Benji & Zoe Marshall -The News We've Waited Years To Hear

The NRL superstar and his wife almost gave up hope of ever falling pregnant but after some extreme measures, they’re finally expecting!

- Alice Gorman

On the surface, Benji and Zoe Marshall appeared to have an almost perfect life. In love and newly married, their respective careers in rugby league and the media were going from strength to strength. But in the four years since their wedding, there’s one thing that has eluded them – parenthood.

Zoe blames her long battle with severe stage-four endometriosis for their struggle to fall pregnant and admits that, in her darkest moments, she feared she would never have a child.

“We always knew we wanted a baby, so living with that uncertainty was tough. It was always in the back of my mind,” she says.

So in January, after years of trying to fall pregnant naturally, Zoe turned to Chinese medical practitioner Dr Shuquan Liu for help. She embarked on his extreme twoweek no-food detox and body recalibration – and firmly believes it was this program rather than anything else that helped her fall pregnant against all odds.

A DREAM COME TRUE

Six months later, on her 33rd birthday, Zoe received the news she and Benji had been hoping for – she is pregnant and they will welcome their first child in February!

“This is my dream come true,” Benji, 32, tells Woman’s Day. “I’ve always believed that I was put on this earth to have a family. I have been waiting for a long time – I have wanted to be a dad forever.”