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Celebrity Update: Jersey Shore Star Snooki is Preggers?

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Iowa chapter.

The once wild, alcohol-loving, party animal guidette Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is allegedly going to be a mom!
 
Though she has publicly denied she’s expecting, sources say Snooki, 24 is indeed pregnant with her first child. The father of Snooks alleged mini-guido is longtime boyfriend Jionni LaValle. 

However, earlier this month, Snooki denied rumors of pregnancy to Star magazine. She responded to them saying, “Does that mean they’re calling me fat? That means I have a belly then.”
 
Snooki who has lost over 20 pounds and is now down to just 102 pounds, isn’t as easily able to hide a baby bump as she once could have.
 
Sources close to the MTV star, according to TMZ, said Snooks WAS already pregnant when she went on Sirius/XM radio, where she shot down pregnancy rumors earlier last month. She told everyone she was OUTRAGED by the suggestion that she had a “preggo” belly.
 

TMZ was told that Snooki is taking the situation seriously though and does not want to jinx the pregnancy by talking about it publicly before the first trimester is over.

According to E! News, Snooki has always dreamed of being a mom one day and wants both a boy and a girl. However, there is reason to believe she would want to hide her belly due to her new TV series that is about to air on MTV.
 
Sources told the New York Post that MTV is worried about how to manage the news, given that Polizzi’s hard-partying, booze-loving ways have been turned into a “Jersey Shore” spinoff with Jenni “JWoww” Farley, which has begun shooting in New Jersey.
 
“MTV went into crisis mode after they found out,” said a source. “They’re trying to hide it because it would greatly affect the creative direction of the show.”
 
Star magazine has also reported that Snooki was pregnant a few weeks ago but had only told “her close friends and family.” However, Polizzi went on “GMA” on Feb. 2 to tell Lara Spencer, “I definitely do want kids, but I’m not pregnant…Being pregnant should be a real thing and a happy thing, and I’m not.”

 
Whether the reality TV star is pregnant or not, she has recently been trying on $500,000 engagement rings, according to E! News. 

“Jionni made me take it off,” Snooki admitted. “He was like, ‘Don’t even think about it.’ It was like this big and sparkly and amazing ring. I just want a big one.”
 
Cheers to the happy couple!
 
 
Sources:

Hot Spot ATL


Zimbio


E! Online

 
 

Emily is a junior at the University of Iowa and is studying Journalism and Pre-Law with a minor in Health Communication. She has been a part of the Her Campus University of Iowa team since it was founded in 2010 and is a member of Ed on Campus. She has grown to love magazine writing and editing and if she somehow can't land her dream job (to be Carrie Bradshaw), she wouldn't mind settling for a job in the magazine industry. If nothing else, she hopes to attend law school somewhere in the Bay Area out West, her favorite place to be. Since the age of 15, Emily spent her summers in California, doing internships and falling in love with San Francisco. Some of her other interests include her 4-month-old longhaired wiener dog Henry, blogging, celebrity gossip, sushi, Private Practice, fro-yo, being a journalism nerd, and anything involving good conversation with good people. Although she's not exactly sure of her plans for the future, she knows journalism will somehow be the driving force in her career.