J.R. Martinez Introduces Lauryn Anabelle
"I just love to hold her," Martinez, 28, tells PEOPLE of the little girl he and his girlfriend, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, welcomed on May 2. "I kiss her non-stop all day long."
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Former Dancing with the Stars champ J.R. Martinez is showing off something much more beautiful than the mirror ball trophy he took home last November — his newborn daughter Lauryn Anabelle.
“I just love to hold her,” Martinez, 28, tells PEOPLE of the little girl he and his girlfriend, Diana Gonzalez-Jones, welcomed on May 2. “I kiss her non-stop all day long.”
In PEOPLE’s June 18 issue, the Iraq war veteran says that despite being raised by a single mom, he’s adjusting to his new role as a father nicely.
“The minute she was born I was like, ‘This is where I’m meant to be.’ I felt excitement and love and it was all about her,” he says.
“I’ll be holding her and think, ‘This is my daughter’ — it’s language I’m still getting used to.”
As for first-time parenting horror stories of messy feedings, dirty diapers and long, sleepless nights — Martinez says he doesn’t have any.
“It’s been easy so far,” Martinez says of his little bundle, whom he and Gonzalez-Jones have nicknamed Belle. “She’s eating, sleeping six, seven hours a night. It’s crazy!”
For more on Martinez’s foray into fatherhood, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE on Friday.
— Monica Rizzo