Former Bachelorette Hannah Brown is in no rush to expand her family with husband Adam Woolard.
“Since having the surgery [to correct my double uterus in April], I feel like the conversation is coming up more and more,” Brown, 31, exclusively told Us on Wednesday, August 5, while promoting her partnership with Nexplanon, stating that she’s not ready for the next step just yet. “We are living outside of our house right now because our house is getting renovated, and for me, personally, I don’t think of it being the best time.”
While Brown acknowledged that “whatever happens happens,” she is not actively focused on family planning at the moment.
“We are not planning for anything to happen during this season of being home base-less,” she said. “We’re not homeless. We have people who are supporting us, and [we are] staying at friends’ [houses] and Airbnb’s and all the things. I would love to be back in my home and have that, like, piece of knowing I can have my own little cocoon for whenever that happens.”
With their renovation timeline at the forefront, the Bachelor Nation alum and Woolard, 35, have merely started having discussions about their future plans.
“It is something that we are like, ‘OK, when would this be good for us?’” she told Us. “That’s exciting, but nothing’s happening over here. One thing at a time.”
When the timing does align, Brown believes that she and Woolard will be ready to become parents.
“It’s just such an unknown of what it’s going to be like to be a mom, and I’m like, ‘Will I be a good mom?’ I don’t know,” she said on Wednesday. “There’s a lot of things that I’m aware of about myself that I will need to continue to grow in to really show up the way that I want to, which my friends are like that.”
Brown added, “I think what I really realize is that I’m never gonna be fully ready. That’s not the person I am. I am always scared … and I’ve done some crazy things in my life, but I’ve always done them scared. That’s gonna be the same thing when it comes to being a mom. I’m just gonna have to do it scared and figure it out on the way.”
The reality star-turned-romance novelist is already certain, however, that Woolard will be a great dad.
“My husband, I’m not worried about at all, like, he will be Mr. Mom. He’s so good with kids,” she gushed. “It’s so unreal … I really do feel like I picked a partner that I know will be an amazing dad. I feel really confident in the partnership that we have together.”
Until then, Brown is focused on her thriving literary career and recently teamed up with Organon to write Lessons in Love and Ballroom to raise awareness about family planning options.
“I was so excited to partner with Organon, who are the makers of Nexplanon, because as a writer in the romance genre, you don’t really see people in these characters talking about the important topic of birth control,” she told Us of her new short story. “Romance is all about these big life experiences and relationships and love and sex, and so it is important to normalize having these conversations in your relationships with your friends and with your healthcare providers.”
She further noted, “I think it’s really important for people to see, like, there are so many different options for women for what’s right when it comes to if and when they want to have children. And so, being able to write that into a story and show that it’s not weird, it’s a super normal thing to talk about … was a really fun experience because I know for me and my friends we talk about what stage of life we’re in, what we’re what we’re wanting out of life and what we’re not.”
