&34;I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was back home,&34; Olivia tells EW about her first child with Theo Campbell. Olivia Kaiser confirms she was 7 weeks pregnant while competing in The Challenge season 41 final &34;I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was back home,&34; Olivia tells EW about her first child with Theo Campbell. By Sydney Bucksbaum :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/headshotb5dc24df8d5d43d1a16c9ce0e0383119.jpg) Sydney Bucksbaum Sydney Bucksbaum is a staff writer at . She has been working at EW since 2019 and is a published author.

"I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was back home," Olivia tells EW about her first child with Theo Campbell.

Olivia Kaiser confirms she was 7 weeks pregnant while competing in *The Challenge *season 41 final

"I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was back home," Olivia tells EW about her first child with Theo Campbell.

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**This article contains spoilers for *The Challenge: Vets and New Threats* finale. **

There were actually three winners of *The Challenge* season 41: Olivia Kaiser, rookie Yeremi Hykel ... and Olivia's baby.

Olivia and fellow *The Challenge: Vets and New Threats* finalist Theo Campbell recently announced the birth of their son, Atlas Kaiser Campbell, on Thanksgiving, revealing he was born two weeks early on Nov. 20. While it has been rumored by multiple season 41 cast members that Olivia became pregnant during filming, the newly crowned *Challenge* champ is finally confirming to * *that she was seven weeks pregnant while competing in the grueling two-day final in the Andes Mountains.

"I went into the season not pregnant," Olivia tells EW, joking that her pregnancy happened because "it's just a little boring around the house."

Yeremi Hykel and Olivia Kaiser on 'The Challenge' season 41.

She laughs as she adds she's both "lucky" and "unlucky" to have been in the house with her boyfriend Theo, which then led to her pregnancy. But she confirms that she did not know she was pregnant while competing, and would have left the show had she found out for the safety of her unborn child.

"Throughout the season, as you can actually see as a viewer, I almost lose steam of caring about what I'm doing socially, like, 'I don't care. I'm tired,'" Olivia says. "I usually never sleep, I'm usually the life of the party, but you can see I'm always in bed, tired. I had no idea I was pregnant because I still was having a period, I thought. But I guess it was from, honestly, getting rough housed around in challenges. But I had no idea other than I was really fatigued, felt really tired and off."

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Olivia now sees how obvious the signs were as she watches herself in episodes. But at the time, she didn't suspect that she was pregnant despite how much she began struggling.

"In this final, I mean, you can see it in my face," she adds. "There's a clip of me saying, 'I'm letting Yeremi do everything,' and I think people are taking that the wrong way, thinking that I'm just here for the ride. No, no, no, when you run a final with a ultra marathon runner, I'm trying to match his pace. If I can't match his pace, then I'm going to be holding him back, so not only was I trying to match his pace, but I was pregnant."

Yeremi Hykel and Olivia Kaiser on 'The Challenge' season 41.

She continues, "And any woman knows, in the first trimester, you are exhausted. Your body's not the same. You're dealing with all these new hormones. And so I was struggling. I'm bent over, I'm trying to keep up, but in a way, it was maybe a little superpower in the back of my mind. I think my instincts knew. I'm like, 'Okay, this is your time to fight. Something's off, but this is your time to push.' And when I won, I was seven weeks pregnant, so halfway through the first trimester. Crazy. Insane."

Olivia reveals that she and Theo learned she was pregnant almost immediately after they were done filming.

"I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was back home," she says. "Me and Theo were in the hotel room and I was like, 'I feel weird. I feel like I lost my personality a little bit.' So we went and we got a test in Chile, and it wasn't a pregnancy test, actually, it was a weeks of gestation test, and I didn't know because it was in Spanish."

After Olivia took the test, she was too "scared" to look at the results.

"He looks at it and he's like, 'It says plus three,' which means I'm above three weeks pregnant," Olivia reveals with a laugh. "And I was like, 'Oh god.' I didn't know I was pregnant! I never knew what that felt like, but I knew something was off. So I got the win, and within the next day I found I was pregnant, and the win kind of dissipated into thin air because I was like, 'I am having to be a full mom now. This is insane.'"

*The Challenge* has featured multiple women who were competing while unknowingly pregnant in past seasons. However, this is the first time a pregnant woman has won a season. (While Melissa Reeves made it to the final in *Total Madness*, she quit after the first day due to her exhaustion, which she later learned was due to being four months pregnant at the time.)

Yeremi Hykel and Olivia Kaiser on 'The Challenge' season 41.

"She actually messaged me yesterday," Olivia says of Melissa. "She was pregnant in the final, and it's no joke. Any mom that is pregnant, holy hell, you're so tired, so I'm actually surprised looking back that I did that. To win pregnant is kind of a cool feeling, because I joke to Theo, 'Your son's a champ before you are, because he was with me on the mountain.'"

Olivia loves how her win is now an even more "beautiful story" since she shares it with her son, Atlas.

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"It just shows how badass women are," she adds. "I don't really like to acknowledge a lot of my victories, but that is so badass. For me to hike the Andes Mountains, it's like 15,000 feet, pregnant, it's a story that I'm never going to forget. He was there with me."

Olivia then has to pause the interview for a moment, since Atlas begins fussing in her arms.

"It's been busy over here," she says with a laugh. "This is the *Challenge* right here, people. Oh my god."

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