this is by far the best," Petty wrote. "I don’t have the words to fully encompass everything, but it was perfect. Our birth was beautiful. We are doing great in postpartum."
The reality star added that her entire family is doing well after the birth. "Everyone's healthy and happy and he's the most perfect thing I have ever seen," Petty said. "I'll be soaking these snuggles in for the foreseeable future. This is everything I've ever dreamed of and so, so, so much more."
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Petty thanked her husband "for this baby and this life," adding, "I love you so much." She concluded her post with a name drop: "Oh, and his name is Beau and he’s a libra."
Additionally, in an Instagram story she shouted out her "squad" for their help in "making my dreams a reality." She added, "Thank you all for being there for me through the craziest thing I've ever experienced."
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Petty, who hails from Charlotte, N.C., first announced her pregnancy on Mother's Day, just days before Survivor aired its 46th season finale. After her win, she told Entertainment Weekly what she plans on doing with the prize money. "I'm not touching it," she said. "I really did go out there to set up myself for retirement. I am going to take a little bit longer of a maternity leave than I would've originally, but yeah, I'm going to be working the same. I'm living the same. I'm pretty much just putting it away and forgetting about it."
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Petty also told EW that she doesn't know if she'll return to the Survivor island if she's ever asked to appear on the show again. "I've gotten asked this a hundred times in the last 12 hours," she said after her win. "I think my Survivor experience was everything I wanted it to be. I know what it's like to be on the bottom. I know what it's like to be on the top. I think I'm good. Of course, if they call, you need to think about it. But I am very full from Survivor and I don't have anything else that I need from the island. I went out there to win. I won."
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