Having dated long-distance, briefly break up, and reconnected in 2022 after Francesca’s run on Excellent Match, the pair introduced their engagement in April 2023 and shortly after shared they’d be suspending wedding ceremony planning whereas they targeted on having a child.
“We would like an enormous wedding ceremony, however I believe it will be so cute if we had a bit child in our arms or two infants in our arms on the wedding ceremony,” Francesca informed Laverne Cox at E!’s 2024 Individuals’s Alternative Awards in February. “So, hopefully we will have a child first after which do the massive wedding ceremony after.”
By that time, Jesse—who got here out as transgender in 2019—and Francesca had already begun exploring in vitro fertilization (IVF), an expertise they’d doc on social media.
“We’re actually excited to get it began and take you together with us as a result of I do know lots of people don’t present this course of,” Francesca mentioned in a 2023 YouTube video with Jesse. “He was even attempting to search for trans males who’ve completed this, and it’s so arduous and there’s not numerous info on the market. So, we acquired you guys.”
Jesse began the IVF course of first, together with his egg retrieval going down on his thirty fourth birthday in August 2023.
“He had eight eggs retrieved,” Francesca later shared on TikTok. “Out of the eight, 5 had been become embryos and three survived. So we have now three of Jesse’s embryos able to go within the freezer.”
