Olympic hero Dame Laura Kenny pregnant with second child a year after heartbreaking ectopic pregnancy
TEAM GB Olympic hero Dame Laura Kenny is expecting a second child with husband Sir Jason Kenny.
The news comes 12 months after the five-time Olympic champion cyclist suffered the heartbreak of an ectopic pregancy.
GettyDame Laura Kenny has announced she is expecting a second child with Sir Jason Kenny[/caption]
Instagram @laurakenny31Kenny posted a picture of four bicycles to her Instagram account[/caption]
PALaura and Jason are two of Team GB’s most successful Olympians[/caption]
Instagram @laurakenny31Sporting couple Jason and Laura tied the knot in 2016[/caption]
Instagram @laurakenny31They welcomed first child Albie in 2017[/caption]
The couple welcomed son Albie in 2017, before Kenny suffered a miscarriage in November 2021.
Two months later she had an ectopic pregnancy, which is when a fertilised egg implants itself outside the womb.
On Wednesday Kenny, 30, posted a picture to Instagram of four bicycles lined up alongside each other with a new addition to the family on the way.
She also wrote on her story: “A year ago today I was sat in A&E knowing I was really poorly but not knowing what was wrong with me.
“When I got the news I was having an ectopic pregnancy my world felt like it crumbled.
“We had already lost our second baby in November and I remember lying there searching for some sort of answers.
“I still feel this heartbreak today and I don’t think it will ever go away. But today a year on…”
Then, in another post she wrote: “Today I felt like I couldn’t hide away anymore. I’m already starting to show and the anxiety I have felt has been unreal.
“Telling the world means I have to accept we are having another baby and this fills me with all kinds of emotions.”
She added: “I’m scared every single day that I might have to go through the pain of loosing another baby.
“It makes you feel ungrateful for something you’ve so desperately wanted for the last year.
“But I also know there are going to be so may people, like I was, seeing my post and wishing I would go away with my happy ending.
“But I also know when I was lying in the hospital bed I was searching for people’s happy endings because it was the only thing giving me any comfort at the time.
“That maybe, just maybe I would get my happy ending.”
Kenny married her retired cyclist husband Jason, 34, in September 2016.
Jason himself is a seven-time Olympic gold medallist, which is more than any other Team GB athlete in history.
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APLaura and Jason have 12 Olympic gold medals between them[/caption]
Laura is most successful British female athlete in Olympic historyGetty
