Natalie Cassidy has announced that she is pregnant with her first baby.
The former 'Eastenders' star, who has been dating her boyfriend Adam Cottrell for that past nine months, is 12 weeks pregnant and hoping for a large family.
The 26-year-old former 'Strictly Come Dancing' star told OK! magazine: "We haven't really gone public with our relationship, so I guess this will seem a bit sudden to some people. But it was a whirlwind romance for us too, I guess. We feel like we've known each other forever."
The actress said she has polycystic ovaries and worried she might not be able to have children saying "I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Adam will propose to me before the baby is born. The baby was conceived over Christmas, which is the loveliest Christmas gift ever. I came off my contraception in November but I never thought I'd get pregnant that quickly!"
