Shawn Johnson Eastis looking back on the early days of her pregnancy.
On the most recent installment of PEOPLE’s new podcastMe Becoming Mom, the former Olympic gymnast, 29, who shares 3-month-old sonJett Jamesand 2-year-old daughterDrew Hazelwith husband Andrew East, reveals that she told her nutritionist about her pregnancy before sharing the news with her husband.
“I was still working with my nutritionist and I remember texting her like, ‘I think I have a parasite or a bug or something’s going on because my stomach’s upset and the food isn’t working,’ " she recalls.
“So I went and got a pregnancy test and the day that I took the test, it was actually the day that my husband was flying out to the NFL to his team and we weren’t going to see each other for two weeks, at the earliest. And it was like as he walked out the door, I went back to the bathroom and looked at this pregnancy test that I didn’t tell him about and I was pregnant,” Johnson East tells host Zoë Ruderman, Head of Digital at PEOPLE.
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“I didn’t plan on telling him because … I really, in my mind, had brushed it off. Like, oh, this is not it, I’m sure,” she continues. “I remember calling my nutritionist and I’m like, ‘Um, so it’s not a parasite, it’s actually a pregnancy.’ "
Elsewhere in the episode, Johnson East explains how herhistory with disordered eatingused to worry her about becoming pregnant.
“I was terrified of it, because, I’ve been very open about this but, I struggled throughout my gymnastics careerwith a lot of eating disordersand body image issues and just self-confidence issues when it came to the physical aspect,” she says.
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source: people.com
