After months of speculation surrounding her personal life,Kailyn Lowryis ready to share her truth.
Rumors about her welcoming a fifth childhave been stirring throughout the last several months. However, instead of playing into the buzz, Lowry opted for a different approach this time around: she kept the news to herself.
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“I wanted to be able to tell my own story on my own terms and kind of share what information I wanted to share instead of being within a contractual obligation or storyline,” Lowry, who first made the announcement on Friday’s episode of herBarely Famouspodcast, exclusively tells PEOPLE.
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But Lowry, admittedly, wasn’t necessarily “ready” to share her private family news. “I feel like it was ripped out from under me time and time again,” she explains. “I kind of feel like my hands are tied. People are announcing it for me and so, at this point, I might as well just talk about it.”
“At this point, I can at least try to do it my way,” she continues.
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Though Lowry and Scott weren’t necessarily trying for a child together, the former reality star says, “It was a pleasant surprise.”
Despite being a mom of five, Lowry admits she still wouldn’t consider herself an expert at parenting.
“Do you ever really become a parenting expert? Because every child is so different and every experience is so different,” she says. “I definitely would not consider myself an expert, but I’ve been around the block a couple of times with kids. I feel like every experience is so new that I wouldn’t say I’m an expert.”
Going forward, as she leans further into being a mother of five, Lowry says she is embracing this “new chapter” of life.
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“I’m adjusting accordingly. It’s an adjustment not having cameras around all the time,” she says. “And it’s weird because it still feels like it’s a part of my life because it wasn’t that far away. It wasn’t.”
“I’m trying to just get used to the normalcy and being able to go out and kind of move around and move about freely, run my errands freely, schedule appointments freely. That’s been nice,” she concludes. “And I’ll just stay busy with motherhood and the podcast.”
New episodes of Lowry’sBarely Famouspodcast arrive on Fridays everywhere podcasts are streamed.
source: people.com
