{"id":292596,"date":"2020-05-19T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1153552"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:16:48","slug":"usain-bolt-welcomes-baby-girl-with-girlfriend-kasi-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/usain-bolt-welcomes-baby-girl-with-girlfriend-kasi-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Usain Bolt Welcomes Baby Girl With Girlfriend Kasi Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.649162011173\">\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\/2020419\/rs_634x1024-200519075054-634-usain-gj-5-19-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Usain Bolt, Kasi Bennett \" alt=\"Usain Bolt, Kasi Bennett \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"19.5\">\n<p><strong>Usain Bolt<\/strong> is officially a dad!<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, news broke that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/5424\/awesome-olympians\/196871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic gold medalist<\/a> and his girlfriend <strong>Kasi Bennett<\/strong> welcomed a baby girl. The exciting announcement came from&nbsp;Jamaican Prime Minister <strong>Andrew Holness<\/strong>, who took to social media to share the thrilling news with fans and send his best wishes to the new parents and their little one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congratulations to our sprint legend Usain Bolt and Kasi Bennett on the arrival of their baby girl!&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewHolnessJM\/status\/1262386101496492043\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared<\/a>, along with a picture of himself and Bolt together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, the&nbsp;legendary track and field star&nbsp;revealed that he and his longtime love were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/30892\/2020-celebrity-babies\/1014903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expecting their first child<\/a> together with a sweet tribute post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7qHthzl3XQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, which featured a stunning shot of the new mom cradling her growing baby bump while donning a red dress. He captioned the picture, &#8220;I just want to say a KING or QUEEN is about to be HERE. @kasi.b.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62.69387755102\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.632653061224\">\n<p>For her part, Bennett gave her followers another look at her maternity shoot by sharing more photos and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7qKKT7gwae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;Our biggest blessing..,&#8221; &#8220;Our greatest celebration\u2026,&#8221; and, &#8220;Our golden child. Coming soon\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bolt and Bennett have been dating for almost seven years and have expressed their desire to expand their family several times in the past. Back in 2017, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/parents\/usain-bolt-girlfriend-welcomes-first-child-baby-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>PEOPLE<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;I have [had] a&nbsp;girlfriend for four years now&nbsp;[and] it&#8217;s going steadily, so we&#8217;re thinking about kids very soon. We&#8217;ll see how it goes,&nbsp;we&#8217;re taking our time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>After sharing that he and Bennett had a little bundle of joy on the way, Bolt told the outlet that he won&#8217;t put pressure on his children to follow in his famous footsteps. &#8220;People always say, \u2018Are you going to put your kids in sports?'&#8221; he said in February. &#8220;But for me, if they want to be in sports, fine, I don&#8217;t really care. But, I won&#8217;t push them to do track and field. I think it&#8217;s going to be hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bolt continued, &#8220;I think it&#8217;s the hardest thing when you have a dad that is a superstar in a super-sport, I don&#8217;t think you should do that sport. I think you should do something else because there is so much pressure on you to live up to expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1153552\/usain-bolt-welcomes-baby-girl-with-girlfriend-kasi-bennett?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>Shutterstock Usain Bolt is officially a dad! On Monday, news broke that the Olympic gold medalist and his girlfriend Kasi Bennett welcomed a baby girl. The exciting announcement came from&nbsp;Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who took to social media to share the thrilling news with fans and send his best wishes to the new parents [&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-292596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-19 15:47:55","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\/292596","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=292596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}