Elizabeth Holmes and her fiancé, Billy Evans, welcomed two children before she reported to prison in 2023

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• Elizabeth Holmes is a mother to two children: son William and daughter Invicta
• The disgraced Theranos founder and her fiancé, Billy Evans, welcomed the children before her prison sentence began in 2023
• Holmes, Evans and their kids appeared in the 2026 documentary You Can See Everything, which was filmed largely in their family home

Elizabeth Holmes welcomed two children before reporting to prison in 2023.

The former Theranos founder and CEO met her partner, Billy Evans, in 2017, and they got engaged the following year. The couple went on to welcome their first child, son William, in July 2021, right before her criminal trial began.

In January 2022, Holmes was found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud. She was later sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in November 2022. Before she was scheduled to report to prison in early 2023, it was confirmed that Holmes was pregnant with her second child and had welcomed daughter Invicta around February 2023.

Holmes reported to Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Bryan, Texas, in May 2023. Nearly two years into her sentence, Holmes spoke to PEOPLE in her first interview since being found guilty of fraud and said being apart from her two young children “shatters” her world.

“I always wanted to be a mother,” she told PEOPLE in February 2025. “I truly did not think I would ever be convicted or found guilty.”

Holmes and Evans opened their home to Nathan Fielder ahead of her prison sentence for the documentary You Can See Everything, which hit theaters on Oct. 16.

Here’s everything to know about Elizabeth Holmes’ two young children, William and Invicta.

News of her first pregnancy delayed her criminal trial

According to court filings, Holmes’ trial — which was scheduled for July 2021 after having already been moved three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic — was pushed back again after she informed the court that she was pregnant.

Holmes’ pregnancy was first disclosed to the court in March 2021 when her counsel and prosecutors filed court papers asking a judge to move her trial’s start date given that she was due in July, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Leach, who was prosecuting the case, said it was “frustrating and disappointing to learn about this now.”

Holmes’ first child, son William, was born in July 2021

Holmes welcomed her first child, son William Holmes Evans, on July 10, 2021. He was born in Redwood, Calif., according to birth reports obtained by ABC News that August.

She became pregnant with her second child after her conviction

Court filings obtained by The New York Times revealed that Holmes became pregnant with her second child after being convicted in January 2022.

In a sentencing memo, Evans asked the court to give Holmes a lighter sentence, saying she would miss out on milestone moments with the pair’s two young children, The Mercury News reported.

“My heart is broken with the thought of spending any days away from Liz, for a future in which my son grows up with a relationship with his mother on the other side of glass armed by guards,” he said in the memo, according to the outlet.

Holmes herself tearfully told the court, “I regret my failings with every cell of my body,” The Mercury News reported.

In photos taken at her sentencing, Holmes was visibly pregnant, suggesting she would give birth before turning herself in to federal authorities in April.

The birth of her second child, daughter Invicta, was announced in a motion filed by her defense team

In February 2023, the birth of Holmes’ second child was revealed in a motion by her defense team filed in federal court stating that because Holmes was not a flight risk, she should not be imprisoned while she appealed her conviction. 

“Ms. Holmes has deep ties to the community: She is the mother of two very young children; she has close relationships with family and friends, many of who submitted letters at sentencing vouching for her good character; and she volunteers with a rape crisis and counseling organization,” according to a motion filed by Holmes’ defense team, CBS News reported.

Holmes later told PEOPLE that she wasn’t using parenthood as a ploy.

“I know how the optics look, but I always wanted to be a mother,” she said. “I wanted to have children, be a mom. I truly did not think I would ever be convicted or found guilty. I kept talking to my lawyers and they also assured me we would never get this far.”

She added, “It wasn’t planned and I can’t worry about what others think.”

Holmes reported to prison a few months after Invicta was born

When Holmes started her prison sentence in May 2023, Invicta was just a few months old. Holmes reported to Camp Bryan on May 30 and was allowed to bring two breast pumps with her to detention to collect milk for then-3-month-old Invicta.

“I wanted my daughter to have her mother’s milk,” she recalled to PEOPLE in February 2025. “It was important to me because it was a way to love her in here.”

Authorities eventually built lactation rooms in the prison’s housing units in 2023 after Holmes spoke to the prison’s warden about allowing women to breastfeed privately.

Holmes’ children have visited her in prison

Family members are allowed to visit Holmes at Camp Bryan twice a week. In her February 2025 cover story for PEOPLE, the convicted tech founder opened up about those visits and said that saying goodbye “shatters my world every single time.”

 “The people I love the most have to walk away as I stand here, a prisoner, and my reality sinks in,” she said.

Holmes also told PEOPLE, “It kills me to put my family through pain the way I do. But when I look back on my life, and these angels that have come into it, I can get through anything. It makes me want to fight for all of it.”

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