By RODNEY HO/ rho@ajc.com, originally filed Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Kandi Burruss, who married Todd Tucker last year, is pregnant, she informed E! Online.

She has a daughter Riley from a previous relationship. Tucker has a teenage daughter Kaela as well from prior relationship.

“We’re so thrilled to announce the news of our bundle of joy,” Burruss, 39,  told E! “It’s a dream come true."

Burruss has been on the cast of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" since season two. She was already a successful singer with Xscape and then a Grammy-winning songwriter before she joined the show in 2009. She met Tucker while shooting the show in South Africa in 2012.

Her spinoff show about her marriage to Tucker was the highest-rated "Real Housewives" spinoff on Bravo.

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