Former NFL Player Steve Gleason Expecting Second Child With Wife Michel Gleason
Former New Orleans Saints Player Steve Gleason's Wife Michel Gleason Pregnant With Their Second Child
- Steve Gleason and his wife Michel Gleason are expecting their second child together.
- Team Gleason's spokeswoman Clare Durrett announced the happy news through the mother-to-be's social media.
- Durrett confirmed the couple is expecting a baby girl who is due in October.
- The couple is already proud parents to their 6-year-old daughter whom they gave birth in October 2011.
Former New Orleans Saints safe-guard, Steve Gleason is expecting his second child with wife Michel Gleason.
Clare Durrett, Team Gleason spokeswoman, confirmed the pregnancy news on Monday morning to The Advocate. She later confirmed the couple is expecting a baby girl in October.
Steve and Michel Gleason, who have been married for a decade are already parents to their 6-year-old daughter Rivers Gleason whom they gave birth in October 2011.
The Gleasons posted a snap of Michel and her husband with their daughter, revealing her increasing belly bump on the mother-to-be's Instagram on Sunday.
The parents conceived the baby through in-vitro fertilization. "Rivers is super excited," Durrett said. She further said,
There was no hesitation--none. I know that I wanted him to be the father of my kids, no matter what would happen.
Steve and Michel, who started dating in early 2005, tied the knot in 2008 after over three years of an affair. Three years after their marriage, the couple went through a harsh family problem when Steve was diagnosed with ALS(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), a severe motor neuron disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles.