Great Britain's most successful female Olympian Dame Laura Kenny has announced she is expecting a second child with husband Sir Jason Kenny.
Five-time Olympic champion Kenny's news comes 12 months after her heartbreaking ectopic pregnancy.
The couple's son Albie was born in August 2017, and Kenny suffered a miscarriage two months before her ectopic pregnancy last year.
In a candid interview with Mirror Sport in December, cycling icon Kenny opened up on the agony she has experienced through a traumatic year, crediting husband Jason's support through the darkest period in her life.
And the 30-year-old has now announced that she is pregnant in a heartwarming post on her Instagram page.
On Wednesday, Kenny shared the news with her 197,000 followers by posting a picture of two adult bikes and two children's bikes lined up alongside each other with a rainbow in the distance.
After sharing the image, Kenny took to her Instagram stories to share her emotions after learning she was pregnant.
“A year ago today I was sat in A&E knowing I was really poorly but not knowing what was wrong with me,” she wrote.
“When I got the news I was having an ectopic pregnancy my world felt like it crumbled.
"We had already lost our second baby in November and I remember lying there searching for some sort of answers. I still feel this heartbreak today and I don’t think it will ever go away. But today a year on…”
And in another post, she continued: “Today I felt like I couldn’t hide away anymore. I’m already starting to show and the anxiety I have felt has been unreal. Telling the world means I have to accept we are having another baby and this fills me with all kinds of emotions.
“I’m scared every single day that I might have to go through the pain of losing another baby. It makes you feel ungrateful for something you’ve so desperately wanted for the last year.
“But I also know there are going to be so many people, like I was, seeing my post and wishing I would go away with my happy ending.
“But I also know, when I was lying in the hospital bed, I was searching for people’s happy endings because it was the only thing giving me any comfort at the time. That maybe, just maybe I would get my happy ending.”
