Nicole Appleton shocked not just fans but close friends today by announcing she's given birth to a secret daughter.
The 45-year-old former All Saints star - who is in a relationship with millionaire Facebook executive Stephen Haines - hid her pregnancy for nine whole months before finally going public on Instagram .
She wrote: "After hiding my pregnancy for the last 9 months...which was SOOOOO difficult; keeping her a secret from all my friends... I can finally announce our incredible news!!
"Our little girl 'Skipper Hudson Haines' has arrived Stephen & Gene are besotted!!! I'm SOOO HAPPY!!"
It's a happy ending for Nicole, whose rock and roll love life has dealt her more than her fair share of heartbreak over the years.
From straying husbands with love children to relationships too rocky to work, Mirror Online takes a look back at her big loves...
Liam Gallagher
Eighteen months later Nicole gave birth to their son Gene, now 18, and on Valentine's Day 2008 they tied the knot at Westminster Register Office.
Despite his bad boy reputation, the marriage appeared to be ticking along nicely until 2014 when it emerged a mystery rocker had fathered a love child with a journalist.
Away on holiday with her sister Natalie, the paid had enjoyed speculating about who the lothario could be. Little did she know it was her own husband.
It was only when Liam called from Ibiza to confess about his fling with US showbiz journalist Liza Ghorbani that it all became clear.
Recalling her daughter's 'devastation', Nicole’s mum Mary told the Sunday People at the time: “It’s such a shock. There was no warning, it was the last thing Nikki expected. It came out of the blue.
“He phoned her the day before it came out in the paper here to tell her. She had been talking about it. Nat and Nic and their hairdresser were together – the girls were getting their hair done.
“They were sitting together trying to guess who the rock star was, saying, ‘Do you think it might be so-and-so?’ They’re normal girls.
“Nat was telling me that when he called and told her, Nikki went down on her knees and said, ‘It’s Liam, it’s Liam.’ Nat knew what she meant because they had been talking about it.”
Rather than fly back to be with his wife, Liam was then pictured laughing and joking at a poolside bar with his PA Debbie Gwyther, who he is said to fallen for while still married.
Nicole filed for divorce and it was granted in 68 seconds in April 2014, after Liam admitted adultery. A judge ruled Liam’s assets should be split in half, with each getting £5.5million.
Travis Fimmel
In 1999 Nicole briefly dated Australian Calvin Klein model and Tarzan actor Travis.
Not much is known about their fling but he was quoted as saying: “I say what I want, but this thing going round about me saying Nicole was boring is absolute bullsh*t, mate.
"Nicole is great, we're just different." He added: "And she dumped me, I never dumped her."
Robbie Williams
Robbie and Nicole embarked on a stormy nine-month romance after meeting on Top Of The Pops in 1997.
They split several times before a smitten Robbie got down on one knee and popped the question.
But it all went wrong when Nicole fell pregnant and aborted the baby, stating she had been pressured by All Saints' record company.
Recalling Robbie's reaction to her pregnancy at the time, she once said: "Robbie Williams put his hand on my belly and told me, 'This baby is saving my life.'"
But after the termination, Nicole was left in a state of shock and feeling suicidal.
"I couldn't believe what I had done," she said. "I wanted to kill myself. Afterwards, everyone pretended it hadn't happened."
For Robbie's part, he backed her decision to write about it in her autobiography, Together, but later admitted reliving it had “torn him apart”.
"I was completely behind her... If there's something that's so deep-rooted within yourself that you feel it would feel better to you that you exorcised it and got it off your chest, because secrets can make you sick and secrets can make you feel terrible... then I'm completely behind her," he previously told the Daily Mail.
"It was really sad though, it was really sad.
"Obviously, I was gonna come back to England and there was gonna be questions like this asked so I needed to know what was going on with it and it really upset me, and tore me apart a little bit.
"I had to phone her up and go I'm not in a mood or anything, I still back you. But it was actually upsetting to see it written in black and white."
