Travis Hunter and his new wife, Leanna Lenee, should be celebrating an exciting moment as new parents but the online world is not too fond of the Newlyweds expanding heir family.
The Hunters, who are keeping their child’s name anonymous for now, surprised the world on Aug. 27 after announcing the birth of their first child together — a baby boy! The news was shared in a nearly three minute long YouTube video, and was a complete shock as the couple kept her entire pregnancy private from the public.
For much of their public relationship, they — primarily the Mrs. — faced a lot of backlash from fans who assumed Leanna was only out to get Travis’ money.
Travis was also harassed after getting engaged to and marrying his longtime girlfriend, as some believed he was moving too fast without knowing her true intentions. Similar sentiments are resurfacing after fans found out the news that they are now parents.
At the start of the YouTube video, the couple put together heartfelt moments of them finding out she was pregnant and later showing the paper with the gender reveal. Leanna also showed the note she created in her phone back in February where she wrote down the dream she had about their child. She dreamed “Baby was a boy with lots and lots of curly hair.”
The couple did not find out about the gender until about a month later
In the latter half of the video, Leanna shows off her growing belly before it cuts to clips of the hospital room where the couple snuggle together in the bed. It ends with a black screen and audio of the moment when Leanna pushes their son out as he cries.
“That baby looks just like me,” Travis can be heard saying, causing the room to erupt in laughter.
While the couple received a lot of “congratulations,” there were some others who lingered on the theory that Leanna is playing Hunter.
One person typed, “Her plan: Married Baby Wait a few years then divorce for millions (pending).”
Another person predicted, “2 years from now, divorce. It’s happening just the way we expected.”
One fan who can do math wrote, “I knew she was pregnant on her wedding pics. She has the ultimate playbook…Congrats to them.
But that isn’t a shock for some people. Many pointed out the baby bump in their wedding photos.
Under one video posted in May by The Shade Room, the newlyweds stood wearing their wedding attire and flashing their rings.
After zooming in on her wedding dress, one person noticed, “That belly belling!”
The clips from the couple’s YouTube page also confirm that Leanna was even pregnant before Travis got drafted to the Jacksonville Jaguars in April.
Long after Leanna had begun getting so much heat from the public, an incident that added more fuel to the fire was her reaction to Travis becoming the Heisman Trophy winner last December. When her then-future husband’s name was called at the ceremony, she only smiled and clapped, but she didn’t stand until his former coach Deion Sanders nudged her.
She faced a lot of online scrutiny for what some characterized as her lack of enthusiasm for Travis weeks after they were captured having what appeared to be tense exchange after the last game of his college career.
The moment led to people investigating deeper into their relationship and finding their “GET TO KNOW US” video on their YouTube page. In the video, the couple who had been dating since February 2022, shared how they met, and later, Leanna made the comment that Travis was not her “type” which led to her ignoring his DM initially.
Some observers claimed this meant Leanna was not physically attracted to Travis, again adding fuel to the speculation fire that she was using him for money. She later came out with a video clarifying her statement saying that the fact that he was younger and in a relationship with someone else made him not her type.
Then a video resurfaced of Leanna dancing seductively on another man at a party. It isn’t clear if she and Travis were dating at the time it was filmed, but that was another strike against her from the public.
The piling hate for their relationship caused both the NFL player and his then-fiancée to temporarily deactivate their social media. The announcement they are now a family of three has not silenced the spiteful comments.
