Former The Only Way Is Essex star Lucy Mecklenburgh has revealed she “doesn’t intend on taking maternity leave” as her February due date draws closer.
The 28 year old mum to be, who recently revealed she’s struggling to sleep, said is continuing to work with her fitness brand Results Wellness Lifestyle as she prepares to giving birth to her unborn son, whom she shares with fiancé Ryan Thomas.
During a question and answer session on her Instagram page, Lucy opened up about her career plans after giving birth when asked by a fan if she will still be involved in her business, formerly known as Results With Lucy, after welcoming her baby boy.
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In reply to the question, Lucy shared a photo of herself working out on an exercise ball using hand weights with an instructor and wrote below: “Yes I don’t really intend on taking maternity leave.
“I’m still currently filming doe @resultswithbump 3rd trimester.”
This comes shortly after the fitness fanatic, who recently shared a clear 4D ultrasound scan of her unborn tot, unveiled her hopes that exercise will help her have a “nice easy labour” when she gives birth to her first son.
In a snippet of a fitness video which she shared on her Instagram page, the 28 year old reality star demonstrated a number of exercises using hand weights while sat on an exercise ball as an instructor, Rachel Bruno-Hardy, explains the moves behind her.
Rachel, who is also a mum, then says in the clip: “Always try and imagine that you’ve got a band round your baby so it’s keeping your core in nice and tight.”
In the next clip, while Lucy exercises she then asks the instructor a pregnancy workout question: “So it’s a myth that you shouldn’t be pulling in your abs?”
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To which they reply: “No, no you should be. We need to still be working that core because we need to – when the contractions come when you’re going to give birth we need to have a good core system, we’re going to help drive that baby down that birthing canal and out, a nice healthy delivery.”
Mum to be Lucy then quips: “A nice easy labour, yeah?” before turning around to the instructor and smiling, revealing that is exactly what she is hoping for.
Lucy isn’t alone in her pregnancy, as her best friend Lydia Bright, is also pregnant with her first child.
Mum to be Lydia, 30, recently revealed how the pair discovered they were expecting on the same day.
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Speaking on The Brights podcast in December, Lydia explained: “I'll never forget the day we both found out we were pregnant.
“Basically, we were both due to start filming on Celebrity Hunted, I thought it would be a good idea to do a pregnancy test a couple of days before because I was off birth control and it came back positive to my shock.
“Because I fell pregnant very quickly, I gave Lucy a call, and she guessed that I was pregnant.
“So she ran out and got a pregnancy test and called me 6 hours later and said she was pregnant as well. I mean, it's crazy. You couldn't write it.”
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