Happiness star Jenna Ushkowitz is expecting her second child!
The actress announced that she is pregnant with her and her husband David Stanleysecond son of Instagram on Friday. Ushkowitz, 38, and Stanley tied the knot in July 2021 in Los Angeles, after three years of dating, and welcomed their first child 11 months later.
“Baby #2 on the way ❤️ We are pregnant and so excited and grateful,” she wrote. “It’s been a journey (I’ll share more soon), but in the meantime, we’re enjoying this exciting time.”
In the two photos shared, Ushkowitz smiles sweetly at her baby bump and takes a positive pregnancy test. She wears a semi-transparent white blouse, sleeveless and tied at the front.
“When the idea of getting pregnant came up, my jaw dropped,” Ushkowitz recalled. Peoplejoking that she wished she had footage of the moment she took the pregnancy test while on vacation in New York. “I was shocked. And then very happy, of course.”
She continued to the outlet about how her partner found out she was pregnant, “He was upstairs, then he came downstairs, I still had this look of shock on my face and he was like, ‘No way.’ He just knew and he was so, so happy. We were so excited for our daughter to be a big sister and expand our family. It’s really, really special.”
Ushkowitz noted that her first pregnancy was a “very easy” journey, but this time around it was an “extraordinarily different experience.”
“It was really a dizzying experience of how different it was. And it’s such a good lesson that every pregnancy is really different,” she said. “You’re not going through the same journey every time because every child is different. And so it was definitely something I didn’t expect.”
The couple welcomed their first child, a 2-year-old girl named Emma, on June 3, 2022. Their daughter’s birth comes just over four months after they announced they would be welcoming their first child.
At the time, Ushkowitz also chose to announce the happy news by Instagramwriting, “Our hearts have been opened ❤️.” In the black-and-white photo, Ushkowitz wore a delicate necklace that read “mommy” and held her newborn close to her.
Following the announcement of the second baby, Ushkowitz’s famous friends flooded her Instagram comments section with congratulations.
“So happy for you all!!!” Happiness Co-star Kevin McHale commented along with eight teary-eyed smiling emojis.
“😍😍😍”, he wrote Nina Dobrevwho is it currently recovering from a serious bicycle accident.
“Congratulations, Mommy!!” Victorious star Daniella Monet he wrote.
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