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Laura Adlington is pregnant!
The GBBO star, 36, has announced she is expecting her first child with her husband Matt after nine years of infertility and being told to lose 14st before she could get pregnant.
Laura shared the joyful news in an Instagram post on Sunday after ‘quietly deciding to give IVF a try’ over a year ago.
The size 26 body positivity model was previously told by doctors that her only chance to get pregnant was to try IVF and she would have to lose weight first to qualify.
Sharing her happy news, she wrote: ‘After 9 years of infertility, we are very excited (and still a bit in shock) to be expecting our little IVF miracle in October ✨
‘I know announcements like this can be really painful, especially if you’re in the thick of waiting or grieving, so please feel free to mute or unfollow if you need to and know I’m sending so much love your way.
Laura Adlington is pregnant! The GBBO star, 36, has announced she is expecting her first child with her husband Matt after nine years of infertility and being told to lose 14st before she could get pregnant
Laura shared the joyful news in an Instagram post on Sunday after ‘quietly deciding to give IVF a try’ over a year ago
Laura shared the joyful news in an Instagram post on Sunday after ‘quietly deciding to give IVF a try’ over a year ago
‘It’s been such a really long, and to be honest lonely road to get here – something many of you will know if you’ve followed me for a while or listened to the podcast.
‘We’d honestly made peace with the idea that having children might not happen for us. But about a year and a half ago, we quietly decided to give IVF a try.
‘We kept it to ourselves and decided not to share online (or even with family) just so we didn’t put more pressure on ourselves.
‘We had an unsuccessful round and a cancelled round, and then found out a couple of months ago that I was finally pregnant.
‘I’ll be sharing a bit more over the coming weeks about our journey to get here but for now we’re just really excited to share our news with you all. We honestly can’t believe our luck.’
In 2022, Laura detailed it was always a dream of hers to become a mother after admitting she decided against starting a family.
Speaking to Fabulous magazine, she said: ‘Unless you’ve gone through infertility and that heartache of really wanting it and it not happening . . . it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through.’
The star, who appeared on the 2020 series of the Channel 4 show, told how she had always wanted to be a mother and thought, ‘what’s the point?’ if she couldn’t have a child.
She said: ‘I’ve never thought, “I want to take my own life”, but I definitely have had thoughts that I didn’t want to be here any more. And I have phoned Samaritans on a few occasions and really benefitted from it.’
Laura said she tried to lose weight after speaking to her doctors and even considered bariatric surgery before deciding it wasn’t for her.
The star, who has struggled with her weight since she was eight, found it difficult to lose so much to have the IVF.
She said: ‘It was such a lot to lose — about 14st and I just struggled to do that. I wonder if that will always play on my mind, particularly as I get older.’
