Former American Idol contestant Triston Harper is officially a father at 17 years old after he and his wife, Paris Reed, welcomed their first child together.
"Everybody my Grand Baby has made her Grand Entrance …. weighing a solid 6lbs and 6 ounces,” Hattie Mae Sullivan, Harper's mother, shared via Facebook on June 23. “Brenley Lichelle Harper Has now arrived on the scene and she ain’t here to play. She’s already in boss mode!!!!! Feed me, Change me, Cut that bright light out. Yes ma’am whatever you want G MA is gonna make it happen!!!!!”
Shortly after Sullivan shared the news, several of her friends took to the comments section to congratulate the family.
Harper and Reed announced they were married in November 2024, and Sullivan revealed the couple was expecting their first child together just two days later. "Now Everybody has congratulated me on Triston and Paris getting married but to me that is old news but now I’m bout to be a ‘G Ma,’” Sullivan wrote alongside a photo of Harper and Reed posing with a positive pregnancy test.
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Harper made his debut on American Idol during season 22, which aired on ABC from February to May 2024. He made it to the top five before he was eliminated from the competition. Abi Carter ultimately ended up winning the season.
In addition to catching the attention of fans with his talent, Harper also pulled on viewers' heartstrings when he opened up about his difficult childhood on the show.
"By the age of 11 years old, my mom was with my stepdad. He was getting very abusive. We had to leave McIntosh, [Alabama], then everything, it went sideways, just like that,” he said in a video package featured on the show. “The lowest part of my life was when me and my mom had [become] homeless and were sleeping on the sidewalk. I had just turned 12.”
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