Aly Michalka.Photo:Courtesy Stephen Ringer
Courtesy Stephen Ringer
Aly Michalkais pregnant!
“It’s been a really easy pregnancy, which I feel really lucky and blessed to have experienced,” Michalka, who’s due in May, tells PEOPLE.
TheiZombiestar found out she was pregnant in September — one day before she and sisterAJ Michalkaplayed a sold-out concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles in September.
Aly Michalka and Stephen Ringer.Aly Michalka/Instagram
Aly Michalka/Instagram
“In another world I could have waited to take a test another day, but for whatever reason I was like, ‘I’m past a week being late, and I should just take the test,’ " she says. “And then it was just like, ‘Oh my gosh. We play this huge show tonight, and now I’m holding in this huge secret.’ "
Aly told Ringer, 39, immediately, but she waited until after the concert to clue others in — which was difficult, considering she usually tells AJ everything. “I didn’t want it to take away from the special meaning of that night, and we already had so much on our minds that we were juggling,” she says.
Aly Michalka.Courtesy Stephen Ringer
The pregnancy arrives nine years into Aly and Ringer’s marriage. While they’ve always wanted a family, the pair wanted to wait until after she returned home from touring last year to begin planning.
So far, the pregnancy has been without abnormalities. Aly’s found herself craving tacos and birria but nothing “crazy,” and she’s been seeking advice regarding what to buy and how to prepare from her mom Carrie as well as multiple friends who are also currently pregnant.
“It’s been really smooth sailing so far, and I was lucky I didn’t get any nausea at the beginning. I’ve just been just trekking away as usual,” she says. “I have to drink a lot more water and eat a lot more protein than I’ve had to in the past, which has been a struggle for me. But I’m trying to do it daily and be on top of it.”
When it comes to products, from pregnancy tests to belly oil, Aly’s go-to brand has been Natalist, which she’s currently partnering with. Before entering a working relationship with the company, she stumbled upon some items in a pharmacy and noticed many of its values align with hers.
“They’re plastic neutral, which is really nice. Whatever plastic they’re putting into their product, they’re making sure that they’re working with a company that extracts plastic from the ocean,” says Aly. “It’s actually a really cool brand that is the first of its kind out there for fertility stuff.”
Looking forward, Aly’s excited for the journey of parenthood with her husband. “I can see Stephen being a really great dad, obviously, which is a reason why I wanted to have kids with him. He’ll be very tuned in to their feelings and emotions,” she says, noting that one of her big focuses is to make sure their child has “a really good food palate — we cannot just do chicken fingers and plain hamburgers.”
Her child will certainly gain a well-rounded worldview, as Aly plans to take them on the road once she and AJ resume touring. The sister duo is currently writing material for a new album to be released “ideally” next year if all goes to plan with the timeline of her pregnancy.
Among the topics to come up in the forthcoming album’s lyrics, fans can expect to hear Aly muse on motherhood. “We wrote a song the other day that touches a little bit on that,” she says.
For more from Aly Michalka, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
source: people.com
