Nearly six months after the death of her father, country music star Lauren Alaina is sharing big news.
On Wednesday, January 22, Alaina revealed she is expecting her first child with her husband Cam Arnold, whom she married in February 2024.
In a statement shared with People, Alaina confirmed the news of her pregnancy after hinting about it in her latest music video, “Those Kind of Women,” where she accentuated her growing baby bump.
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“It’s all about the women who raised me,” she said of the song. “I was really fortunate to be raised around a bunch of very strong women. And when we cut this song, when we recorded this song, I was not pregnant nor thinking about becoming pregnant,” Alaina told People.
“It’s funny how things fell into place. It literally changed the song for me. I already loved it, because it’s about the women who raised me. But, now I am going to be a woman raising a child.”
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Alaina hasn’t yet shared publicly if she is expecting a son or a daughter.
“[I didn’t know] I can love something that I haven’t even really held yet. I feel the baby inside me, and it’s kicking me and doing all of the things. It’s like I was the Grinch or something, and my heart grew,” she told People.
Alaina said learning she was pregnant “bonded” her and her husband “even more” than their marriage did, People reports.
“My love for him grew that day of getting married, and then finding out we were having a baby together. Walking through this experience with him has been unbelievable.”
”I’m looking forward to watching my husband be a dad,” Alaina continued. “He is so obsessed with our animals; he’s a big nurturer in general. In fact, when I was getting ready to marry him, that was something that I knew would be one of the best things about being his wife, was being able to parent with him.”
Alaina admitted that they weren’t trying to get pregnant yet, hoping to start that process in 2025.
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“Now I’m scared because I don’t feel like I passed any sort of test,” she shared. “They don’t make you take a test on being a mom. It’s crazy. People are like, ‘What’s your plan with the birth? And what’s your plan here?’ And I’m like, listen, ‘God’s plan. It wasn’t my plan.’”
She also believes her late father had a hand in everything that transpired in the months following his death.
“I do think that my dad passed away and got a stair up in heaven and was like, ‘Hey, we got to work something out down there to send the family something good.’ And it has been such an unexpected blessing.”
“We obviously still talk about and are dealing with the grief of my dad, but this baby has healed a lot of that for us … like it’s a little piece of my dad that will live on.”
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