And despite her ripped-from-experience concerns about strangers being nasty toward not just her, but also her baby, on social media, she let (some of) it all hang out for her vast online fandom.
Into her second trimester in May, she shared that her biggest pregnancy craving was “egg salad on top of a pickle with hot sauce.” She got real about suffering from lower back pain. And her remedy for staying cool when the mercury topped 100 this past summer?
“If you’re pregnant in this heat,” she wrote in July, “trust me, feet + legs in the ice bath or cold plunge.”
Yet now that Jack is here, the details of their life as a family of three are not for public consumption just yet.
“It’s so hard to say what I’m going to do or not do when there isn’t even a child here yet,” Hailey told GQ not long before she got pregnant. “I don’t even know what it feels like to be a parent other than a dog parent yet. And that’s not the same thing, by any means.
Motherhood “is something that I look forward to,” she added. “It’s also such a private, intimate thing. It’s something that’s going to come when it comes.”
But no question this was always the plan. See all the hints Hailey dropped about being pregnant before the big reveal:
