Kim Kardashian and Kanye West expecting second child
Kim Kardashian, with daughter North. Photo: Reuters
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting baby number two.
The reality star announced the news on the season finale of her TV show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
"I just got the blood test back and I am pregnant," Kardashian tells her excited family in the episode that went to air on Monday in the US.
Kardashian and her musician husband West already have 21-month-old daughter North, who is just five weeks younger than Prince George.
The 34-year-old has been open about her desire for a second child. Heir number two will also be close in age to a royal, Princess Charlotte, who was born on May 3.
In September last year she told Fairfax the couple were keen to add to their brood and give North as many siblings as possible.
"We're trying and that's all you can really do," she said.
"I hope it happens sooner rather than later. Back in the States there's like two or three [magazine] covers that say I'm pregnant now and I'm looking at them and I'm like, 'No. I'm not, I wish'".
Last month she explained that she and West, 37, had been trying "every single day".
"We are trying. We try every single day. You can't try harder than we try," she told E! News.
"It's getting exhausting. [West] always says, 'Trying for baby No. 2 isn't as fun as trying to baby No. 1.'"
Despite her desire to have a child, the Selfish author said she no longer felt stressed out by the process because of how long she and West had spent trying to give their daughter a younger sibling.
"We're literally trying everything that we can to make it happen, so I'm to the point now where it's not as stressful to me. And maybe that's when they say it happens."
The pregnancy was a fitting end to the tenth season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, which began with the couple announcing their intention to grow their family.
During this year's first episode, Kardashian was shown visiting a fertility doctor and repeatedly mentioning that she and West were trying for their second child.
"I am so on a mission to get pregnant," she told the doctor. "I remember growing up being so close with my sisters, so I want siblings for North."
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