‘Bold and the Beautiful’ Fans Can’t Stop Talking About Steffy’s Pregnancy Paternity Twist Shocker

The Bold and the Beautiful seemed to be going three for three with Steffy Forrester’s (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) pregnancies over the last decade. For both Kelly and Hayes, Steffy needed to take paternity tests, thanks to her cheating ways. Now, Steffy has cheated again and finds herself pregnant, but this time, she knows exactly who the father is. It’s Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor), and not her husband, John ‘Finn’ Finnegan (Tanner Novlan).

When a frantic Steffy told a stunned Carter that she was pregnant and he was the father, Carter asked her how she was so sure their drunken one-night stand on her grandfather’s office couch resulted in a baby. Steffy told Carter that she and Finn had been so busy that they hadn’t been intimate in quite some time, so she was certain that Carter was her baby’s father.

Steffy was ready to tell Finn all about her night with Carter, but he was called to work. Before Steffy could catch her breath, Carter appeared and suggested that Steffy be an egg donor and surrogate for him and Daphne (Murielle Hilaire), as they have been struggling with fertility issues. Steffy realized that Carter wanted her to give him the baby she was carrying and claim it was conceived via a medical procedure.

Fans saw a variation of this twist coming for weeks, but knowing that Steffy is sure Carter is the father puts a different spin on things.

First, many fans are both surprised and pleased to have the paternity issue settled at the gate, with one fan tweeting, “I do applaud the show for being decisive with the paternity of Steffy’s baby. I was worried that they’d get nervous and eventually make it Finn’s baby, which would be boring”

“Using surrogacy to cover up their night together is truly an all-time low,” one fan said on X. “It’s disgusting. Carter has turned into a truly awful character too. But the truth will come out sooner or later.”

Carter seems to be getting the most heat from fans because Steffy wants to tell the truth and Carter wants to use any method possible to cover the truth.

“Carter is completely out of his mind the way he’s getting mad at Steffy that she’s gonna blow all this to ruin both of their marriages and is begging her not to tell Finn he want her to be a surrogate so that he and Daphne could have a child together,” another fan wrote.

Finally, fans are mainly here for the soap of it all. As one audience member put it: “Asking Steffy to give up on her own baby to save their marraiges. Wow. It’s Soapy.”