Love Island star Shaughna Phillips opens up on the rollercoaster journey which led to her second being pregnant with jailbird lover Billy Webb as she admits, the couple would ‘like extra’

Love Island favorite Shaughna Phillips was flooded with congratulations earlier this week after she introduced she’s anticipating her second youngster. However followers could also be shocked to study that the star fell pregnant throughout a quick dwelling go to from her boyyfriend Billy Webb – who’s at the moment serving a nine-year sentence for Class A drug offences.

And though Shaughna admits she deliberate the being pregnant, even monitoring her ovulation to spice up her possibilities of conceiving, she says she was shocked that her child dream got here true so rapidly. “It was the primary time that my ovulation window coincided with Billy being dwelling,” says Shaughna, who’s four-and-a-half months pregnant. “I used to be like, ‘ what? Why not? Let’s simply see’. And actually, the subsequent day, I stated to Billy, ‘I feel I am pregnant.’”

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Her intestine feeling was confirmed ten days later, when a number of being pregnant checks confirmed up optimistic. “I came upon very, very early on,” she completely tells The Mirror. “I used to be doing perhaps 5 checks a day. I am not even exaggerating.”

Shaughna says Billy, who was jailed in 2023, is at the moment allowed out on dwelling visits for “a couple of days” every month. And whereas she has to date been compelled to lift her daughter as a single mum or dad, the star says Billy is due for early launch and ought to be reunited together with his household in time for his or her new arrival. “I do know the date that he is as a consequence of be dwelling, however I am not saying it simply because something might occur,” she says fastidiously. “However he can be absolutely dwelling earlier than my child is due.”

As Billy missed these sleepless nights and cuddles with Lucia first time spherical, Shaughna is trying ahead to “having somebody there” when the brand new child arrives. “He positively needed one other one. He did not get that new child expertise [with Lucia] and I feel that is what he needed,” she says, joking that she needs Billy to “expertise the new child stage and every part it has to supply, as a result of he doesn’t know what’s coming his means.”

Shaughna, who’s at the moment residing together with her solicitor mum whereas her house is being renovated, welcomed Lucia in April 2023, by which era Billy had already been taken into custody after being charged with possession with intent to provide a Class A drug.

However she remained dedicated to conserving the father-daughter bond intact and commonly took Lucia to go to him – regardless of “hating each minute” of seeing her little woman in jail.

“I by no means would have chosen this life for my daughter,” she stated. “I don’t assume it hit me what was taking place till I acquired into the constructing. I used to be so nervous, but it surely was by no means a query for me. I all the time knew I used to be going to take Lucia to go to her dad.”

Whereas Shaughna had hoped she would fall pregnant rapidly, she admits she felt conflicted when she first found she was anticipating, as she didn’t need her daughter to really feel like she was “being changed”.

“I hoped for it, however then the second I came upon, I immediately felt responsible for Lucia,” she says. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, what have I finished? I do not need you to ever assume that you simply had been being changed or something like that’. It actually breaks my coronary heart after I give it some thought.”

The fact star, who appeared on season six of the ITV2 relationship present, says her daughter “hasn’t acquired a clue” that her mum is pregnant, joking, “She simply most likely thinks I’ve had a extremely massive dinner.”

Shaughna lately revealed she’s misplaced a staggering 6st over the previous 14 months, however says she’s decided to be kinder to herself each throughout and after this being pregnant. “I signed as much as a health club three weeks after I had Lucia,” she recollects. “I didn’t go, however I had it in my head I wanted to get again into my denims.”

She additionally admits to placing herself underneath pointless stress after receiving hurtful feedback on-line. “Individuals are merciless to me regardless – whether or not I’m skinny, obese, pregnant, not pregnant, single or not,” says Shauna, who has rubbished claims that her dramatic weight reduction is the results of fats jabs. “So I really want to try to drown out that outdoors noise.”

Even so, it seems like she’s struggling to beat a few of her previous demons. “The entire physique picture scenario in my thoughts has been spiralling – completely spiralling,” she admits. “I do not know why, and it is most likely placing just a little little bit of a dampener on issues.

“Once I acquired pregnant this time, I used to be about 3st lighter than what I used to be after I acquired pregnant with Lucia. So I do not know whether or not I am seeing the modifications extra as a result of I weighed much less. I’ve acquired a bump faster and all of my new garments clearly do not match me anymore.

“I am simply making an attempt to not let it [get to me]. It positively affected me extra to start with than it does now, as a result of there is no better blessing than a toddler and I must get out of my very own head. However aside from that, I have been fantastic. I truly felt far more exhausted after I was pregnant with Lucia than I’ve this time.”

Shaughna and Billy first acquired collectively in January 2020, after they had been launched by a mutual pal. However the pair put their fledgling romance on maintain after Shaughna acquired the decision from ITV2 asking her to look on the winter collection of Love Island. “I used to be like, ‘I am not giving up the chance for Love Island for a boy I’ve identified for lower than a month at this level’,” she says.

After Shaughna left the villa, the pair rekindled their relationship, residing collectively till 2023, when Billy was arrested whereas she was seven months pregnant with Lucia.

He was sentenced to 9 years in jail after he admitted conspiracy to provide 4.5kg of cocaine price at the very least £360,000. Talking concerning the phrases of his early launch, Shaughna says, “He acquired 9 years, however he had already served one 12 months. In order that comes off, and also you now serve 40 per cent of your sentence.

“I feel by the point he comes out, he would have finished over two and a half years – and he can be on tag for a 12 months. I feel by the point he is off tag, it might have been a 4 12 months sentence, primarily.”

Reflecting on Billy’s crime, she says, “Clearly he’d finished this factor, which was not superb, and he is paid his value for it. Though we’re not married but, I do attempt to dwell by the mantra ‘for higher or for worse’ and sadly, this was the worst.”

Shaughna says Billy is “excited” about having one other child, however jokes that he “does not know what is going on to hit him” when she lastly offers delivery. He was capable of be part of her for the tot’s 12-week scan, says Shaughna, who reveals she’ll be having her second child by C-section.

“I had a hospital appointment lately and so they stated that they assume I would want a C-section simply due to the place my placenta is,” she says. “I used to be planning a C-section anyway, but it surely appears to be like like I may need needed to have had one, regardless. So sure, this child can be popping out of the sunroof and never every other exit.”

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