OnYouTube, the couple shared the moment they learned the news, with the athlete surprising East. When she showed him the positive pregnancy test, he replied, “I freakin' knew you were!” which the mom-to-be jokingly says was the “worst response.” They hugged and celebrated the happy moment.
“If you are pregnant, trying to get pregnant, if you’re trying to adopt, if you’re in the process of expanding your family or recently suffering from a loss, we are praying for you. All those beautiful babies out there, all those rainbow babies, all those babies in heaven,” Johnson East says at the end of the video. “We love you guys.”
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They first teased the news on Jan. 2, in a video on theirYouTube channellooking back on some of their happiest moments in 2020. At the end of the video, they cryptically wrote, “despite everything, we found the silver lining…. 2021, we’re excited for ya! Happy New Year everyone,” they added.
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“I mentally don’t want to say, ‘We’re trying,’ because I don’t want to put myself in the position where we get a year down the road and it’s like, ‘Oh, we’ve been trying for a year and it hasn’t happened,’ " the retired Olympic gymnast explained during an episode of Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner’sHot Marriage Cool Parentspodcast.
She went on to share that she still hadcomplicated feelings about her past miscarriageand didn’t want to set herself up for disappointment.
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The mother of one and East, 29, previously revealed she hadsuffered a miscarriagein October 2017, before going on to announce they wereexpecting againin April 2019. Their daughter was born the following October.
“[After a loss,] it is [scary],” Johnson East said on the October podcast episode. “And I feel like it never gets easier, which is funny. It’s like, ‘Oh, once I have our kid, it’ll be fine and I won’t be worrying.’ But then you have a child and [it’s] anxiety all day, every day. [You always think] something’s gonna go wrong. It never gets easier but it’s always worth it, obviously.”
source: people.com
