Laura Byrne and Matty J confirm their baby girl's name

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13-07-2025

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Their third child hasn't been born yet but former reality stars Matty 'J' Johnson and wife Laura Byrne haven't held back from sharing their little ones name well before her arrival.
Shunning the tradition of announcing the name at birth, Johnson revealed the moniker they have chosen for their third daughter in a new episode of the Stellar podcast, Something To Talk About.
'We are absolutely excited and we cannot wait to meet this little girl, Poppy,' Johnson said. 'But the reaction from people definitely makes you a little more guarded and apprehensive about what life is gonna be like once they arrive.'
'It is different with number three,' he added. 'Number one and number two, everyone's really positive. They're like, 'oh my God, this is amazing' for your first. 'How beautiful.' Number two? 'Your family's now complete.
Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar
Laura Byrne on set for Stellar. Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar
Listen to the full interview with Laura Byrne and Matty J on Something To Talk About:
'And then number three, people are going, 'You're crazy. What are you doing? Wow. Good luck, because that's gonna be hell.' So we're bracing ourselves for what's to come, which does feel a little bit strange.
The couple, who are already parents to daughters Marlie-Mae, six, and Lola, four, say they are 'prepared for the worst, hoping for the best' before Poppy's arrival.
'I think I've almost over-prepared for it being horrible and hard,' Byrne told Stellar.
'Is it gonna be easy? Absolutely not. Is adding another [child] ever easy? No. But I think I feel the most relaxed about this [child' than I ever have been.
'So we'll see how it all goes. Ask me again in four months' time.'
'Is it gonna be easy? Absolutely not!' Matty J and Laura Byrne are preparing to welcome their third child. Picture: Damian Shaw
The couple met on the fifth season of reality dating show The Bachelor in 2017, and wed on the NSW South Coast in 2022. Earlier this year, Johnson appeared on another reality TV show, I'm A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!, and was one of the final three in the wilds of South Africa.
Due to the show's strict no-outside contact rule, he did not learn of his wife's pregnancy until after the program was over and was 'completely ignorant to what was happening at home.'
Byrne told Something To Talk About that she found out about the pregnancy a few days after Johnson had left for South Africa and his phone had been taken off him.
'I was about 10 weeks [along] by the time I was able to tell Matt that I was pregnant,' she said.
Listen to the full interview with Laura Byrne and Matty J on Something To Talk About:
'It was like the biggest secret, but then I also was just telling random people because I couldn't tell Matt. So I was telling friends, telling my sister.
'[To Matty J] So many people knew before you did, you poor thing. Do you know who else I told before you? Julia Morris. I was like Julia, I'm so sick. I'm pregnant. Don't tell Matty, he doesn't know.'
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Laura Byrne co-hosts The Pick Up radio show with Brittany Hockley, from 3pm weekdays on KIIS; her podcast, Life Uncut, and Matty J's podcast, Two Doting Dads, are available wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen to the full interview with Laura and Matty J on the Stellar podcast Something To Talk About in a new episode out today. See their cover shoot in Stellar, via The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria), The Sunday Mail (Queensland) and Sunday Mail (SA).
Originally published as Bachelor couple Laura Byrne and Matty J confirm their baby girl's name