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Tamron Hallis explaining her decision behindannouncing her pregnancy at 32 weeks.

On a new episode of PEOPLE’s new podcastMe Becoming Mom, the author and television host, 51, says it was never her intention to share the news at that time until she heard that a tabloid found out she was expecting.

“I got a call from one of my team members who said to me that a tabloid had reached out and said that I was pregnant,” she recalls. “I said to my team that this was my journey and I didn’t want to cede that to others”

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She then took the book away and showed off her belly, singing and dancingalong to the popular kids' tunebefore telling the camera, “Surprise! Can you believe it? I’m about to be a mommy shark really soon!”

After Moses' birth, Halltold PEOPLE they’d decidedto keep her pregnancy a secret because there was a time when she wasn’t sure his arrival was even possible. “I was high-risk, not just because of my age, but there were other medical factors too,” she said in May 2019.

The mom said Moses came after years of struggling with infertility and that she initially tried fertility treatments in her 30s. She said of her family, “I don’t think you can ever overuse the word grateful.”

The 12-episodeweeklyMe Becoming Mompodcastexplores the various roads to motherhood through different interviews with both celebrity guests and experts in the field. Topics on the show include IVF, adoption, surrogacy, single parenthood, same-sex couples, home births, pregnancy loss, unexpected and surprising birth stories, among other subjects.

Guests on the show include Alyssa Milano,Hoda Kotb, Shawn Johnson East and more.

source: people.com