Former Coronation Street star Lucy Fallon is expecting her first child with boyfriend Ryan Ledson.
The 26-year-old, who played Bethany Platt on the soap, shared the news after revealing her miscarriage in March. Lucy's boyfriend Ryan, from Liverpool, is a midfielder for Preston North End having began his career at Everton, joining the club's academy at the age of five.
Speaking to OK Magazine about their recent heartache, Lucy said: "It was a traumatising, horrendous time. We went for a scan and they couldn’t see anything, so then we went to the hospital and they thought they could see something, so it was very up and down.
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"I had pregnancy symptoms and I was feeling really unwell and when they were doing all these scans my symptoms were getting worse and worse and there were no signs I had had a miscarriage, so that made it more of a shock.
"We just assumed everything was going to be fine. Then after a week when they’d done the blood tests and other tests I went back and they said that I had miscarried. It was a really strange feeling.
"Even though so many people go through it, you never expect it will happen to you."
Following the traumatic loss of her first baby, Lucy is already five months pregnant with her baby, and she's over the moon about becoming a young mum.
She said: "We’re very fortunate that it happened again for us. We weren’t putting pressure on it and I was trying not to put pressure on myself and then it just ended up happening that way for us.
"It was obviously just meant to happen.”
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