Note: This article discusses miscarriage, which readers may find upsetting.
Hollyoaks star Jessica Fox has shared a new photo of her growing baby bump.
The actress, who has played Nancy in the Channel 4 soap for 17 years, announced in October that she and husband Nicholas Willes were expecting their first child.
In a new picture on Instagram, Jessica can be seen at home cradling her bump in the mirror, with pictures of her baby scans on the wall.
She captioned the photo: "Bump update: every day I get a little closer to no longer fitting in the shower."
While sharing the news of her pregnancy in October, Jessica shared that her Hollyoaks character Nancy's on-screen pregnancy coincided with her previous real-life pregnancy in 2021, which tragically ended prematurely.
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"Nick and I lost two babies in 2021," she wrote at the time. Both losses were at the end of the first trimester and completely heartbreaking. In a cruel twist of fate, when I got pregnant the second time the character I play on Hollyoaks was pregnant too."
Jessica continued: "Then I lost the baby. On the Friday I had a real bump, on the Monday I was putting on a fake one. It was every bit as horrific as it sounds. I tried to keep it secret and get on it.
"The inevitable happened and I had to film the birth, I have never been more terrified to film something in my life.
"On my due date, at work, I was handed a beautiful tiny baby and I cried uncontrollably throughout the whole scene. The director, not knowing my situation, must have thought I was fantastic. I was broken.
"At 20 weeks our baby is healthy and growing... I am incredibly grateful and take none of this for granted."
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