When she found out she was pregnant, Pullins says she was "kind of sad at first."
"I have a million brothers and sisters so I've always been the one like, 'I'm not having a baby anytime soon,' " she tells PEOPLE. "That was always my thing. So I was kind of sad at first, and my boyfriend was really excited from the jump. He was like, 'You know it's whatever you want to do.' "
"I was calling my cousin, and they were laughing at me because they already knew that I didn't want to have a baby anytime soon," she continues. "I was like, 'Why are you guys laughing?' And I'm just crying and stuff."
Pullins adds, "But after a while, I'm like, 'Now I feel like I can do this. It's something that will mature me and change me in a great way.' I'm trying to wrap my head around it, and now we are here."
Pullins will tell her stepfather T.I. — who is married to her mother Tameka "Tiny" Harris — about her pregnancy for the first time on the premiere episode of her new millennial talk show The Mix, which will air live Tuesday night.
"I felt like it may be a little funny to get his reaction," Pullins says. "He can't get mad or anything. Even my real dad [Zonnie Pullins], I just told him last week, to be honest. You're always your dad's little princess. So, I just wasn't sure how he'd feel."
In addition to her stepfather, Pullins tells PEOPLE she still has about "half" of her family to tell about her pregnancy.
"That's the crazy part," she says. "It's not even the world that I've been not telling. All my fans are like, 'Oh, all you have to do is say yes.' But half of my family I still haven't gotten around to calling. Some of my sisters still don't know. But my sister Deyjah, she was the first sibling that I told."
During the premiere episode of The Mix, Pullins will also reveal the sex of her baby on the way. Regardless of whether it's a boy or a girl, though, she says she's going to prepare her child for the world the same way her parents prepared her.
"My parents always showed me a world that I probably would have never known if it weren't for them," she says. "Early, I was already immune to things and how people are negative. People talk about you and make up stories, and I became so strong growing up. That's probably something that I will definitely take from them."
As to what her and her boyfriend's parenting styles will be like, Pullins says she's "definitely" going to be "the more strict one" between them.
"He's so soft," she says. "He has two kids already. He's such a different person with his kids than he is with everybody else. All my friends, even my mom, my parents, my whole family know how I am with my siblings. Like [with my 4-year-old sister] Heiress, I get mad when she's crying too much. I'm like, 'Okay, I have to toughen her up.' So I feel like I'll definitely be the [more] strict parent out of the both of us."
Pullins says she and Bandhunta Izzy, 23, began their relationship like many modern romances: through Instagram direct messages.
"That is our wonderful story," she says. "My old manager is his manager now. So her assistant really showed me him, and I followed him. She was like, 'I feel like he's your type.' Months later, he slid in my DMs, and we hit it off."
About the pregnancy, Pullins says, quarantine has "definitely been how we got here in the first place."
"We had a lot of time to really bond, talk about the future and really just figure things out," she shares with PEOPLE. "And talk about our parenting skills and who's going to be doing what, when the time comes."
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Fans can expect to see some of those topics brought up on The Mix, which will feature Pullins as one of five co-hosts.
"The fans can definitely expect real conversations going on, on the show," she says. "Everyone is so honest and opinionated on things. It's a show where people my age and people who look like me can relate."
In addition to the show, Pullins — who was a member of the girl group OMG Girlz until 2015 — can expect new music from her soon.
"Lots of new things that I'm coming out with soon," she says. "As for my exciting news, I would just like for people to not bombard me with anything other than love."
The Mix premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. EST/7 p.m. PST on Fox Soul.
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