OH BABY! RACHEL GETS REAL
Pregnancy isn’t all rainbows and butterflies, and Rachel Platten wants you to know that. The Newton-raised singer just revealed that she’s expecting her first child and, instead of slathering a thick coat of sugar onto the announcement, she took the opportunity to serve up some mommy-to-be realness.
“This is one of my most exciting announcements, but also one of my most vulnerable,” Platten started off a post on social media yesterday.
“The truth is, I am overwhelmed with love, joy and happiness about our baby. It’s a total miracle that I’m growing a human and my husband and I couldn’t be more thrilled,” she continued. “But, I have also had an incredibly difficult spring and summer with serious nausea, exhaustion, constant sickness and all the awful symptoms no one wants to really talk about when sharing the ‘perfect blessed journey’ of pregnancy.”
The 37-year-old, who headlined the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular earlier this month without showing even a bit of a bump, has apparently been itching to share her and her husband Kevin Lazan’s baby news for months now. However, the multi-platinum performer confessed that she’s been struggling with how to be honest about her condition so far, which has left her praying to the porcelain gods far more often than she would like, without detracting from the pure bliss she feels.
“I was so afraid that if I shared that part (the difficulty of flying and performing while puking in green rooms and airplanes) that I’d seem ungrateful somehow when I’m actually crazy full of gratitude — I’m just HUMAN,” she wrote. “Human emotions are complex. We can feel more than one thing at once you know? We can hold both love and wonder and aw and joy, but also frustration and sickness and fear and darker stuff too and it’s normal!”
It’s not hard to see why Platten was reluctant to divulge the details of her queasy first few months. A mob of models-turnedmothers — including Kate Upton, Behati Prinsloo and Chiara Ferragni — have been flaunting their glowing pregnant perfection on every channel from Instagram to the red carpets. So it’s not a leap to feel conscientious when what you’re expecting isn’t what you expected.
Fortunately, it seems that the singer’s nausea has subsided and, at this point, she might just be coping with lingering fatigue, as she signed the post: “Xoxoxox, a totally happy, exhausted, not so nauseous today Rach.”