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Katherine Heslop

Love Island's Shaughna Phillips shares hilarious baby scan moment with rude gesture

Love Island star Shaughna Phillips' baby scan took an unexpected and hilarious turn – with her unborn child appearing to give a rude gesture.

The reality star, 28, announced she was expecting a baby with her partner Billy in October. She is due to become a mother for the first time.

Shaughna has been keeping her fans up to date with her pregnancy journey and today shared a short clip of her baby scan, where her unborn child appeared to give the middle finger.

"So today I got to see my beautiful baby...give me the middle finger. Mummy loves you too, darling [crying and laughing emoji]."

Love Island star Shaughna Phillips announced her pregnancy in October and has been keeping fans up to date (ITV)
She shared a short clip from her baby scan on Instagram (Shaughna Phillips/Instagram)

Earlier this month, Shaughna said she believes she may already know the gender of her unborn baby.

Writing in her column for OK! magazine, Shaughna revealed she believes the baby is a boy, and opened up about the time she caught him kicking on camera.

Due to having an anterior placenta, being able to feel the baby kicking from the outside has been difficult for Shaughna and Billy. However, she managed to capture the baby kicking on film, which she then showed to her partner.

Shaughna is set to welcome her first child (James Shaw/REX/Shutterstock)

On the magical moment, she said she didn’t think Billy could believe his eyes and that it made him feel more excited about becoming a dad.

She said: “I don't think he's ever really experienced something like that before. I suppose with girls, when their friends are pregnant, they're always feeling their bellies. But, Billy's never had that.”

It is due to the difficulty in feeling the baby kick that Shaughna believes it is a “mama’s boy”, due to only her being able to feel them move.

She said: “They're not playing with their daddy.

“I've filmed the baby quite a few times now, usually before I get in the bath I lie on my mum's bed and just say, 'Do something' and wait. He's quite active in the evenings so it usually works.”

Shaughna’s feeling that her baby is a boy has got stronger throughout her pregnancy, and now feels convinced of their sex, despite being “not entirely sure why”.

She said: “I've seen loads of articles on how the shape of your bump can give you insight into what the gender of your baby could be, but then other places say it's a myth.

Shaughna rose to fame on Winter Love Island 2020 (shaughnaphillips/Instagram)

“One of my friends, who has two boys, said her pregnancies were so different and she was convinced she was having a girl the second time around. Then it turned out to be a boy, which made no sense because the pregnancies were polar opposites.”

She admitted that she “really wanted a girl” to begin with, but getting further into her pregnancy, she no longer thinks gender is relevant as she is “going to love them no matter what.”

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