Model Samantha Harris announces she's expecting first child with husband Luke Hunt after standing by him during prison sentence
The Australian model, 34, took to Instagram on Sunday to share a picture of an ultrasound, revealing that she is pregnant with her first baby.
'Life Lately,' she captioned the post, while tagging her husband of eleven years Luke Hunt.
The post, which has garnered over 2,600 likes, did not reveal the gender nor when the baby is due.
Fans and friends flooded the comments section of the post with support for the Aussie supermodel.
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'Congratulations gorgeous,' Australia's Next Top Model alum Simone Holtznagel wrote, accompanied with a love heart.
Fitness guru and podcast host Steph Claire Smith simply wrote, 'Congratulations,' as did model Jess King.
Model and actress Megan Gale penned, 'Congratulations Sammy.'
Samantha's hubby also left a comment in response to her caption, writing: 'And the rest of our lives to come'.
That model made headlines in 2014 when she famously stuck by her beau's side after he was sentenced to four years in prison.
Luke served two years behind bars for the death of a grandfather following a fatal car crash in 2012.
Sam secretly married Luke in 2014, two months before he began serving his prison sentence for his involvement in the crash that caused the death of 78-year-old grandfather Kenneth Lay.
News that the couple had married wasn't revealed until April 2016, after her husband had finished serving his prison term.
The former Dancing With The Stars contestant, whose mother is Aboriginal and father is German-English, has been modelling since she was 13 years of age after winning the Girlfriend Magazine Covergirl competition.
However, despite her success, Samantha has admitted in the past that she lacked mentors and opportunities during her childhood.
The 6ft model, who hails from Tweed Heads, told The Daily Telegraph: 'When I was growing up, support and education for Aboriginal kids was limited and for my mother before me it was even more so.'
'This is why I have made it my goal to commit as much time and effort to changing this for future generations,' she added.
It comes after Samantha previously took aim at a journalist for questioning if she was pregnant during a live TV cross.
'So I'm not one to usually write a post like this but this has just really rubbed me up the wrong way today,' she fumed in an Instagram post hours after the incident.
The catwalk queen explained that she was preparing to film a segment for Sunrise when her agent began talking to a journalist about her over the phone.
'I overheard the conversation asking if I'm pregnant because there's been rumours getting around for a while now that I am,' she explained.
'Needless to say I was not impressed,' she raged, adding that she found the question 'so rude'.
'Seriously, where do rumours like that come from? What are they implying? Are they trying to say I've gained weight or something??' the star continued.
'If and when I do fall pregnant it will be up to myself and my husband to whom we share that information with and if we let media know at all,' she declared.
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