Yvonne Lim three months pregnant

SINGAPORE – Ahead of her wedding on Sept 7 to Taiwanese former B.A.D. boyband member Alex Tien, Yvonne Lim revealed that she’s expecting.

“It’s something we both wanted and we’re both very happy,” said the 37-year-old actress over the phone. “Right after we announced our engagement, we knew we wanted kids. And maybe because we’re not getting any younger, we didn’t want to waste time and we just let nature take its course.”

Lim added that her close friends, including Hong Hui Fang and Ivy Lee, also encouraged her baby-making plans. “Ivy Lee is in Hong Kong and I just called her to let her know. I said, ‘You must come to my wedding and see me walk down the aisle with a baby bump.’ She was like, ‘I don’t care about you. I care about the baby now!’”

The only way in which her pregnancy will affect her wedding plans, Lim said, is that “I might have to make adjustments to my wedding dress now. I don’t know how much weight I’ll put on. I was telling the baby, ‘Please don’t grow so fast.’ Alex scolded me for that, saying, ‘How can you say that to your baby?’”

Her fiance is already “behaving like a proud father. He’s really attentive and he’s always by my side. They say there are certain foods you cannot eat. I like to eat, so it’s really hard for me to control my diet. Alex is around now so he’s keeping a very close watch on me but when he’s back (in Taiwan) I can do whatever I want,” she giggled.

“We are both first-time parents so we’re very clueless — not only about the wedding but now, how we are going to cope and what we are supposed to do,” she continued. For now, it’s “one step at a time. Like the people we are, we don’t want to fuss too much.”

Lim plans to give birth in Singapore because “I’m very attached to my friends and family so it’s good to have them around when I’m delivering.” Thereafter, the family will divide their time between Singapore and Taiwan.

In the meantime, she said, “We want to thank our friends, family and the public for their support. After I announced my wedding, all the passers-by have been congratulating me, and that’s really heart-warming. So I guess now that this news is out, I’ll have more congratulations.” May Seah