Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is pregnant with her second child! The former Jersey Shore star confirmed the happy news on her personal website on Friday along with a photo of her baby bump.

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The 26-year-old also took time to address the negativity she's encountered with her second pregnancy. Polizzi explained that she wanted to wait until she completed her first trimester to announce the news, however, it leaked before she and fiancé Jionni LaValle were ready to tell the public.

"I just want to say HOW THRILLED we are on expecting our second child and we couldn't be any happier. But what sucks is how it's never our business to tell anymore," she wrote. "It's not that we want to keep it a secret, but we want to share our business at the right time. We want to make sure our testing is good and when we feel, as parents, is right to say we are expecting, that's when we do so!"

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She also slammed reports that stated she got pregnant to overshadow fellow reality star Jenni "JWoww" Farley, who announced her pregnancy last December.

"We have a true friendship that I will cherish forever, and getting pregnant just to outshine my best friend is absolutely absurd and disgusting," she wrote about her Snooki & JWoww co-star.

Polizzi went on to defend her relationship with LaValle, whom she deemed her "best friend" and "a real man." The two, who became engaged and welcomed their firstborn Lorenzo in 2012, plan to marry this fall around the same times she's due with her second.

"I've also seen how upset people are getting at the face that Jionni and I aren't married yet," she wrote. "We are a committed family that will raise our children to be the best they can be and give them the best life we can give them. So please, enough with the rude marriage comments. We are getting there, just waiting for the right time. He is my best friend and trust me, we will be together until death do us part."

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