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August 21, 2024 12 mins

Ben is hanging out with Sydney Warner from Peter Weber’s season and getting caught up on life as an NFL wife! Hear all about her relationship with her pro football player husband Fred Warner and how being on The Bachelor helped lead her to true love… even though she didn’t end up with Peter!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
with on our radio. This is Almost Famous Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Today we have one of the people she doesn't know
this yet, but one of the people that my wife
and I have admired from Afar Sidney.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Nice, thank you. I appreciate that. That's so nice.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
So we really if my wife was here, she would
attest to this. Like a week and a half ago, we
were talking about people from the show who have recently
had little children. Yes, because we were getting prepped to
it our child, and your name popped up and we
were looking at everything that you've just done with life
over the last few years and it's been awesome. And

(00:40):
so for those who just as a reminder, what season
of the show were you on?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I was on season twenty four.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Okay four years after me, which was who is the Bachelor.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Pilot Peter Webber pilot almost last name, And now you
were married to your husband, yes, and you recently just
had a baby. We did, Yes, we did. Then the
best thing that's ever happened to us, of course, so yeah,
so yeah, so ever since the Bachelor, things kind of

(01:12):
like happened really fast for us, like I met Fred
from the Bachelor. His family watched the show, and long
story short, we started dating after when I was in LA.
We met, we started dating look with the purpose. After
that we both knew we wanted to take things seriously.
Then we dated for about two years, got engaged for
nine months, married a year and a half later. We

(01:34):
have a beautiful baby boy.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
So you were living in LA before you went on.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
The show, wasn't living I just went there to do
some work stuff, stayed out there for a few weeks
and Fred, my husband, was there doing some off season
training and so cal So I didn't know anything really
to do out there. He was out there and we
were just like, let's you know, let's meet for dinner.
And we did and it was just yeah crazy the moment,
Like every single moment after that, we knew like we

(01:59):
wanted to be in each other's lives.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
So, yeah, am I wrong in saying this and yell
at me if I am? Okay, without the show, you
would have met your husband.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, one undred percent.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Now I also like elaborate.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, so his family watched the show, so he The
way that they, his family and him explained it to
me is that they're watching the show, and afterward they
would text spread and be like, there's this girl on
the Bachelor this year. You need to like find her.
If she doesn't win, you need to go and like
find her, reach out to her, like she's your type,
she's you know, da da da dah. We just think

(02:33):
like this, you need to find this girl. And he
was like, what are you guys talking about this random person?
Just like, you guys are being nuts. And at that time,
he was actually playing in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs.
I forget what year it was, but he they lost
the game, and then he was like, there was like
a week between when they lost the super Bowl, and
I remember because I was in a Mexican restaurant watching

(02:54):
the super Bowl. And now I'm like, that's so funny.
I'm like I was watching my husband and I didn't
even know it. Yeah. So then weeks later he DMS
me after after I got off the show, And if
you've ever been on the show, you know, when you
get right off your DMS and your social media and
your phone is just going nuts and you're like, how
do I even handle all of this? But I would
just kind of sift through at night and like look

(03:15):
and see who's messaging me and stuff, and his cam
up on my phone and I was like, who is this?
So I like go to his page and I was like,
who is this person? I didn't even know what the
forty nine ers were, which is really funny because I'm
from Alabama, so all we know is just college football,
so I had no idea about NFL anything. So anyways,
found him, left it on red for a while. Then

(03:37):
I ended up messaging him back and just yeah, and
that's how it's hurted. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
But how many years you said?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Now it's almost five.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Five years of marriage?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, of knowing each other.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Not married.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, and then how long a marriage for two and
a half with a little baby. Oh yes, So now
obviously life for you right now is amazing. You have
a little baby and your married.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Let's go back to kind of that season of the
BATCHL like, why would you go on it? This like
you're from Alabama, this random reality show?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
You say yes to it? Why did you do that?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
So?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I did it because I was young, I was single,
I had no responsibilities, nothing tying me down. And I
was like, well, I mean I've always been a relationship
type of girl. I've always been in a relationship, wanted
to be in a relationship, so I always dated really
seriously just never worked out. So I was like, well,
why not take this to like the next level and

(04:37):
like really put myself in a position to where I've
only you know, one goal is to really get to
know this person, know if I want to be with them,
and then you know, if it's reciprocated, then you know,
there you go. You found your husband. So that was
the goal. So that's why I went on. And it
was obviously crazy way. It is a crazy way to
find love, but sometimes it does work, which is amazing

(05:00):
work for me in that formula, but I feel like
it worked out, you know, in a completely different way.
I did find my husband, so.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Same with me.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I mean, that's really kind of like my story, right,
it didn't work out for me like I wanted to totally.
But then my wife, I think responds to my direct
message because I had a blue check mark.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
And it popped up to the top.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Good. I think that's a plus, right, And I.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Had a background check because I was the bachelor, and that's.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
When you said that because SPREAD had a blue check
mark at the time too. So yeah, those automatically you're like,
look a little deeper into those, like, oh that's you know,
let me get check this one out. So yeah, well good,
that's good.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Very similar stories, so funny.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, now I need some advice from you.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Okay, So you are a new mother.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes, I'm sure it's been a fire hose of just
learning and just emotion. Yes, if you were to speak
to any new parents out there about what it's like
to have a newborn.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, what would you say?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
So I say this often, and this just this month,
which he'll be five months, he's five months this month.
I just got a rhythm. We just got a rhythm,
especially me, Like I'm his mother, I'm with him ninety
nine percent of the time, so I feel like I
have gotten my rhythm before that. There is no rhyme, rhythm.
There's nothing that you can do that's gonna make things

(06:33):
make sense. My big thing is when they're newborns, technically,
like that first month and a half, I just let him,
Like the sleeping is like the biggest thing, you know,
like these new sleep schedules and sleep cues and da
da da da da. And I only started honing into
that until like three months, and I feel like that's
why I'm able to do things like this now and
go out and be normal because I was a stickler

(06:55):
from that three month to five month. He sleeps seven
am to seven pm or seven pm to seven am. Now,
this morning, I had to wake them up at eight
thirty because I'm like, okay, little guy, like we got
to get up. But all I can say is before
that those two months, you can't put any pressure on
yourself to like make a schedule. He needs to sleep
this time. He just let them be, you know, in
that newborn stage, because all they want to do is

(07:18):
sleep and eat, sleep and eat, and to be with
mama and touch and smell you and your wife, like
that's the most important thing. And don't get caught up
in the schedule because it's easy too now with social
media and Instagram and all you see is like sleep
schedule and my baby's doing this and beta da let
that go. Tell her to just relax, work on her postpartum.
I was had the craziest postpartum experience. The emotions hit

(07:38):
you like you like a like a truck that I
never experienced that before.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Just the emotions that you feel after your home. When
you're in the hospital, it'll be the best days of
your life. It'll just be like you're living on cloud nine.
Then you get home, you're still riding that beautiful wave,
and then something in this chemical makeup of the woman
everything comes crashing down. I cried for two weeks, three
times a day for no reason. My husband would just
look at me and just be like, what can I do?

(08:05):
And I'm like maybe, like honestly nothing, like I don't
know why I'm like this, and you just have to
get through that. And he's like, well, if we need
to talk to someone, like let me know. I'm like,
I'm just good. I'm just gonna ride this out. But
that's something I didn't expect. So that's something you should
be you know, does you know watch your love on
her a little more. She's gonna be going through a lot.
Just the emotions of having that baby in those postpartum

(08:26):
hormones going up and down is something that I just
did not I was not prepared for. So yeah, it's
a wild ride. It's a wild right.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
What did your husband do that really felt good to you?
Like it felt like he.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Was doing it so he would help a lot with
nighttime feedings. So at the time I was pumping and breastfeeding,
so you know, but you also have to sleep in
between that, and there's not much time to do that
at all. So he would I would pump before I
went to bed so that I knew I had two
bottles for him, and he would do two of the

(09:00):
nighttime wake time so that I could get those three
hours of sleep, and then the last two wake times
I would do and then we would just be up
for our day at six am. So he would take
the majority of all of the night shift, which was
just like incredible for the mama, especially if you're pumping
and breastfeeding, because you have to wake you have to
wake up to pump to be if she wants to breastfeed,
and if she if she's not breastfeeding, I would say,

(09:22):
just put like a formula like baby bottle thing in
your room so that you can just roll over and
give him a bottle. Just make everything in your room,
your guys room. Make it like a sanctuary. That's okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
My co host here, Ashley, Yeah, she does that, yes,
and she just learned it for her second not with
her first, but her second.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
She's now learning. She told me yep, to make her bedroom.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
For like, yeah, like you don't have to leave, like
we I have a mini fridge in there. I just
took it out the other day with you know, if
you're doing formula like a baby Breza, if she's going
to do formula, definitely put the baby Breza on your
registry because it's incredible. It's what it we use now.
But yeah, she's pumping, have all the pumps just right
near her so that she doesn't have to do anything
but feed that baby whichever way she's going to do

(10:06):
it and put him back or her back in the basinette.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Good advice. Yeah, I'm trying to learn. It's a lot now.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Obviously your husband does play in the NFL. Yes, your
baby is five months old. The season is coming right
upon us. Will you to go to most games? And
my follow up question that will would be will he
recognize his father on the field?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
So he definitely recognizes our faces now and our voices
when we come into a room, he lights up. He
knows who we are. But it's funny you say that
because last night we had our first preseason game at
Levi's and I took him and it was definitely a
learning experience because I was like, what am I going
to do all season? So this was kind of just
the first time doing it, and it was an interesting night.

(10:51):
I left before halftime, got him home just in time
for bath, bedtime routine, and he was just he was
not a happy camper. Was just too much on him.
It was very loud, there's thousands of people. When you're
used to being at home with music, I don't do
screen time, so he was very like over stimulated. So
we've got to work on that. But my plan is

(11:12):
just to take him to most day games for the
home games, and then night games. He's gonna have to
be with a babysitter because I just don't want to
put him through that. It's too much.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
She's too little, you'll be gone.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
I will try to go to most home games one
hundred percent, depending on a babysitter slash grandma's schedule. So
we'll see.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's awesome. Well, thanks for coming tonight. It means a
lot to us. You've just been It's like so cool.
As I said, we just checked up on you the
other day and like you're just it's so awesome to
see us a mom, thank you, to see you out
they're doing your thing, and to see you tonight just
hanging out with all of us.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Appreciated.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Thanks for coming.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
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