Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have announced they’re expecting their second child together. The pair, who first met while filming MTV’s The Hills back in 2006, shared the joyful news in an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, where Heidi expressed they had been trying to conceive for about 18 months before finding out that she was, in fact, pregnant again. The baby is due in December 2022.
“I couldn’t be more excited. I don’t know who I’m the most excited for — myself or Gunner or Spencer,” Heidi told the publication, with Gunner being the couple’s four-year-old son. “I just felt like something was missing. I felt like a person was missing in our family that I had this intense love for. And I kept praying about it. I’m like, if I’m not meant to have another kid — because I had accepted that at this point — I just wanted to not have that desire so strongly and I just wasn’t sure if it was going to happen or not. I just get so emotional about it.”
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Heidi stressed that she wanted to expand her family for a few years, but after welcoming her firstborn, becoming pregnant with her second wasn’t as easy as she expected. The 35-year-old said that there’s a lot of stigma around women who have trouble conceiving, particularly because it’s a susceptible subject for those that have been actively trying to have a child. And while she became discouraged from continuing the process after almost two years of trying, Heidi and Spencer were met with the surprise news that the reality star was expecting after taking a pregnancy test.
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“This pregnancy also has had more difficulties. Even in the beginning, I had some bleeding. And that was scary and I never experienced that,” Heidi explained. “For me, this has really been an eye-opening experience of what pregnancy can be for a lot of women. The first time everything was so great and so easy and I was like whatever, this pregnancy stuff is so easy.”
Heidi and Spencer first met at a club in Hollywood when she was filming the first season of The Hills. Not long after their first get-together did the two start seeing one another, and as the relationship turned serious, producers invited Spencer as a recurring cast member on the hit reality show, before they would go on to tie the knot in a lavish ceremony held in Mexico in 2008.
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Meanwhile, MTV announced in January it had canceled The Hills: New Beginnings after two seasons, with TMZ alleging that the decision to end the reboot was mainly because of “major issues” the OGs had with the idea of bringing on younger cast members. While producers were adamant that in order to attract a wider audience, they’d need to explore the idea of diversifying its line-up, the motion was shut down by the cast, who were later told the reboot wouldn’t be renewed for a third season.