Pregnant Janette Manrara shows off her baby bump while FaceTiming is good friend Ashley Roberts
She recently announced that she is going to welcome her first child with Aljaž Škorjanec.
And Janette Manrara showed off her baby bump on Wednesday when she FaceTimed close friend Ashley Roberts.
The Strictly professional dancer, 39, was all smiles as she held up a lilac sweatshirt that showed off her blossoming bump in the Instagram story.
The TV personality looked casual in a pair of gray sweatpants and let her short dark brown locks loose.
Former Pussycat Dolls singer Ashley, 41, wrote: ‘Eek! You are the cutest. Love you sister Susan’.
‘The cutest’: Pregnant Janette Manrara showed off her baby bump on Wednesday while FaceTimed close friend Ashley Roberts
Good friends: The It Takes Two star befriended Ashley when she reached the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2018
The It Takes Two star – who befriended Ashley when she reached the Strictly Come Dancing final in 2018 – shared the post again, writing: ‘Love ya Auntie Ash’.
Janette and her husband of six years, fellow Strictly pro Aljaž Škorjanec, 33, revealed their happy baby news on Instagram in February.
Janette captioned an official photo of a Hello! scattered writing: ‘We are so happy to share our special news!’
The Cuban-American choreographer described her pregnancy in an accompanying interview and admitted that she had struggled to conceive for over two years, leading her to fear it would never happen.
“For the last few years we hadn’t used any protection, but nothing was happening, so we thought IVF was the next best thing to do,” she explained.
‘I’m turning 40 later this year and the NHS provides really good services for women under 40. The doctor said we’d start injections as soon as I got my period, but my period never came.’
‘I know that IVF can be very strenuous on a woman’s body and there’s no guarantee it will work, so to know that this little miracle just came out of a great night we had together is amazing.
“I think the baby decided to freak out mom and dad a little bit before they said, ‘Okay, I’ll be right there.'”
Janette explained how she told Aljaž she was pregnant by handing him a positive pregnancy test and they “cry and hug; it was quite a moment’.
Aljaž added that he was “besides myself” and hoped the baby would look more like Janette than him.
It comes after Janette gave in BBC Morning Live in 2021 that it was a ‘scary decision’ to make, because as a dancer her body is her ‘tool’.
The ballroom champion said the coronavirus crisis made her realize there will never be a ‘perfect’ time to conceive and the couple are now looking forward to becoming parents.
Couple: The strictly professional dancer, 39, is expecting her first child with husband Aljaž Škorjanec, 33, after struggling to conceive for over two years (pictured in March)