Influencers Olivia and Lunden Stallings are expecting their first baby.
“There are some roads we didn’t choose to walk, some waters we would never choose to swim and heartbreaks we would never choose to endure. But we would walk, swim and endure everything and more all over again for the chance to be moms,” the couple wrote in a joint Instagram post on Sunday, May 10. “Your mamas love you baby girl 🤍🩰🦢 A very grateful Mother’s Day 🫶🏼.”
Alongside the announcement, Olivia and Lunden uploaded several photos posing in grass while donning pink dresses and holding black-and-white ultrasound photos in front of a white bassinet. In one image, Olivia cradled her stomach.
Olivia, for her part, shared a solo snap of her from the maternity shoot via her Instagram Story, writing, “The most special Mother’s Day with my girl.” In another Instagram Story, Olivia placed her hand over her stomach and added, “Living my dream.”
Olivia and Lunden initially crossed paths in 2020 and went on to build a significant social media presence, amassing more than 940,000 followers on TikTok to date.
“If we’re the first gay experience that people have, or people follow, or whatever — we’re really glad to be that,” Olivia told Business Insider in 2024, noting that “there wasn’t a ton of representation” when the pair was younger that might have looked like us,” meaning, “two very feminine women in a relationship.”
The pair said “I do” in 2023 at Naylor Hall in Roswell, Georgia. In the days after sharing their nuptials online, screenshots of what appeared to be Lunden’s past racially insensitive social media posts surfaced on Reddit. The uploads seemed to date back more than a decade.
In the wake of the resurfaced posts and the backlash that ensued, Olivia and Lunden issued a 10-minute apology video on their TikTok Stories. In the clip, Lunden shared that she was “completely and utterly disgusted and ashamed” by her posts, while Olivia called the uploads an “unfortunate and ignorant mistake.” After the video was released, an X post resurfaced in which Olivia wrote to her sister, N-word “I’ve been home.”
One year later, Lunden shared in an interview with Business Insider that she “wanted to take a moment to ensure that we are taking full accountability for the tweets.”
“There’s no excuse for it, and we can’t change what we said then,” Lunden said at the time, “and we are doing better and we’ll continue to do better.”
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