Rhian Sugden showed off her growing baby bump as she posed up a storm in stunning lingerie on Saturday.
The glamour model, 37, is expecting her first child with her husband, actor Oliver Mellor, 42, and has been through eight rounds of IVF over five years.
And the expectant mother took to Instagram to share a stunning lingerie snap where she proudly showed off her blossoming baby bump.
Rhian looked incredible as she donned a black lace lingerie set and cradled her baby bump.
The model styled her blonde locks in soft tousled waves and let her bangs flow freely whilst opting for a natural palette of makeup.
Rhian Sugden showed off her growing baby bump as she posed up a storm in stunning lingerie on Saturday
She excitedly captioned the snap: ‘I can’t wait to meet you baby (heart hands) #26weeks #ivfsuccess #pregnantbelly #fullerbustlingerie #dairyfarmincoming.’
It comes after Rhian revealed that her OnlyFans page funded her £150,000 IVF treatment.
The influencer revealed she was earning up to £1,000 a day for posting topless or nude photos on the site.
She told The Sun: ‘I’ve got good boobs and I’m not ashamed of OnlyFans. I’ve made more money on OnlyFans than I have in my whole career.
‘There are so many topless pictures of me out there, and I thought why not? I was earning a few thousand a day.
‘Ollie thinks it’s a bizarre concept that all these men will pay money to see his wife’s boobs, and he gets the benefits of IVF.’
Rhian also admitted that she is still very undecided over whether she is going to continue OnlyFans once their baby arrives.
She said she feels that despite the ‘good money’, she isn’t sure how she will feel once her baby is born.
Rhian recently revealed that she had been having private weekly scans when she was 18 weeks pregnant because it ‘still doesn’t feel real’.
The glamour model, 37, is expecting her first child with her husband, actor Oliver Mellor, 42, and has been through eight rounds of IVF over five years
It comes after Rhian revealed that her OnlyFans page funded her gruelling £150,000 IVF treatment
On Steph’s Packed Lunch, Rhian appeared in the studio, while Oliver joined from home, to talk to host Steph McGovern about their long battle trying for a baby.
Rhian said: ‘I don’t know how I feel, to be honest, it still doesn’t feel real. After believing it wasn’t going to happen for so long and then it’s happened. I’m just very overwhelmed with it at the moment.
‘I’ve been having scans every week because there is a local clinic so I keep popping down to check if everything’s still okay and it’s still there.’We always knew it [having children] was on the cards and you kind of just expect to get pregnant. You get married and then you start trying for kids and then it just happens.
‘All the years before you spend trying not to get pregnant and then when it comes to it, it just doesn’t happen. So we went for the tests. Oliver was told he had donor-worthy sperm and it was me who had the problem, I was in Perimenopause.
‘I had no idea because my periods were regular so I had no idea something could be so wrong.’
The couple, who are expecting their baby on May 4, admitted there were times they feared they would never be able to get pregnant.
Rhian had difficulty getting pregnant due to her low egg count and perimenopausal hormone levels and was given just a three percent chance of conceiving naturally.
The former Celebrity Big Brother star spoke about her ‘tough’ battle with her IVF treatment and detailed how she found the joyful news out, the day she was planning on giving up.
She added: ‘The first round was NHS, it wasn’t very tailored to me. The first round was tough, as were the first four. After the first four, five sixth and seventh it was just kind of part of our life then. It just became second nature to get up, inject, and take tablets.
Rhian and Oliver who married in 2018, announced they are expecting their first child together last month
‘It’s like PMS times 100, so poor Oliver had a lot to deal with. It’s a bit of a blur at the beginning because like I said now, I just feel used to it. Maybe I feel used to holding all the hormones in.
‘Number eight was my last one. You put everything on hold for it. It was like we were throwing money into the road. We’ve spent a fortune.
‘I was convinced it hadn’t worked and I just wanted a drink, so went and did a pregnancy test, not thinking it would be positive because I just wanted a glass of wine in the evening and then it came back positive.’
Oliver added: ‘There’s no denying that it’s been really hard for both of us. Rhian is kind of putting on a brave face I feel. The emotional trauma has been hard.
‘Physically there is no denying that I’ve had the easiest journey by far. I’ve been injecting her twice a day with hormones, blood thinners and she’s been taking steroids.
‘I felt awful because I felt like I was hurting her having to do this every day and it just became routine.’
