Kirsten Storms baby news (Read 280 times)

[wendylou]

celebritybabies.people.com/2013/08/20/kirsten-storms-pregnant-married-brandon-barash-exclusive/


In a twist that would be right at home on a soap opera, General Hospital star Kirsten Storms, who plays vixen-with-a-heart-of-gold Maxie Jones on the legendary daytime drama, is married — and about to be a mom.

The news comes as a shock not only because Storms, 29, has battled endometriosis, but because the baby’s father is Storms’ former costar, Brandon Barash, who played Johnny Zacchara on the soap until last April.

“We’re having a little girl in January,” the proud dad-to-be — who also reveals that the couple secretly wed in June – tells PEOPLE exclusively. ”It’s been the most amazing couple of months of our lives.”

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“We kept things quiet because of everything that can go wrong during the first trimester,” Barash, 33, explains. “Kirsten did have a rocky [time] and we were in and out of the hospital.”

It was a rough start to a very welcome surprise for the couple, he adds. “We talked about wanting to have kids and Kirsten was told she could try hormone therapy. It was pretty bleak as far as the probability of her being able to get pregnant … but then we got back from a trip to Amsterdam and discovered we were expecting. We calculated that we conceived the baby in [GH star] Tony Geary‘s guest room!”

With his wife now in her second trimester, Barash says he and Storms are beginning to prepare their daughter’s nursery as they share their happy news.

“A couple of weeks ago she wasn’t really showing, but now her curves have just taken over,” the actor says. “It makes me love her even more. It feels like a fairytale — we are so lucky.”

– Monica Rizzo


Source: People Magazine

[slyn11]

So excited for her and Brandon...Maxie and JOhnny were so hot together, I guess that translated off screen.





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Top secret: Storms, Barash married and expecting first child
by Dan J Kroll
Posted Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:08:30 PM


The secret is out: Kirsten Storms and her former General Hospital co-star, Brandon Barash, are married. But that's not the only secret that they've been keeping. The pair will also be first-time parents!
Soap operas are known for their dramatic cliffhangers, but sometimes real life can be even more surprising.


General Hospital's Kirsten Storms (Maxie Jones) and Brandon Barash (ex-Johnny Zacchara) have dropped not one, but two bombshells of their own. Not only did the real-life couple quietly tie the knot in June, but the pair is now expecting their first child -- a girl -- in January.


In something seemingly ripped from the pages of a soap opera script, the pair told People that they did not believe that they'd be able to have children. The 29-year-old Storms has battled endometriosis, a medical condition where cells from the lining of the uterus appear outside the uterine cavity and can cause infertility. However, both were pleasantly surprised when Storms learned that she was pregnant.


"It was pretty bleak as far as the probability of her being able to get pregnant," Barash told the magazine, adding that Storms had been in and out of the hospital during her first trimester of pregnancy.


Barash believes that they conceived the child during a visit to Amsterdam, where they stayed in the guest room of Anthony Geary's (Luke Spencer) home.


"[G]iven that Maxie is in labor on screen, no, we will not be writing it in," GH head writer Ron Carlivati told Soap Opera Digest with a laugh.

soapcentral.com/gh/news/2013/0820-barash_storms.php

[Kpatch]

Thanks for the info wendylou and slyn11. I hope she has an easy time from here on out. 

[fluffysmom]

Happy for them. I hope the rest of her pregnancy goes smoothly.

[jayssweetgirl]

I am so happy for her!!!!! It definitely gives me hope!! Hopefully I will be as blessed as she is and be able to get pregnant