Hallmark Stars Kayla Wallace, Kevin McGarry Welcome First Baby: ‘Greatest Joy’
The Hallmark Channel family is growing!
Kayla Wallace and Kevin McGarry – who met on the set of When Calls the Heart and have starred in multiple Hallmark movies together – have welcomed their first child. The couple announced their happy news in a Mother’s Day Instagram post.
Kevin McGarry and Kayla Wallace welcome first baby
“Mother. The newest part of me that became the best part of me the second we met,” Wallace captioned a photo of herself and McGarry holding their baby’s hand. “Motherhood has been the greatest joy of my life. Happy Mother’s Day.”
The couple, who wed in September 2024, announced that they were expecting in a November 2025 Instagram post.
“Can’t wait to meet you baby,” they wrote.
“This has been such an incredible year,” Wallace told Entertainment Tonight shortly after announcing her pregnancy. “…It’s really a dream come true.”
McGarry plays a dad to an adoptive daughter on When Calls the Heart. The Landman star weighed in on whether that on-screen experience of parenthood might help him in real life.
“He didn’t have to change any diapers on the show. So we might need to do some practice in that realm,” Wallace said. “But all the fatherly advice? I think he’ll be alright with that kind of stuff. He’s a pretty wise and wonderful guy. I’m very lucky … we’re here for the journey, and it’s been a wonderful one so far.”
Erin Krakow and Ben Rosenbaum from ‘When Calls the Heart’ also expecting baby No. 1
Wallace and McGarry weren’t the only When Calls the Heart star celebrating Mother’s Day for the first time this year. Series star Erin Krakow and her husband and castmate Ben Rosenbaum are also expecting their first child. On Sunday, the pair shared a sweet black-and-white snap of themselves together on Instagram, which showed both of them cradling Krakow’s baby bump.
“Happy Mother’s Day,” Rosenbaum captioned the post.
In late March, Krakow shared a punny Instagram post related to her pregnancy.
“Bump on a log!” she captioned a photo of herself resting on a wooden bench made of a log.
“P.S. I asked [When Calls the Heart co-star Andrea Brooks] to make this post/pun happen during each of her THREE pregnancies and despite Vancouver having a ton of logs she didn’t do it,” Krakow added. “I have a new level of empathy for her lack of photographic drive now that I’ve reached this point in my own pregnancy. And is this even really a log? It’s more of a bench I guess. I’ll still count it if you will, Andrea.”
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