Jennylyn preggy, but not marrying Patrick

Author: The Philippine Star

A young actress will get pregnant out of wedlock but she won't marry the "culprit" (her actor-boyfriend) yet.

Barely three days after that item came out in this corner's annual, Mga Halu-Halong Hula-Hula last Jan. 1, word has reached Funfare Update that Jennylyn Mercado is pregnant and Patrick Garcia, her boyfriend of more than one year, is the "culprit. "

"Yes, Jen is six weeks pregnant," Jennylyn's manager Becky Aguila confirmed to Funfare Update yesterday afternoon an hour after Jennylyn underwent an ultrasound at the St. Luke's Medical Center.
But no, Jennylyn, 20, and Patrick, 26, are not getting married just because of her delicate condition.

"I asked Jen if she's ready to get married and she said she is not," added Becky whose other talent, Valerie Concepcion (Willie Revillame's co-host on the ABS-CBN noontime show Wowowee), gave birth at age 16 also out of wedlock. "I also asked Patrick if he's ready to get married and he said he is not. "

Besides, Patrick's older sister Cheska Garcia is getting married to Douglas Kramer, her basketball player-boyfriend, this year. Filipino superstition has it that sukob (weddings of siblings in the same year) is bad luck.

But from St. Luke's, Becky accompanied the young couple to the Makati City Hall, she said, "for counseling. "

Informed about Jennylyn's condition, Wilma Galvante, SVP for Entertainment TV GMA with which Jennylyn and Patrick are under contract, said, "We might have to drop them from the new soap Maging Akin Ka Lamang. "

Jennylyn is in the cast of La Vendetta, another GMA soap now airing.

Until Jennylyn gives birth in September, according to Becky, "She won't disappear from the scene all together; she will continue working until such time when her doctor tells her to rest na. But definitely, she will resume full-time work after she gives birth. She has to because she's the breadwinner in the family. "

Source: The Philippine Star