Reagan Charlestonis a mom!
It was a crazy two days for Charleston and Thomas. Less than 24 hours before she was due to give birth, Thomaswas hospitalized with appendicitis andtold he’d have to remain there for at least a week. “[I] DID NOT think this guy would be in a hospital bed,” Charlestonwrote on Instagram. “Perfect timing … God has a sense of humor.”
Luckily, his heath crisis didn’t prevent him from making it into the delivery room, Charleston tells PEOPLE: “We were both so thrilled that Daddy Reece’s white-blood-cell count was down and his doctors let him join us for the delivery and stay the day with us.”
Courtesy of Reagan Charleston
Her union with Thomas marks Charleston’s second marriage; she and Jeff Charleston decided to go their separate ways after six years of marriage last June.
“He’s my second chance,” Charleston said of Thomas, whom she had previously dated over a decade ago but parted ways with after college until they reconnected following her divorce. “I’dgone through this really difficult transition in my lifeafter my divorce and I was looking at being 30 years old where my friends were getting married for the first time and having babies and starting families and I was looking at completely starting over.”
“That was terrifying. But then Reece came back into my life and everything fell into place,” she explained. “I can’t see my life any other way right now. It feels like everything is perfect.”
Matthew Diaz
Southern Charm New Orleanscameras will follow Charleston and Thomas’ romance in its second season, including their romantic nuptials (part of the reason the reality star said she kept her big news off of social media).
The couple didn’t wait long before they decided they wanted to get marriedand start trying for a child.
“I spent so much time convincing myself that I didn’t want kids, that I didn’t want a family, that it just wasn’t right because I had this career and every excuse I could make for myself,” Charleston recalled in May.
“And then as soon as we started seeing each other, it was like six months later we started talking about when we wanted to get married and start having a family.”
Reece Thomas (L) and Reagan Charleston.Matthew Diaz
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Meanwhile, it was a busy pregnancy for Charleston. Right before she found out she was expecting, sheopened her self-named jewelry retail store in New Orleans. And just six months in, Charleston took the bar exam — and passed.
“It was miserable, actually,” she joked to PEOPLE about the stress of managing it all.
This summer, Charleston will start another business: her own law practice with her father-in-law in New Orleans, where she’ll be focused primarily on real-estate law.
The couple experienced a bit of a scare in April, when Charleston was about 30 weeks along in her pregnancy and it looked like she might have to deliver their daughter very early.
“Now we have a fully developed little girl who could make her big entrance any day now … and bae had time to pack her own hospital bag lol fake eyelashes are not priority,” he concluded. “I was panic packing. What can I say 😂”
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source: people.com
