WhenJoanna Gainesshot the cover for the spring 2019 issue of her and husband Chip’s magazineMagnolia Journal, she had atinysecret.
The formerFixer Upperstar waspregnant with Crew,who is now seven months old, during the photo shoot, she revealed in a video unveiling her decorations forSpring at the Silos.
“I was really sick this day — feeling super nauseous,” Gaines continues of herpregnancy woes, “and it had been raining that whole week.”
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The mom of five said that originally, the vision behind the image was to have her standing with an umbrella during a rainy day, but right when she walked outside to start the shoot, the rain stopped, so they had to improvise.
“I had friends throwing bottled water. They were squirting bottled water at me,” Gaines says as she shows a video of one of her crew members dumping water on her umbrella. “But we made it.”
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Gaines was open about herunexpected pregnancy experience at age 40, eight years after the birth of her fourth child, inthe magazine’s fall issue.
She laughed when she first heard the term “geriatric pregnancy,” she revealed — “until I realized that’s actually what it’s called at my age.”
“I have always really enjoyed being pregnant — I tend to feel my best during those nine months. This time I felt a little more worn out than usual,” she wrote.
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“I don’t know if it’s because I’m a little older, but this time around I am more comfortable in my own skin, sure that I can do this. Confident that I was made for this very thing in this very season,” she says.
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“There is a certain, creepy allure to a place where we can present ourselves any way we choose with very little accountability,” Gaines writes. “But one could argue that the more versions of ourselves we present to the world, the less real any one of them can be.”
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TheFixer Upperalum does have a history of keeping it real when it come to chaotic cover shoots. In last year’s winter issue, she admitted, the beautiful snowy image that graced the magazine was captured while she wasquickly sinking into the snow and couldn’t feel her toes.
To read more and to see Gaines’s full cover shoot, pick up the Spring 2019 issue ofMagnolia Journal, on newsstands now.
source: people.com
