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America’s most followed couple; Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have ushered in the New Year with the news that they are going to be parents soon. Kim is expecting and Kanye West is the dad-to-be.
Kardashian confirmed the news, posting on her blog on Monday, “It’s true!! Kanye and I are expecting a baby.” She went on to add that both felt blessed and fortunate and expressed a longing that it would be have been great if Kanye’s late mother Donda and her late father Robert, were still around to share in their moment of joy. Kim’s father Robert died in 2003 while Kanye’s mother Donda died owing to complication in cosmetic surgery in 2007
She wound up the blog saying that they were looking forward to a great start to the New Year and starting a family. According to US media reports Kardashian is around three months pregnant.
Kardashian and West got together in April around six months after she filed for divorce from NBA star Kris Humphries. The two got married last year in August, in a much publicized grandiose event but the marriage that made world headlines lasted a little more than two months. The divorce has yet to come through.
The celebrity power couple is being inundated with congratulatory messages and fans are wondering if the baby’s name would also start with a K, as all Kardashian clan do.
Kardashian’s sister Kourtney excitedly tweeted that this was one news she desperately wanted to hear and something she wanted to proclaim to the whole world and now she could do so. She wrote that she was overwhelmed with excitement to welcome yet another angel into the family.
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Kardashian’s brother-in-law, basketball player Lamar Odom, who is desperately looking forward to having a baby with his wife, Khloe Kardashian and has been frank and candid about the struggle that they are having expressed his joy tweeting that he was happy for Kanye and his sister. “There’s nothing like bringing life into this world! Let’s keep God’s blessings coming!”
Even before Kim tweeted for the whole world to know, her rapper boyfriend and father of the baby revealed the secret to a crowd of more than 5,000 fans at Revel Resort’s Ovation Hall, asking them to “stop the music and make noise for my baby mama,” pointing to Kardashian who was also in the audience. “God brought us a whole new plan, baby ’Cause now you’re having my baby,” he sang – the crowd roared in approval.
The announcement caught even Kim by surprise as both had decided to keep the news under wraps until the tell-tale baby bump started showing. She told reporters that she had no idea that he would break the news in such a public manner. However, given that in the audience, apart from Kim, where his relatives and her mother Kris Jenner, Kanye felt that the time was opportune for the secret to be out.
Kim shed tears of happiness as he regaled her with one of her favorite songs, “Lost in the World.”
However, the most searched for celebrity of 2012 is not allowing her pregnancy to get in the way of her celebrity events as she is hosting a party in Las Vegas for New Year’s Eve, for which she is earning a six-figure sum, reportedly in the realm of $300,000.
