‘MIRACLE’

Ex-Congresswoman Katie Hill Expecting a Baby With Former Playboy Writer

“I’m 34 years old, it was clearly, like, a miracle baby,” said Hill, who has one ovary due to endometriosis.

Former California congresswoman Katie Hill announced Tuesday in Vanity Fair that she is expecting her first child. Her partner of two years, Alex Thomas, a former Playboy writer who is now a novelist, is the father. “I’m 34 years old, it was clearly, like, a miracle baby… I need to find a way of kind of moving forward with my life, having this baby,” she told the magazine. Hill has one ovary as the result of a longstanding fight with endometriosis.

She resigned from office two years ago amid a multifaceted scandal: after a conservative blog published allegations she was in a relationship with an aide, she admitted she had in fact been in a relationship with a campaign staffer before being elected. Nude photos of her were published in the Daily Mail, which she alleges her ex-husband leaked. Hill told Vanity Fair that she is still wondering how the scandal might have ended differently: “I also felt like there was a fundamental injustice here that happened and could only happen to a woman.”