Tye Strickland and Melissa Rycroft Pregnant: Newlyweds Expecting First Child! (PHOTOS)

Melissa Rycroft and Tye Strickland, newlyweds as of December 2009, have announced Melissa Rycroft is pregnant! Melissa Rycroft was looking for love on The Bachelor during the 2009 season, but it just wasn't meant to be. Rycroft also appeared on Dancing With The Stars in 2009, coming in at only third place. Apparently, the young Rycroft, now 27, would soon experience a happy change of fate. (Photos of the happy couple linked below!)

Melissa Rycroft and Tye Strickland Photos: Newly-Wed and Knocked Up!

After being cast aside on The Bachelor, despite being chosen on The Bachelor's Season 13 finale, and losing DWTS, it may have seemed to some only heartbreak followed Melissa Rycroft. News that Melissa Rycroft is pregnant with her first child proves how far you can come in a year or two, if you never give up on finding what you want! (Visit The Hollywood Gossip for Melissa Rycroft and Tye Strickland photos here!)

Shortly after her relationship with Jason Mesnick on The Bachelor Season 13 ended, Melissa began dating former flame, insurance agent Tye Strickland. In December 2009, Melissa Rycroft and Tye Strickland were married in Mexico (Wikipedia). By July 2010, Melissa Rycroft is pregnant, proving the newly-weds are enjoying their time together as a new married couple! Though Melissa Rycroft and Tye Strickland weren't planning on having children so quickly, Rycroft says the surprise pregnancy is "a blessing" (Us Weekly Magazine). (You can see wedding photos from Tye Strickland and Melissa Rycroft's December wedding here!)

Tye Strickland (photo here), 29, is a State Farm* insurance agent from Bedford, Texas. The hunky, brown-haired, blue-eyed bachelor was off the market almost as soon as he re-kindled his relationship with Melissa Rycroft, and sources at Us Weekly say he wouldn't have it, or news of the pregnancy, any other way!

Us Weekly is reporting the couple has an estimated due date of February 2011. Congratulations to the happy couple.

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Us Weekly Magazine
The Hollywood Gossip
*unconfirmed, Google search result