Chelsea Clinton announces she's pregnant with first child
(CNN) - Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday that she is expecting her first child.
The only daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton made the announcement while sharing the stage with her mother at a women's event in New York.
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"Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year," Chelsea said at the end of the event.
"And I certainly feel all the better whether it's girl or a boy that she or he will grow up in a world full of so many strong, young female leaders. So thank you for inspiring me and thank you for inspiring future generations."
Clinton added: "I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and hopefully children as my mom was to me."
Clinton married Marc Mezvinsky in 2010.
While a spokesperson for Clinton and Mezvinsky declined to answers questions about the due date, how long the couple knew about the pregnancy and why they chose to make the announcement at this event, they did say the baby is coming in the fall.
"Chelsea and Marc are very excited to be expecting their first child in the fall," the spokesperson said. "They have been blessed with incredibly supportive, loving families and can't wait to be parents themselves."
In an October interview with Glamour, Clinton said the couple wants "to start a family."
"So we decided we were going to make 2014 the Year of the Baby," Clinton said.
Equally important to the plan, she told the reporter: "Call my mother and tell her that. She asks us about it every single day."
Clinton talked about her mother's impatience for grandchildren in a 2012 Vogue interview, saying they were thinking about starting a family in "a couple of years."
Bill Clinton congratulated his daughter on the announcement, and he and his wife celebrated their new titles.
Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, who gave birth to a baby girl last April, welcomed Clinton to the world of motherhood on twitter.
Save all your hate and negativity, congratulations and best of luck to the lady with her pregnancy! Frank
Wait, stop everything! somebody needs to answer this one question! How is this going to play into the next election bid??? (Eye roll)
Congratulations! Hopefully the start of a classy thread. I hope she has a healthy pregnancy!!!!!
Congratulations, God bless you both!!!
Congratulations Chelsea and Marc!!!!
The Clinton's and Bush's are America's version of the Royal family. I really do detest people who are famous just for the sake of being famous.
I don't understand why she felt the need to make a public announcement about this. She is not a public person. I can only guess that her "advisors" wanted to create an event out of it as a way of building her image to become a politician.
Best of luck to you and your family. GOD bless that little angel.
I thought Chelsea looked very pretty in a recent photo, I should have guessed that it was from that happy glow that moms-to-be have. Congratulations!
Congrats to the Clinton family!
she sign up for obama care?
Congrats and sorry but why is this news?
Congrats to her, her husband and her parents.
I do feel bad for her since their are so many people with ugly opinions of the Clintons and they will treat this happy occasion as an opportunity to disparage her and her child.
Congratulations to our once and future Presidents daughter!
These are good times for America!
Congratulations on the blessing of a lifetime 🙂
Let's see if the media shreds them when they trot the baby out for campaign events like they did with the Palins.
Congratulations to the family!
This is less interesting than when we heard that Kim K. was pregnant.
anybody posting anything but "Congrats Chelsea" needs to have their examine.
Congrats Chelsea. Hope your pregnancy is without issue.
Never heard about their wedding.
Glad that everything seems to be going well. Good luck with the rest of the pregnancy.
Donald, less class than Jenna Bush Hagar.
Thank you Frank.
Would anyone ever ask how being a grandfather might impact a man's ability or desire to be president...or anything else? Good god, we get dumber and dumber.
Chelsea and her husband are expecting a baby. They are happy about it. Why so many of you choose this forum to make negative comments escapes me. CONGRATULATIONS to the future parents!
Congratulations,
wish your daddy cou;d run one more tome.