Shay Mitchell and Matte Babel Are Expecting Their Second Child

Shay Mitchell is pregnant! The actor and entrepreneur introduced on Feb. 7 that she’s anticipating her second little one with Matte Babel, her boyfriend of 5 years. Mitchell described the information as bittersweet, as her grandmother had handed away only a week prior. “Saying goodbye to a liked one whereas concurrently experiencing the enjoyment of welcoming one other into this world is the good cycle of life,” Mitchell wrote on Instagram. “It’s also my most difficult season thus far.”

Sharing intimate photographs of her pregnant stomach, captured by photographer Amber Asaly, Mitchell added, “I am unable to assist however suppose this was the universe’s plan all alongside, figuring out I would want different worldly pleasure to cushion the blow of dropping one of the essential individuals in my life. But, that is proof that love, life and loss can profoundly exist all on the similar time. Gram, I miss you daily. Baby, we’re so excited to satisfy you. I breathe a sigh of peace figuring out you two are already linked in such a cosmic manner.”

Mitchell and Babel welcomed their first little one, Atlas Noa, in October 2019. “I had no concept I used to be able to loving something like this earlier than you arrive,” Mitchell wrote on Instagram following her daughter’s start. “You marvel if that is simply one thing individuals say, but it surely’s as if the chemical make-up of my whole physique and soul modified the minute we met.”

Along with opening up about her prenatal melancholy, Mitchell additionally publicly shared the being pregnant loss she’d skilled in 2018. She wrote on the time, “We have to do not forget that we’re all on this journey collectively — in good instances and in unhealthy — and to remind ourselves that we seldom actually know or perceive the struggles and hardships that different persons are going by means of.”