Billionaire bride Katherine Asphlund makes huge announcement just months after surname scandal

The billionaire bride who tried to bully a powerless namesake into giving up her Instagram account has revealed she is pregnant in a series of touching photos.

Influencer Katherine Asplundh’s pregnancy comes just seven months after she tied the knot with Pennsylvania billionaire Cabot Asplundh, 27.

On Sunday night, she and her husband posted about a dozen photos taken around a small lake, with Katherine’s bump clearly visible.

“We love you so much already and can’t wait to love you forever and ever,” Katherine wrote in a caption alongside.

In the photos, the couple was seen wearing matching jeans with beige tops. Many of the photos showed Katherine’s midriff, exposing her bump.

Aside from the excitement that comes with bringing a child into the world, it seems like Katherine is also excited about the prospect of being able to generate a lot more content with her newborn.

“I love this little bump of mine. I can’t wait to make it my whole personality,” she wrote in a story, suggesting her upcoming child will be a big part of her online presence.

Last summer, Asplundh was busy flaunting her wealth on TikTok during her first summer as a wife, after the couple got married in April with an extravagant reception in Palm Beach, Florida.

After tying the knot with her husband — whose family is worth at least $3 billion thanks to their wildly successful tree-trimming business — she wanted to get her desired Instagram account from an Instagram user who happens to share Katherine’s married name.

She challenged the woman to hand over the username, forcing her to temporarily deactivate her Instagram.

It appears that Katherine has still lost the Instagram handle war – with her account still listed as katherinedrisc – an abbreviation of her maiden name, Driscoll.

Her videos mainly show her daily routine, in which she makes breakfast for her husband, does yoga, drinks cocktails and admires her extensive garden.

In one of hers recent vlogs Last fall, she said her husband stayed home from work and worked in the yard all day, leaving her alone to run errands.

She showed off the sandwich she made and posed for the camera with Cabot as they had lunch.

They then test drove a Ford Bronco, which can cost from almost $40,000 to more than $90,000, before heading home to do more yard work.

More mundane tasks followed, including laundry and preparing food, but she ended the video with a trip to a frozen yogurt shop.

Her TikTok account has a moderate follower count of 90,000, and Katherine’s videos are known to receive a slew of negative comments criticizing her, although there are also plenty of avid followers who love to get a glimpse of her chic lifestyle.

A video Posted in July 2023, she cataloged her and Cabot’s move from New York City to the country to a particularly poor reception.

In a voiceover, she said she was leaving town “to become a farm girl like she always should have been,” adding that she only had her “sweaters” with her during the move.

She also proudly proclaimed that “we will probably live here until we are 95 years old and we will probably die in the house.”

All this was accompanied by a breathtaking view of their house, their perfectly maintained property and their own pond, complete with jetty.

Katherine and Cabot met in Prague while she was studying abroad and connected while growing up on the Jersey Shore.

Two years later, Cabot proposed to her in Mantoloking, New Jersey.

Their star-studded romance culminated in the Instagram naming controversy, which seriously damaged Katherine’s online reputation.

Katherine contacted the account owner of @katherineasplundh, a woman named Kate, to ask if she could purchase her handle. Buying usernames is a practice that is in direct violation of the platform’s terms of service.

Kate declined, explaining that she feared selling the username would get her ‘banned from Instagram’ – but this prompted Katherine to launch a tirade of apparently titled posts.

Kate then shared screenshots of the alleged exchange to Reddit, leaving users outraged.

The leaked DMs inspired people to take Kate’s side, with many creating dozens of fake accounts with different spellings of the billionaire wife’s name.

This meant that every possible username option that contained her maiden or married name was now used.

Katherine succumbed to this pressure and deleted her Instagram account, which at the time had 14,600 followers. She revived it in June using her old username, @katherinedrisc, created under her maiden name, Katherine Driscoll.

It seems she’s resigned to using her old name on Instagram and has kept it in the months since the initial drama.

She also didn’t appear to have benefited from the username fiasco in terms of fame, with her follower count now dropping to just over 15,200 followers on Instagram.

Katherine found herself in even more trouble when netizens dug up an old TikTok of hers in which she mocked new women who can’t wait to update their names on social media and accused her of being a hypocrite.

“One thing I find so calming is when girls get married and it’s not even ten minutes after they’ve done their vows and they say, ‘Oh! goes on my Instagram! Let me change my last name already,” Katherine said in the now-deleted post.

She then says she should ‘probably wait a few more months’ before changing her name.”

“I just think it’s a bit much when I see girls changing it before I even knew they were married, like chill,” Katherine explained ironically.