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Katie Couric has news she has been “dying” to share — she is going to be a grandma!
The veteran journalist, 66, just announced that her daughter Ellie Monahan, 32, is pregnant by sharing the moment she first learned that Ellie is expecting.
Along with Couric's other daughter, Carrie, 27, Ellie told her mom the news before the trio attended a Taylor Swift Eras Tour show earlier this year.
Before heading to the concert, Ellie and Carrie participated in one of the tour’s most popular traditions, bringing beaded friendship bracelets to trade — and used the accessory to tell their mom that Ellie is pregnant.
On Sunday, Couric posted a video of the moment, which appeared to be captured by Ellie’s husband of two years, Mark Dobrosky.
In the sweet clip, Carrie hands her mom a bracelet and the former Today anchor thinks out loud as she tries to decipher what it says (“brand, brandy, B, granny…”) before saying what the beads actually spell: “Granny to be.”
Still laughing at her attempts to decrypt the bracelet’s message, Couric’s face goes blank as she realizes what the message means.
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Then Ellie says, “I’m pregnant,” and her jaw drops.
"You are?” Couric says, covering her mouth, seemingly in shock. “Wow.”
After the mom-to-be asks Couric if she is “freaked out,” the journalist says, “No,” and laughs again.
In the caption, Couric wrote that she has “been dying to tell” her followers the good news.
“This is what happens when you go to a @taylorswift concert last summer and forget your friendship bracelet and your daughters say, ‘Don’t worry, we made one for you!’” she wrote, adding the hashtags “#omg #omg #omg #omg #needmy🤓.”
In her post about the concert, Couric — a vocal Swiftie — kept the news under wraps, instead writing, that the show “was a once in a lifetime experience I’m so glad I got to share with my girls who each have a PhD in Swiftology."
“They know every word to every song and every designer Taylor was wearing. We felt so lucky to experience this together,” Couric added.
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Ellie tied the knot with Dobrosky during the Fourth of July weekend in 2021, two years after the couple announced their engagement.
After the nuptials, Couric penned a sweet tribute to her daughter on Instagram.
"It seems like yesterday when Ellie was crawling up my body like a little gymnast and doing a back flip off my shoulders," she wrote alongside several throwback photos of Ellie.
"When she wouldn't take off her Belle dress — ever. When she got her wisdom teeth pulled and was so loopy she asked the dentist to lunch. When she would spin the volleyball before a serve. When she headed off to college where she met a wonderful guy named Mark. When she moved to LA for graduate school…and became a successful TV writer. And on and on."
"It went by in a flash and today Ellie is getting married to her beloved Jersey boy,” Couric continued. “My heart is full of unbridled happiness for them both and for all of us who are coming to celebrate their love and life itself."
In the same post, the journalist also referenced her late husband Jay Monahan — Ellie and Carrie’s father, who died of colon cancer in 1998 — writing, "Jay would be so proud.”
“Here's to love, here's to joy, here's to the future. ❤️,” she finished.
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