Award-winning journalist Elaine Welteroth revealed she and her husband, Jonathan Singletary, are expecting their second child together.
The Project Runway judge, who is known for her groundbreaking work at the helm of Teen Vogue while serving as the youngest Editor-in-Chief at Conde Nast, made the announcement at the birthFUND Brunch Fundraiser on Thursday.
‘This was not part of my plan. This is God’s plan. But as we were building birthFUND, I happened to find out that my baby’s going to be part of the first birthFund cohort. So, let’s go! Let’s go,’ the 37-year-old television host said of pregnancy.
She went on to gush that she would be working with the same midwives that assisted her while delivering her son Silver Isley back in April 2022.
At the event, Welteroth told People that this pregnancy has been ‘honestly so much better’ than her last.
Elaine Welteroth revealed she and her husband, Jonathan Singletary, are expecting their second child together; seen on Thursday at the birthFUND Brunch
‘This time I have a midwife from the beginning,’ she said of what is making the experience better. ‘Last time I didn’t even discover midwifery until my third trimester. I didn’t even work up the nerve to do a home birth until week 36.’
She continued: ‘So this time, my experience of pregnancy has transformed because I have access.’
Welteroth noted that her pregnancy came as a ‘shock’ as she was clocking ’16-hour days’ for birthFUND ‘back-to-back.’
‘I found out about this pregnancy when I was in the beginning of building birthFUND. I was building my team. I was making hires. I was working around the clock,’ she recalled.
She feels that the upcoming addition to’ her family is ‘part of the bigger master plan and ‘deepened the meaning of this work’ that she is doing because it ‘felt even more personal.’
‘I’m like, wow, these families that we’re supporting, they’re going to be giving birth at the same time as me. We’re going to be doing this together,’ she concluded.
Welterworth created birthFUND, which focuses on helping provide midwife care, after giving birth to her firstborn.
For an essay, published on Sweet July, she said finding out she was expecting her first child ‘was the most surreal moment’ of her life.
The Project Runway judge, who is known for her groundbreaking work at the helm of Teen Vogue while serving as the youngest Editor-in-Chief at a Conde Nast, made the announcement at the birthFUND Brunch Fundraiser on Thursday (seen in September 2023)
‘This was not part of my plan. This is God’s plan. But as we were building birthFUND, I happened to find out that my baby’s going to be part of the first birthFund cohort. So, let’s go! Let’s go,’ the 37-year-old television host said of pregnancy
‘I didn’t believe it. It’s almost odd to say, but my brain immediately computed the positive test results to mean I had Covid, because I had been taking Covid tests so frequently,’ she said. ‘I’d also never taken a pregnancy test in my life.’
The best-selling author added: ‘You don’t expect the first time you take a pregnancy test for it to be positive, so I had this disassociation with what I was finding out.’
‘Then it was just this calm, surreal feeling. Just quiet acceptance that came over me. Then I took another test, just to be sure, and sure enough, it was not Covid—it was a baby,’ she mused. ‘We definitely were surprised. It’s not something that was in our immediate plans, but babies come on their own divine timing.’
She went on describe life ever since as ’emotional roller coaster.’
