We’re models and expecting mamas — our growing bellies won’t stop us from walking the catwalk
NY Post
Andrea Konovalske’s modeling journey to New York Fashion Week came with a small bump in the road.
Her baby bump.
“I was extremely excited to be chosen to walk during NYFW, [but] I was accepted prior to finding out I was pregnant with baby No. 3,” Konovalske, 34, an expecting mom of two and a rising runway model, told The Post.
She and her incoming infant made their fashion week debut for ethereal label Homespun Heart in September.
“Having a baby in my belly was, honestly, the most comforting part of the experience,” said Konovalske.
A newbie to the city’s most stylish soiree, the married millennial is in the growing number of modeling mommies-to-be to crush the catwalk and work the camera during pregnancy.
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