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Lala Kent opened up about her second pregnancy on her podcast on Monday.
After confirming she’s expecting baby number two on her Instagram page with a baby bump pic on Sunday, the Vanderpump Rules star, 33, revealed when she found out. She also discussed the selection of her sperm donor, said Stassi Schroeder, 35, was one of the first people she told, and shared how she told two-year-old daughter Ocean the news.
“I found out on December 22. We were going to head to Palm Springs on the 23rd for Christmas,” she recalled on the March 4 episode of Give Them Lala. “I’m awaiting and I’m pacing and [the pregnancy test] pops up, double lines, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, that was really fast and I’m tripping. What have I done?’”
Minutes later, Lala shared the news with her family, including her mom Lisa and her brother Easton.
“I go, ‘Guys, I wanted to wait to tell you but I need to tell you now … I’m pregnant!’ And they’re like, ‘You are?’ And then it didn’t seem real so I just kept taking all the pregnancy tests,” Lala laughed. “I took a lot. I just could not fathom that I was having a second baby on try one.”
As Pump Rules fans may have heard, Lala chose a sperm donor for her second child.
“Looks were probably the lowest on the totem pole for me, and I hate to say it, but I also didn’t need them to be extremely smart because I’m not,” she admitted. “[And] I would hope if I was donating they wouldn’t be like, “She didn’t go to college. What a dumba**.’”
While browsing through bios, one man caught Lala’s attention.
“His favorite animal was a lion. The song that he chose as his favorite and the poem both had to do with the ocean,” she shared.
But she didn’t want to see his photo.
“I [didn’t] want to see adult pictures. That makes it much too real, much too personal,” she explained. “Sure, I can look at them as a little kid, that’s cute. This donor in particular did not grant adult photos. I don’t care about looks. And genetics are fickle.”
That said, Lala does hope that her second child looks like part of her family.
“Not everybody is as progressive as we are, and I just felt like, okay, I’m bringing this baby into the world because I so badly want it to be here, but I also want to eliminate as many questions as I possibly can so I would prefer that this baby have the same aesthetic look as like me, my mom, Ocean, so when they come into this world, it’s not only, ‘You don’t have a dad because I got you from a donor and you also look nothing…’ I just want to eliminate any sort of toughness for them because the world is already tough when you come from a totally normal family,” she reasoned.
In addition to telling her mom and brother, Lala also told Stassi, who shares two children, a three-year-old daughter, Hartford, and a six-month-old son, Messer, with husband Beau Clark.
“Stassi and I have gotten extremely close. In fact, she was the second person … that I called and told,” she revealed. “We’re very in sync in a lot of different ways. Like, she loves being a mom, right, and so do I. She’s also very honest about being a mom. She’s also out there really working her a** off. So there’s just so much that we have in common where we can talk to each other, and it just feels like I get what I need from that friendship.”
As for how she broke the news to Ocean, Lala said she didn’t tell her in “some big way.”
“She wanted to sit on me or something and I said, ‘Ok, we have to be really careful because guess what? Mama has a baby in her belly.’ And she goes, ‘You have a baby in your belly?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ And she goes, ‘Well, let me see. Let me see.’ [And then] she goes, ‘I don’t have a baby in my belly.’ I was like, ‘That is correct,’” Lala recalled.
“She [also] knows because I moved all of her old nursery furniture into a bedroom for a baby,” Lala added.
Lala also added that her kid will have the option of knowing the identity of their biological father once they become an adult.
“And there is a way when the child turns 18, if they do have questions and they want to go and find their dad, they can,” she shared. “The California Cryobank will give them access to the donor.”
Vanderpump Rules season 11 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on Bravo.
