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Liz McClarnon is officially a mother!
On Sunday, Nov. 2, the Atomic Kitten star, 44, shared on her Instagram Stories that she and husband Peter Cho welcomed their first baby, a boy, after a years-long journey with in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“Little man arrived early,” McClarnon wrote over a photo of herself giving the camera a thumbs-up from a hospital bed. “It started out a bit scary but all went well in the end.”
Just a week before the couple, who tied the knot in 2023, welcomed their son, McClarnon shared a photo of herself cradling her bump next to a throwback snapshot of her pregnant mom with the caption, “I got a message the other day saying ‘I feel like you’ve been pregnant for forever!’ 😂 So do I! So. Do. I. 😂.”
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She continued, “My tummy is huge now isn’t it?! And don’t you think I’m the spitting image of my mum when she was pregnant with my little brother. 🥰.”
The musician announced that she and Cho were expecting their first baby with an emotional Instagram video on May 13. “I started to record a video of me just telling you but I got too emotional so I thought I’d just hide behind this little announcement instead,” McClarnon captioned the post.
“I just can’t believe we’re here. ❤️ So many have been through exactly what I went through and worse,” she continued. “I want to share what I can and add my voice and ears to those who already help others understand or deal with all that comes with ivf and loss after so much hope.”
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Soon after, McClarnon opened up about her emotional pregnancy journey after experiencing three failed embryo transfers through IVF in 2022 and two miscarriages in 2024.
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“I said I was ‘done’ after the last one, and Peter was absolutely on board with that. He didn’t say anything other than, ‘This is your body and I’ll support whatever you decide you want,’ which was a huge thing for me,” she told The Mirror in June. “I felt so bad emotionally, it was really tough.”
However, spending the winter holidays with her family changed McClarnon’s perspective on continuing the IVF process and, as she put it, “helped me heal.”
“The whole process made me truly appreciate that having a baby is a miracle,” she added. “There are so, so many things that need to happen correctly for someone to get pregnant, and for that to result in a healthy baby.”
