They say that you know by looking at a woman, but you don’t. It’s as she opens her mouth to tell you that you know. “I’m pregnant,” says Amanda Holden in a single breath. Beside her, eyes on his wife, the actress’s husband Chris Hughes squeezes her hand.
We’re in the back garden of their holiday home in West Hollywood, watching the couple’s five-year-old daughter, Lexi, retrieve lost coins from the shallow end of the pool. For any woman, this is a glorious day: those three months of secrecy have passed and it’s time not just to share the news but believe in it yourself. For Holden and her 38-year-old record producer husband, the joy is sharper and more poignant. In February this year, the 40-year-old actress lost a boy seven months into her pregnancy.
“When I found out this time that I was pregnant, I burst into tears,” says the star of Dreamworks’ West End musical Shrek, her face lighting up. “I never dreamt it would happen so quickly, so when it did we both decided that we would try not to think about it until I reached the 12-week mark. Now that we have and I know that everything’s fine (you have no idea how many scans I’ve had), I feel like we can really enjoy it.”
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