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’90 Day Fiancé’ Star Kalani ‘Hasn’t Been Doing Very Well’ With Her Pregnancy

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Mar 28, 2019 2:22 pm·

By Chelsea Duff

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Kalani already has one son.

And welcoming Oliver came with complications of its own. Because her husband, Asuelu, is Samoan, he hadn’t yet entered the country on his K-1 visa when his son was born. Instead, Kalani’s sister stepped up to the plate to help raise him.

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That caused drama for the couple.

After Kolini, Kalani’s sister, called herself Oliver’s first dad, she got a lot of backlash — so much so that the new mom had to speak out. “My sister WAS Oliver’s dad for his first five months,” Kalani, 29, explained on her Instagram story.

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Kolini really stepped up to the plate.

“She watched him when I had to go back to work for Asuelu’s papers, she bought all of the s–t I didn’t get from my baby shower and let me skip rent/bills when I had to buy his plane tickets for his interviews and doctor’s appointments,” the 90 Day Fiancé star told fans.

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It took Kalani’s family a while to accept her husband.

“I don’t really ask questions to my daughter about her fiancé because I don’t approve,” her dad said on the show. “But it’s too late for me to have my opinion now. All I have to do is protect her.”

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Realizing she was pregnant again wasn’t a welcome surprise.

On the December 16, 2018 episode, she broke the news to her mom — and pretty much cried throughout the whole conversation. “I’m so sick of disappointing my family,” she told cameras.

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It was an accident.

“Because I’m breastfeeding, Asuelu and I don’t really have many options for birth control, and Asuelu doesn’t really like using condoms because they’re for ‘slut people,'” Kalani explained at the time.

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She just wasn’t ready.

“I feel like … I should be excited,” she said. “But I feel like it’s not good timing right now with [Asuelu’s] papers and the next round of papers we have to do and planning a wedding and taking care of my son.”

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Being a mom isn’t easy.

“I feel like i’m not even as good of a mom as I should be now, and now I’m gonna have another baby to take myself away from my son even more,” she worried. “I feel like I’m already spreading myself so thin to then have another part that I’m going to have to be responsible for and take care of, it just scares me.”

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She wanted Oliver to have some time to grow up.

“I wanted to wait until my son was old enough so that I could be excited about it, and now I just feel even more overwhelmed than I already did,” she admitted. Though it’ll be nice for Oliver to have a sibling so close in age, it’s a lot for any parent to take on.

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And she’s worried about antenatal depression.

On Instagram, she revealed she’d been through it before while she was pregnant with Oliver. “[It was] to the point that I wanted to kill myself,” she confessed. That’s one of the reasons she was initially unhappy to discover she was expecting again.

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Asuelu is excited, though.

“Kalani, she’s mad, because I am very happy to make a baby,” he shared on the show. “I come from a big family. I have lots of siblings. So it’s like a good feeling for me to have a son. And, my son have another sibling.”

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And Kalani’s coming around.

“Please know that I was concerned about the well-being of my son because of my mental state when I’m pregnant, not that I was ungrateful to be pregnant,” she explained. But she still hasn’t shared many pregnancy updates since.

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There’s a reason for that.

In a new Instagram post on Tuesday, March 26, Kalani admitted that she’s been struggling again lately — but she finally gave fans another look at her baby bump with a video that showed her second child moving inside of her.

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Check it out.

“I haven’t done many pregnancy updates because I haven’t been doing very well both mentally and physically,” Kalani wrote as a caption for the video. “I’m so thankful that my mom’s in town for a while so I can have a break and finally start nesting. I’m fortunate to have such strong women in my life who help me when I’m struggling. Thank you, thank you, thank you,” she said, tagging her mom and her sister.

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It sounds like she’s called in the cavalry.

Everyone’s stepping up to the plate to help take care of the family. “I love you my little Lanigirl,” the star’s mom wrote in response to the post. “I’m so thankful that I’m able to be exactly where I should be. Daddy and I wouldn’t have it any other way my love.”

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We know that Kalani will make it through.

If she’s already shutting down the mom-shamers with one flawless Instagram post, she can do just about anything. When it comes to being a mom, she’s already killing it.

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