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Ginny & Georgia Star Brianna Howey Announces She’s Pregnant with Her First Child: ‘My Forever New Plus 1’ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2_rxDOdqn/

Brianne Howeyis pregnant!

“@bossshow with my forever new +1 🥰🤎 thanks for having us!” gushed Howey in the post’s caption. “Loved every second of the new collection#hugoboss.”

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After Thursday’s announcement, many friends and fans of the actress took to the comment section to congratulate Howey.

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Brianne Howey and Matt Ziering

“So. happy. for. you” wroteAntonia Gentry, who stars alongside Howey as her character’s daughter inGinny & Georgia. “I can’t wait to be a big brother!!! Sooooooo excited!!!” addedDiesel La Torraca, who plays her son in the series.

In January, Howey shared that her role as a mom on the hit Netflix series isbased on her late mother, who died over ten years ago.

“My mom had me at 21, she had my sister at 25, and my mom really had to hustle,” Howey shared. “I watched her work so hard, she ended up becoming a super successful software consultant, but she didn’t start that way.”

“So any way that we could save a little money, whether it was lying about or ages or hoarding food and bringing it into the movie theater, these were the things that were very normalized for us,” she continued. “So a lot of the scenes that I think would’ve felt jarring between Ginny and Georgia were a little bit more normalized.”

source: people.com