EXCLUSIVE: Kayleigh McEnany, 35, opens up for first time about bitter struggle to get pregnant with her second child – revealing how she sought comfort in her faith while ‘Satan did his best to infiltrate with worry and doubt’
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has spoken out for the first time about her bitter struggle to fall pregnant with her son.
The 35-year-old Fox News presenter said she and her husband, former New York Mets player Sean Gilmartin, had decided they wanted to have a second child in the summer of 2021 after the birth of their daughter, Blake, who is now three years old.
The couple welcomed their second child, Nash, in December last year.
But it was not an easy road to pregnancy for the mom-of-two.
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Trump-era press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has shared her bitter struggle to have her second child
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The 35-year-old Fox News presenter shared she and husband Sean Gilmartin, 32, had decided they wanted to have a second child in the summer 2021
‘My first pregnancy happened rather quickly, and we felt blessed that God had given us a beautiful daughter with relative ease. The second time around was different,’ Kayleigh wrote in an extract shared exclusively with DailyMail.com from her new book, Serenity in the Storm: Living Through Chaos by Leaning on Christ.
‘Several months passed, and negative pregnancy tests were ample. As spring of 2022 approached, part of me began to worry. Why wasn’t I getting pregnant? I attempted to overcome worry by leaning on faith.’
After reading Mark Batterson’s Draw The Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge, given to her by a friend, Kayleigh said she started to ‘pray with expectation,’ but it did not come easily to her.
‘We have a tendency to expect immediate results. That is a natural human inclination, one that I certainly fall into myself,’ she said.
‘As I tried to pray with expectation, Satan did his best to infiltrate with worry, doubt, and frustration.’
Her frustration came to a head on a Saturday in March when she was about to deliver a speech at the Extraordinary Women Conference 2022 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Kayleigh said she had been ‘overcome with worry’ about not being able to fall pregnant, while it seemed she was surrounded by friends who were announcing they were expecting.
But that frustration shifted at the Christian conference as she listened to gospel singer Mandisa, prayers and the music ‘ringing through the building,’ she said, and she refocused her attention on God.
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Kayleigh pictured with Fox News presenters Ainsley Earhardt and Carley Shimkus
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She said her daughter, Blake, was conceived easily compared to her second child, Nash (pictured with Kayleigh)
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She said several months passed and negative pregnancy tests were ‘ample.’ Pictured on Fox News with her husband
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Kayleigh served as White House press secretary from April 2020 to January 2021
