Katie Couric goes to be a grandma — and Taylor Swift was once more or less in at the giant expose.
“Been dying to tell you,” Couric, 66, captioned an Instagram video on Sunday, December 17. “This is what happens when you go to a @taylorswift concert last summer and forget your friendship bracelet and your daughters say, ‘Don’t worry, we made one for you!’”
Within the clip, Couric’s daughter Caroline “Carrie” Monaghan arms her a beaded bracelet that reads, “Granny 2 Be.” The previous TV anchor, visibly perplexed, seems to be at her different daughter, Elinor “Ellie” Monahan. “I’m pregnant,” Ellie, 32, instructed her mother.
“Last August, as we were about to get dressed to go see Taylor Swift at SoFi stadium, my girls surprised me with a very special friendship bracelet they’d made, to deliver some very exciting news,” Couric wrote in a weblog on her web site, printed on Sunday. “After squinting at it for a bit, I finally got it.”
Couric stocks daughters Carrie, 27, and Ellie with overdue husband Jay Monahan, who died of most cancers in 1998. Couric re-married husband John Molner in 2014.
“OMG. I’m going to be a grandmother!!!” Couric wrote. “I knew she and Mark were hoping to have a baby soon, but the news was nonetheless surprising.”
Upon listening to the scoop, Couric admitted she had “mixed feelings” about being a grandmother.
“To be a grandmother means you’ve reached a certain stage of your life,” she defined. “That you would soon be using this emoji 👵🏼, that you really are looking like the actors on the Medicare and Metamucil commercials, that you’re on the ‘back nine,’ as Molner would say. It does seem like yesterday I was holding Ellie in my arms and she was an itty-bitty thing.”
Alternatively, her “trepidation was quickly replaced by excitement” as Couric talked to her pals who're already grandmothers.
“For now, I’m marveling at Ellie’s growing stomach. She’s due on March 23, so it won’t be too long! I’m still trying to figure out my grandma name, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be that,” she persevered, noting that Granny and “GILFIE (don’t worry, that’s not actually in the running!)” were thrown round.
Couric’s eldest daughter, Ellie, married Mark Dobrosky in July 2021 at Cedar Lakes Property in New York.
“We tried to do traditional touches, like cutting the cake and first dance and things like that,” Couric wrote when recapping the rite on her web site that very same month. “But I think a lot of it was very much true to who Ellie is and who Mark is and what they wanted. It was a wonderful reflection of their love and partnership.”