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There’s another memberjoining Lady Antebellum! Charles Kelley and wife Cassie McConnell Kelleyannounced via her lifestyle website that they're expecting a baby. “Charles and I are SO BEYOND EXCITED to share with y’all that we are expecting a baby! He or she is due in February and we are so happy we can hardly stand it. Like, ecstatic and I’m crying even as I type those words,” she shared on her post on womanista.com.
Cassie and Charles are cozying up to their new roles Photo: John Hillin
The couple married in 2009.Cassie explained that her and Charles have been trying to have a baby for thelast few years, but encountered some fertility trouble along the way.
“This journey to become a family of 3 has been along, interesting, sometimes fun and sometimes heartbreaking road – a journeythat I want to share here at Womanista because I know there are a lot of womenout there who have walked the road of a fertility struggle and we can all grow,heal, and understand each other better through our shared experience,” shecontinued in the post.
The 33-year-old “Need YouNow” crooner and his wife have been keeping the secret from fans, with Cassieapologizing for posting pictures of glasses of wine to fake people out.
Lady Antebellum has been busythis summer on their “Wheels Up” tour, which is set to make stops in NorthCarolina, Virginia and Connecticut. The other two members of the band are already parents: Dave Heywood has a son, Cash, almost 1, and front-woman Hilary Scott's daughter Eisele is 2.
Hilary took to her Twitter account to celebrate Charles and Cassie’s bignews.
“I couldn’t’ be happier aboutthis! Miracles happen! What an inspiring, encouraging, & beautiful story!LOVE YALL,” she tweeted.
Charles told HELLO! that watching his bandmates parent has been a real inspiration.
"I've loved being 'Uncle Charles' to my nieces and nephews, and Eisele and Cash," he said. "I've watched Hill and Dave learn how to balance family and road life, and now Cassie and I are ready to jump into this parenting thing. We're really excited for what's ahead for our family in 2016!"