Kelly Mi Liis going to be a mom!
While being pregnant was already part of their plan, the news still came as a surprise to the couple who currently lives in two different cities.
“When we found out, it was actually kind of shocking. He lives in San Francisco, I live in L.A., so when my period didn’t come, the monthly visit didn’t come. So we went and got Clearblue, the pregnancy test,” says Mi Li, 37.
“We talked about having kids earlier but we were going to start trying [at] the end of the year,” she explains. “So we actually bought a bunch of Clearblue ovulation tests before so I would start getting used to using it, but we just really didn’t think it was going to happen so fast because I’m a little worried because I’m 36, I just turned 37…so I wanted to take the ovulation test and just to get it into a monthly rhythm…”
She continues, “I’m very much in denial. A lot of time when I take the Covid test I’m like, is it really two lines? But with Clearblue, because if it’s pregnant, I was like this, ‘Am I reading this right?’ So it was really shocking but honestly, we’re just so grateful and so blessed… To this day I still feel like it’s so surreal.”
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Clearblue Digital Pregnancy Test “provides clear digital results in words” (‘Pregnant’ or ‘Not Pregnant’) — which means no interpreting lines, according to the company, noting that their test is “over 99% accurate at detecting pregnancy from the day of your expected period."* (Disclaimer: >99% accurate at detecting typical pregnancy hormone levels. Note that hormone levels vary.)
“When we filmed the season, it takes a while to come out,” she shares. “So it’s funny when the season came out, we actually already celebrated our anniversary, our one-year anniversary.”
“I’m really excited. I think it’s more excitement than nervousness because at the beginning obviously when you find out, you’re so in shock. But then it’s really [the] excitement and then nervous and I’m really, really happy and so grateful that I have such a strong support system,” she tells PEOPLE.
“My boyfriend is amazing. I literally cannot ask for a better partner in this. And obviously, I’ve to show off about him any chance I get. But he’s honestly so supportive, so amazing and I honestly, he’s going to be such a great dad and obviously my mom, my grandma, are going to be able to help me out a little bit more as well,” she adds. “And I have really great friends around me so I’m just very thankful for this journey.”
In an exclusive video from Mi Li, her mom is also elated to hear about the exciting news with the reality star telling PEOPLE, “She was so shocked.”
“Because I don’t even think she knows how to react. My boyfriend was filming at the time and I got so emotional. Even when she was opening up, I was tearing up already and I think she was pretty much in shock because she’s been trying telling me to basically have kids for 10 years,” Mi Li adds.
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As a mom-to-be, her current cravings involve: “Spicy food and sweet food.”
“That’s really it,” she says. “I don’t really crave sugar normally, but I’m just craving sugar left and right, and then obviously spicy. I’ve always loved spicy food but it just…I want to eat spicy and I want to eat sweet.”
Looking ahead, Mi Li tells PEOPLE, “building a future and building a family” with her boyfriend are what she’s most excited about.
“Because I feel like being a mother is an experience in a woman’s life that you can’t replace it with anything else,” she says. “And I’m just really excited to, and I’m ready to, experience that part of my journey and my life and that’s just really it. I don’t know what to expect, but I think it’s going to be good.”
source: people.com
