'Pretty Little Liars' Alum Shay Mitchell Is Pregnant

Get ready, Pretty Little Liars fans, because another little liar is on the way. Shay Mitchell is expecting her first child with boyfriend Matte Babel, and on Friday (June 28), she took to Instagram, and also her brand new YouTube channel, to prepare the exhilarating announcement.


whenever you're in the public eye, there really are some things you aspire to just keep a secret up until you feel ready," the 32-year-old mentioned in the roughly two-minute-long YouTube video. "... I didn't desire to come out on social media so early on."


Mitchell understands the risk of sharing news like this early on. Back in January, the actor revealed she suffered a miscarriage in 2018. Yet now, it seems that she's officially willing to give fans an indoor look at her pregnancy journey.


furthermore to the announcement, the video includes adorable behind-the-scenes footage of Shay's experience so far, including a clip from one of her ultrasound appointments, and also some astonishing shots of her growing baby bump. Although just because pregnancy is cute doesn't mean it's not also hard, and Shay doesn't aspire to sugarcoat any of it. "I think pregnancy is awesome," she mentioned. "... Nevertheless it's also really fucking lonely."


In a task to keep things 100 percent real with her fans, the You actor determined that there's no better time than right now to launch a pregnancy series on YouTube, which she's calling — drumroll please — Almost Ready. Why? Well, because an eas Instagram announcement just didn't feel like quite the correct move. "It didn't feel right to just put up a photo and be like, 'I'm pregnant,' and to have people just think that everything has been peaches and rainbows. This is real life and I want people to come and also me on this journey in real time."


She did, nevertheless, supplement this announcement with a glowy Instagram photo that means off her bump in all its glory. "Does this mean I’m allowed to drive in the vehicle pool lane at all times right now she wrote. Yes, that's exactly what that means.


Wondering how you could follow and also Shay's pregnancy journey? Almost Ready will premiere every other Wednesday starting July 17, so we only have several weeks to go.