A baby will soon make three for Ashley Darby and husband Michael.
The “Real Housewives of Potomac” star revealed to People she is pregnant after suffering a miscarriage.
“It was a surprise,” Darby, 30, shared. “We found out in the beginning of November and I had just been healing out of it and I thought I was getting sick because of the change of season. I wasn’t feeling too well. Something just told me to take the test, really not expecting a positive result. And then lo and behold, there were two solid lines.”
The couple, whose marital struggles have been documented on “Potomac,” initially addressed Darby’s lost pregnancy last year during the Season 3 reunion.
“It was such a traumatic experience,” she explained. “At the time, I didn’t fully understand the magnitude of how it would affect us as a couple and as individuals because we kind of thought it would be a given that we would just be able to have children. But it was challenging.”
Currently five months into her pregnancy, Darby said she and Michael, 59, who has two adult children from a previous relationship, remain undecided about whether or not they’ll find out the baby’s gender ahead of time.
“We have the results in Michael’s desk drawer at work, but we might do a sex reveal, that’s still a toss up in the air,” she shared. “But for now, it’s just really hypothesizing if it’s going to be a boy or a girl based on the heartbeat, the shape of the belly, the condition of my skin — all those things that are supposed to be predictors of the baby’s sex.”
As for the tot’s future name, Michael already has a few ideas in mind.
“With an Australian man who tends to lean more towards the English side with his name choices, it’s very interesting,” Darby said “He wants it to be a Phillip or an Elizabeth or something very regal. It needs a little bit of culture in there!”
Darby’s pregnancy comes on the heels of a difficult few months for the couple, as sexual assault charges against Michael were dropped in October. He was previously accused of groping a cameraman.