Brittany Cartwright

Brittany Cartwright is not just pregnant for the first time.

She's pregnant for the first time... and darn proud of how she looks, too.

If you're a Vanderpump Rules fan, then by now, you've probably heard about the latest in a long line of casting shake-ups that have led many to wonder if the show will ever return.

Over the weekend, Jax Taylor was fired after eight seasons as the show's pre-eminent villain.

As previously reported, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright are preparing their first child.

This is very exciting news.

It's still unclear whether Vanderpump Rules will be canceled (as it probably should be) or whether the formerly popular series will return for a ninth (and presumably final) season on Bravo.

The show would be light on cast members following the firings of veterans Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute, as well as newcomers Max Boyens and Brett Ciprioni.

The cast of Vanderpump Rules has suddenly become the Duggars.

We have Lala Kent, who is expecting her first child with fiance Randall Emmett.

Ever since Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were fired from Vanderpump Rules, the rest of the cast has been keeping a low profile on social media.

We don't blame them, since most of them are guilty of equally problematic behavior, and calling attention to themselves would mean calling attention to the fact that they somehow still have jobs.

When Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were fired from Vanderpump Rules earlier this month, fans immediately began to speculate about the future of the show.

After all, Stassi and Kristen were not alone in their problematic behavior -- in fact, at least one Vanderpump star seems to have committed far worse misdeeds.

These are strange times in the lives of the Vanderpump Rules castmates.

Last week, Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were fired from the show after it was revealed that they had engaged in what appeared to be targeted, racially-motivated harassment of a black co-star, Faith Stowers.

Earlier this week, Vanderpump Rules stars Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were fired from the show after it was revealed that they had engaged in racially-motivated harassment of a former castmate.

If you're a Vanderpump Rules fan, then by now, you've likely caught wind of the allegations of racism and bullying that Faith Stowers directed at multiple cast members last week.

Stowers says that the worst abuse she endured during her time on the show came from Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute, who called the cops on her because they believed that Faith resembled a robbery suspect they saw on a local news broadcast.

When they're not trying to sell us on the idea of becoming interested in the boring lives of a bunch of generic, twentysomething newcomers, the recent episodes of Vanderpump Rules have focused almost entirely on the wedding of Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright.

Looks like we're on the verge of some big news from the world of Pumptinis and See You Next Tuesday celebrations!

From the moment Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright got married back in July, there have been rumors that the couple is secretly expecting their first child.

Maybe it's because we're just weeks away from a new season of Vanderpump Rules, or perhaps it's because he remains a massive douche, and some people are fascinated by that.

But whatever the case, Jax Taylor has been in the news a lot lately.

A lot of people were mighty skeptical when Jax Taylor proposed to Brittany Cartwright -- and rightfully so.

After all, Jax had been caught cheating on Brittany just months before he popped the question.

It's been less than a month since Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright tied the knot in front of friends, family, and a full camera crew. 

But now, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it seems the Vanderpump Rules couple is already experiencing trouble in paradise.

Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright has officially completed their journey.

They've gone from nightmare couple ... to cantakerous exes ... to sort of stable couple ... and now all the way to the altar.

Earlier today, we reported on the sad news that Lisa Vanderpump's mother has passed away at the age of 84.

The death of Jean Vanderpump comes just one year after Lisa's brother, Mark Vanderpump, committed suicide.

The fateful wedding between Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright is nearly upon us, and the controversy has been all over Twitter.

This goes beyond people's issues with Jax. It turns out that the Kentucky pastor Jax and Brittany chose has said a lot of hateful things.

For the first six seasons of the show's run, Jax Taylor was Vanderpump Rules' resident troublemaker.

He wasn't always the show's biggest villain -- that title often belonged to James Kennedy -- but no one stirred the pot quite as effectively as Jax.

At times, the current season of Vanderpump Rules has felt like the final episodes of a long-running high school drama.

The characters we've watched party, cheat, fight, and generate endless drama for the past several years now appear much too old for such shenanigans, and the realization that it's time for a change is bittersweet.

Vanderpump Rules fans have watched Brittany Cartwright tolerate an astonishing amount of mistreatment over the years.

Mostly at the hands of her fiance, Jax Taylor, of course.

Last month, Vanderpump Rules star Jax Taylor got engaged to Brittany Cartwright.

Fans of the series were more than a little surprised, not because Jax has never really seemed like the marrying kind (although there is that), but because he's seemed to go out of his way to make Brittany's life markedly worse throughout their time together.

Back in April, we asked the following question:

Is the romance between Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor really over for good?

From the very start of their relationship, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright faced some pretty severe challenges, many of them resulting from what Taylor describes as his "Peter Pan complex."

Jax will soon be 39 years old, but the current season of Vanderpump Rules features some of his most batsh-t behavior yet, and Brittany has tolerated all of it ... only to get unceremoniously kicked to the curb on last night's episode.