I'm The Happiest I've Ever Been!

The burns survivor and her fiance are thrilled to be starting a family.

Turia Pitt admits she didn’t know if she would be able to have children, despite always daring herself to dream big over the past few years. So she was left speechless with happiness – and surprise – to discover she’d fallen pregnant.

“It wasn’t something that we were expecting. I was packing to go to [Everest] base camp. I had a thousand different things on my mind, but falling pregnant was not one of them,” the 29-year-old tells The Australian Women’s Weekly, adding she did six pregnancy tests before she finally felt convinced. “Part of me was saying, ‘This can’t be happening’, but another was saying, ‘Wow, what if it is?’ I was really happy, but sort of stunned, too.”