Binky Felstead has announced her pregnancy, just two months after revealing she suffered a miscarriage.
The Made In Chelsea star took to Instagram on Saturday to share the heartwarming news that she and her fiancé Max Darnton were expecting their first child together.
Posing with her daughter India, who she shares with ex Josh Patterson, Binky wrote: “BIG SISTER ALERT!!!”
“We are so thankful and excited that our family will be growing in 2021! India gets her new title of ‘Big Sister’… which she’s already very proud of! 🥰”.
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“2020 has been a real personal rollercoaster with some huge ups 💍 and some lows 🌈 💫
“We are so excited, happy and thankful for what is to come! Here’s to 2021 🥂🙏🏼🤍.”
Sharing a photo of India, Max wrote: “I’m super excited that this little nutter is going to be a big sister in 2021 🤪💫 🥳🍼”.
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The news comes after the 30-year-old opened up about suffering a miscarriage in an emotional Instagram post back in October.
She wrote: “I’ve thought long and hard about doing this post, but I felt that if I can pass on any warmth, comfort or help to anybody in the same position – well that would be great.
“It’s only fair that I share some of my ‘downs’ as well as my ‘up’ moments. Today would have been my 18 week mark, but sadly we had an early miscarriage just before 12 weeks.”
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The reality star continued: “Not only was this heartbreaking for us, but it also came as such a shock to me.”
“I hadn’t realised until then how blessed I was with having such a relatively straight forward pregnancy with India – I’ll admit I was naive enough to assume the next one would be as straightforward, but I had two early scans as I was concerned I was bleeding.”
“They found a ‘very strong’ heartbeat. However, on the third scan I was told ‘I’m afraid there’s no heartbeat’.”
Binky wrote: “I was told by my doctor that 1 in 4 pregnancies miscarry (not that statistics make it any easier!) With 82% of my following being women – that means roughly 237,800 women ‘following’ me could (or have) experienced the same, which is just so sad.”
“When speaking to a few close friends about our situation, we learned that some of them too have had miscarriages in the past.”
“I asked them why they’ve never said anything, and they just said they felt they couldn’t, or shouldn’t talk about it. Almost like it’s a taboo subject, which is heartbreaking,” she continued.
“If you have been through this, I hope you are giving yourself time to mentally and physically heal and do what you need.
“I keep reminding myself that there was nothing I could have done, and perhaps this was nature’s way of saying that for whatever reason, this little soul wasn’t ready for the world. Sending so so much love.”
Binky and Max announced their engagement back in September, after 19 months of dating.
