Stacey Solomon has revealed she's expecting her second child with fiance Joe Swash with a heart-warming announcement.
The Loose Women star, 31, who also has older sons Zach, 13, and Leighton, nine, as well as two-year-old Rex with Joe, broke the happy news by sharing a family photo including the baby scan on her Instagram.
And singer and TV presenter Stacey, who shot to fame on the X Factor in 2009, shared a series of frank posts about her miscarriage ordeal and how the couple had longed to become parents again.
She took to her Instagram story to say: "Sorry I’ve been so quiet… But we have something we are excited to share with you… I feel so nervous for so many reasons."
She then posted a video of a negative pregnancy test and a form reading 'complete miscarriage' adding: "For a really long time we have been trying for another pickle… It didn’t work out and this was our news quite a few times…
She explained to fans: "We decided we were so lucky already to have our boys.
"It is our biggest privilege in life and we are so grateful to be parents so we stopped trying and counted ourselves so so so blessed already…"
Stacey then revealed that she had been feeling unwell.
But she didn't want to check whether she was pregnant at first.
She eventually went for a scan which showed there was a heartbeat.
"We were so grateful to hear an extra heartbeat in my tummy," she said.
The couple told the children they were expecting and the star shared adorable footage of them working together to finish the Wendy house in the garden of their new home which is named Pickle Cottage.
She wrote: "We are growing another pickle. We’ve never felt so grateful… I have no words. We didn’t think we would get the chance.
"We love you all to the moon and back. Lots of love From Me, Joe, Harry, Zach, Leighton, Rex, and our little pickle."
