Dan + Shay‘s Shay Mooney and his wife Hannah are going to have an even fuller house soon. The couple reveals on social media that they are expecting their fourth child, afer welcoming thier third child, son Abram Shay Mooney, into the world in January of 2025.
Mooney and Hannah posted a video with their three children, including seven-year-old Asher and four-year-old Ames, plus Abram, as Elevation Worship and Maverick City’s song, “Million Little Miracles,” played, with Hannah holding up a positive pregnancy test as the song said, “Count your miracles / One, two, three, four, I can’t even count them all” in the background.
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It’s Mooney’s growing family that inspired him to get serious about his health last year, shedding more than 50 pounds and cutting out alcohol.
“I kind of set out on this journey in a place where I was like, ‘Man, I’m tired of feeling horrible all the time,’” Mooney told People. “I was too tired and rundown mentally to play with my kids when I got off the road, or really just ever. It was all the time. I knew that that was because of my unhealthy eating habits and drinking too much … I started eating super clean, whole foods and fasting, and I cut out alcohol and I haven’t looked back.”
Ironically, it was the arrival of Mooney’s second child that made him start to realize that something had to change.
“I was having panic attacks, and I’d never had a panic attack before and I didn’t know what was going on,” Mooney recalled. “And after getting healthy and I stopped drinking, I haven’t had a single moment of panic.”
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Dan + Shay, which also includes Dan Smyers, are currently headlining their Heartbreak on the Map Tour, while also enjoying a Top 25 hit with “Bigger Houses,” the title track of their latest album. The song comes on the heels of the duo celebrating their tenth No. 1 hit, with “Save Me The Trouble.”
“It’s just pretty incredible to have a song like ‘Bigger Houses’ that speaks to all of that of a lesson that we had to learn the hard way, to stop chasing after things that don’t matter,” Smyers said. “Happiness doesn’t live in bigger houses. It doesn’t live in these things that you chase after, that you think will make you happy. Money is never gonna bring you the happiness that you want, because that just kind of perpetuates this, ‘All right, if I make a million bucks, I’ll be happy.’
Dan + Shay’s success comes after the pair took a four-month break, unsure if they would make music together again. Fortunately, they two reunited and found themselves stronger than they had ever been before.
“We’re in such a good place,” Mooney told their record label. “I would say that Dan and I now are genuinely in the best place that we have ever been in, which is an incredible thing to be able to say, and mean it with my whole heart. The journey that it took to get to this place, to where we have this new perspective on life and on our career in general, of being able to wake up and know that we get to do this, we don’t have to do this.
“And to feel good about moving forward and to be having just such a blast,” he continued. “Being able to get to do all this stuff, it’s special. Being able to also push a single, like ‘Bigger Houses,’ that is exactly where we’re at right now in our lives is just really special for us.”
Find all of Dan + Shay’s music and upcoming shows at DanAndShay.com.