{"id":265428,"date":"2022-04-02T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=265428"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T20:42:59","slug":"american-idol-welcomed-first-ever-pregnant-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/american-idol-welcomed-first-ever-pregnant-contestant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant American Idol contestant: ‘Being a mom shouldn’t stop you from your dreams’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Singer Haley Slaton auditioned for American Idol while she was over five months pregnant<\/a>. She’s since given birth to her baby, but it’s not yet known how far she made it in the star-making reality show. It has also been revealed that while filming American Idol, Slaton met her now-husband who didn’t shy away from the fact that she was pregnant.<\/p>\n

During the auditions, Slaton met Jordan Myles, who was also a contestant on the show. The tryouts were held in October; the couple married months later in December. \u201cWe got married pretty quick,\u201d Slaton told the Gazette<\/a>. \u201cWe just knew. We started right off the bat talking to each other, and it ended up being an everyday thing. I was already pregnant, and he stepped up to be a father, and I couldn\u2019t thank him enough for that. We\u2019re very in love, we\u2019re very happy that we met, and I feel like another reason why I was on the show was to meet him. That was a great experience \u2014 to meet someone that I finally could spend the rest of my life with.\u201d<\/p>\n