Lindsay Hubbard definitely is aware of the distinction a 12 months makes.
As fireworks have been falling on the Fourth of July in 2023, the Summer time Home star was beside her then-fiancé Carl Radke, the 2 placing apart the stress of planning their November nuptials and the battle of their crumbling relationship to have a good time the vacation.
However as Bravo followers will inform you, a lot has modified since then.
In August the identical 12 months, Radke referred to as off their “I dos,” leaving Hubbard heartbroken because the imaginative and prescient she had for her future disappeared in entrance of her eyes. She rallied and began a brand new enterprise enterprise, discovered love once more with a former flame, bought her unused marriage ceremony attire, and on Independence Day this 12 months made the joyful announcement that she’s pregnant together with her first child, due this vacation season.
“To assume the place I used to be this time final 12 months is insane to me,” Hubbard tells PEOPLE, in an unique interview about her blissful information. “Trying again on it, it is simply so clear to me that the universe had a plan.”
“The journey is absolutely simply loopy,” she provides. “Impulsively, for a woman who’s all the time needed to be a mother, there I used to be at 37 years previous, staring down the barrel of being single and questioning when goals of getting a household would occur. After which this unbelievable man comes again into my life and subsequent factor , I am pregnant. It is just like the universe was saying, ‘See? That is the time. This it the man. Now you are prepared.’ I really feel like my prayers have been answered.”
Lindsay Hubbard exhibits off her child bump in a photograph used to assist announce her being pregnant.
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Hubbard and her boyfriend — a health care provider who works in biotech investing and prefers to maintain out of the general public eye — have been solely courting for a number of months when she discovered she was pregnant.
She recollects being two weeks late for her interval when she suspected one thing could be up and determined to purchase a Clearblue Digital Early Being pregnant Check, which is over 99% correct from the day a interval is anticipated.
“It instantly and unmistakably displayed with phrases ‘You might be pregnant’ and as stunning as that was, having a extremely clear outcome simply helped alleviate the unknown,” Hubbard says. “These subsequent steps are just a little scary, however not less than they’re simpler simply realizing a technique or one other what you are working with.”It’
From there, Hubbard went to her OB-GYN for blood work to check her human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) ranges. The outcomes got here whereas she was on an airplane to Mexico for her finest good friend’s marriage ceremony.
“My boyfriend wasn’t with me, in order that was just a little onerous,” she recollects. “That is not one thing you need to inform somebody in a textual content message or a telephone name, so I went via the marriage weekend after which instructed him after I acquired again.”
Lindsay Hubbard shares photos of her ultrasound and her constructive Clearblue Early Digital Being pregnant Check being pregnant.
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Summer time Home viewers know properly of Hubbard’s needs to have a child, the previous publicist even going via the egg freezing course of for the Bravo cameras. However her boyfriend had these goals, too.
“Clearly, it was a shock and a shock at first as a result of we weren’t attempting and even planning, however we had some trustworthy conversations and it simply felt so proper for each of us,” Hubbard says. “Now we have a really loving, caring and wholesome relationship. I lastly really feel like I met my match with him.”
“He is simply so excited to be a dad and proud to be having a toddler with me,” she continues. “It simply means the world to have somebody like him by my facet. And sure, it’s plenty of strain on a brand new relationship, however I feel as a result of he is the best man as a result of we’re so bonded and linked and talk very successfully with one another that it hasn’t felt like work.
“You recognize, I’ve virtually made horrible errors in my previous due to a organic clock that we naturally as girls have, and that is the one time the place it simply all feels so proper.”
Lindsay Hubbard and her boyfriend have a good time her being pregnant in a young picture.
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That does not imply she does not really feel the fears that include change.
“Oh, nobody is ever really prepared once they’re having their first child — mother pals of mine inform me that on a regular basis, even people who have been attempting. It is a studying curve!” Hubbard admits. “However once more, the timing for me is correct. Every thing that led up thus far, I can draw upon these experiences and I feel they will assist me be a greater mother due to them.”
It is that perception in herself that is helped carry Hubbard via.
“I’ve to inform you, even when all the things was taking place final 12 months, I by no means gave up on love and I by no means gave up on the concept that I would be a mother,” says Hubbard. “And that is how I’ve all the time been: I simply by no means allowed any previous heartbreak to make me really feel jaded about these goals I’ve had. And that is why I feel it the universe took care of me; as a result of I all the time believed it will occur.”
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