{"id":2213462,"date":"2025-12-27T02:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2213462"},"modified":"2025-12-27T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T02:22:18","slug":"white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-pregnant-with-2nd-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-pregnant-with-2nd-child\/","title":{"rendered":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pregnant with 2nd child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\">\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that she\u2019s expecting to become a mom for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for \u2014 a baby girl coming in May 2026,\u201d she wrote on Instagram. \u201cMy husband and I are thrilled to grow our family and can\u2019t wait to watch our son become a big brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt, 28, and her 60-year-old husband, Nicholas Riccio, are already parents to son Niko, who was born in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest White House press secretary ever shared a photo of her cradling her growing baby bump while standing in front of a Christmas tree. She also posted a picture of 17-month-old Niko holding a stuffed bear that\u2019s wearing a T-shirt reading \u201cI\u2019m the big brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt\u2019s announcement gave thanks to God for the \u201cthe blessing of motherhood,\u201d as well as her boss.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSvNvF0ke9V\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:100%; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI am also extremely grateful to President Trump and our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for their support, and for fostering a pro-family environment in the White House,\u201d she wrote. \u201c2026 is going to be a great year and I am so excited to be a girl mom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt and Riccio met in 2022 when she unsuccessfully ran for Congress in her native New Hampshire. They were introduced at an event hosted by a mutual friend. They got engaged at Christmastime in 2023 and married in January of this year, just days before Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>A profile published by New Hampshire outlet WMUR said the hometown Republican is the youngest of three children. Leavitt described herself as coming from a \u201cmiddle class, blue collar, small business family,\u201d with companies that have included an auto operation and an ice cream stand.<\/p>\n<p>Riccio is a real estate developer who Leavitt called her \u201crock\u201d in an interview recorded earlier this year for \u201cThe Megyn Kelly Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was among the first to congratulate Leavitt and her growing family on Instagram Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongrats!! She\u2019ll always have her big bro looking out for her. Great news KL,\u201d the conservative podcaster wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and socialite Bettina Anderson, who recently got engaged to Donald Trump Jr., also expressed excitement over the news by posting emojis of smiling faces with hearts popping out of their eyes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source triblive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Friday that she\u2019s expecting to become a mom for the second time. \u201cThe greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for \u2014 a baby girl coming in May 2026,\u201d she wrote on Instagram. \u201cMy husband and I are thrilled to grow our family and can\u2019t wait to watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2213463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/White-House-press-secretary-Karoline-Leavitt-pregnant-with-2nd-child.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213464,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213462\/revisions\/2213464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}