‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’, Kenya Moore Expecting Her First Child @ 47
“Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member Kenya Moore is having a baby! On Sunday’s season 10 reunion part 1, the 47-year-old star made it known that she was twirling for two.
The revelation came as a surprise at the top of the show when host Andy Cohen asked if a baby was on the way.
Moore said she and her husband, Marc Daly will “definitely be welcoming a boy or a girl” late this year. She said she’s still very nervous, Entertainment Weekly reports.
“We will definitely be welcoming a boy or girl in late this year,” Kenya Moore said, shocking herself.
“Oh my God, I said that! I don’t want to talk about the details because I’m still very nervous about everything so I want to get past a safe place.”
When asked if she wanted a boy or a girl, the expecting mom said, “I want a healthy baby.”
The joyful news comes 10 months after the former Miss USA married Marc Daly in a romantic sunset ceremony on a St. Lucia beach.
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“We both want to start a family and soon — like, right away,” Moore told PEOPLE exclusively at the time.
“We both want a child. We have been really upfront about wanting to expand our family, and we have definitely been taking the proper steps to try to make that happen,” she added on the RHOA After Show in January.
Kenya Moore and Marc Daly first met met through a mutual friend in June 2016, but they didn’t start dating until December of that year. Their first date changed everything for Moore.
“I’ve never experience a first date like this before,” she gushed. “You know when you meet people, and you like them or have good chemistry with them but you don’t feel like the world has changed? I felt like the earth moved after our first date.”
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Although it was a sharp contrast from Moore’s usual dating experiences, she tried a different tactic this time around.
“I was always the person who ran,” she admitted. “Any time I ever saw anything I didn’t like in someone, I just ran. And it was not working for me.
I want people to stick with me and work it out if they care, so I can’t run. You have to communicate honestly with each other and never give up on each other.”
Moore initially kept Daly’s identity secret after announcing their nuptials — explaining to PEOPLE that he “didn’t sign up for this world.”
“Every time someone has been associated with me, they attack that person — immediately going after them, trying to bring them down and saying crazy things,” she said.
“They tear people apart. And so for [Marc], he was like, ‘This is about me andyou — it’s not about me or you.’ He just wanted it to be about our pure love and not about him.”
“That’s why I fell in love with him,” she continued.
“For him, it’s about being my protector and my best friend — not being someone that stands next to me, but someone who supports me and is okay with being behind me sometimes. He doesn’t want my money, he doesn’t want my fame, he doesn’t want my success — he just wants my heart, and he has it.”
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But she seems to have relaxed that now, with Daly even appearing on RHOA this season after months of shying away from the cameras.
“A year ago I would have never expected I’d be where I am now,” she said in the finale. “I am possibly expanding my family.”
As for motherhood, Moore appears committed to being the best mom she can be.
“Nothing is more important to me than my family,” she said in an Instagram post of her and Marc back in November, adding the hashtags: “#love #familyfirst #ThatsMrsDalyToYou.”
Congratulations to her and her husband.