Renowned gospel singer Evelyn Wanjiru has opened up about her emotional journey to pregnancy, revealing the struggles, despair, and ultimate joy she experienced after years of believing it would never happen.
Speaking when she headlined a service at Kamutiini Priesthood Church on Sunday, February 15, 2026, Wanjiru recounted the moment she boarded a flight feeling unwell, with nausea and a sense of unease, and immediately reached out to her husband to share how she was feeling.
“So I entered the plane, and I was feeling so bad, and I was feeling like vomiting and so many things. I remember calling my husband and telling him how I was feeling. And then, as we were flying, I kept feeling bad, and there was a man who was seated next to me, and I was getting a weird smell. I don’t know, and if he spoke to me, I felt so bad,” she said.
During the flight, she continued to feel unwell and was seated next to a passenger whose presence intensified her discomfort.
Thanks to COVID-19 safety measures, she was wearing a mask, which gave her some relief.
“Thanks to God that at that time the COVID-19 pandemic was there, so I had a mask, and I put it on,” she narrated.
Upon arriving in the United States, Wanjiru said she experienced intense cravings for traditional Kenyan dishes such as pilau, ugali, and sukuma wiki. She recalled the difficulty of finding these foods in America, and how the cravings worsened her nausea.
During this time, one of the pastors’ wives, whom she was travelling with, suggested that she might be pregnant. Initially, Wanjiru dismissed the idea, as she had been trying to conceive for 10 years without success.
“I remember when I arrived in America, I started having cravings, and I was desiring pilau, ugali, and sukuma wiki. It was weird because I could not find those easily in America, but the people I was with struggled and found them. But I started feeling like vomiting. I remember I was with pastors, and one of the pastors’ wives suggested that I was pregnant, but I refuted it because I had believed in my head that it could not be possible. For 10 years, I had tried testing for pregnancy to no avail,” she shared.
She shared the emotional toll of repeated disappointments, including the anger and frustration she felt each month when her periods arrived.
“I remember at one time I was desperate to have a child, and when I saw myself getting periods, I used to get so angry, and I would ask the periods, ‘What have you come here to do?’ Some things, you have to speak to them and ask them what they are doing in your life because you are a child of God,” she narrated.
Determined to know for sure, Wanjiru bought a pregnancy test and left it to develop as she scrolled through her phone.
She admitted that she had not focused on the outcome, as she feared the result would be negative.
However, when she checked the test, she saw two lines, indicating she was pregnant.
“Then I went and bought pregnancy strips. I went to test in the toilet and left it to give me a reading as I sat on the toilet scrolling through my phone. The devil had told me that the test would just be negative, so I had not focused on it, and I just went ahead to flush the toilet. But when I looked up, I saw two lines,” she said.
The revelation sent Wanjiru into uncontrollable tears.
She described shaking and collapsing in shock and joy, immediately sharing the test results with her husband, who responded with excitement and support. She also informed her mother, who, upon hearing the news, broke down in tears as well.
“I started shaking, I fell down, and I was crying uncontrollably. I took my phone and sent the test results to my husband, and he responded. I also sent them to my mum. I told her I am pregnant, and she also started crying,” she shared.
Wanjiru then added that due to concerns over public perception, she decided to take a quick flight back to Kenya. She explained that staying in America could have led people to wrongly assume that the pregnancy was conceived abroad.
“I did not continue staying in America. I had to get a quick flight back because if I stayed there, they could have said that I got the pregnancy from America,” she narrated.
