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Samantha Harris’s Pregnancy Surprise – After Multiple Negative Tests

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Samantha Harris had a feeling she might be expecting so she did what many women do: Used a home pregnancy test.

She learned, however, that it’s not always safe to trust the results.

“It’s so funny, at three and a half weeks, I took a pregnancy test and it came out negative. Then I went to London and Cannes for shoots and having a good time,” the Entertainment Tonight correspondent and fill-in anchor, 36, tells PEOPLE.

“Eight weeks is when I finally had a couple of really nauseous spells, and my husband said, ‘Well, maybe you really are pregnant.’”

“I thought, no, it couldn’t be. The other tests came out negative!” she recalls. “Sure enough, I was.”

Expanding the family – Harris is a bit over four months along with the couple’s second child – was something “that was in the plan,” she says, so after initial disappointment with outcome of the tests, “it was a very wonderful surprise at eight weeks to find out that I, in fact, really was pregnant.”
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