Nikki Reed Expecting Baby No. 2 With Husband Ian Somerhalder: See Baby Bump Photo

Nikki Reed is going to beryllium a parent of two! The 34-year-old histrion announced connected Monday, Jan. 9 that she is expecting her 2nd kid with her hubby of 7 years, Ian Somerhalder, 44, with a saccharine snapshot of herself carrying their 5-year-old daughter, Bodhi Soleil, portion cradling her babe bump. “2023 celebrating life,” she began successful her caption. “Years of dreaming, manifesting and praying implicit this precise moment. So overmuch love. What a gift.”

“As each of you know, I person precise beardown boundaries with societal media, particularly erstwhile it comes to children and what I take to enactment retired into the world,” she continued. “Thank you truthful overmuch for honoring that, and for sending positivity and kindness and LOVE. Some things are excessively bully not to stock :)”.

Nikki wore a skin-tight, brownish maxi formal successful the stunning snapshot, which was taken connected a gorgeous hillside with mountains successful the inheritance and a bush with purple flowers adjacent to her. She angled her caput down truthful that astir of her look was hidden by her off-white, wide-brimmed hat. Bodhi matched her arrogant mom’s colour palette and wore tan corduroy pants and a brownish cheetah-print sweater. Her pinkish polka-dot socks gave a cute popular of color.

As Nikki explained successful her post, she and Ian protect their backstage lives fiercely. While they support Bodhi retired of the spotlight, Nikki has opened up astir what it’s similar raising their girl connected a workplace with goats, cows, horses, and caller produce. “I made a conscious prime to springiness my kid the astir mean beingness possible,” the Twilight alum told PEOPLE in May 2022. “It felt similar a relief, moving retired of the city. I committedness that if anybody wants a feeling of ease, of peace, of calm, the reply is nature.”

She added that her “greatest joy” is watching Bodhi “run done the ungraded with her shoes off.”

Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder were large with their archetypal kid successful 2017 (Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

She besides told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY successful 2019 astir however she balances her flourishing vocation and being a ma to a young one. “You know, equilibrium is simply a dance. It’s not a destination, right?” she explained. “It’s a continual creation that we are each navigating. We unrecorded successful a precise engaged clip and we each person a batch of things we’re passionate astir and things that get america up successful the greeting that marque america consciousness inspired. And, you don’t privation to springiness up immoderate of those things. But, I deliberation we each subordinate successful that we each privation we could conscionable dilatory down a small bit… It’s a dance.”

While Ian has kept his lips beauteous choky astir fatherhood, helium gushed with delight arsenic helium awaited the commencement of his archetypal child. “In my 38 years connected this world I’ve ne'er experienced thing much almighty and beauteous than this,” the Vampire Diaries alum wrote alongside an Instagram photo of himself kissing Nikki’s increasing babe bump successful May 2017, which served arsenic their gestation announcement.

“I can’t deliberation of thing much breathtaking than this adjacent section and we wanted you to perceive this from america first. This has been the astir peculiar clip of our lives and we wanted to support it betwixt the 3 of america for arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable truthful we could bask this clip with each different and our small 1 who is increasing truthful fast…because that’s what they do, they turn truthful fast. Thank you for your benignant energy,” helium concluded.

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