Laura Kenny announces she's pregnant as Olympic hero reveals past baby tragedies
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Olympic cycling legend Laura Kenny has announced that she is pregnant with her third child following a "heartbreaking" period trying to conceive. Dame Laura has two children with fellow Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Sir Jason Kenny, named Albie and Monty. The 32-year-old has been open about her struggles having children, having previously suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy - where the embryo implants outside of the womb and requires emergency surgery.
But in a video on Instagram which showed her two children wearing T-shirts which read "I'm going to be a big brother to a baby", she wrote: "2024 was wonderful, 2025 is going to be even more special.". She was quickly congratulated by fellow Team GB heroes. "I knew it. Congratulations to you both," replied Jessica Ennis-Hill. Rebecca Adlington added: "Congratulations" with two love heart emojis.
Dame Laura married Jason Kenny in 2016 after winning two gold medals in the velodrome at the London 2012 Olympics and two more at Rio 2016. The couple had their first son, Albie, in 2017, but she suffered a miscarriage in 2021 before giving birth to Monty in 2023.
Having won two more medals at the 2020 Olympics to take her tally to six, Dame Laura became the most successful female cyclist in history, as well as the most successful British female athlete. She has spoken openly about how she believes her pursuit of glory on the track affected her efforts to have children.
“I had a miscarriage followed by an ectopic [pregnancy] while still training," he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. "I was training hard and I’ve trained hard for a really long time. Is there something that we’re doing to our bodies that is putting it under such extreme pressure that it can’t function to conceive a child?.
