Colton Underwood is loving fatherhood. The former professional football player and Bachelor star recently opened up about how his new identity as a gay dad has become his “whole personality.”
His Instagram is chock-full of joyful photos of his family of three.
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“I’m over excited, and I am oversharing for sure. Rightfully so, though, because I had a whole year of getting the path to parenthood, and it didn’t feel right to go through all that so publically to just say now you can’t see,” he said on the Milk Drunk by Bobbie podcast.
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Underwood and his husband, Jordan C. Brown, welcomed their son, Bishop, in September. His arrival followed a fertility journey that involved surrogacy and Underwood’s own struggle with low sperm count, which the reality TV star talked openly about both in the media and on his podcast, Daddyhood.
On the podcast, he also spoke about being a public gay family.
“I’ve always sort of looked for how I fit into the gay community since I came out. I love the fact that I’m a gay dad. I want to, not promote it, but show people and normalize the conversation around what it looks like.”
“I know people have a lot of opinions and social media can be mean at times, but it’s been overwhelmingly positive so far by sharing him and our family… I just want to share that happiness and joy and serve as a role model to anyone on their journey to know there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”
He also said he and his husband are hoping for more kids in the future.
Underwood, who is also a former NFL player, came out in 2021 on Good Morning America.
“I learned in the Bible that gay is a sin,” he explained, adding that he heard a lot of homophobic insults in school sports. This drove him deeper into the closet and he said that he thought he would never come out.
Despite this boldness, he himself has also stirred up controversy since coming out.
His subsequent show, Coming out Colton, was not received with open arms by the LGBTQ+ community. Many quickly condemned the show, bringing up allegations of abuse against Colton and the mention of stalking in a restraining order petition filed by Cassie Randolph, a “winning” Bachelor contestant and Underwood’s former girlfriend. Tens of thousands of people called on Netflix to pull the plug on the series.
Underwood apologized to Randolph on Good Morning America.
Many on gay Twitter were also not impressed with the content of the series, in which Out Olympian Gus Kenworthy serves as Underwood’s “guide” to being gay. The series was quickly derided as “opportunistic” and offensive, as it was announced the same day that he came out on Good Morning America. This led to insinuations that he came out just to advance his career. Others have said that no one wants to watch another show about a wealthy, muscular, white gay man. The show was one season.
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