Katie Courichas news she has been “dying” to share — she is going to be a grandma!
Along with Couric’s other daughter, Carrie, 27, Ellietold her mom the newsbefore the trio attended aTaylor SwiftEras Tour show earlier this year.
Before heading to the concert, Ellie and Carrie participated in one of the tour’s most popular traditions,bringing beaded friendship bracelets to trade— and used the accessory to tell their mom that Ellie is pregnant.
In the sweet clip, Carrie hands her mom a bracelet and the formerTodayanchor thinks out loud as she tries to decipher what it says (“brand, brandy, B, granny…”) before saying what the beads actually spell: “Granny to be.”
Still laughing at her attempts to decrypt the bracelet’s message, Couric’s face goes blank as she realizes what the message means.
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Then Ellie says, “I’m pregnant,” and her jaw drops.
“You are?” Couric says, covering her mouth, seemingly in shock. “Wow.”
After the mom-to-be asks Couric if she is “freaked out,” the journalist says, “No,” and laughs again.
In the caption, Couric wrote that she has “been dying to tell” her followers the good news.
“This is what happens when you go to a @taylorswift concert last summer and forget your friendship bracelet and your daughters say, ‘Don’t worry, we made one for you!’” she wrote, adding the hashtags “#omg #omg #omg #omg #needmy🤓.”
In her post about the concert, Couric — a vocal Swiftie — kept the news under wraps, instead writing, that the show “was a once in a lifetime experience I’m so glad I got to share with my girls who each have a PhD in Swiftology.”
“They know every word to every song and every designer Taylor was wearing. We felt so lucky to experience this together,” Couric added.
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Ellietied the knot with Dobrosky during the Fourth of July weekendin 2021, two years after the couple announced theirengagement.
After the nuptials, Couric penned a sweet tribute to her daughter on Instagram.
“It seems like yesterday when Ellie was crawling up my body like a little gymnast and doing a back flip off my shoulders,” shewrotealongside several throwback photos of Ellie.
In the same post, the journalist also referenced her late husbandJay Monahan— Ellie and Carrie’s father, whodied of colon cancerin 1998 — writing, “Jay would be so proud.”
“Here’s to love, here’s to joy, here’s to the future. ❤️,” she finished.
source: people.com
