The 12 months started with a return to TV … and ended with a gender reveal!
Sophia Grace Brownlee stepped again into the limelight in a giant method this 12 months.
Whereas the web star did not precisely disappear within the 11 years since she and her cousin Rosie McCelland blew up massive on “The Ellen Present” again in 2011, she made headlines greater than ever earlier than due to a serious growth in her private life.
This 12 months additionally discovered her returning to her roots as she helped Ellen DeGeneres say goodbye to her lengthy standing reign on daytime tv.
This is the whole lot that went down with Sophia Grace in 2022.
Sophia Grace and Rosie Return to “The Ellen Present”
As Ellen DeGeneres continued to wind down her eponymous discuss present after 19 years, Sophia Grace and Rosie McCelland returned to the sequence that actually blew up their careers on Might 12.
The duo grew to become international sensations after they carried out “Tremendous Bass” on the identical stage collectively method again in 2011. 11 years later, they had been virtually unrecognizable from their pint-sized selves after they entered the studio as grown-up teenagers. The pair paid homage to the fluffy princess-like tutus they rocked again within the day by sporting extra toned-down, subtle variations for the looks.
After a montage of a few of their biggest hits on the present, Rosie shared that her favourite second from their whirlwind time within the highlight was when Justin Bieber kissed her on the cheek through the Youngsters Selection Awards — although on the time she admitted she was considering, “Ew, a boy.”
“Now, I am like, oh my god, I might let Justin Bieber kiss me on the cheek once more,” she added with an enormous grin. For Sophia Grace, it was each the chance to fulfill Drake on a pink carpet, in addition to the second on the present when Ellen shocked them with Nicki herself for a stay efficiency of “Tremendous Bass.”
Sophia Clarifies Her Relationship With Rosie
On July 29, the 19-year-old web persona posted a video to her YouTube channel wherein she addressed a small handful of issues followers have speculated or questioned about — together with what her relationship together with her cousin Rosie has been like in any case these years. In her video, Sophia Grace stated she will get requested about Rosie typically, noting that there have been “so many” questions and assumptions followers have made about their relationship now — with some speculating that they don’t seem to be “as shut” or “do not get alongside.”
The pop singer put any hypothesis to relaxation, explaining, “Me and Rosie have all the time been actually shut. We have been like sisters actually since she was born. So in case you did not know, my dad is Rosie’s mother’s brother. So we’re like first cousin[s] and yeah, I imply clearly when me and Rosie was once in America collectively filming ‘The Ellen Present,’ we might clearly be with one another, like each single day.”
Sophia Reveals She’s Pregnant With Her First Baby
The YouTuber shocked everybody when, in a video on October 22, she revealed she’s pregnant and anticipating her first baby.
“Hello everybody. Welcome again to my channel. So, as you may see, from at present’s video, it’s a little bit totally different from my regular movies as a result of I’m right here to let you know guys that I’m pregnant!” she started, whereas surrounded by pale pink and blue balloons. Brownlee revealed that she was 21 weeks alongside in her being pregnant on the time of her reveal.
“So, presently I’m 21 weeks. I simply turned 21 weeks at present,” she stated. “The child is presently the scale of a banana … in case you’d favor to say months then I am 5 months, so I solely have 4 months left to go. I’ve already finished, virtually greater than midway.”
The Essex native then opened up about her being pregnant journey, sharing that the very first thing she did was an at-home early child gender check when she was eight weeks alongside. She confessed that she was initially “nervous,” however in the end the expertise was “actually actually thrilling” and “so enjoyable.”
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Sophia Responds to Criticism She’s Too Younger To Have a Child
Sophia Grace later hit again at individuals who weren’t shy in sharing their opinions about her age and life selections following her being pregnant reveal. She acknowledged that 19 is younger, telling E! Information that “most individuals are like, ‘You must have infants once you’re 30 and also you’re married and you reside in your individual home,’ which is totally superb.”
However she identified that wasn’t essentially the fitting path for everybody. “So long as you are feeling prepared and it is one thing that you simply’re completely satisfied about, then it is actually nobody else’s drawback,” she stated.
She has to date saved the child’s father a secret, however stated they’ve been relationship for 2 years and added that, whereas they had been “shocked” by the information too, they had been additionally “each actually completely satisfied about it.” She additionally stated she believes “he’ll be a very nice dad.”
Sophia Grace Reveals She’s Having a Boy
In November, Brownlee did a gender reveal by sharing a cake-cutting video to her YouTube web page.
Within the footage, she right into a cake with a blue shock middle, a “traditional gender-reveal balloon” crammed with blue confetti and a confetti cannon. The Teen Selection Award-winner admitted she had instinctively recognized she can be having a boy and “wasn’t shocked” when the information was confirmed by the docs.
“I simply felt from the beginning that I used to be going to be a boy mother, and I used to be going to have a boy, so after I discovered, I wasn’t shocked,” she stated. “Both method, I used to be going to be completely satisfied as a result of I did not thoughts if it was a boy or a lady.”
Brownlee will definitely have an thrilling 2023, as her child is due subsequent 12 months.