Former Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon is excited to be expecting her first child with footballer Ryan Ledson in the new year, and she shared a moving message to her unborn son. Lucy, who played Bethany Platt in Corrie, took to Instagram to reflect over her 2022, the year she found out she was to become a mum.
"2022 brought a mixture of hard & magical moments but the start of 2023 will bring us you and the best is yet to come happy new year everyone x" the 27-year-old star wrote.
The montage included the moment Lucy found out she was expecting with a clip of her holding up the positive test. The emotional post also showed tears of joy as she told her loved-ones the joyous news.
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The sweet Instagram share also featured a private at-home gender reveal as Preston North End footballer Ryan fired a confetti cannon to reveal a shower of blue tape. Lucy announced her pregnancy in September and this week told fans "five weeks left' as she updated them on social media.
Taking to Instagram on Boxing Day the star shared how she spent her Christmas. Lucy wrote: "It may have ended in a sickness bug, but it’s been a holly jolly one with our fam nonetheless. merry chrysler everyone."
After keeping her pregnancy a secret for five months before the big reveal, Lucy has kept her followers updated on her and her unborn child's progress. The happy baby news came after Lucy, who played Bethany in the ITV soap from 2015 to 2020, suffered a tragic miscarriage earlier this year.
She previousy revealed that she and Ryan's bundle of joy is due on February 2, 2023. Lucy went public with Ryan in June last year. Love blossomed for the couple during lockdown after they met on celebrity dating app Raya. It came after Lucy split from her boyfriend of four years Tom Leech.
Earlier this month Lucy and Ryan revealed that their first child is a boy. The mum-to-be shared the news with OK! magazine as she celebrated her impending arrival at a baby shower with her soap star pals, including Helen Flanagan, and 100 guests at the plush Shankly Hotel in Liverpool.
"I wanted it gender neutral on the day because I hadn’t made it public that we’re having a boy then," Lucy told the publication. "We found out the gender at 16 weeks. Obviously we weren’t bothered either way, but Ryan was so convinced we were having a girl.
"I’d been so sick at the beginning and neither of my sisters were sick when they were having their boys. And when you send people the 12-week scan, everyone tries to guess and everyone was saying, 'It's definitely a girl.'" It was at Lucy’s 16-week scan that she was handed an envelope disclosing the gender of the baby.
She and Ryan opened it in front of close friends and family at home before a second reveal at her baby shower. But Lucy said that even prior to that, she felt certain she was expecting a boy. "I knew. I just had this really strong feeling,” she told OK!. "The night before I said to Ryan, ‘I bet you £500 it’s going to be a boy.’ He still hasn’t sent me the money!"
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