Dean's
extramarital affair nearly cost the couple their marriage in 2013.
Through therapy, the couple worked past their issues, and now they're
looking forward to adding a new member to the family. "This baby
happened at the best time," Tori says. "Nothing is ever perfect, but I'm
so madly in love with my husband and with our kids. The idea of adding
to that is such a blessing."
"Everything is different now," she
adds. "In a way, this is our first baby in our new relationship. And
that is really exciting."
Overcoming their issues wasn't easy, of course.
"I can 100 percent move past the infidelity," Tori told E! News' Jason Kennedy and Maria Menounos
earlier this year. "The stuff that I cannot move past is the behaviors
in the relationship—the things that weren't being communicated, the
anger in the relationship—things that really had nothing to do with
infidelity itself." Though she sometimes questioned whether she was
meant to go the distance with Dean, she decided the marriage was
salvageable. "I think it's more powerful to make the choice to try to
heal the relationship and work on it and work through it if you truly
love someone."
Twenty
weeks into her fourth pregnancy, Tori was diagnosed with placenta
previa, in which the placenta covers the cervix and causes severe
bleeding. She spent 10 weeks in the hospital and four months on bed
rest. "I just remember thinking, I can't leave three children behind,"
she told Us Weekly
in 2012. Three weeks after Finn's birth, she required emergency surgery
after her C-section scars reopened. "When they put him in my arms I was
like, 'We made it,''" the actress and reality star recalled. "We have
an insane bond. We've been through hell and back."
So, when Tori
learned she was expecting a fifth time, she was understandably nervous.
"Once we found out I was pregnant, we didn't get excited until we knew I
didn't have placenta previa again," she tells People.
"With Finn, everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. And we
knew my life could potentially be in danger again. The thought of my
four children not having a mother was not something we were OK with."
Dean adds, "Our doctor said this is a miracle baby."
Tori
and Dean don't yet know the sex of the baby. For now, the mom-to-be's
main concern is being a present parent to her four other children. "I
know I should feel like, 'Oh, I'm old.' But I have more energy now," she
insists. "It's not an option not to. And I'm so crazed running around
with four little ones under 10 that I don't have time to worry about
things I did the first time."
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