Photo: Kat Kimball Photography | @katkimballphoto
New Orleans Saints wide receiverJuwan Johnsonand wife Chanen are starting the new year with some long-awaited good news.
“You’re our dream come true👼🏽🤍#juandchan,” they captioned an Instagram Reel where the couple gazes at each other in different poses throughout a maternity shoot.
Later, the pair shared some of the photos from the shoot, where Chanen wears asilky white maxi dresswhile Juwan wears a button down and dress pants as they hold a tiny pair of sneakers together, writing, “mom & dad🤍” as the caption.
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PHOTO: Kat Kimball Photography | @katkimballphotoPHOTO: Kat Kimball Photography | @katkimballphoto
In anInstagram Reelshared early last month, Chanen looked back at the couple’s year, which included them trying to start a family. The Reel showed the pair, both 26, driving happily in an open Jeep after “doctors finally give us the green light to start trying to get pregnant.”
The next clip showed them posing together after learning they were pregnant, only for her to later have a “traumatizing miscarriage.”
“Pretending we’re okay when we’re not,” she wrote on a clip of the two dancing together in a club.
In the next clip, she held a little shoebox that opened to reveal tiny sneakers and a positive pregnancy test, but she’s wiped tears from her face in another clip shortly after having “a second miscarriage on an airplane.”
Chanen candidly admitted that their fertility journey came after she recovered from an eating disorder in college that led her to not menstruate for five years. She was told she wouldn’t be able to have children, but since getting healthy, she and Juwan have both wanted to try.
“When January started, we really were trying. It took a while, it didn’t work at first,” she recalled. “During that time, I decided I’m going to be happy, I’m going to be lighthearted, I’m going to be casual about it.”
After their two losses, Juwan knew they needed time to regroup and come to terms with telling this part of their story.
“In a span of two months, that’s probably been the happiest we’ve ever been and the saddest we’ve ever been,” the NFL pro reflected. “I’m glad we had a great community around us, but it was also that we needed some time alone to be with ourselves.”
Juwan and Chanen met when they were both 20-year-old students atPenn Stateand tied the knot in Feb. 2020 after nearly three years of dating.
source: people.com
