Triston Harper is reportedly a married man and is preparing to become a father at just 16 years old.
The former American Idol contestant recently announced the news on Facebook, stating that he had married his pregnant girlfriend, 17-year-old Paris Reed.
On November 6, the singer, who was eliminated from the ABC competition series just before the season finale, shared a post with his fans announcing that he had married his now wife: “I have big news harpies (sic )”.
Two days later, her mother, Hattie Mae Sullivan, revealed that the couple is expecting their first child together.
He posted a selfie Harper took with his new wife as they posed with a positive pregnancy test.
Triston Harper is a married man and preparing to become a father at only 16 years old; In the photo from February on American Idol still
The former American Idol contestant recently announced the news on Facebook, revealing that he married his pregnant girlfriend, 17-year-old Paris Reed.
“Now everyone has congratulated me on Triston and Paris’s wedding but that’s old news to me but now I’m about to be a ‘G Ma,'” she happily captioned the post.
Harper appeared on American Idol during season 22, which aired earlier this year.
The Alabama native wowed judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie with his audition, as well as the story of his difficult childhood on the ABC singing competition series.
‘At the age of 11, my mother was with my stepfather. He was becoming very abusive,’ she said.
“We had to leave McIntosh (Alabama), then everything went sideways, just like that,” he shared in a video package that aired on the show during his audition.
“The lowest part of my life was when my mother and I became homeless and were sleeping on the sidewalk,” he said. “I had just turned 12.”
Harper added: ‘I never thought I’d be able to tell my story to American Idol. It makes me happy just thinking about it.’
After his audition, the judges praised him and also gave him constructive criticism about his singing technique.
“Everything you do singing technically is because you’re 15 years old,” Bryan told him.
“If I could spend an afternoon with you and just be like, ‘Don’t do that anymore,’ like, ‘Don’t do those two things,’ and man, I mean, you’re just…” he continued before. Perry interrupted him.
On November 6, the singer shared a post with his fans about his wedding to his now wife: ‘Iv (sic) got big news harpies’
Two days later, her mother, Hattie Mae Sullivan, shared a photo of the couple in which they revealed that they are expecting their first child together.
Harper appeared on American Idol during season 22, which aired earlier this year; In the photo from April on American Idol still
Throughout the competition series, he became one of the show’s top five contestants, as well as a fan favorite, but was eliminated along with Emmy Russell in May. Later that same month, she released her debut single HOPE; Pictured from March on American Idol still
‘You’re a shotgun. Just watch where you’re pointing.”
Then the judges brought in her mother when they told her she was going to Hollywood.
Throughout the competition series, he became one of the show’s top five contestants, as well as a fan favorite, but was eliminated along with Emmy Russell in May.
Later that same month, she released her debut single HOPE.