Photo: Chad Duell/Instagram
Chad Duellis going to be a dad!
TheGeneral Hospitalactor, 35, is expecting his first child with girlfriendLuana Lucci, due in September.
PHOTO: Luana Lucci/InstagramPHOTO: Luana Lucci/Instagram
Lucci revealed in the post that she had been informed that it is a “high risk pregnancy,” adding that “seeing him thriving and healthy is so amazing ❤️.”
“#19weekspregnant ❤️ every time we have to do a ultrasound we get so excited and so anxious at the same time,” she wrote in the caption. “We can’t wait to meet him!!! I wish the ultrasound was better quality so we can see him better 😭.”
The United Airlines flight attendant previouslysharedthat she had been hesitant to post on social media in the days following the pregnancy announcement after suffering from “anxiety and ptsd” as a result of the hate she’s received.
“I haven’t looked in my dms in so long in fear I will see something disgusting and mean,” she wrote. “It’s hard to wrap my mind around how ADULTS can bully someone they know nothing about.”
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She continued, writing, “Anyways I love social media and how we can connect with so many people so I won’t let grown up as*** adults bully me out of social media 😌 anyways have a good day everyone! #bekind.”
Duell and Lucci first went public with their romance in October 2022. Lucci shared a photo with the actor at Knott’s Berry Farm theme park just outside Los Angeles. “#scaryfarm with ma dorkie 🖤🖤🖤 #spookyseason 👻 🎃,” she wrote in the caption of her firstpostwith Duell.
In November, the Emmy-award winner posted with Lucci for the first time, sharingphotosfrom his brother’s wedding, where she was his date.
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The pregnancy news comes just over a year afterDuell and his wife, Courtney Hope, split just two months after their wedding.
The two soap opera stars — Hope plays Sally Spectra inThe Young and the Restless— had been dating for five years whenDuell popped the question in a surprise Valentine’s Day proposalin February 2021. That October,they wed in a ‘Till Death’-themed outdoor wedding in Malibu, California.
By December, a source told PEOPLE that the two actors had quietly split.
The separation was Duell’s second divorce. His first marriage to Taylor Novak ended in an annulment after less than six months in 2012.
source: people.com
