{"id":287279,"date":"2020-01-28T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1116964"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T18:49:53","slug":"influencer-rocky-barnes-gives-birth-to-her-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/influencer-rocky-barnes-gives-birth-to-her-first-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Influencer Rocky Barnes Gives Birth to Her First Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.07264957265\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019816\/rs_634x1024-190916105349-634-rocky-barnes-IG-91619.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Rocky Barnes\" alt=\"Rocky Barnes\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram\/Rocky Barnes<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.939759036145\">\n<p>And a baby makes three!<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, influencer&nbsp;<strong>Rocky Barnes<\/strong> announced that she and husband <strong>Matt Cooper<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1073608\/model-rocky-barnes-is-pregnant-with-first-child\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> welcomed their first child together<\/a><\/strong>. Taking to Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/28850\/see-every-celebrity-at-fashion-week-spring-2020\/954243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the model<\/a> shared a sweet post to celebrate the arrival of their son<strong> Jones Robert Cooper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome to the world JONES ROBERT COOPER,&#8221; she captioned her post, where she can be seen holding her baby boy in the hospital. &#8220;It was a tough delivery for the both of us, and we have spent the past couple days recovering.&nbsp;@matt_coop&nbsp;is wheeling me around the hospital while Jones is being looked after in the NICU. We can&#8217;t wait to bring our little boy home!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before welcoming little Jones, Matt gave his wife an adorable shout-out on his Instagram as she went into labor and expressed his joy to finally be a dad, writing, &#8220;So proud of you&nbsp;@rocky_barnes&nbsp;you&#8217;ve taken on pregnancy as you do everything with class and style. Cant wait to meet my little man.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.933628318584\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.654867256637\">\n<p>Speaking with<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hatchcollection.com\/model-social-media-darling-rocky-barnes-on-overcoming-her-fear-of-sacrificing-her-career-bump-style-spicy-margaritas-and-avoiding-reading-pregnancy-books\/?utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=organicsocial&amp;utm_campaign=rockyblog3_linkinbio_0109&amp;utm_content=later-4767780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HATCHland<\/a><\/em>, the then-mom-to-be opened up about how she used to worry that getting pregnant would cost her gigs, but after seeing new mom<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ashley_graham\"> Ashley Graham<\/a><\/strong> embrace her bump and still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1100150\/ashley-graham-and-her-baby-bump-star-on-the-cover-of-vogue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">land on the cover of <em>Vogue<\/em><\/a>, Rocky and Matt&#8217;s little bundle of joy couldn&#8217;t have come at a better time in her career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is, timing is never perfect for changing your entire life,&#8221; she told the fashion blog. &#8220;There&#8217;s always another job or another trip and I struggled with this for years as a model. However, at 34-years-old, I&#8217;ve worked hard, traveled all over the world, and hit significant milestones. I&#8217;m confident with where I&#8217;m at in my career and ready to start our family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>Back in September 2019, the <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> model broke the news that she and Matt were expecting. At her 20-week mark, she posted a series of pictures cradling her growing bump, captioning it, &#8220;SO EXCITED to finally announce we have a Mini Cooper on the way!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This announcement also happened to fall on their first wedding anniversary. Hours after&nbsp;Rocky revealed that a baby was on the way, she took to Instagram again to wish her hubby a happy anniversary.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.797996661102\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.599332220367\">\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t stop smiling looking back on all our wedding pics!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/videos\/294998\/rocky-barnes-tells-which-fashion-trends-need-to-stay-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the fashion designer<\/a>&nbsp;gushed. &#8220;What an epic day! I am so lucky to have found you. You show me unconditional love daily and always put us first. I love how much fun we have, and how much we have accomplished together. You truly are my better half. Love you babe!&nbsp;#rockytakescoop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Matt said, &#8220;Can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s already been a year since this magical day! Feel so lucky to journey through life with you by my side. I find myself loving you more and more each day. Cant wait for our next adventure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to the Coopers!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1116964\/influencer-rocky-barnes-gives-birth-to-her-first-child?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram\/Rocky Barnes And a baby makes three! On Tuesday, influencer&nbsp;Rocky Barnes announced that she and husband Matt Cooper welcomed their first child together. Taking to Instagram, the model shared a sweet post to celebrate the arrival of their son Jones Robert Cooper. &#8220;Welcome to the world JONES ROBERT COOPER,&#8221; she captioned her post, where she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-02 03:20:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}