Liz McClarnon has admitted she is ‘petrified’ ahead of welcoming her first child after having two miscarriages.
As a teenager Liz joined the girl group Atomic Kitten alongside Kerry Katona and Natasha Hamilton.
The group – who later had Jenny Frost join after Kerry left – scored three number-one hits – Whole Again, Eternal Flame, and The Tide Is High – plus two number-one albums.
However last year Liz was left as the only member of Atomic Kitten after the other two quit.
A year on Liz has revealed some exciting news in her private life.
Earlier this month the 44-year-old admitted she’d ‘been keeping a secret’.
‘I’ve mostly kept myself off social media because sometimes it was hard to smile. But after years of sometimes quite painful IVF quite dark times…I’m pregnant,’ she captioned a video, which showed her sitting in a park cradling her bump.
‘I started to record a video of me just telling you but I got too emotional, so I thought I’d just hide behind this little announcement instead. I just can’t believe we’re here,’ she continued.
‘So many have been through exactly what I went through and worse. ❤️ I want to share what I can and add my voice and ears to those who already help others understand or deal with all that comes with IVF and loss after so much hope. I’ve been a part of some beautifully supportive communities. I’m so grateful.’
The singer is expecting her first child with husband Peter Cho, a doctor she met on a dating app during the pandemic.
Four months later they moved in together and four months after that the couple were engaged.
Early in their relationship they began the IVF process as both wanted children and were aware her being 40 might delay the natural process.
However, in 2022 they had three failed embryo transfers, and last year she suffered two miscarriages after the first successful cycles.
In an interview with The Mirror, Liz said she decided to share her fertility struggles following ‘dark times’.
‘The whole process made me truly appreciate that having a baby is a miracle,’ she said.
‘When it doesn’t work, you’re just in shock.
‘I felt so bad emotionally, it was really tough.’
But Liz said she was now ‘loving life’ and was excited to find out the sex of her baby.
She did joke about her nerves though too.
‘My knees already hurt. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so grateful, but I’m also petrified. But you know what? It’s happened to women older than me before, and it’ll happen again – so we’ll just get on with it!,’ she said.
When sharing her pregnancy publicly, Liz was flooded with many messages of support – including from her former bandmates.
‘Literally couldn’t be any happier for you both! After all you’ve been through, this little miracle is everything,’ Natasha wrote.
‘The best news ever …. You have been through it girl but never lost faith in what you knew was meant to be 🤍 Beyond happy for you both,’ Jenny added.
Liz and Peter married in 2023, but she only revealed his identity to her followers when they celebrated their first wedding anniversary last year.
After sharing photos with her husband’s face covered by confetti soon after their wedding, she paid tribute to Peter a year later.
Sharing a photo of them together, she wrote: ‘Guess what?! I’ve been married to my perfect match for a whole year, I love you Peter Cho!’
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