Mike and Lauren Sorrentino. Courtesy of Mike Sorrentino/Twitter
Romeo’s little sister! Mike “The State of affairs” Sorrentino and his pregnant spouse, Lauren Sorrentino, have introduced they’re anticipating a daughter.
“ITS OFFICIAL 🎉 We have now a State of affairs,” the Jersey Shore: Household Trip star, 40, tweeted on Wednesday, November 9, referring to his MTV nickname. “It’s a Woman. Child coming January 2023.”
Mike additionally shared a child bump picture of Lauren, 37, who confirmed off her rising stomach throughout a Twenties-inspired bash.
The twosome, who additionally share 17-month-old son Romeo, introduced earlier this yr that they’re anticipating their second little one.
“We have now an incredible announcement!! We’re a rising household! Child on the best way 🤰🏼 January 2023,” the MTV star captioned a July Instagram put up with Lauren and Romeo, who wore a “Huge Brother” shirt.
The school sweethearts are elated so as to add one other toddler to their brood, although it got here throughout a difficult time.
“We had been going by a tricky time as a result of our beloved household canine Moses had simply handed,” Mike solely informed Us Weekly in August. “We had been undoubtedly just a little upset and the following factor , [Lauren] got here down the steps with a ‘large bro’ T-shirt on Romeo and I just about actually simply burst in tears as a result of it was such a magical second and such a contented second for our household.”
He added on the time: “We form of felt that it was like a parting present from Moses … so it was an incredible second.”
Whereas the New York native and Lauren had been “undoubtedly attempting” to conceive child No. 2, they weren’t “forcing” plans.
“Our magic quantity was round three [years apart.],” the Dancing With the Stars alum informed Us. “As Romeo was getting near 1-year-old and we had been like, ‘Pay attention, we form of wanna keep within the child stage and we would like the infants to be … in the identical faculties and such. So, it actually simply occurred the best way we wished. I assume we form of manifested it.”
Earlier than Mike and Lauren discovered they’re anticipating a daughter, the “Right here’s the Sitch” podcast host teased to Us what he hoped the toddler can be. “If it’s two boys, that’s lovable, and if it’s a boy and a woman, it form of evens out the squad,” Mike mentioned. “If now we have two boys, then we are going to clearly go for the lady and I believe that if now we have a woman then we’ll most likely reevaluate the entire scenario and go from there.”
The married couple, who tied the knot in November 2018, have been candid about their fertility struggles. Lauren beforehand suffered a miscarriage in 2019, almost two years earlier than welcoming Romeo.
“That undoubtedly introduced us nearer collectively,” she beforehand informed Us in July 2020 of how the pair coped amid their being pregnant loss. “Mike and I are an open guide and that was a giant motive why I wished to share it. … As soon as we shared that, it was like a weight off our backs. Simply to have the ability to assist different folks by sharing my story is at all times the most effective factor I can do.”
