Actor Joey Lawrence and His Wife Expecting Second Daughter

November 14, 2009 by tiffanyb
Filed under: Celebrity Baby News

The former Dancing With the Stars contestant announced that his wife Chandi Yawn-Nelson are expecting their second child, a girl.

Joey Lawrence is in a household of all girls and come April, there will be another female in the house. Joey’s wife Chandi is pregnant with the couple’s second daughter and due on April 3rd.

“I am Estrogen Man,” Joey told PEOPLE. “I’m from a family of all boys, and when I told my best friend Dave that my wife and I were having a second girl, he said, ‘Look at you, my best buddy Estrogen Man!’”

The couple already have a named picked out for their daughter. Liberty Grace has special meaning for the actor. He says that Liberty is “is something I’ve always loved” and Grace pays honor to his late grandmother.

The former Blossom star will be keeping busy with projects as he prepares for his second child. He is executive producing and starring in an ABC family show with fellow 90’s teen actor Melissa Joan Hart. “This is my return to half-hour comedy,” Joey says. “It’s about two characters forced into each other’s lives — the classic ‘I hate you, now I’m going to fall in love with you.” Filming for the show will start next month although a name for the show has not been announced yet. It will air next summer.

Joey will also be traveling to Calgary to film a movie called My Mr. Everything, a movie in which he helped develop. He says that the movie is “along the lines of The Proposal.” It will also air on ABC Family sometime in 2010.

Joey and his wife married in 2005 and have a 3-year-old daughter named Charleston.