Start the nursery prep! Jana Kramer and fiancé Allan Russell are expecting their first child together.
The engaged couple shared their baby news two weeks after revealing their plans to wed and after just over six months of dating.
“We’ve been keeping another secret from you guys (I promise this is the last Announcement…at least for a little while), but I’m pregnant!!!!,” Kramer wrote on Instagram. “We are beyond blessed and grateful to have this baby as a part of our story.” I never imagined I’d read the word “pregnant” on a test again, but I’m grateful to @clearblue for making it as clear as ever. #clearbluepartner #clearblueconfirmed.”
Kramer and Russell attempted to conceive before her 40th birthday in December, she told People. “I’d had miscarriages, so I didn’t know it was even possible.” Yes, it would be lovely for us to develop something since I adore this man. “I’d always get down about it because I didn’t know if I could carry a pregnancy again,” she says. “I was like, well, I’m turning 40 in December, so we have one month to try.” Exactly one month.”
Kramer also revealed that her pregnancy had a rough start, but she discovered the silver lining. “I was bleeding a lot at the start of this pregnancy.” “It was terrifying, and I went to the doctor saying, ‘I’ve miscarried,'” she explained to People. “I actually had a large haemorrhage, so they had to monitor me, which has been great because I’ve had so much time with the baby.” Thank heavens, everything is well now.”
On May 25, the country singer and One Tree Hill alum announced her engagement to Russell, a 42-year-old Scottish football coach and former player. Kramer’s forthcoming wedding will be her fourth marriage after her rocky relationship with former Buffalo Bills football player Mike Caussin ended in 2021, just a month shy of their sixth wedding anniversary. Kramer filed for divorce in April 2021, accusing her ex of “inappropriate marital conduct, irreconcilable differences, and adultery.”
The former couple has two children: Jolie, 7, and Jace, 4. Russell has a son with his ex-wife, whom he was married to for 11 years, according to Kramer’s Whine Down podcast. He is very close to his adult stepdaughter and visits both children once a month in London.
Kramer revealed Russell’s proposal on her Whine Down podcast in an episode titled “Jana’s Engaged Part 1.”
She, Russell and her kids took a walk in their new home and he got down on one knee while they all sat on the steps of the front porch. “Jolie just started jumping up and down,” he said of his younger daughter. “It’s like she knew what was happening.”
While Kramer noted that they had originally planned to live in Jamaica, Russell’s porch proposal at home was “exactly what I wanted,” she said.
Kramer announced plans to publish a book about his divorce from Cousin five days after the news of his engagement. “next chapter !!!!” she wrote on Instagram. “I have been working on this book for more than 2 years and I am very excited that it will be in your hands very soon. This book is a diary of one year from the day I filed the divorce papers, Until a year later and all that I did” I’ve learned since then. This book doesn’t tell everything about my ex, but more stories that made me realize the end was near and the day I knew I had to walk away.
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Kramer added that the book will walk readers through her different types of recovery throughout her adult life. “I bring you back to stories that cover my first abusive relationship, to my journey with anxiety and how I started to believe that I deserved good things,” she shared. “This book isn’t about finding a new relationship and falling in love. This book is about the journey to loving myself and all the missteps along the way. Taking ownership for what I needed to work on, and all the beautiful lessons that came from the darkness.”
Kramer and Rusell’s engagement comes just four months after Kramer went Instagram official with her man, writing in a January post, “Back where it all started…Also this is so us…trying to take a photo.” The pair made their red carpet debut two months later at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards. “Thank you @iheartradio for having us last week. And thanks @superiorstriker for being my date ♥️,” she wrote to her man on social media at the time.
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