Fans weren't the only ones surprised to learn that Nia Long is expecting her second child. At Sunday's BET Awards in L.A., the 40-year-old actress revealed that her current pregnancy was actually unplanned.
"I was supposed to go to Ghana to do a film and that's when I found out I was pregnant," Long told reporters. "I had a doctor's appointment to get the yellow fever shot and they were like, 'Miss Long, we can't give you a shot.'"
Once doctors informed Long that she was expecting, "I almost fainted. It was the best moment and the sweetest surprise ever."
(This will be the actress' first child with professional basketball player Ime Udoka, 33; she has a 10-year-old son, Massai Jr., with ex-boyfriend Massai Z. Dorsey.)
Now that she's eating for two, Long has developed some new food preferences. "I'm craving salt like crazy," she told Us Weekly. "I'm usually more of a chocolate girl, but I haven't been craving sweets."
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Currently five months along and "feeling great," the actress admitted that her first trimester wasn't exactly the easiest.
"I was so horribly sick for four and a half months," Long told Us. "Now I have energy, besides a little heartburn here and there, and I'm doing excellent. The baby is huge!"
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