Bachelor stars Matty ‘J' Johnson and wife Laura Byrne reveal they are expecting their third child
Byrne announced the happy news on her successful podcast Life Uncut, telling listeners: 'It turns out, we're having baby number three. I'm pregnant guys.'
Byrne is now 18 weeks pregnant, after discovering she was expecting while Johnson was away filming I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here in South Africa.
'I have known for a very long time — I found out very early on in this pregnancy not because I had any symptoms but because my friend made a comment that made me do a pregnancy test,' she said.
Byne said while she was reunited with Johnson in the jungle, she had waited until after filming wrapped on the I'm A Celebrity finale to tell him the happy news.
Johnson made his own announcement on his Two Doting Dads podcast, telling listeners the baby is due in October.
The couple have two older daughters, Marlie-Mae who was born in 2019 and Lola born in 2021.
'We were trying before I went into the jungle,' Johnson said of the latest pregnancy.
'The plan was, we said this year, 2025, if we were going to have a third, this will be the year that it happens.
'I'm conscious that Marlie and Lola are really close together, they're about 18 months (apart) and Lola just turned four, so I was like if it doesn't happen this year, it's a big gap …
'We want the third child to still be friends with Marlie and Lola.'
The couple met on The Bachelor Australia in 2017 and later married in November 2022 at Cupitt's Estate winery near Mollymook on the NSW South Coast.
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