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Great Britain's most successful female Olympian Dame Laura Kenny has announced she is expecting a second child with husband Sir Jason Kenny.
Five-time Olympic champion Kenny's news comes 12 months after her heartbreaking ectopic pregnancy.
The couple's son Albie was born in August 2017, and Kenny suffered a miscarriage two months before her ectopic pregnancy last year.
In a candid interview with Mirror Sport in December, cycling icon Kenny opened up on the agony she has experienced through a traumatic year, crediting husband Jason's support through the darkest period in her life.
And the 30-year-old has now announced that she is pregnant in a heartwarming post on her Instagram page.
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On Wednesday, Kenny shared the news with her 197,000 followers by posting a picture of two adult bikes and two children's bikes lined up alongside each other with a rainbow in the distance.
After sharing the image, Kenny took to her Instagram stories to share her emotions after learning she was pregnant.
“A year ago today I was sat in A&E knowing I was really poorly but not knowing what was wrong with me,” she wrote.
Kenny revealed the news with a picture of four bikes on Instagram“When I got the news I was having an ectopic pregnancy my world felt like it crumbled.
"We had already lost our second baby in November and I remember lying there searching for some sort of answers. I still feel this heartbreak today and I don’t think it will ever go away. But today a year on…”
And in another post, she continued: “Today I felt like I couldn’t hide away anymore. I’m already starting to show and the anxiety I have felt has been unreal. Telling the world means I have to accept we are having another baby and this fills me with all kinds of emotions.
The married couple welcomed son Albie in 2017 (WireImage)“I’m scared every single day that I might have to go through the pain of losing another baby. It makes you feel ungrateful for something you’ve so desperately wanted for the last year.
“But I also know there are going to be so many people, like I was, seeing my post and wishing I would go away with my happy ending.
“But I also know, when I was lying in the hospital bed, I was searching for people’s happy endings because it was the only thing giving me any comfort at the time. That maybe, just maybe I would get my happy ending.”