I Hid My Entire Pregnancy

Meet the women who were scared to go public with their bumps. They tell us why...

- Selina Maycock

Discovering you’re having a baby with your partner is up there with the top milestones in life, so it should be one of the most amazing, feel good announcements to make. But for some women, it’s one they feel they need to keep to themselves.

It’s something that the celeb world has brought to our attention. Blake Lively kept her first pregnancy secret for four months, while Eva Mendes reportedly only told close friends and family when she was eight months gone. Then there are those Cheryl ‘pregnancy’ rumours, where she’s apparently accepted congratulations from fans but refuses to comment herself. But if you don’t have paparazzi following you around, why would you hide your entire term?

For Heidi, it was her previous miscarriage that weighed heavily on her mind when she fell pregnant again in 2010. ‘I had a lot going on in my life,’ the 31-year-old tells Look. ‘I had a very successful career, we’d spent less than a year in our new home and I was busy with my five other young children, all aged under nine.’