It may feel like long ago now, but last fall there was another bombshell that had the world of MTV Reality shook once again. Though this time, there wasn't the kind of surprise that accompanied the first time that
Cory Wharton announced to everyone that he was a dad once again, as many of those who've competed with him on many Challenges and shared an MTV show with him are now tackling life's biggest challenge of parenthood & raising kids when they're not entertaining us on our screens.
It was in mid-October that he and a girlfriend who he met on
Ex On The Beach,
Taylor Selfridge, granted US Weekly an exclusive scoop where they would announce that, in spring 2020, they would be expecting her first baby and his second kid in the span of just under three years. And for the second time in that same timeframe, everyone in the social universe once again had reason to give them congrats, all before he would fly out to Prague to film the current season of
The Challenge, and his first time competing on the show in over a year.
In the six months since, they had the opportunity to host a gender reveal party some of their MTV friends including those in line to join the family for
Total Madness, as well as everything that comes with expecting the newest member of the increasing family for both Cory & Taylor, which we've had a glimpse of on Teen Mom OG and with more to come there. But obviously, the ladder trimester of this pregnancy fell during this unprecedented time of the whole country being on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was only when they found out that they would have a baby girl that it would be the only time they would celebrate the new entry with friends.
Regardless, everyone not only in Challenge Nation, but everyone else in the broader MTV community, have had this time of year of spring circled on our calendars well in advance, for that Cory would find himself on two separate shows airing on the channel on back-to-back nights, something that's a rarity in TV circles among programs that air just once a week:
Teen Mom on Tuesday, and
The Challenge on Wednesday. And this only adds more to the universe that surrounds the mom of his baby,
Cheyenne Floyd, which brought them to the Teen Mom universe, joining the OG's of the series.
While Episode 4 of Cory's return engagement of
The Challenge took over our attention at midweek last week, the focus for Cory & Taylor were on the final hours of her nine-month pregnancy. Last week's episode of
Teen Mom saw him finding out the news of her having a baby, and in the hours before that saw them getting woke by a 3.8 earthquake that struck the Southland after midnight late on Tuesday. But last Wednesday night as
Total Madness was airing out west, she was in labor as they were due to deliver her new baby... and at 9:17PM, twenty-two hours after arriving at the hospital and two hours after her water broke, they proudly welcomed baby girl
Mila Mae Wharton.
The now 2-time father got to share the news for the first time on Instagram live in him saying, "She's here! Everybody's safe, everybody's healthy. Taylor's fine, the baby is gorgeous." Afterwards, they got to enjoy the first hours and days of her new life as a mom in private before yesterday, when on also on Instagram they officially welcomed their new kid to the social media universe. And in the captions that accompany the IG pictures below, the new parents got to officially welcome Mila Mae to everyone, one that the new dad got to say,
"I MAKE SOME PRETTY BABIES!!!!", and the new mom calls of her new bundle of joy,
"my little chunky butt."
