Eboni K. Williams is pregnant! The ex “Real Housewives of New York City” star and current host of “Equal Justice with Judge Eboni K. Williams” is pregnant with her first child—a baby girl due on August 16.
This happy news comes 2 years after Eboni shared her decision to use her frozen eggs to pursue motherhood via sperm donation and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Reflecting on her journey, she says, “Anybody who’s gone via IVF or tried IVF will tell you so many things have to go right for the last result of this journey to be a baby. That’s why I’ve called this ‘my remarkable miracle,’ because it really does feel like I’ve been the recipient of some very enormous favor from God above.”
Eboni K. Williams has affectionately nicknamed her daughter “one-of-one,” a moniker that aimed how special her baby is to her and signifies the unique journey she has taken to become a mon.
“I did one egg retrieval at 34 years old, not really having a clear intention on if I would use those eggs or when I would use the eggs. And 6 years later, that one egg retrieval led to one genetically normal embryo which led to one successful embryo transfer and—one pregnancy later—I’ll soon have, God willing, one beautifully healthy baby girl. So it really does feel like fate.”
She address, “I want to say that with conviction and clarity; I was not the little girl that grew up fantasizing about having kids and what I would name them and all of that. That was not my dream or fantasy. I had no real expectation around it.”
“I was truly thinking I would never use them, whether I got married again or didn’t,” she shares. “It was the pandemic and having some real existential conversations within my own self about legacy and life and love and the different ways in which I really wanted to explore family.”
During this period of self-reflection, Eboni realized she didn’t have to confine herself to traditional notions of being a mother.
“I really freed myself of the rigidness of what legacy, love, and family could look like,” she says. “Those are the 3 pillars I reassessed, and it helped shake me from this idea of, ‘I have to have it this way on this timeline everyone else is following.’”
