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big brother winner Nicole Franzel When she was pregnant with twins, she wrote a powerful thank you note to her body.
“Dear body, I’ve watched you change. You stretched. You softened. More than I could have ever imagined,” Franzel, 33, wrote via the website Instagram January 29th. “You slow me down when I want to sprint.”
The post included several photos of Franzel wearing a light pink pajama set. The reality star showed off her baby bump by tying up her shirt, which she added a heart shape and a lipstick kiss.
Franzel shared that while her “brain wants to be productive,” she has to listen to her body because it “needs rest.”
Big Brother winner Nicole Franzel has hit back at body-shaming comments she received online before she revealed she’s pregnant with twins. “Before revealing my twin pregnancy, I said hello to the trolls who body-shamed me,” Franzel, 33, wrote alongside a TikTok video on Thursday, October 30. Franzel began the clip with a close-up of the camera. (…)
“You carry more than just weight. You carry life. Worry and hope. Fear and excitement. Exhaustion and faith, all at the same time,” she continued. “Your lungs are growing. Your heart is growing.”
While Franzel “still faces” her own “judgment,” she expressed gratitude for her body and all the work it did during her pregnancy.
“I’m proud of you. I appreciate you. I love you,” she concluded.
In August 2025, Franzel announced that she and her husband Victor Arroyo yes expand their family. (The couple married in 2021 and also have a 4-year-old son, Arrow.)
“We are pregnant 🥹!! Praise Jesus!! So grateful to those who prayed with us for this miracle,” Franzel wrote on Instagram at the time. “After three years of waiting, God said it was time🥰🤍Our little family is growing!!”
The following month, Franzel revealed she was pregnant with twins.
“We were and still are over the moon. What a beautiful gift from God! I honestly felt so sick in the first trimester and it started happening around 8 weeks, and in my first pregnancy it didn’t happen until around 20 weeks,” Franzel said in a September 2025 interview. people. “I joked that there must be two babies there and I was so happy and shocked when there were. I’ve always wanted to have twins and they were the twins in my family!”
“We’ve been trying to conceive for a while, so this feels like a long-awaited gift,” Arroyo added.
Franzel later shared the twins’ genders and asked fans for help coming up with possible baby names.
“We are having a boy and a girl!” Franzel wrote via Instagram in January. “We are seriously considering two names, but nothing else 😅! You guys helped name Arrow, so you guys are good at this! (I’m curious if anyone suggested we use this name too!)”
Reality TV stars turn into parents! Nicole Franzel and Victor Arroyo welcomed their son, Arrow, in July 2021 after meeting on Big Brother five years ago. “Nicole and I have been friends since (after) Big Brother,” Arroyo revealed on Entertainment Tonight in September 2017, adding that the two began dating after meeting at the Big Brother 19 premiere (…)
Franzel is best known for competing in big brother Season 16 and Season 18. The second time she competed, she won the title. during the game big brother 18she met Arroyo. Franzel and Arroyo did not develop a romantic connection while playing the game. Instead, they struck up a friendship that lasted after the season ended and later turned romantic.
In season 20, Arroyo and Franzel briefly returned to big brother The house where Arroyo proposed. Since then, the couple has built a life in Michigan, where Franzel grew up.
“We’re still in the same town that I’ve always lived in. I’m very close to my family,” Franzel told EXCLUSIVELY US Weekly In July 2025, she talked about her peaceful life with Arroyo. “I love the four seasons. I love country living. I love country living. We did buy a house on 10 acres, we do have a rescue farm in our backyard and we just rescued a dog.”
