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Hailey Whitters is pregnant!
The country singer, 35, and her music publishing executive husband, Jake Gear, announced over the weekend that they are expecting their first baby together.
“Our greatest production yet 🤍 baby boy coming in Nov!” Whitters, 35, wrote on a joint Instagram post on Aug. 24.
In the accompanying photos, Whitters cradles her baby bump in a yellow mini-dress while packing on the PDA in a cornfield.
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Fellow singer Caylee Hammack commented on the post, “OMG!! WEE BABY CORNCOB COMING!!! Congratulations, you are truly glowing🧡.”
Country crooner Jenna Paulette added, “Best thing to ever happen to us is our little girl 🥹 so SOOO happy for y’all and all the joy to come…here if you need anything!!! congratulations 🎊 🩵.”
The setting doesn’t appear to be a coincidence as Whitters is gearing up to kickstart her Corn Queen Tour on Sept. 4 in Nashville, Tenn. The tour runs through Oct. 11, where it wraps in Chicago.
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Whitters and Gear tied the knot in 2022. The pair also took advantage of a cornfield for their wedding day, posting photos from the Midwest location to Instagram.
“Said yes to forever in a field somewhere,” Whitters wrote on Instagram at the time.
The “Everything She Ain’t” singer told PEOPLE at the time that she said “I do” at a “quaint country church” in her hometown of Shueyville and followed the ceremony with a reception at her father’s farm.
The couple also got engaged in 2020 in an Iowa cornfield.
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Earlier this year, Whitters had a bit of a health scare after she went to the bathroom in a toilet where a bat was resting, unbeknownst to her.
She had to get five rabies shots to combat the bat’s potential bites, and her video about the experience went viral.
“She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s about to get five rabies shots from peeing in this toilet before she knew there was a bat in there,” Whitters wrote over a clip of herself investigating the bat in the bathroom after her discovery.
