Olympic snowboarder Jenny Jones took to Instagram on Monday to reveal that she is expecting her first child this summer.
The British bronze medalist, 42, shared gorgeous snaps as she pushed up her sweater to reveal a blooming bulge.
She said she and her partner Dan were “ready for all the hugs” ahead of their June due date.
Jenny, who represented her country at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, smiled for the camera as she strolled across the arena.
The stunner changed into a white knit sweater which she layered over a blue striped T-shirt and jeans.
Happy news! Olympic snowboarder Jenny Jones, 43, took to Instagram on Monday to reveal that she is expecting her first child this summer.
Waiting: The British bronze medalist shared gorgeous snaps as she pushed up her sweater to reveal a blooming bulge
Exciting: Said she and partner Dan were ‘ready for all the hugs’ ahead of their June due date
Slipping her feet into her boots, she opted not to put on her makeup for the outing and let her blonde hair cascade to her shoulders.
She wrote: ‘Happy days…little baby…has kept me company all winter 🙂 Dan and I ready with all hugs sometime in June x’.
Jenny from Bristol becoming a household name thanks to winning Great Britain’s first medal at the Winter Olympics.
Taking bronze in the inaugural Women’s Slopestyle meet after a second run of 87.25 in Sochi.
After her win, she revealed in an exclusive documentary short for stunned how he went from a dry ski slope lesson in the UK to Olympic glory in Russia.
His first lesson in 1998 as a teenager was followed by a week in the Alps on a college trip. After that, he decided to take a year off before going to college to snowboard.
She said: ‘I never got into snowboarding thinking I was going to be a professional snowboarder. I just wanted to go snowboarding. I decided to do it for a year before going to university and I didn’t look beyond that.’
But after his first season in the Alps, he won the British championship in 2000 and decided to make snowboarding his career.
On top of the world: Bristol’s Jenny became a household name after winning Great Britain’s first medal at the Winter Olympics (2014 pictured)
Expert: Your first lesson in 1998 as a teenager was followed by a week in the Alps on a college trip. After that, he decided to take a year off before going to college to snowboard.
Snow Bunny: She said, ‘I never got into snowboarding thinking I was going to be a professional snowboarder. I just wanted to go snowboarding. I decided to do it for a year before I went to college and didn’t look any further.
Explaining his decision, he said: “A lot of things in life, you don’t want to take chances, you want to do half and half, I couldn’t do that.”
‘I’ll look back and know I went in the direction I believed in and I didn’t chicken out. How many people have the opportunity to do this?
In 2002, he gained sponsorship, but still had to take numerous part-time jobs in order to practice and compete around the world.
She said, “Jobs that paid down the road…waitress, bar jobs, waitress, factory jobs, donut shops.”
Her hard work paid off and she was invited to participate in the prestigious X-Games in the US. However, on her first time there, she crashed during a practice run and was unable to compete.
Olympic Journey: In a video for Dazed, she revealed how her success has come after years of practice and sacrifice.
injury. Explaining how she deals with crashes, Jenny explained, “The times you get hurt, everything is on the line.” Because it’s your whole life, everything stops.
“Nobody wants to be down or complain, but I don’t know many people who say they like to get injured, it just sucks, you can get mad and angry, but then you go ahead and deal with it.”
In 2008, he reached the X-Games final and won gold, repeating this achievement for the next two years.
He then repeated the success again to win X Games Europe Gold in 2011.
She then made Winter Olympics history by becoming the first British woman to medal in the snow.
Since then, her followers on Twitter have multiplied tenfold and she has been requested for press interviews and television appearances.
Speaking after her medal-winning run, she said: ‘I’m excited. It feels amazing. I can’t believe it, I just can’t believe it. You feel like the world is watching and I had to control that part of things and not let it get too much.
Now he hopes his feat will inspire youngsters to visit their local dry ski slope in the UK and give the sport a try, who knows where it might lead them.