Pop/country singer Michelle Branch is expecting a baby with rocker boyfriend Patrick Carney. Branch shared the news on Instagram, adding that the pregnancy was a surprise.
Branch and Carney of the Black Keys met in 2015 when he produced her Hopeless Romantic album. One year earlier she separated from husband Teddy Landau, with whom she had a baby girl named Owen with in 2005. The Wreckers‘ singer reveals that she was preparing to plans for a wedding when they learned that a baby was coming.
“Well, we were just about to send Save the Dates for our wedding in May when we got this little surprise,” Branch writes beneath a video of the ultrasound. “Baby Carney is happening this summer and Patrick and I could be more excited.”
The couple became engaged on Branch’s birthday in 2017. This will be Carney’s first child — he’s been married twice before.
“It’s like, why couldn’t we have just met each other in our 20s,” the 34-year-old Branch joked to Billboard in 2017. “We would have saved so much heartache!” Carney is 37 years old.
The Wreckers were a duo that included Branch and her best friend Jessica Harp. The Wreckers notched three songs inside the Top 40 of the Billboard Country Airplay chart, including their No. 1 hit “Leave the Pieces.” “My, Oh My” and “Tennessee” would follow before they broke up in 2008. In August 2017 they reunited for a show in Nashville.
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