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Rachel Platten expecting her first child: “I am overwhelmed with love, joy and happiness”

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ABC/Fred LeeCongratulations are in order for Rachel Platten.  The “Fight Song” singer and her husband Kevin Lazan are expecting their first child.

On Instagram, Rachel, 37, posted a photo of herself showing off her baby bump.  “This is one of my most exciting announcements, but also one of my most vulnerable. So here goes…. I am pregnant!!” she captioned the photo. “I can’t believe I’m finally typing these words – I have wanted to share this news for months.”

In the lengthy post, Rachel continues, “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. 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.”

She then goes on to explain that she was afraid of seeming “ungrateful” if she shared her tales of “puking in green rooms and airplanes,” so she held back.  But now, she says, she realizes that “we can hold both love and wonder and aw[e] and joy, but also frustration and sickness and fear and darker stuff too and it’s normal!”

Rachel finishes by writing, “With all the mystery and wonder around this, one thing that has been abundantly clear to me: this little unbelievable soul that I haven’t even met yet is going to be my biggest teacher in the world and I cannot wait to learn.”

Kevin and Rachel have been married since 2010.  The singer released her current album, Waves, in 2017.

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