The Bold and the Beautiful: Ashleigh Brewer, Ivy, is Pregnant with Her First Baby
Bold and Beautiful star Ashleigh Brewer (Ivy Forrester) revealed some very special news over Valentine’s Day weekend: She is pregnant with her first child! The actress and her husband, Mark Bauch, are poised to welcome their new addition, a baby girl, in May. She opened up about her courthouse wedding, pregnancy and more in a revealing new interview with with Something to Talk About, a podcast based in her native Australia.
Baby Makes Three
After a two-year engagement, Brewer and Bauch tied the knot in Santa Barbara in December 2025. The actress explained, “We just couldn’t quite figure out how to do a wedding, where to do it. He’s English, I’m Australian. We both live in L.A. We have a great, amazing, large group of friends here in L.A. as well. So, we’re like, ‘Oh my god, how would we even do this?'”
Discovering that she was expecting lit a proverbial fire under the couple, and in just 9 days, they planned and executed their intimate courthouse ceremony. “It was just the most picturesque, most fun day,” beamed the newlywed, who wore a pregnancy-friendly white silk dress from Bumpsuit as her bridal attire. “I had the day off work, so we were like, ‘Let’s just go,’ and it was amazing,” Brewer summed up.
Now, entering into her third trimester, Brewer felt like the time was right to share her pregnancy news with the world. “It wasn’t that I was, like, really keeping it a secret or anything. It was just nice being in the bubble of a pregnancy bubble and no one really knowing,” she mused, noting that she’d been quite sick in her first trimester. She has also, of course, been working on B&B throughout her pregnancy. “Working pregnant is such a gift because I get to not think about being pregnant for a really long stretch of time, but we cover the bump and it’s just lovely to be in a zone every day of, you know, working and then the weeks go fast and the weekends roll around and I’m like, ‘Oh, there’s a baby coming soon.'”
Brewer admitted that she was a bit nervous letting her B&B boss, Executive Producer/Head Writer Brad Bell, know that she was with child, given that “my storyline had just started ramping up on the show after being around for quite a while again.” But Bell had a heartwarming reaction. She recalled, “He basically just gave me a high five and a hug and he said, ‘Congrats.’ And I’ve not stopped working since I told him. And I just feel so supported by him and by the whole production. I mean, I’ve known these people for 12 years. So to be pregnant with them and they’ve known me since I was about 22, it’s just so special.”
Because Ivy is not pregnant in the storyline, the show has been doing its best to conceal Brewer’s growing bump, and Brewer shared that “in between action and cut, I really, truly forget that I’m pregnant! [But] I’ll have directors whisper in my ear being like, ‘Honey, you’re you’re just rubbing your tummy,’ which is a new thing that’s started because I’ve popped quite a lot now.”
On Instagram on February 14, Brewer posted a photo of herself displaying her bump with the caption, “🌸🌷❤️🤗 We are so excited!!” Her enthusiasm was echoed by a score of B&B friends, including former love interest Darin Brooks (ex-Wyatt), who is also a girl dad, who wrote, “😮😮😮😮❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌🙌 Congratulations!!!” “Congratulations sweet friend!!” posted Linsey Godfrey (Sarah, Days of Our Lives; ex-Caroline, B&B), who is mom to one daughter. Mom of two girls and B&B alum Karla Mosley (ex-Maya; Dani, Beyond the Gates) wrote, “Oh honey. Congratulations ❤️❤️❤️.” Sydney Bullock, who plays B&B’s Dylan, offered, “SOOOO excited for you!!!! ❤️,” adding, “You are just glowing 🌟💛.”
Soap Opera Digest also offers its warmest congratulations to Brewer and Bauch.
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