Jeana Keough recalls the moment her Real Housewives of Orange County co-star Vicki Gunvalson offered to drive her to Florida when she found out her infant grandson, McCoy, passed away.
When Kara Keough lost her son during childbirth in April 2020, she didn’t want her mom to fly to Florida amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“She said, ‘I don’t want to lose you and the baby. So, you’re not flying here until we know for sure it’s safe,’” Jeana recalled to Us Weekly. “So Vicki said, ‘Get your bags packed. I’m picking you up. We’re driving to Florida.’”
The former Bravo reality star joked that she would have been the “worst” passenger during the long drive, saying that she’s notorious for constantly asking, “Are we there yet? Are we stopping for lunch? Do you want a coffee? Do you have to go to the bathroom?”
Gunvalson was “a good support,” Jeana gushed. “She had lots of great ideas. … It’s good to have friends that are prepared as you get older, that know how to do stuff.”
Kara and her husband Kyle Bosworth revealed in April 2020 that their baby boy died during childbirth after experiencing “shoulder dystocia and a compressed umbilical cord.”
Kara announced on Easter Sunday that she and her husband are expecting their third child. One week after announcing her pregnancy, Kara revealed she secretly gave birth to a baby boy in March. Kara and Kyle also share a 5-year-old daughter, Decker.
“The day McCoy was born, I started writing a story. Our story. I don’t typically like to spoil the ending, but in this case the ending is a new beginning. Introducing Decker and McCoy’s baby brother,” she wrote alongside a photo of the newborn on Saturday, April 10, via Instagram. “Vaughn Mack Bosworth. Measuring at 20.5 inches and weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces of heaven-sent sweetness.”
Kara added that Vaughn was born six days before “what should have been his big brother’s 1st birthday” on March 31.
“His name means ‘small/little’ and ‘hope,’” she wrote. “It’s not lost on us that if we hadn’t lost Mack, we’d never know Vaughn. And yet, here he is, an unexpected serendipity. A little hope.”
Photo Credit: Courtesy via Jeana Keough/Instagram; Bravo Media/NBCUniversal
