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Dale Earnhardt Jr., Wife Announce They Are Expecting A Baby
NASCAR's favorite driver and his wife announced Monday they're having a baby.
MOORESVILLE, NC -- Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and his wife Amy are expecting a baby girl, the NASCAR fan favorite announced Monday.
“Excited to share the wonderful news that @mrsamyearnhardt and I are expecting our first child. A little girl!!!! We are both thrilled and can’t wait to meet her,” Earnhardt said on his Instagram account.
Earnhardt, who has been voted the most popular NASCAR driver for more than a decade, is retiring at the end of this season -- a decision made, in part he said, in order to start a family with his wife of less than a year, The Charlotte Observer reported.
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Excited to share the wonderful news that @mrsamyearnhardt and I are expecting our first child. A little girl!!!! We are both thrilled and can’t wait to meet her.
A post shared by Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@dalejr) on Oct 16, 2017 at 1:16pm PDT
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Earnhardt has kept the news under wraps since early September, even among fellow drivers, he admitted on his Twitter account:
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So @landoncassill text me Sept 4th. We had just learned we were expecting 3 days before this. Hard keeping that truth from him till today. pic.twitter.com/jFWZsmp0v4
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) October 16, 2017
The Observer predicts the baby girl will be due midway through the 2018 NASCAR racing season.
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