This was supposed to be Jessi Cruickshank?s shot at a simpler pregnancy. Back when she carried her very high-risk identical twins, Rio and Dray, she spent months on bedrest and riding a motorized scooter, had in-utero surgery and, for the first time in her very busy life, stopped everything to devote herself to the babies.
?Part of the reason that I wanted to have a third kid and a second pregnancy was to experience a quote unquote ?normal? pregnancy,? she tells Today?s Parent from her home in LA. ?Of course, the irony is that that’s happening during a pandemic.?
If that weren?t enough, the host of the hilarious and poignant parenting show New Mom, Who Dis" also chose to film the series? fourth season (which premieres on May 12) while in her third trimester, where she went as far as posing nude for a maternity modelling agency. Overall, the self-deprecating star jokes that it?s a very ?bloated? season, and we?re LOLing in anticipation.
 

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Whether she?s gyrating with her eight-month bump front and centre on a Facebook live or sharing hilarious clips of her three-year-olds giving her pretend nasal swabs, the thing that Jessi always delivers is a solid dose of parenting realness?the good, the bad and the ugly (the latter being the repulsive reactions she recently received after bravely sharing vaccination photos. More on that later).
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