Alyssa Farah Griffin Is Pregnant! “The View ”Co-Host and Husband Justin Griffin Expecting First Baby, a Boy! (Exclusive)

The View is astir to person a brand-new small viewer.

That's because co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin is pregnant, expecting her first babe — a small boy, owed successful February 2026 — pinch hubby Justin Griffin.

Their happy news was shared astatine nan Hot Topics array of nan ABC daytime bid connected Wednesday, Oct. 8. Days earlier, nan brace sat down pinch PEOPLE to unfastened up astir their baby-to-be aft they posed for a saccharine maternity sprout astatine their home.

"Baby Griffin is connected nan measurement and we're conscionable truthful excited — and terrified," Alyssa, 36, jokes. "It's starting to consciousness very real. This past week, I felt nan babe footwear for nan first time, and instantly I grabbed Justin's manus and he felt and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, what's happening?!' It was magical."

"The clip is flying by, it's crazy," Justin, 37, adds. "I've ever wanted to beryllium a father, and you consciousness truthful coming erstwhile you get nan news. Like, 'This is happening!' But past each of a abrupt you zoom retired and you're like, 'Wait, we're 22 weeks pregnant? Where did it go? — slow down!' "

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Time whitethorn beryllium moving quickly but getting to this constituent was a agelong travel for nan Griffins.

The couple, who wed successful November 2021, explicate they felt "ready to person a family" a twelvemonth into their marriage. They tried for 2 years, yet conceiving aft 5 rounds of successful vitro fertilization (IVF).

During that span, Alyssa learned she had endometriosis, a information wherever insubstantial akin to nan lining of nan uterus grows extracurricular of it, making it harder to get pregnant. "I went undiagnosed my full life until I started this process," Alyssa says. "So that conscionable added to nan complications."

Staying affirmative passim wasn't ever easy, but each in installments nan other's support for giving them strength.

"First and foremost, I person nan champion partner successful nan world," Alyssa says. "Like they say, wed your champion friend, and Justin is mine. The View is difficult work, and luckily I had nan elasticity of nan schedule to make early greeting appointments successful Midtown earlier racing to do nan show. And my husband, he was location for maine passim it all, by my broadside astatine nan doctor's, correct location pinch me."

That mightiness not person ever been pleasant for Justin, Alyssa admits. "There were a mates of times I was an absolute monster!" she laughs. "IVF, it was an affectional roller coaster. My first information wasn't bad but I sewage over-confident and started my 2nd correct away, and fto maine show you, it's dissimilar thing I've experienced. You do consciousness somewhat retired of power pinch your ain body. It's difficult to equilibrium nan hormones of it all, particularly erstwhile you're not getting nan champion news aft a cycle. But Justin, he was ne'er difficult connected me."

"There's truthful galore things that pull maine to Alyssa, but 1 of nan things is her determination," Justin says. "Going into IVF, location was truthful overmuch of that determination that came through. From nan first information to nan last, she was ever like, 'Oh no, I've sewage this. There's going to beryllium thing that tin get successful my way. I'm tough. I cognize really to do this.' "

The 2 besides had a "wonderful" fertility doctor, Dr. Taraneh Nazem, of RMA of New York.

"I conscionable loved her," Alyssa says. "I'll ne'er hide successful our first visit, she told us, 'The bully news is, you're going to person a child. I want to show you that upfront. It conscionable mightiness return a fewer rounds.' And each clip we didn't get awesome news, she ever brought maine backmost to, 'You're going to get what wherever you want to beryllium successful nan end. Bear pinch me.' "

When Dr. Nazem called to show Alyssa astir her affirmative gestation consequence — a telephone that fittingly coincided pinch nan blimpish pundit's ain day celebrations — nan 2 cried together connected nan phone. "She knew really difficult it was, but she made it easy connected us," says Justin. "She was really fantastic."

"Both Justin and I conscionable consciousness truthful grateful that we were successful nan position that we were moreover capable to do that galore rounds of IVF," Alyssa notes. "I see it a occurrence of science, and conscionable specified a awesome point that we've gotten to wherever we are now. So yeah, location was decidedly immoderate tears."

Part of that emotion, too, came pinch nan news that they were having a boy.

"I'm truthful excited to beryllium a boy mom, moreover though I'll beryllium outnumbered astatine location because we person 2 antheral dogs." Alyssa says, joking that The View co-hosts will thief "balance" things out. "But wanted a boy first. I grew up pinch sisters, and I've ever liked nan thought of a large relative looking retired for nan younger siblings (because we some want 2 kids)."

That's thing Justin knows firsthand. "I grew up pinch a younger brother, and you person a built-in champion friend," he shares. "Even now — my brother, he's besides my business partner. He hit maine to nan altar and now has lapped maine successful nan transportation room pinch 2 astonishing kids. And I've sewage to watch him turn into this unbelievable dad, balancing it each effortlessly, which is really cool. I'll decidedly beryllium looking to him, and my ain awesome father, arsenic an illustration for nan type of dada I want to be."

In fact, nan mates will beryllium leaning connected nan acquisition they've had pinch Justin's toddler-aged niece and nephew, positive a 17-year-old nephew Alyssa has done her sister, arsenic they prep to beryllium parents. "I retrieve changing my nephew's diapers, and now Justin's niece and nephew person helped re-up those parenting skills," Alyssa says. "So we're emotion arsenic prepared arsenic we tin be."

Of course, it's safe to opportunity thing will ever hole nan Griffins for nan acquisition of parenthood ahead. But nan mates some are looking guardant to starting this adjacent chapter.

"I can't hold to clasp nan baby, that's going to beryllium nan astir astonishing point for me," says Justin. "And then, I'm excited to relive immoderate of nan astir magical parts of my puerility done nan lens of my ain child. As personification who grew up pinch a large family and a very adjacent family, nan champion memories I person are pinch my mom, my dad, my relative and our cousins. So I'm excited to create that situation for our son."

"It's for illustration this blank slate of endless possibilities," Alyssa continues. "And there's an awesome work attached to that, but I couldn't deliberation of a amended personification to beryllium nan partner successful this than Justin,"

"They opportunity thing worthy doing is hard. Well, each of nan struggle feels truthful successful nan rear position reflector now that we're here," she adds. "We're conscionable truthful excited for everything ahead."