Deirdre Downs and Abbott - Miss America 2005 - Wedding

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Former Miss America Deidre Downs Gunn is opening up about her unique road to pregnancy with wife Abbott Jones.

On the most recent episode of the podcast Pregnantish, Downs Gunn, the former Miss America winner in 2005, shared that she performed a successful IVF transfer on her wife, who is now about to enter her third trimester of pregnancy.

Downs Gunn, 40, who works as a fertility specialist at the University of Alabama, told host Andrea Syrtash that the pair, who tied the knot in April 2018, were "very fortunate" as her wife got pregnant with the first transfer.

The former pageant winner, who is already mom to an 11-year-old son from a previous marriage, said that she didn't perform Jones' egg retrieval but did the embryo transfer.

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Deirdre Downs and Abbott - Miss America 2005 - Wedding

Credit: Kelli and Daniel Taylor Photography