Charmaine Walkercouldn’t be more excited to become a mom — but like most parents-to-be, she has her fears, too.
Sharing a set of maternity photos exclusively with PEOPLE, theBlack Ink Crew: Chicagostar says she’s “nervous about birth,” as “it seems like it is such a big experience and I just hope I can handle it!”
But so far, Walker says, “pregnancy has been amazing” save for some “miserable” moments in the first trimester. (She is now into her third trimester with her first child with husbandNick Bey.)
“I was tiredand had morning sickness withbad headaches and my third trimester is quickly getting more difficult because I’m working so much and I’m getting tired so fast,” Walker tells PEOPLE.
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Aside from the experience of childbirth, Walker admits she worries “all the time” about how she will balance filming her VH1 series and being a mom.
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source: people.com