Meghan McCain, 35, announces she is pregnant, eight months after she suffered a miscarriage, and says she will be self-isolate due to the coronavirus pandemic
- The View host Meghan McCain, 35, announced Sunday that she is pregnant
- The baby news comes eight months after she wrote a heartfelt op-ed revealed she suffered a miscarriage
- She announced she will self-isolate due to the coronavirus pandemic
- She will continue to work and will appear on The View via satellite
- This will be the first child for the couple that tied the knot in November 2017
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Meghan McCain, 35, is pregnant.
The View co-host shared on social media that her and conservative writer husband Ben Domenech were to be parents writing: ‘My husband Ben and I have been blessed to find out I’m pregnant.
‘Although this isn’t how I expected to announce my pregnancy, both we and our families are excited to share the news with you all.’
McCain also said that she’ll be making her View appearances by satellite and ‘joining the millions of Americans who are self-isolating as a precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19’.
Husband: McCain and Ben Domenech (pictured together two months ago) married in November 2017. McCain said they found out she was pregnant ‘many months ago now’
McCain wrote that she ‘consulted with my doctors and they advised me that for the safety of our baby and myself, I should be extra vigilant about limiting the amount of people we come in contact with’.
This will be the first child for the couple that tied the knot in November 2017.
The baby news comes eight months after McCain wrote a heartfelt op-ed in the New York Times revealing she suffered a miscarriage and the pressure to raise a family.
In that piece she shared that ‘a few weeks ago’, moments before a cover shoot for the Times’ Magazine, her doctor told her she was miscarrying.
‘I should have been proud,’ McCain wrote, of the shoot with her fellow hosts. ‘But inside, I am dying. Inside, my baby is dying.’
Looking back at the pictures from the shoot, McCain writes: ‘I see a woman hiding her shock and sorrow.’
McCain also said that she’ll be making her View appearances by satellite and ‘joining the millions of Americans who are self-isolating as a precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19’. She is seen above on The View on March 11 when the show was filmed without an audience
‘For a brief moment I had the privilege of seeing myself in the sisterhood of motherhood,’ she wrote.
‘I had a miscarriage. I loved my baby, and I always will. To the end of my days I will remember this child — and whatever children come will not obscure that.
‘I have love for my child. I have love for all the women who, like me, were briefly in the sisterhood of motherhood, hoping, praying and nursing joy within us, until the day the joy was over.’
In a People interview in June 2018, McCain revealed she felt pressure from her mother to start having children.
‘She has never asked me before and then all [of a] sudden she brings it up all the time. It’s hilarious and uncomfortable,’ she said.
McCain, whose father, revered veteran Republican politician John McCain died of a brain tumor in August 2018, says she wanted to keep the news private, but was sharing her experience because her brief absence from screens after July 4th ‘was enough to spark gossip about why I would be away’.
McCain has said in the past that she wants to follow her parents footsteps when it comes to parenting her children.
‘He pulled off being such a good dad. If I ever have kids, I want to figure out how he did it,’ she said on her late father. ‘My mom is truly the matriarch of our family and has kept everyone sane.’