When Leroy Garrett was suiting as much as compete in The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras, his fiancée Kam Williams was dealing with an much more grueling process at house.

The Real World: Las Vegas alum turned up for his thirteenth go-round on the MTV actuality juggernaut mere weeks after Kam, 29, gave start to their daughter Aria this previous February. And regardless of that, the Are You the One? star—generally known as Killa Kam for her elimination abilities—urged her future husband to go and kill it.

“Kam gave me the confidence to go,” Leroy defined to E! News’ Francesca Amiker in an unique interview.

Between the new child and their eldest, now 2-year-old son Kingston, “I was super like, ‘I don’t know if I should go,’” he admitted. “And she’s like, ‘Nah.’” 

For Leroy, that one transfer completely flipped the sport for him. 

“When your partner is saying, ‘Hey, you could go do this,’ that’s the only thing that matters,” defined the 39-year-old. “So no part of me while I was there was worried, because I knew that I had a great mom at home taking care of my babies.”