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Paloma Religion, 44, pronounces being pregnant with child bump photograph after previous IVF struggles

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Paloma Religion has introduced she is pregnant (Image: Jim Dyson/ Redferns)

Paloma Religion has introduced she is pregnant together with her third youngster.

The 44-year-old singer, who not too long ago appeared on The Movie star Traitors, introduced the information when dropping an album on Instagram.

The 2 photographs confirmed her sporting a baseball jersey and white polka dot skirt, with the highest tucked into her bra to point out her rising bump.

Captioning the put up, she wrote: ‘Plot twist , mom is mothering (once more)
#morethangeriatricpregnancy #oappregnancy #oapmilf #18weekspregnant.’

Paloma already shares two daughters, born in 2016 and 2021, together with her ex-partner Leyman Lahcine.

Nevertheless in 2023 she confirmed they’d break up after a 10-year relationship.

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The singer delighted followers with the shock information (Image: Joseph Okpako/ WireImage)

She has not revealed who the daddy of her third youngster is, nevertheless earlier this yr it was reported that she was relationship Stevie Thomas, the director of a music venue in Birmingham after he joined her at a Brit Awards afterparty.

The singer, who has by no means revealed her kids’s names publicly, has beforehand spoken in regards to the ‘harrowing’ wrestle to conceive.

Earlier than welcoming her daughters, she confronted six rounds of IVF therapy, throughout which she suffered an ectopic being pregnant and a devastating miscarriage, which occurred whereas she was on set filming the TV collection Pennyworth.

‘Once we first began attempting, I had beforehand develop into pregnant fairly simply and so I used to be involved,’ she advised Davina McCall on her Start Once more podcast.

‘It does irritate me that science, as a result of it’s primarily dominated by males, is that if it’s a male fertility drawback, which it was in our case, it’s nonetheless the girl that has to endure the brunt of the stuff.

‘There was no breakthrough. He was devastated the entire time and stated, “If there’s one thing I can take, or I can do injections. Why does it must fall on you?”.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Richard Young/Shutterstock (15174176w) Stevie Thomas and Paloma Faith Sony Music BRITs Afterparty at Nobu Hotel London Portman Square, UK - 01 Mar 2025
She went public with music venue director Stevie Thomas earlier this yr (Image: Richard Younger/ Shutterstock)

She went on: ‘However it did, and it does. He was empathetic however I believe that put a pressure on our relationship in itself as a result of his view was ‘You’re so hardworking, breadwinner and all I needed to do was this and I can’t do it.’

‘It was tough as a result of I knew I may simply conceive naturally and I believe that put a pressure on us as a result of I’m not somebody who buries my emotions. I simply say, “That is irritating”.’

Nevertheless, whereas she wished to undertake therapy once more to have their second youngster, her accomplice was involved their relationship would possibly now survive.

‘The beginning was not excellent after which after we got here to lockdown the fertility clinic referred to as me and stated, “We’re nonetheless open, do you need to have one other child?”. I stated to him, “I really need one other child, I’m not working as a lot. I’ve bought extra time to loosen up. Can I do it?”. He stated, “I don’t suppose we’ll make it as a pair”.

‘I felt resentment, I simply felt alone. There’s this mid-life factor and also you’re taking a look at a perimenopause across the nook. It was the final probability saloon.

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She shares two daughters with ex-partner Leyman Lahcine. (Image: Justin Goff Pictures/ Getty Photos)

‘I simply had it in my head; I want to present this youngster a sibling. I felt like a single dad or mum even in a relationship.’

Talking in regards to the break up from her ex, she additionally as soon as stated: ‘You both develop collectively, adapting to at least one one other like expandable foam and filling the gaps the place it’s empty – or one particular person grows and the opposite stays the identical.

‘And I believe for me, changing into a mom was such a massively life-changing expertise that for the primary time in my life, I wanted greater than nothing – and the expandable foam simply wasn’t there.

‘Our relationship ended as a result of we’ve got these kids. And I believe that was price it.’

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