Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant with her second child.
“Scott and I are so excited to announce that we are expecting,” Kardashian said this morning. “We are thrilled to be expanding the love in our family.”
Kardashian and Scott Disick, her much maligned boyfriend of five years, have one son together — Mason, who is almost 2 years old.
While the couple is not married, Disick planned to propose to Kardashian in the season finale of the E! reality show “Kourtney & Kim Take New York” last April, telling a friend that he wanted to be “that real, legitimate family.” Kardashian dismissed the idea of marrying then. However, previews for the new season of the show reveal that the marriage issue might come up for the couple again.
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Kardashian tells Us Weekly that she suspected she was pregnant again about five weeks ago. When she took a pregnancy test and saw a second pink line emerge, she instantly woke up Disick to tell him the news.
“Now I’m nine weeks along,” Kardashian says. “You’re supposed to wait 12 weeks to tell people, but I feel confident.”
Already some are questioning the timing of Kardashian’s announcement, saying that releasing the news early could be an attempt to boost ratings for the second episode of the new season of “Kourtney & Kim Take New York,” which airs Sunday night.
Others think the announcement could be a ploy to take some heat off sister Kim, who has received a significant backlash since filing for divorce from basketball star Kris Humphries just weeks after their four-hour wedding special aired. Kourtney would have discovered she was pregnant just a week before Kim Kardashian announced the end of her marriage.
Coincidentally, Kourtney also launched a new Web venture, Kourtney’s Mommy Blog, earlier this week. In the blog, she will share “some of my favorite things … and just things that I have found helpful.”
But Disick holds that there is no intention behind the timing of the announcement, and that it’s just the way the couple’s life has unfolded.
“It wasn’t like we weren’t trying,” he tells Us. “We kind of just said, ‘If it’s meant to be, it’ll be.'”