“Boy Meets World” Star Trina McGee Revealed That Her Adult Kids Found Out About Her “Shock” Pregnancy At Age 54 By Reading The News Online
Earlier this month, Boy Meets World star Trina McGee took to her Instagram page to ask fans for “prayers for a safe delivery” as she announced that she is pregnant at age 54.
“At the tender age of 54 I have found myself pregnant,” she wrote. “Please bless us with your prayers for a safe delivery. Thank you."
Trina added in the post's caption: “Gonna sign off social media for a bit, thanks for your prayers and well wishes in advance.”
For context, when Trina was cast as Shawn Hunter’s teen love interest, Angela Moore, in the ABC sitcom back in 1997, she was more than a decade older than most of her costars — including then-17-year-old Rider Strong, who played Shawn.
At the time, Trina was a 28-year-old mom of two, and she was pregnant with her third child during filming for Season 5 of the show.
In fact, the star recently shocked fans by pointing out her visible bump in the infamous episode “And Then There Was Shawn,” which was filmed and premiered in February 1998.
Trina shares her three children, 31-year-old Ramia, 29-year-old Langston, and 25-year-old Ezra, with her ex-husband, Courtland Davis, whom she split from in 2001.
She married actor Marcello Thedford — who has a son from a previous relationship — in 2008, and this baby is the couple’s first child together.
And in a new interview with People, Trina has revealed that her kids only learned of her pregnancy when they read about it online — and while she didn’t think that it would be “a big deal,” one of them was understandably left feeling “pissed.”
Confirming that she is 12 weeks pregnant, Trina told the publication: “I put something on Facebook. I didn't think it was a big deal, and I said, 'I'll call the kids later. They're grown. They have their own lives.' So I speak to them maybe once a week on Sundays, normally. Now, we're speaking a lot more.”
"Two of them found out through the media, and one of them was really pissed,” she admitted. “It was just a matter of a couple of hours of a slip.”
Thankfully, the family were able to move past the hiccup, and Trina confirmed: “We're all good now. And actually, it jolted us all into really talking and being together."
And while Trina didn’t tell her children the news personally, she did reveal that she messaged her former Boy Meets World costars Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider to tell them the happy news before it was made public.
She said they “reacted great” when she told them, sharing: “They wished me well. I actually talked to them on a text a couple of weeks before it had become public knowledge, and I had told them, because honestly, it was in passing about something else.”
“It wasn't like 'I have to announce it,’” she insisted. “Although I love announcing it to them. But yeah, they're great!"
Trina also told the publication that her pregnancy was “completely natural,” and that finding out she was pregnant almost three decades after giving birth to her youngest child came as a “shock” to her.
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