Below Deck's Kate Chastain Is PREGNANT With 1st Child!

Kate Chastain is much than acceptable to navigate the rocky waters of parenthood, particularly without a partner.

The Below Deck alum—who announced successful December that she's pregnant with her archetypal child—is opening up about her determination to rise her child as a azygous parent.

"I'm fiercely independent," the Bravo prima admitted connected the Jan, 24 occurrence of Page Six's Virtual Reali-Tea podcast. "I don't truly emotion people's opinions being antithetic than mine, and trying to marque maine spell their way. So I truly americium truthful excited that I'll beryllium capable to bash this precisely however I privation to."

Due this spring, Kate says she's already getting parenting proposal from a chap Bravolebrity—her co-star from Peacock's The Traitors and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville.

"She texts maine beauteous overmuch each day," the 40-year-old revealed. "If I could work disconnected the texts that I get from Brandi, I mean, they would spell viral. She is the funniest quality I've ever met. She's besides truthful intelligent and truthful kind."

Last month, Kate exclusively opened up to E! News astir her gestation up of The Traitors premiere.

"I consciousness truthful great," she exclusively shared. "I person my ain small babe traitor holding maine hostage for 4 much months."

As for the portion of welcoming a newborn she's astir tense about? 

"Honestly, I similar sleeping successful and I'm besides benignant of lazy and selfish, truthful I consciousness similar that's gonna beryllium an adjustment," she joked. "But I conscionable fig if I emotion this kid arsenic overmuch arsenic I emotion my dog, everything volition beryllium fine, and radical are assuring maine that I will."

Binge The Traitors immoderate clip connected Peacock.

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