Style Star Leandra Medine Is Pregnant — With Twins!
This morning The Tot — a curated baby goods site that was founded by street style stars Miroslava Duma and Nasiba Adilova — announced on their Instagram account that Leandra Medine, founder of the fashion site Man Repeller, is pregnant with twin girls.
“The first trimester felt like an alien invasion,” she told The Tot. “I was throwing up 4-5 times a day and needed to sleep about 15 hours a day. And when I was up, the best I could do was sit on my couch and stare at my wall.”
Medine married financier Abie Cohen in 2012, wearing a Marchesa frothy confection topped with, in true man-repelling fashion, a white motorcycle jacket and a flower wreath. Afterward, she struggled with getting pregnant; last year she wrote about her experience with a miscarriage as well as multiple failed IVF attempts on her site, concluding that “we’ll have our baby, no matter what it takes.”
It wasn’t immediately clear how far along the Jewish style star is in her pregnancy, but she’s certainly grateful: “I’m so damn grateful to be here that I don’t care how difficult or uncomfortable it gets,” she told The Tot. “As long as the result is a healthy pair of babies, I am satisfied.” One thing is for sure: her daughters will inherit the best wardrobe in New York (man-repelling be damned).
Michelle Honig is a writer at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected]. Find her on Instagram and Twitter.
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