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EXCLUSIVEOlivia Bowen is PREGNANT! Love Island star announces she is expecting her second child with husband Alex

EXCLUSIVEOlivia Bowen is PREGNANT! Love Island star announces she is expecting her second child with husband Alex

Olivia Bowen has announced she is pregnant with her second child. 

The Love Island star, 30, took to Instagram on Thursday to share the news that she is expecting baby number two with her co-star and husband Alex Bowen, 33.

She shared a heartwarming video of the pregnancy so far and wrote in the caption: ‘A moment, a love- baby no2 – we’re waiting for you.’

The sweet clip, which looks like it had been recorded on a camcorder, showed the moment the couple find out they were pregnant.

It also featured adorable family moments between Olivia and Alex, and their son Abel, including the little one kissing his mother’s stomach and wearing a shirt that reads ‘big brother’. 

Olivia also showed off her blossoming baby bump in multiple clips of the video, as the family prepare to become a four. 

Olivia Bowen has announced she is pregnant with her second child

Olivia Bowen has announced she is pregnant with her second child

The Love Island star, 30, took to Instagram on Thursday to share the news that she is expecting baby number two with her co-star and husband Alex Bowen , 33

The Love Island star, 30, took to Instagram on Thursday to share the news that she is expecting baby number two with her co-star and husband Alex Bowen , 33

She shared a heartwarming video of the pregnancy so far and wrote in the caption: 'A moment, a love- baby no2 - we’re waiting for you'

She shared a heartwarming video of the pregnancy so far and wrote in the caption: ‘A moment, a love- baby no2 – we’re waiting for you’

The couple, who have been together for almost a decade, welcomed their first child, son Abel, two, back in June 2022. 

Olivia and Alex, formerly a sales executive and scaffolder respectively, soared to fame in 2016 when they appeared on the ITV2 reality show, where she was an original star and he, a late and extremely popular entrant. 

After leaving the villa their romance soon when from strength to strength and Alex popped the question in New York in December 2016. 

They tied the knot in an idyllic EsSєx ceremony in September 2018.

After the birth of her first child, Olivia admitted that she ‘really really struggled’ with her postpartum figure so much so that she ‘hated’ herself ‘beyond belief’,

In a candid and emotional chat with Giovanna Fletcher on her Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast in November, Olivia told how she ‘knew’ she’d struggle to with the look of her body after giving birth, with the star constantly comparing herself to other new mums.

Discussing her post-pregnancy figure, she said: ‘So I knew when I got pregnant that was something that I would just lose my s**t over after. I really… I still struggle with it

‘But after I hated myself like beyond belief. Like really, really struggled with my body image. Pregnant – loved, loved, loved it. And then the minute, that minute Abel was born and I was looking at myself in a completely different light, which makes no sense.

‘The fact that you can look at yourself when you’re pregnant and absolutely love the way you look and think, “wow, I’m incredible. I’m carrying this baby”. But then after it was like I was comparing myself to other girls that were in the public eye, that had had kids around the same time as me.

The sweet clip, which looks like it had been recorded on a camcorder, showed the moment the couple find out they were pregnant

The sweet clip, which looks like it had been recorded on a camcorder, showed the moment the couple find out they were pregnant

The clip featured adorable family moments between Olivia and Alex, and their son Abel The little one sweetly kissed his mum's stomach

The clip featured adorable family moments between Olivia and Alex, and their son Abel, including the little one kissing his mother’s stomach and wearing a shirt that reads ‘big brother’

The couple looked thrilled to be expanding their family

The couple looked thrilled to be expanding their family 

The couple's first child Abel wore a jumper which read: 'Big Brother 2025'

The couple’s first child Abel wore a jumper which read: ‘Big Brother 2025’

Olivia also showed off her blossoming baby bump in multiple clips of the video, as the family prepare to become a four The reality star was glowing in the candid video

Olivia also showed off her blossoming baby bump in multiple clips of the video, as the family prepare to become a four

Olivia included a clip of the positive pregnancy test in front of their Christmas tree

Olivia included a clip of the positive pregnancy test in front of their Christmas tree

She also recorded the moment she showed Alex that the test was positive

She also recorded the moment she showed Alex that the test was positive

‘And I was looking at them thinking, “oh my God, you look amazing” and not thinking about myself and thinking, “I need to bounce back”.’

After convincing herself that she didn’t look great in comparison to others, Olivia embarked on a gruelling exercise routine – which would prove to have a negative effect on her body.

She explained: ‘I ended up actually really injuring myself because I had a complicated birth. I started running too early because I was so conscious of what I looked like.

‘I ended up breaking my sтιтches. I ended up… I horse rode too early because I wanted to get fit again, and I caused myself a lot of damage.

‘Not going into too much detail, but I ended up, like, actually really hurting myself from wanting to bounce back.’

But despite causing herself physical pain through her actions, the influencer confessed that she would probably still do the same thing again if they had another child.

She said: ‘It was like… and even now, I think I still wouldn’t have done it differently. Really, the first time around… The second… If I got pregnant again, I know to look after myself, but I know for a fact I would have done that again and again and again.

Like that wouldn’t have changed. But I guess it is, you know, my job is on social media. And to see all these girls look so incredible and think that you don’t look like that.

After leaving the villa their romance soon when from strength to strength and Alex popped the question in New York in December 2016

After leaving the villa their romance soon when from strength to strength and Alex popped the question in New York in December 2016 

The couple, who have been together for almost a decade, welcomed their first child, son Abel, two, back in June 2022

The couple, who have been together for almost a decade, welcomed their first child, son Abel, two, back in June 2022

While Olivia struggled with her body image, she also faced a battle with postnatal depression

While Olivia struggled with her body image, she also faced a battle with postnatal depression 

‘It was such a hard thing. And because I’d always had such great body confidence and I loved my body, that was just someone I didn’t really recognize and I had no respect for. And it’s, it’s so sad.’

While Olivia struggled with her body image, she also faced a battle with postnatal depression.

Opening up to Giovanna on not feeling like a mother when Abel was born, she said: ‘I remember writing in my notes, actually, I think he was about three months old, and I remember writing in my notes that I didn’t want to be looked at as a mum.

‘I was like, I’m not a mum, I don’t feel like a mum. I have a baby and I love my baby, but I do not want anyone to look at me or call me mum. I didn’t like it when people referred to me as mum. I hated it.’

As Giovanna suggested it was due to Olivia perhaps feeling ‘lost’ amid the traumatic birth, Olivia explained: ‘I think it I think it is like the lost feeling afterwards. Like I think that postnatal is just so, so common and we don’t even realize it. And I really struggled after, like anxiety wise, I was really depressive.

‘And I do think I was just shunning the image of being a mom because I just so wasn’t ready to give up who I was before, and I felt like I’d lost my whole idenтιтy. I had no clue who I was. Yeah, like I remember talking to my friends and being like, I literally don’t know who I am.

‘Like, I could not tell you one thing about myself and to lose yourself like that deeply. And then I think I’ve always. Because I didn’t want kids, I always looked at being a mom as not a bad thing, but just something that was never me.’

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