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Liz McClarnon has admitted feeling she like she had been ‘pregnant forever’ ahead of welcoming her first child with husband Peter Cho.
The Atomic Kitten star, 44, who announced in May she was expecting after eight rounds of IVF, took to Instagram with a candid update on Sunday.
Liz declared her bump was ‘huge’ before posting a throwback snap of her beloved mum, who was pregnant at the time with the star’s younger brother, to show their remarkable resemblance.
The songstress looked stylish in snaps from her recent visit to The Baby Show at London’s Olympia in a figure-hugging polar neck sweater and leggings.
She captioned the post: ‘I got a message the other day saying “I feel like you’ve been pregnant for forever!” So do I! So. Do. I.’
‘My tummy is huge now isn’t it?! And don’t you think I’m the spitting image of my mum when she was pregnant with my little brother’.
Liz declared her bump was ‘huge’ before posting a throwback snap of her beloved mum (R) who was pregnant at the time with the star’s younger brother, to show their resemblance
Fans rushed to comments to send the singer their best wishes and reassure her she was nothing but glowing.
‘You are looking beautiful. You’re not huge. You are so much like your mum’: ‘Never huge darling you are a vessel carrying life, you look amazing’: ‘Looking wonderful’: ‘You look great and are glowing .i hope the rest of your pregnancy goes smoothly. Not long to go I think’.
Liz and her husband Peter started their IVF journey early on in their relationship, as Liz explained that they were both conscious of her age – 40, at the time they met.
In 2022, the couple had three failed embryo transfers, which took a mental and physical toll on Liz. ‘The first time we did it, I thought, “This will be it,”‘ she recalled to The Mirror.
‘But by my third cycle, it was obviously very different. When that one didn’t work, I was really quite sick and I was in a dark hole.’
‘I’d put on so much weight but I didn’t want to tell anyone why, because I didn’t want the IVF to become my identity, my whole personality.’
Liz previously revealed how she coped with the hormonal imbalances she faced.
A full cycle of IVF takes around three to six weeks to complete and hormone medications play a crucial role in stimulating the ovaries to produce multiple eggs and prepare the uterus for implantation.
Taking to Instagram earlier this year, Liz uploaded a montage of snaps from the past few years, which detailed her treatments with husband Peter Cho as well as the side effects of the medication.
The songstress looked stylish in snaps from her recent visit to The Baby Show at London’s Olympia in a figure-hugging polar neck sweater and leggings
She captioned the post: ‘I got a message the other day saying “I feel like you’ve been pregnant for forever!” So do I! So. Do. I.’
Fans rushed to comments to send the singer their best wishes and reassure her she was nothing but glowing
Liz captioned the video: ‘After 8 IVF cycles within 3 years, as you can imagine, I’ve been on hormones more often than not.
‘I just wanted to share how it can look. Sometimes normal and sometimes very not.’
Liz’s clip began with her looking drained as she mused: ‘sometimes you could tell’, before cutting to an energetic shot of herself captioned: ‘sometimes you couldn’t’.
She then shared a video of Peter helping her with her injections on their first attempt at IVF, explaining that ‘life carried on as normal’.
As the cycle continued and she needed more injections, she confessed: ‘I started to gain weight… of course that didn’t matter’.
Yet she admitted she ended up feeling ‘a little bit broken’ as the cycle continued.
