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Gina Neelyis going to be a grandma!
The former Food Network star’s older daughter Spenser Lewis-Neely is pregnant with her first child, due in August.
Neely shared video of the sweet moment to her Instagram account on Monday. “It was just the best surprise,” she says. “I would have shared it earlier but Spenser wanted to wait until she was past the first trimester. So she decided Valentine’s Day would be best — it’s Love Day after all, and we are feeling the love!”
“In fact, I just told her on Sunday too, ‘You have breathed another love in me.’ Because I didn’t know I could love again like this,” Neely adds. “I can’t wait for the love to emerge. She has put a seed in me, and am just bursting with love.”
“We all want a girl,” Neely explains. “Would I be upset if it’s a boy? No, obviously not. But I’m a girl mom! I raised two girls, so I know what I’m doing. And I came from a family of women; we didn’t have a lot of men it our house, it was four girls and just one brother. So I’m putting it out there to God it’s going to be a little girl.”
Spenser is welcoming her first child with partner Tayloe Taylor, whom Neely calls “very loving and very hands on.”
“And you know, I’m at this stage in my life where I’m really open to the blessings coming, no matter how they’re coming,” she says. “I’m lucky to have peace in my life, so and when you have that stability and that gratitude, you can really absorb the love. I’m feeling it, let me tell you. People keep asking me, ‘What is that light behind you? Do you have an angel behind you or something?’ And I feel like I do because I’m just in this space of feeling and spreading joy.”
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Of course, Neely is still going to give Spenser her opinion on some of the more tactical things with parenting. But mostly, she said she’s there to be her daughter’s cheerleader.
“I can’t wait to usher her into motherhood and help her see the joy, because it’s a gift that keeps on giving,” Neely says. “To me, my daughters have been my greatest accomplishment. I’m so proud of them. After everything they’ve been through, they’ve always persevered. It’s incredible to see the women they’ve turned into; they’re polite, courteous, kind, compassionate, successful. I couldn’t be a prouder mom.”
“You know, there was a time we weren’t as close as we are now,” she adds. “After I split from my ex, we were all in our pain. I was in my pain, they were in their pain, and not everyone was ready to step back and remove themselves. And there was always a concern of mine that we would never find that level of closeness again. But I kept on working it and working it, and I’m really, really happy because our relationship now is stronger than ever.”
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‘I just laugh because I remember," Neely says. “When she gets hungry, she turns into a monster. I was like, ‘Oh my God, there it is.'”
“I already made my way into the first appointment to hear the heartbeat,” Neely laughs. “She’s got me over here readingWhat to Expect, going, ‘Oh it’s a peanut this week! It’s a lime! It’s an apple!’ I’m treasuring it all.”
source: people.com
