Meet Too Hot to Handle’s Francesca Farago and her fiancé Jesse Sullivan: Farago – who’s also on Netflix’s Love Is Blind and Perfect Match – is expecting with her transgender TikTokker fiancé

Apr 4 , 2024

Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle star Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan are expecting their first baby together. Photo: @jessesulli/Instagram

Francesca Farago and her transgender fiancé Jesse Sullivan are expecting!

Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan at the People’s Choice Awards. Photo: @francescafarago/Instagram

The reality TV star – who appears on Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle – and the TikTokker shared the joyful news in a joint Instagram post on Sunday.

“We wanted to take this special day to celebrate this amazing milestone with all of you,” she wrote. “I am still pretty newly pregnant, and there’s so much more to come, but we are so excited to be growing our famil….. Ah I’m pregnant!” it reads.

In a recent interview with People on the iHeartRadio Music Awards red carpet, Farago said that the couple would probably have the wedding after the birth of their first baby together. “We’re going to do wedding after babies because we were thinking how cute would it be to have two little newborns at the wedding or like two little toddlers,” Farago said, referring to the fact that Sullivan already has a child. “That would be so cute to like include them.”

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Sullivan added that they will “probably do a courthouse wedding first while she’s pregnant and then do an actual wedding a little later”.

Here’s everything we know about the couple:

Who are Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan?

Francesca Farago first rose to fame with her appearance on Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle. Photo: @jessesulli/Instagram

Farago, 29, is a Canadian reality TV star who has appeared on three Netflix dating shows: Too Hot To Handle, Love Is Blind and Perfect Match. Her fiancé, Jesse Sullivan, does not work in reality TV. He is a TikTok influencer who rose to fame during the Covid-19 pandemic for sharing his gender transition story, per Business Insider.

How did Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan meet?

Ironically, Francesca Farago did not meet her match through the dating shows she appeared on. Photo: @francescafarago/Instagram

Despite starring on multiple reality TV dating shows, Farago ended up finding love elsewhere. Per E! Online, Farago and Sullivan first met in June 2021 at a TikTok event for Pride Month.

“TikTok hired me to host an event for Pride Month,” she told Elite Daily in 2023. “It was over Zoom. It was a TikTok live event with Willow Smith and the app’s LGBTQ+ Trailblazers. I interviewed three people and Jesse was one of them. We met on Zoom and just fell in love very quickly.” They went social media official just a year later.

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When did Francesca Farago and Jesse Sullivan get engaged?

Francesca Farago made the list of Variety’s most powerful women of reality TV in 2023. Photo: @francescafarago/Instagram

According to an Instagram post shared by Farago, the couple got engaged in May 2023.

“We’re engaged, a glimpse into the most magical night eve….. obsessed with our family … what is life!” she wrote.

Does Jesse Sullivan have a child?

“Some of my favourite moments in 2023 with him,” Francesca Farago wrote on this Instagram caption. Photo: @francescafarago/Instagram

Sullivan already has plenty of experience as a parent. According to E! Online, he has a 13-year-old child named Arlo from a previous relationship.

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Francesca Farago and her transgender fiancé Jesse Sullivan are expecting: the reality TV star and the TikTokker shared the joyful news in a joint Instagram post on Sunday
Farago has now done 3 different Netflix dating shows, while Sullivan is a TikTok influencer who rose to fame during the Covid-19 pandemic for sharing his gender transition story