Gretchen Rossimight be a proud mom of a supermodel — or a soccer player!
On Thursday, Rossi, 41, shared a video from a recent doctor’s appointment of her getting an ultrasound.
“Oh my gosh,” Rossi says in the clip. “She’s been kicking me for sure!”
Rossi’s longtime partnerSlade Smiley, 45, was also in the room for the visit and was equally excited about the sweet new addition to their family.
“Look how long those legs are,” Smiley says. “I’m afraid she’s going to be a supermodel.”
“Right?!” Rossi says back.
“Doc said she is the perfect size and growing perfectly, so for any of those people that tried to body shame me after my last post and say I am not healthy or eating enough, you can go suck it.”
“Remember to please be kind and accept every women’s [sic] journey as their own! I am sure I will start to really show and get a big ass bump soon enough — and then I will start to hear I am too big now #cantwin.”
The formerReal Housewives of Orange Countystar also thanked the fans who have sent her well wishes.
“I also saw the thousands of messages that most of you left with beautiful, encouraging, and kind words and it did not go unnoticed! So thank you! Love you guys for your support and love during this very special time!”
In mid-December, the former reality star told PEOPLE that she waspregnant and expecting her first childwith Smiley.
Smiley has two children from a previous relationship — sons Grayson and Gavin Smiley.
“It’s pretty exciting that we have our littleChristmasmiracle,” Rossi raved at the time.
“It’s been a little bit harder than I definitely anticipated,” Rossi said of her pregnancy symptoms. “I think they lie to you when they tell you you’re gonna get morning sickness. They lie to you — it’s all-day sickness! But the good news is that my doctor told me that’s actually a good sign.”
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The pair first decided to pursue in vitro fertilization (IVF) about four years ago, years after Smiley’s vasectomy.
“We knew that we had to go through IVF in order to get pregnant,” Rossi said. “We wentthrough a round of IVF and inthat round we had 14 embryos that came out of that. We were so excited and just beyond ecstatic about the results.”
But about six hours before their embryo transfer, the couple received a phone call from the doctor “saying thatall of the embryos had arrestedand basically died” — news that left them “beyond devastated.”
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“I couldn’t even get out of bed because you just go from such a high thinking within the next 24 hours you were going to be pregnant to losing everything and losing 14 embryos. That was really, really hard for me and Slade to come out of that,” Rossi said.
Around the time of Smiley’s 50th birthday, Rossi underwent an embryo transfer, and in November, the two learned the happy news that they’re expecting.
“This little girl growing inside me has given me the passion, & motivation to stand up, use my platform and my voice to make some noise and try to change this!” Rossi wrote.
source: people.com
