Supermodel Candice Huffine is going to be a mom! The plus-size model announced that she and her wife Shelly Lynch-Sparks are expecting their first baby together. The news comes one year after the couple eloped.

In a joint Instagram post, the couple announced their baby news with a series of images from a maternity photoshoot. The interior designer is carrying the couple’s baby and they revealed the sex and anticipated due date for their new arrival. Candice and Shelly are expecting a baby girl who is due in January. The supermodel wrote in the caption of the announcement post, “We are beyond thrilled and feel so lucky to be welcoming our sweet baby girl into a family and community who supports and loves her so much already. An exciting new chapter filled with joy begins this January! Let’s go girls! ❤️.”

Candice’s fellow model friends wished the couple congratulations in the post. Iskra Lawrence, who recently welcomed her second baby, wrote, ” congrats sending so much love.” Model Hunter McGrady gushed, “I could cry. Congratulations you two!!!!! ❤️.”

Last October, the couple revealed they tied the knot in an elopement ceremony in Las Vegas at the Sure Thing Wedding Chapel. They went on to celebrate their nuptials by attending one of Adele’s residency shows at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. When revealing they tied the knot, Candice shared, “Adele said ‘I dare you to let me be your one and only.” Kings of Leon said ‘Hand over your heart, let’s go home.’ And on August 25th we said, ‘I do’.”

Congratulations to Candice and Shelly on the news of their baby girl! We wish them all the best as they await her arrival.

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