Kellie Shirley is pregnant.
Kellie Shirley is pregnant
The 41-year-old actress - who is known for having starred as Carly Wicks on BBC soap opera 'EastEnders' from 2006 until 2012 - is expecting a child with husband Phil Davies and explained that she can "connect" with the baby now she knows she is expecting a boy.
She said: "We found out we’re having another boy. As the pregnancy was a shock, I felt like I wanted to be able to connect with the baby more. I didn’t have a preference – I just want the baby to be healthy."
The 'In the Long Run' actress - who is also mother to seven-year-old twins Pearl and Louie with Phil - went on to add that the news came as a shock because she was on-set filming for CBeebies in Manchester when she took ill and had never considered that she could be expecting as she had "hardly seen" her husband.
She told OK! Magazine: "I was literally on my hands and knees feeling horrendous and the on set medic called John, said, ‘Are you sure you’re not pregnant?’. I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m hardly seeing my husband! It’s just this heat.’
Kelli added she was eventually persuaded by John to do a test and was greeted with a "really lovely surprise."
She added: "Then I was being sick for a couple of weeks and he said, ‘Go and get a pregnancy test’, so I did. It came back positive straightaway. I was like, ‘Oh my God, John was right!’ It was a really lovely surprise. I feel very lucky.”