Jade Roper knows her son Reed and her late son, Beau, would have gotten along.
Roper, who shares Reed, 5, with husband Tanner Tolbert, took to Instagram on Tuesday, March 10, to gush over her little one. “Reed appreciation post,” she captioned a selfie of her and her son. “Today we went for a walk and afterwards we stopped at a park to play. There were a few older kids (I think teens) there with disabilities and special needs playing with their caregivers.”
The Bachelor Nation star continued, “Reed was so sweet and quickly befriended one boy especially. He gave him one of his Hot Wheels (his own idea) and for 30 min straight they raced the cars down the slide.”
She went on to praise Reed for playing with the boy and shared that she was “holding back tears” watching them bond. “Reed was just so patient and thoughtful and friendly and chatty,” she wrote. “It made me think of Beau, and how perfect of a brother Reed would have been for him ????. I’m so proud of Reed.”
Roper, who met Tolbert, 38, during season 2 of Bachelor in Paradise, announced in 2023 that they were expecting their fourth child and experienced a pregnancy loss. (The parents, who tied the knot in 2016, also share daughter Emerson, 8, and son Brooks, 6.)
“I’ve been struggling what to write here as I’ve been navigating a miscarriage,” she wrote via Instagram. “It felt like all my dreams were coming true to welcome another baby into our lives, to love and to complete our family. While our hearts are completely broken and we have been dealing with the deep and complex grief of the loss, we have been blessed to be touched by his soul or his short amount of time. I am forever changed.”
She added, “I’m currently experiencing what is called a missed miscarriage, so while his heart has stopped and he has stopped growing (for some time now), my body hasn’t released the pregnancy yet. I am hoping to do this naturally and am trusting in timing and in my body under the care of my provider.”
In December 2025, Roper shared a faux photo of what her family could have looked like while asking ChatGPT to create a family portrait.
“Did the Norman Rockwell holiday trend and an extra boy was in our image, and it touched my heart, because of course, Beau would want to make the family photo,” she captioned an AI photo of a family of six.
