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Eboni K. Williams is pregnant! The 40-year-old Real Housewives of New York City alum is expecting her first child, she confirmed to People. She’s expecting a girl, due on August 16! The news comes two years after she revealed she was using her frozen eggs to pursue motherhood via sperm donation and in vitro fertilization (IVF). “Anybody who’s gone through IVF or attempted IVF will tell you so many things have to go right for the final result of this journey to be a baby,” she told the outlet. “That’s why I’ve called this ‘my remarkable miracle,’ because it really does feel like I’ve been the recipient of some very enormous favor from God above.” She’s nicknamed her daughter “one-of-one.” “I did one egg retrieval at 34 years old, not really having a clear intention on if I would use those eggs or when I would use the eggs. And six years later, that one egg retrieval led to one genetically normal embryo which led to one successful embryo transfer and — one pregnancy later — I’ll soon have, God willing, one beautifully healthy baby girl. So it really does feel like fate.” She also opened up about not having dreams of being a parent growing up. “I want to say that with conviction and clarity; I was not the little girl that grew up fantasizing about having kids and what I would name them and all of that. That was not my dream or fantasy. I had no real expectation around it.” “I was really thinking I would never use them, whether I got married again or didn’t. It was the pandemic and having some real existential conversations within my own self about legacy and life and love and the different ways in which I really wanted to explore family,” she added of freezing her eggs. “I really freed myself of the rigidness of what legacy, love, and family could look like. Those are the three pillars I reassessed, and it helped shake me from this idea of, ‘I have to have it this way on this timeline everyone else is following.’” Congratulations! Several stars are expecting babies in 2024.
