The Bachelorette alum Andi Dorfman has announced she's pregnant and is going to be a first-time mom.
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"Future Mom + Dad!!!! To say we are over the moon is an understatement! Baby Hart coming later this year," the couple captioned a photo of Blaine wrapping his arms around Andi as she showed off a strip of ultrasound photos.
In the photo, Andi was wearing a white sports bra with her growing baby bump on full display, and Blaine was sweetly kissing his wife on the forehead.
Congratulatory messages poured in from Bachelor Nation.
Arie Luyendyk Jr. wrote, "Get ready for some early mornings guys haha. Congratulations!!!"
Amanda Stanton gushed, "Baby Hart!!! So happy for you two!!"
Tayshia Adams commented, "The best BEST news!!!! You were made for this!! Can't wait to meet you, Baby Hart!!"
Kaitlyn Bristowe said, "Oh my gosh!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!! You will be such a good mama!!!!"
Emily Maynard wrote, "So beyond excited for you!!! You're going to be the best mommy and I'm just so happy for you guys!!"
And Clare Crawley added, "Yayyy!!! congratulations!!!"
Andi then thanked everyone for their kind messages via Instagram Stories, writing, "OMG y'all! Your comments are bringing me and my first pregnancy to tears and I love it! Feels so real now and I can't wait to share more!"
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWAndi later conducted an Instagram Q&A session with fans and revealed that although she's in her late thirties, she and Blaine conceived naturally.
"I was basically 37 and Blaine 38 when we conceived... Most of y'all know I froze my eggs back when I was 29 (highly recommend if possible by the way) and we did not get to this time. (We do hope for more kids!)" Andi shared.
"We had been trying for about 8 months (just tracking etc) and definitely had our months of disappointment but hung in there."
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Andi also confirmed she'll be finding out the baby's gender before his or her birth because she's "horrible at surprises."
The Bachelorette alum added, "It's funny [because] I come from all girls and Blaine comes from all boys, so it's been a funny discussion/betting game. Stay tuned!"
When asked to share her pregnancy symptoms, Andi listed headaches, nausea, weight gain, melasma, UFO boobs, and fatigue.
Andi and Blaine got married on May 31, 2023 in a "dreamy" three-day celebration in Sorrento, Italy.
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The couple later celebrated their union with a large group of family and friends in Andi's hometown of Atlanta, GA. Andi called the event a "special" second wedding.
Andi and Blaine met more than a decade ago, but their relationship didn't take off until Summer 2021.
"It's kind of a crazy story. We actually met at a party when we were both in college," Andi told People in June 2023.
"Blaine was playing baseball at Furman University and one of my friends was his teammate. We met and then I never heard from him again until 15 years later in Italy."
Blaine apparently started DMing Andi on Instagram and asked her if she wanted to go for drinks.
"I told him, 'I'm in Italy, so no.' And he was like, 'Well obviously. I saw your Instagram Story, I'm here too and I want to take you out for drinks,'" Andi recalled, adding how their chance encounter would be her last first date.
"That was it," she gushed. "[Italy] is a very special place for us."
Andi admitted to the world she was in love in February 2022.
Andi initially revealed on Instagram in November 2021 that she was dating someone special, but she didn't disclose his identity at the time. She even posted photos on Instagram without showing his face.
But Andi officially introduced Blaine to the world via Instagram on New Year's Eve, ringing in 2022 in a big way.
And then on New Year's Day, Andi uploaded a photo of the pair posing side by side in formal attire outside of the swanky hotel.
"Cheers to a year filled with love and sparkles. 2022... I have a feeling you might very well be the best one yet! Happy New Year," Andi wrote alongside her post.
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Andi accepted a marriage proposal from Blaine in March 2022, and she wrote on Instagram at the time that the engagement was well "worth the wait."
Blaine popped the question on a beach in Los Angeles, CA, with a ring designed by the same jeweler who had created Andi's mother's engagement ring about 40 years ago.
After Andi and Blaine got engaged, they bought and moved into a house together in Greenville, SC. Andi had been hoping Blaine would move to Los Angeles, but he apparently won that debate.
Before saying, "I do," Andi celebrated her "La Dolce Vita" bridal shower with family and friends in Atlanta.
Andi previously told People that she wanted to "protect" Blaine from the public eye for as long as she could.
"But it's fun for me to share it now, and it makes me feel good to see that people are truly happy that I finally found love," she said at the time.
Andi, a former assistant district attorney from Atlanta, found fame when she appeared on The Bachelor's 18th season.
Andi proceeded to star on The Bachelorette's tenth season, when she rejected runner-up Nick Viall and got engaged to winner Josh Murray. The finale aired in July 2014.
Andi and Josh announced their split on January 8, 2015. Almost two months later, Andi took to Twitter to reveal she had decided to move to New York City. She then relocated to California in June 2020.
Andi has written two tell-all memoirs, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After as well as Single State of Mind, the first of which bashes Josh and how he had treated her during their short-lived relationship.
Andi had accused Josh of being verbally abusive, temperamental and controlling in her book -- which Josh in turn called "fiction."
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"We all have red flags in our relationships that we don't see. Looking back and seeing those red flags was very cathartic for me. I realized our relationship wasn't the highlight of my life like I thought it was. So I took it off the pedestal and realized all was not lost."
Andi admitted in January 2021 that she would have made very different choices on The Bachelorette if she could go back and do it all over again.
"Honestly, if I had to pick a different person from my season it would not have been Nick, who was second. It would have been Chris Soules, who was third," Andi said on the Dax Holt and Adam Glyn's "Hollywood Raw" podcast.
"He was my buddy, my friend. I really liked Nick and Josh... Chris was like my safety blanket. He was the guy I could go on a date with and I knew that we would have a good time. There wasn't a ton of pressure."
Andi appears to have found her happily ever after with Blaine, a love she said is different from what she had felt in past relationships.
"Not only do we love each other tremendously, but we like being with each other. We both just want to make the other happy and in turn our relationship is a lot of fun. That's the word I'd use to describe our relationship: fun," Andi boasted.
"It's not about it being easy or hard; that's not our barometer. I knew Blaine was different and I remember just hoping that the shoe wouldn't drop and this was the real deal and it turned out it was!"
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