{"id":6193,"date":"2025-10-24T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:30:22","slug":"paloma-faith-44-announces-pregnancy-with-baby-bump-photo-after-past-ivf-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unlockingsite.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/paloma-faith-44-announces-pregnancy-with-baby-bump-photo-after-past-ivf-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Paloma Faith, 44, announces pregnancy with baby bump photo after past IVF struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paloma Faith has announced she is pregnant (Picture: Jim Dyson\/ Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paloma Faith<\/a> has announced she is pregnant with her third child.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old singer<\/a>, who recently appeared on The Celebrity Traitors<\/a>, announced the news when dropping an album on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two photos showed her wearing a baseball jersey and white polka dot skirt, with the top tucked into her bra to show her growing bump.<\/p>\n

Captioning the post, she wrote: ‘Plot twist , mother is mothering (again)
#morethangeriatricpregnancy #oappregnancy #oapmilf #18weekspregnant.’ <\/p>\n

Paloma already shares two daughters, born in 2016 and 2021, with her ex-partner Leyman Lahcine.<\/p>\n

However in 2023 she confirmed they’d split after a 10-year relationship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The singer delighted fans with the surprise news (Picture: Joseph Okpako\/ WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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She has not revealed who the father of her third child is, however earlier this year it was reported that she was dating Stevie Thomas, the director of a music venue in Birmingham after he joined her at a Brit Awards afterparty. <\/p>\n

The singer, who has never revealed her children\u2019s names publicly, has previously spoken about the \u2018harrowing\u2019 struggle to conceive.<\/p>\n

Before welcoming her daughters, she faced six rounds of IVF treatment, during which she suffered an ectopic pregnancy and a devastating miscarriage, which occurred while she was on set filming the TV series Pennyworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018When we first started trying, I had previously become pregnant quite easily and so I was concerned,\u2019 she told Davina McCall on her Begin Again podcast.<\/p>\n

\u2018It does irritate me that science, because it is mainly dominated by men, is that if it is a male fertility problem, which it was in our case, it is still the woman that has to endure the brunt of the stuff.<\/p>\n

\u2018There has been no breakthrough. He was devastated the whole time and said, \u201cIf there\u2019s something I can take, or I can do injections. Why does it have to fall on you?\u201d.<\/p>\n

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She went public with music venue director Stevie Thomas earlier this year (Picture: Richard Young\/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She went on: \u2018But it did, and it does. He was empathetic but I think that put a strain on our relationship in itself because his view was ‘You’re so hardworking, breadwinner and all I had to do was this and I can’t do it.’<\/p>\n

\u2018It was difficult because I knew I could just conceive naturally and I think that put a strain on us because I’m not someone who buries my feelings. I just say, \u201cThis is frustrating\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n

However, while she wanted to undertake treatment again to have their second child, her partner was concerned their relationship might now survive.<\/p>\n

\u2018The birth was not ideal and then when we came to lockdown the fertility clinic called me and said, \u201cWe\u2019re still open, do you want to have another baby?\u201d. I said to him, \u201cI really want another baby, I’m not working as much. I\u2019ve got more time to relax. Can I do it?\u201d. He said, \u201cI don’t think we\u2019ll make it as a couple\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018I felt resentment, I just felt alone. There’s this mid-life thing and you’re looking at a perimenopause around the corner. It was the last chance saloon.<\/p>\n

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She shares two daughters with ex-partner Leyman Lahcine. (Picture: Justin Goff Photos\/ Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I just had it in my head; I need to give this child a sibling. I felt like a single parent even in a relationship.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking about the split from her ex, she also once said: \u2018You either grow together, adapting to one another like expandable foam and filling the gaps where it\u2019s empty \u2013 or one person grows and the other stays the same.<\/p>\n

\u2018And I think for me, becoming a mother was such a massively life-changing experience that for the first time in my life, I needed more than nothing \u2013 and the expandable foam just wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our relationship ended because we have those children. And I think that was worth it.\u2019<\/p>\n

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