Katie Couric becomes a grandmother – and Taylor Swift was a little involved in the big reveal.
“I just wanted to tell you,” Couric, 66, wrote in 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!’”
Couric’s daughter in the clip Caroline ‘Carrie’ Monaghan hands her a beaded bracelet that says ‘Granny 2 Be’. The former TV presenter looks visibly confused at her other daughter, Elinor ‘Ellie’ Monahan. “I’m pregnant,” Ellie, 32, told her mother.
“Last August, as we got dressed to see Taylor Swift at SoFi Stadium, my girls surprised me with a very special friendship bracelet they made to deliver some very exciting news,” Couric wrote in a blog post about her . website, published on Sunday. “After looking at it for a while, I finally got it.”
Couric shares daughters Carrie, 27, and Ellie with late husband Jay Monahan, who died of cancer in 1998. Couric remarried husband Johannes Molner in 2014.
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Courtesy of Katie Couric/Instagram“OMG. I’m going to be a grandmother!!!” wrote Couric. “I knew she and Mark were hoping to have a baby soon, but the news was still surprising.”
When Couric heard the news, she admitted she had “mixed feelings” about being a grandmother.
“Being a grandmother means you’ve reached a certain stage in your life,” she explained. “That you would soon be using this emoji 👵🏼, that you really look like the actors in the Medicare and Metamucil commercials, that you are on the ‘back nine,’ as Molner would say. It seems like yesterday I held Ellie in my arms and she was just a tiny little thing.
However, her “hesitation was quickly replaced by excitement” when Couric spoke to her friends who are already grandmothers.
‘For now, I’m amazed at Ellie’s growing stomach. Her due date is March 23rd, so it won’t be long! I’m still trying to figure out my grandma’s name, but I’m pretty sure I won’t be,” she continued, noting that grandma and “GILFIE (don’t worry, that’s not really in the running!)’ have been thrown around.
Couric’s eldest daughter, Ellie, got married Mark Dobroski in July 2021 at Cedar Lakes Estate in New York.
“We tried to add traditional touches like the cake cutting and the first dance and things like that,” Couric wrote when recapping the ceremony on her website that same month. “But I think a lot of it was very true to who Ellie is and who Mark is and what they wanted. It was a beautiful reflection of their love and partnership.”