Lauren Goodger confirms she is expecting her first child
Lauren Goodger is PREGNANT! Reality star, 34, confirms she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Charles Drury, 23, three months after going public with their relationship
- The former TOWIE star broke the news in her weekly magazine column on Monday morning
- Lauren – whose relationship with Drury began in October – confirmed she is three months pregnant
- The TV personality moved her 23-year old boyfriend into her Essex home within weeks of dating him
- Her former boyfriends include reality star Mark Wright and jailbirds Jake McLean and Joey Morrison
Lauren Goodger has announced she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Charles Drury, three months after confirming their relationship.
The former TOWIE star – whose relationship with Drury began in October – confirmed she is three months pregnant in her new magazine column on Monday.
Lauren, 34, will welcome the couple’s first child in July, and admitted her 23-year old boyfriend was initially skeptical after she told him her pregnancy test had returned a positive result.
Happy news: Lauren Goodger has announced she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Charles Drury after previously suffering a miscarriage
Recalling the moment she discovered she was pregnant, Lauren explained: ‘I was in bed not well with a cold and I was meant to come on that day and I’m always quite regular.
‘We went and bought a test from a bargain shop and I did it – I couldn’t believe it! I rang him and he was like: “You’re lying, you’re joking.”
‘He didn’t believe the test! I did a digital one as well and he walked around with it in his bag for about three days.’
Read all about it: The former TOWIE star – whose relationship with Drury began in October – confirmed she is three months pregnant in her new magazine column on Monday
Despite feeling the inevitable tiredness that comes with pregnancy, Lauren admitted she was looking forward to becoming a mother, adding: ‘But it’s exciting and we’re really happy. It’s difficult, but we’ve just got through it.’
The happy news comes after Lauren moved Drury, whose former girlfriends include retired glamour model Katie Price, into her Essex home within weeks of meeting him.
A source told The Sun: ‘Charles has moved into her Essex home and they’re really loved up.
‘She’s head over heels for him – friends can’t believe how fast she’s fallen for him. Everyone’s hoping she’s finally found The One.’
Whirlwind romance: The pregnancy comes after Lauren moved Drury, whose former girlfriends include retired glamour model Katie Price, into her Essex home within weeks of meeting him
In December Lauren suggested that she wanted ‘marriage and family’ with her current boyfriend after years of disappointment.
Sharing four black and white slides alongside a poem, Lauren told Instagram followers: ‘We fall in love with 3 people in our lifetime. Each one for a specific reason…’
The poem read: ‘First love: This love often happens at a young age. You eventually grow apart or call it quits over silly things.
Poetic: In an Instagram post shared in December Lauren suggested that she wanted ‘marriage and family’ with her current boyfriend after years of disappointment
Reminiscing: Thinking back to her first two loves, the TOWIE star spoke of growing apart, pain, abuse and damage suffered
Current romance: Finally, Lauren shared about slide about her third love, where she made it clear that she wants to settle down and have children
‘When you get older you may look back and think it wasn’t love. But the truth is, it was. It was love for what you knew it to be. Remember: there [are] different depths of love.’
Moving to her second love, Lauren spoke of pain, abuse and damage suffered, but also the growth and learning which came from the relationship.
The slide read: ‘Second love: The hard one. This love teaches us lesson[s] and makes us stronger.
‘This love includes great pain, lies, betrayal, abuse, drama and damage. But this is the one where we grow. We realize what we love about love and what we don’t love about love.
Childhood sweetheart: Lauren was previously engaged to her TOWIE co-star Mark Wright, whom dated for more than a decade [pictured in 2011]
‘Now we know the difference between good and bad humans. Now we become closed, careful, cautious, and considerate. We know exactly what we want and don’t want.
Finally, Lauren shared about slide about her third love, where she made it clear that she wants to settle down and have children.
The last slide read: ‘Third love: This one comes blindly. No warning. It creeps up on you silently. You don’t go looking for this love. It comes to you.
‘You can put up ANY wall. you want, it will be broke[n] down. You’ll find yourself caring about that person without trying. They look nothing like your usual crush types, but you get lost in their eyes daily. You see beauty in their imperfections. You hide nothing from them.
‘You want marriage and family with them. You thank the universe for them. You truly love them.’
Jailbird ex: Lauren then dated Jake McLean on and off from 2012 until 2016. They split in 2013 before rekindling their romance in 2015. The relationship ended months later
Lauren found fame on The Only Way Is Essex while in a 12-year relationship with ex-fiancé Mark Wright, and has since dated jailbirds Jake McLean and Joey Morrison.
Lauren and Mark cut off their engagement in May 2011, just five months after his proposal, and the presenter went on to marry actress Michelle Keegan, 33, in 2015.
She later revealed that she had an abortion at the age of 20 after she and Mark decided they weren’t ready to become parents.
She told OK! in 2011: ‘I did think I was pregnant. I’m not on the pill and haven’t been for a little while, just because of my cells, not because I was planning a baby and thank God we didn’t.
‘I was late once and I think it was the stress of what was going on. I’ve been pregnant before with his baby but I chose not to have it. I was only 20. No one knows except my close family.’
Asked why she hadn’t continued with the pregnancy, Lauren added: ‘I was still living with my mum, our relationship was so volatile and we weren’t ready for a baby. I’d be left in the flat and he’d go off with other girls and we said, “Let’s wait till we’re more settled.”‘
Heartbreaking: The TV personality suffered a miscarriage while appearing as a contestant on ITV talent show Dancing On Ice in 2013, and later admitted she has little choice but to ‘carry on’
After splitting with Mark she dated Jake McLean on and off for four years – from 2012 until May 2016 – with Lauren suffering a miscarriage during their relationship.
The TV personality discovered she had lost the unborn child while appearing as a contestant on ITV talent show Dancing On Ice in 2013, and later admitted she has little choice but to ‘carry on.’
Discussing the loss on Channel 5 show In Therapy in 2017, she said: ‘I was on a TV show that was quite intense. I had to try and perform when I was quite far gone. It didn’t last
‘I’m the type of person who, when something happens, I move on. That’s how I am. It’s not something I addressed. ‘
Lauren and Jake split for the first time later that year before rekindling their romance in 2015. The relationship came to a permanent end that October.
Shortly after their final split, in May 2016, Lauren told OK! magazine of her former jailbird ex: ‘I fell out of love with him.
‘I know some people say you wake up one day and things click, but that didn’t happen to me; it was a gradual thing.
‘The relationship was quite hard. I felt like I was the one doing everything and putting the effort in. I’m at the age where I’d like to have children but Jake isn’t the sort of man I’d want to do it with.’
Old times: Lauren admitted she ‘fell out of love’ with Jake prior to their final split in 2015
Jake was jailed for three-and-a-half years after conning his way into a mother’s house two days before Christmas in 2006, overpowering her before a masked gang ran in and raided the family home.
He was part of vicious criminal gang and it is believed he only served half of his sentence. He has since fathered a child with another woman.
After splitting from Jake, Lauren struck up a relationship with another convict, Joey Morrison, but the couple went their separate ways two years later, in 2018, despite Lauren waiting for him while he served time behind bars.
Loved-up: Lauren and Charles – who is 11 years her junior – have been dating since early October and regularly show off their romance on social media
Joey was given a 16-year prison sentence for a violent offence but was released after nine years – Lauren and Joey split close to his release date.
In 2019, Lauren opened up about her two year romance with Joey, who was sentenced for drug related crimes, saying: ‘My ex was my biggest mistake. I wasted two years when I could have been dating. I wish I hadn’t waited for him to come out.’
Writing previously in new! magazine of her relationship with Joey, she said: ‘I regret giving two and a half years of my life to someone who was in jail only for him to come out and not be what I thought.
‘I thought we were going to get a house, get married and have kids. I regret the time I’ve wasted.’
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