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Olympic legend Dame Laura Kenny reveals she’s PREGNANT in heartwarming update after baby tragedy
Laura opened up about her previous miscarriages in the summer
OLYMPIC gold medallist Dame Laura Kenny has announced she's pregnant with her third child after multiple baby tragedies.
The Team GB legend, 32, announced the happy news on Instagram hours before the UK rang in the New Year last night.
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In a post tagging in husband and fellow rider Jason Kenny, she said: "2024 was wonderful, 2025 is going to be even more special."
Dame Laura is the country's greatest ever female Olympian but has previously suffered two pregnancy heartbreaks.
She shocked the cycling world in March when she unexpectedly quit the sport just months before she was expected to be competing at July’s Paris Olympics.
She then opened up about her life in an interview for the High Performance podcast in June and offered an insight into how she and Jason, two fiercely competitive super-athletes, somehow manage to live under the same roof.
They married in 2016 and had son Albie the following year. But Laura then endured heartbreak as she tried to conceive a second child.
In 2021 she suffered a miscarriage, then just months later lost another child to an ectopic pregnancy, which led to her having a fallopian tube removed.
Laura told the podcast the struggle to have a second child became an obsession which also changed her personality.
She says: “I cannot tell you how low I felt for 18 months, with this desire to have another baby, and it consumed me.
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“It was the first time Jason said to me he’d seen me change. I could see my personality — sad, upset — because I’m not like that. I’m like this bubbly person.
“I knew that my every day was, ‘Am I going to be pregnant?’ I just felt so alone.”
She relied on Jason as her rock, saying: “I spent so much time being like, ‘Oh, well, Jason will make it better.’ I don’t think I realised until afterwards how much pressure I was putting on him for that. No one ever asks how the males are.”
It was only when she finally became pregnant with Monty that she truly began to grieve the children she had lost before.
Laura says: “I remember being in the kitchen and I just burst out crying. I was obviously so happy, like so ridiculously happy.
“But there was a part of me that felt so sad for everything I’d lost in the past.
“The miscarriage was one thing, the ectopic was another level of scariness, and I never really processed that because all I ever wanted was another baby.
“I almost didn’t give myself time to process it because I went into the athlete mindset of saying, ‘Well, what can we do?’.”
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