Olympic gold medalist Laura Kenny has announced she is pregnant with her third child after multiple baby tragedies.
The British team legend, 32, announced the happy news on Instagram hours before Great Britain welcomed the New Year last night.
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Dame Laura Kenny has shared her baby bump in a sweet video
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Laura and Jason at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
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Ms. Laura has already spoken about her child’s broken heart
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Laura’s other two children also appeared in her announcement video
In a post where she tagged husband and co-star Jason Kenny, she said: “2024 was wonderful, 2025 will be even more special.”
Dame Laura is the country’s greatest Olympian, but she has previously suffered two heartbreaks while pregnant.
She shocked the cycling world in March when she unexpectedly quit the sport just months before she was expected to compete at the Paris Olympics in July.
She then opened up about her life in an interview with the High Performance podcast in June and offered insight into how she and Jason, two fiercely competitive superathletes, somehow manage to live under the same roof.
They married in 2016 and had a son, Albie, the following year. But Laura then suffered heartbreak while trying to conceive a second child.
In 2021, she suffered a miscarriage, and just a few months later she lost another child due to an ectopic pregnancy, which led to the removal of her fallopian tubes.
Laura told the podcast that the fight for a second child became an obsession that changed her personality as well.
She says: “I can’t tell you how depressed I felt for 18 months because of this desire to have another child, and it was eating away at me.
“It was the first time Jason told me he saw me change. I could see my personality — sad, upset — because that’s not who I am. I’m like this bubbly person.
“I knew that every day was mine: ‘Am I going to be pregnant?’ I just felt so alone.”
She relied on Jason as her rock, saying, “I spent so much time thinking, ‘Oh, well, Jason’s going to make it better.’ I think it was only afterwards that I realized how much pressure I was putting on him because of it. No one ever asks how the males are doing.”
It wasn’t until she finally became pregnant with Monty that she began to truly grieve for the children she had previously lost.
Laura says: “I remember being in the kitchen and just bursting into tears. Obviously I was so happy, so ridiculously happy.
“But there was a part of me that was so sad because of everything I had lost in the past.
“Miscarriage was one thing, ectopic was another level of terrifying, and I never processed that because all I ever wanted was another child.
“I almost didn’t give myself time to process it because I started thinking like an athlete saying, ‘Well, what can we do?'”
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Laura and Jason’s children Monty and Albie
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Dame Laura Kenny poses with her two gold medals
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Olympians Laura and Jason swap their cycling gear for something more formal
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