Lauren Goodger is fast approaching the day she will become a first time mother – and she is making sure she looks typically stylish ahead of her big day.
The 34-year-old former The Only Way Is Essex star is expecting her first ever child with her 23-year-old semi-professional footballer boyfriend, Charles Drury.
The reality star has been updating fans at every step of her pregnancy – and is now nearing the time she will go in to labour.
In preparation of her momentous moment, Lauren has given herself a beauty treatment in order to look her best for her planned home delivery.
Taking to Instagram Stories on Tuesday, Lauren showed off the results of an eyelash extension treatment she had enjoyed.
The star pouted for the camera and showcased huge, long, fluttering lashes as she gazed towards her phone for a selfie.
She wrote: “My lashes are @ongarlashes…. birth prep” alongside a couple of emojis.
While some expectant mothers avoid all types of beauty treatments in the run up to giving birth, others do continue to enjoy the occasional eyelash extension over the nine month period – although some do find glues can cause unexpected reactions they wouldn’t normally experience when not pregnant.
Lauren has been going into eyebrow raising detail about the ways she is preparing to give birth – and how she is trying to encourage her bundle of joy out into the world.
The reality babe and her boyfriend have been attempting to bring on childbirth by engaging in sexual intercourse.
Explaining in an interview this week, Lauren declared: "Before I was quite calm and now I’m like, 'right we need to do everything we can to get this labour coming on', I’ve got a ball, we need to have sex.
"In the sperm there’s a hormone that relaxes your cervix so I need that."
She went on to explain that her relationship with Charles has been strengthened over the past 39 weeks of pregnancy.
Lauren said: "We have sex all the time anyway. Of course, we do, we’re very affectionate, he’s very loving.
"It’s definitely brought us stronger together and we feel like a family."
While the star also explained on Instagram Stories late on Monday that she has embraced ways to calm pregnancy sickness.
She shared a photo of piping hot mug of tea, informing followers: “Raspberry leaf tea… First time trying but going give it a go.”
She added: “Traditionally the main use of raspberry leaf tea infusion was during and after pregnancy to ‘relieve nausea, increase milk production, increase uterine tone and ease labor pain’.”
Lauren has also been sharing with fans that she has been freezing colostrum – milk produced ahead of giving birth – to feed to her forthcoming daughter after she arrives.
