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Love Island star Montana Brown announces she's pregnant with her first child

Love Island star Montana Brown is pregnant!

The reality TV star, 27, shared the news she is expecting her first baby with boyfriend Mark O'Connor next year with her fans on social media this evening.

"Baby O’Connor coming next summer," the mum-to-be captioned a sweet video capturing her pregnancy journey so far.

In the cute footage, Montana shares the moment she and Mark learned they were set to become parents earlier this year, alongside cute snaps of the happy couple on holiday recently.

Montana Brown will be welcoming her first baby into the world next year (Instagram/montanarosebrown1)
The Love Island star shared her happy fans with fans on Instagram this evening (Instagram/montanarosebrown1)

Montana can be seen nursing her bump in a bikini during the lavish holiday, as the sweet video documents the first months of Montana's pregnancy.

It also showed the star attending her first scan as she and Mark listen to their baby's heartbeat for the first time in a touching moment.

As Montana shared her happy news on Instagram this evening, the star's fans and famous friend rushed to congratulate the mum-to-be.

(Instagram/montanarosebrown1)
(Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock)

"Ahhh congratulations," fellow Love Island alum Faye Winter wrote to the star, as former Queen of the Jungle Vicky Pattison added: "Omg mon!!!! Stop!! Just yesterday you were congratulating me about my family growing. Mate I'm so happy for you."

Zara McDermott commented: "Just remembered how you told me this summer how excited you were for this chapter in your life!!! And here it is!! Congratulations angel."

Montana shot to fame on the popular ITV2 show in 2017 (ITV2)

Amy Hart, who is also expecting her first baby next year, wrote: "Amazing congrats!"

Montana shot to fame thanks to her stint on ITV2 show Love Island in 2017 and lasted an impressive 50 days in the villa, but did not quite make it to the final.

The couple first went public when they were spotted together in the Caribbean in January - which was six months after Montana split from model boyfriend Elliott Reeder, and they try to keep their relationship out of the spotlight.

"Mine and Mark's relationship was born out of the second lockdown.

Montana (far right) starred in Love Island 2017 (PA)

"I feel like good things always come when you are not expecting it," Montana previously said of their romance to new! magazine.

"It's been lovely to feel in a good headspace. Last year I convinced myself that I didn't want to meet anyone - I'd be on my own forever instead, but he came along when I wasn't looking."

Mark - who used to play for Chiswick and Wales first teams - reportedly met Montana in one of the former rugby player's gyms during the second national lockdown.

Montana was coupled with Alex Beattie on Love Island and they left the show as a couple.

However, it wasn't built to last and they confirmed they had split a few weeks later, with Montana seemingly blaming Alex as she felt he "hadn't been the same" since they left the show.

"Alex and I have decided to split. Making our relationship work on the outside has been hard," she said.

"He hasn't been the same since coming out of the villa. Despite this we are still close and I will always support him."

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