Rachel Gorry has revealed how she’s really feeling about becoming a mum-of five as she prepares to welcome two new additions to her family.
In February, the influencer announced she’s having twin babies with her boyfriend Adrien Kiernan.
Fans were delighted for the 34-year-old, who found love with Adrien last year following the death of her husband Daniel in 2020.
Rachel took to her Instagram story wearing a snow leopard print fleece for a Q&A, and was asked: “Are you excited to be a mom of 5!”
She replied: “I am so excited to be a mammy of five, can I also say I am also absolutely f*****g terrified to become a mother of five. I can’t even believe I’m a mother of three! Let alone adding on two more.”
She finds it all “a bit mad” and knows that “it’s going to be hard but I’m sure it will be great fun…”
“I don’t know if that’s me trying to convince myself, I know it’s going to be hard,” she continued laughing.
“I can only imagine how hard it is, it’s very hard to have one baby, you’re so tired and this little human just takes up all of your time.”
She also commented on the “three other humans” she has in her life, and feels “it’s going to be a lot.”
Nonetheless, Rachel confirmed: “I’m so excited, I’m terrified, but I’m sure it’ll be grand.”
During another Instagram Q&A last month, she explained that she’s due in September, but expects to give birth slightly earlier in August.
The influencer explained that finding out she was having twins was “actually quite a scary day”, as she had been experiencing severe implantation cramping.
“This had been going on for awhile this time. They were quite severe. I went to bed one night and I wasn’t feeling well at all and I woke up the next morning and the cramps – I was doubled over,” she said.
Rachel shared that she then started bleeding and knew she immediately had to go to the hospital, and was “crying on the way over” as she thought they had lost the baby.
“The doctor was scanning me and the nurse was in the room… I couldn’t see anything straight away and the tears were just like streaming from my eyes. I was lying on the bed and I just thought ‘we’re after losing the baby’.”
As she broke down in tears, Rachel continued: “I don’t know why this is making me emotional, it’s so silly my emotions are all over the place, but I just know so many people go through this. It was devastating lying there thinking, ‘oh my god.'”
“She couldn’t see anything but then I could see the baby in the sac. She just said I’ll talk to you at the end and I just thought, ‘All right something’s wrong, because I’ve had three kids before and I’ve never been told we’ll talk at the end’. They’d normally say something like. ‘oh there’s the heartbeat.’”
Rachel explained that another doctor then came into the room to look at the screen and said to her and Adrien: “Oh my god, congratulations! You’re having twins!”
“You just go from a low to such a high… Twins… that’s such a shock but I think because I thought we were gonna be leaving the hospital without a baby – sorry, I’m so emotional, I think we thought we were leaving the hospital with no baby and now we ended up leaving with two.”
She finished off the story by saying its just “such a blessing.”
Rachel also revealed the twins “aren’t identical”, and that loads of people had predicted that she was pregnant before she announced it.
