Youtube Bloggers Sam and Nia are expecting again.
Nothing gets in the way of a vlogger announcement.
Not a heartbreaking miscarriage, not an awkward cheating accusation, via the Ashley Madison leak, not a tsunami of criticism from naysayers.
For prolific American family vloggers Sam and Nia, who suffered all of this in recent months, they have just kept on going, with another ‘adorable’ video announcement.
Two months after telling the world that they were pregnant, and then that they suffered a miscarriage, they took to their YouTube channel to announce that Nia is 8 weeks pregnant with their third child.
The christian couple made the announcement via their video, “Son Shocks Mom With Pregnancy Announcement” where they documented telling their mothers by putting an actual bun in the actual oven.
Watch the announcement here:
Sam and Nia made headlines in August with their video ‘Husband tells wife she is pregnant.’ Sam discovered Nia was pregnant by secretly testing her urine from an un-flushed toilet. At the time, the video caused controversy on social media with some people saying it was invasive, while others agreed it was delightful.
However just days later they uploaded a devastating video announcing that Nia had suffered a miscarriage.
When asked if they would share news of a pregnancy so early again, Same said yes. “We believe life begins at conception and we believe it’s to be celebrated right away. We don’t believe it’s something to be hidden … we were excited right away and we wanted to share that with our fans.”
And he’s been true to his word.
And the month following the tragic announcement, Sam admitted he had signed up to cheating website Ashley Madison.
But the couple have put their bad two months behind them.
Speaking exclusively to People, Sam said ‘there’s definitely some anxiety unlike we’ve ever experienced,’ however the couple and their two kids are ‘definitely excited.’
Of course, we wish them all the best.
Would you announce your pregnancy at eight weeks?
Top Comments
sorry, nothing makes me cringe more than a 'christian couple.' obviously they are not a christian couple when it comes to cheating, only forgiveness. In other words, whatever keeps the dosh rolling in. Biology dictates that at least half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. it's natural and normal. Products of conception, not a baby. And testing your wife's urine is kind of creepy. Ugh... creepy. Every heard of keeping your family life to yourself? Every scammer I know who preaches how christian they are, were not 'christians'. I feel ill.
Some really harsh comments below - we live in an age of blogger/vlogging.... don't like it? - dont watch.
Personally I am glad that a couple was able to speak about their miscarriage - it's surprisingly common and talking about it can build a network of support; however pulling people down for how they handle the situation will only perpetuate a cycle of silence.
Grief is an extremely personal process - how a person reacts (in any grief situation) is totally acceptable - it doesn't have to match how you react.
Stressful situations cause people to act out of character; if they can move on with their relationship from the ashley then who are we to question if their relationship is 'broken'....
Personally I wouldn't announce my pregnancy at 8 weeks, but I also dont have a blog and post minimally on my private facebook - there is no right and no wrong for pregnancy; just the life we live and how we choose to live it.
I think what people object to is that they seem fake. It seems like he is trying to present that they are this perfect Christian couple but secretly he is off having affairs. It is the hypocrisy that makes people annoyed.
For instance some people are trying to live Christian values and struggling, or alternatively feeling shame because they are being judged by some Christian family members/friends because maybe they had sex outside of marriage or whatever, or maybe they are trying to stay a virgin till marriage but finding it difficult to do so but all their church is telling them that they would be immoral if they slept with their boyfriend/girlfriend etc.
So you get a situation where someone has gone out with a person for two years struggled to stay a virgin but waited till their wedding night, all because a whole lot of churchy people have been on their back about staying a "nice girl", maybe they get married finally do the deed but realise that they are miserable because the guy they married is useless in bed or whatever but also they are stuck with him because their church makes them feel bad if they consider divorce etc.
So then those people discover that the churchy types acting like they have these perfect marriages and encouraging them to stay "pure" are actually screwing around themselves! That's what makes people angry, is that some of these Christian types say one thing but do another.
Of course on the other hand there are some people who genuinely do just make a mistake, e.g. couple married for years one of them gets drunk sleeps with another person etc, so I get that sometimes people do make mistakes that they are human, but it is just that couples like this, give off this impression of being so perfectly Christian but probably he isn't even really trying, to me it seems more like the type of guy who is just using the religion for a kind of PR stunt where he gets to look all Christian like, but in his private life he does whatever he feels like. Because also signing up for Ashley Madison takes a certain degree of prethought, thinking up a log in name, signing up, getting out your credit card etc, this is a guy who is committed to being unfaithful, as opposed to some guy who has no intention of being unfaithful but gets drunk and does a stupid thing (not saying the latter is right either but the former is definitely more calculated).
By the way I didn't agree with the Ashley Madison leak because I think that as much as I don't agree with someone having an affair no one's sex life needs to be exposed to the world.
But in this case it annoys me when people try and pretend they are something they are not, totally hypocrisy. That is what people object to. I feel sorry for her, but then on the other hand she also seems to be enabling this whole idea that they are the perfect Christian couple when obviously they are not.