Billionaire wife makes major announcement months after allegedly bullying Instagram user for sharing her account handle
She has a new name to pick.
The billionaire’s wife accused of bullying an Instagram user with the same name in an attempt to buy her account handle has revealed that she is pregnant.
Katherine Asplundh, 27, shared dozens of touching photos alongside her husband, Cabot Asplundh, showing off her baby bump as they posed next to a lake.
“We already love you very much and can’t wait to love you forever and ever,” she captioned her Sunday Instagram post.
The pictures show the young, affluent couple donning matching denim jeans with beige tops, with almost all the photos showing the baby bump on full display.
“Love this lil bump of mine. Can’t wait to make it my entire personality,” she wrote in her story.
Asplundh, formally Driscoll, married Asplundh, also 27, in April. He is the heir to the Asplundh Tree Expert Co. in Pennsylvania, which is the 109th largest private company in America with a revenue of $5.42 billion in 2023, according to Forbes.
The expecting mother made headlines and received harsh criticism across social media following the marriage after she allegedly wanted to make the celebration Instagram official and change her name on the platform to match her new legal name.
However, the desired handle @katherineasplundh had already been taken, prompting her to message the account’s owner about purchasing the handle.
“Hi just wondering if I could purchase your username from you. Just got married and this is my new name,” the newly read wrote, according to screenshots of the conversation posted to the NYCInfluencesnark sub-Reddit.
After being told no by the real Katherine Asplundh, who goes by Kate, an irritated Driscoll Asplundh argued that Kate’s name wasn’t Katherine Asplundh, and that she would be reported.
“I actually don’t believe that your name is Katherine Asplundh … I reported you to Instagram and they’re actually able to tell me your real name I really hope I don’t know you because that’s gonna be really embarrassing for you.”
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After her second failed attempt, the entitled influencer searched for the name “Katherine Asplundh” on Facebook and concluded that she must be the only one with the name in America when she found no results.
“The family I just married into is the only Asplundh in America.”
However, the other woman then noted: “I’m not American.”
Asplundh shut down her account after other users mercilessly mocked her and created multiple accounts with different variations of the account handles she had and sought.
The leaked messages caused Kate to receive an outcry of support.
Her supporters then created dozens of fake accounts with spellings of the billionaire’s wife’s name, with almost every possible username option she sought, including her maiden or married name, now taken.
She ended up folding under this pressure and deleted her Instagram account, which had 14,600 followers then.
The internet sleuths also found an old TikTok post from Asplundh in which she mocked wives-to-be who were overly excited to change their social media user names.
However, after a short hiatus, the 27-year-old reactivated her Instagram account in June using her old username, @katherinedrisc, which she had created under her maiden name, Katherine Driscoll.