Heavily pregnant Chantelle Houghton does a Demi - but with a white sheet to cover her modesty
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Holding her baby bump, Chantelle Houghton adopts the pose that a thousand pregnant celebrities have adopted before: the Demi Moore.
But with one difference - the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant veils her modesty with a virginal white sheet. It's a bit late for that!
The 28-year-old reality TV star stripped down to publicise her first column for New! magazine.
In her column, Chantelle, who is expecting a daughter with cagefighter Alex Reid, spoke about her heart condition and her fears she will die during childbirth after it was revealed last month the blonde had an irregular heartbeat.
She has been diagnosed with Supraventricular Tachycardia - a relatively common condition during pregnancy - which has seen her heart reach 256 beats per minute, when the average is between 60 and 90 bpm.
She is unable to take medication while pregnant and may have to have surgery after the birth.
She is considering having a caesarean to take the stress off her heart.
New! magazine
"About four-and-a-half weeks ago I got up from the sofa and my heart was going wild. It lasted less than a minute. Then the next day it happened again," she said.
"I was born with it but I've only noticed since I've been pregnant. The pressure on my heart has made my symptoms rear their head.
"I'm absolutely terrified of giving birth... I'm worried something could happen to me or the baby."
Chantelle also told the magazine she is convinced her unborn daughter looks just like Alex, after seeing her on a 4D scan.
"It was amazing. She's so cute!" gushed the mum-to-be. "She's the absolute image of Alex. He can't see it though. Even the lady doing the scan was like, 'Oh my God, she looks so much like you!'
"We've got about four girls' names. One that I really love, another one that I really love, but Alex doesn't love as much. And then a couple of others that I'd love to call her, but I don't want her to be ridiculed for it."
Well, we can't WAIT to hear what they call their new arrival...
The full interview appears in this week's New! magazine, out now.
Celeb mums: TMI!
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- Jennifer Ellison on throwing up during labour<p> We do love a birth story, but this one from Dancing on Ice star and mum to Bobby, <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/10/dancing-on-ice-star-jennifer-ellison-feels-guilty-over-leaving-son-for-work/" target="_blank">Jennifer</a> made us feel a little queasy. The TV star said childbirth didn’t exactly ‘bring out’ the best in her, saying: “Just after my epidural my mum popped in and I threw up all over her and Rob - it was in their eyelashes and everything!”</p>
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- Jessica Simpson gushes about her sex life<p> <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/07/pregnant-jessica-simpson-does-a-demi-and-poses-nude-expecting-a-girl/" target="_blank">Stripping off on the cover of a magazine</a> wasn't enough for heavily pregnant Jessica Simpson, just days later she told US chat show host Ryan Seacrest her third trimester had made her more than a <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/14/jessica-simpson-pregnancy-has-made-my-sex-drive-unstoppable/" target="_blank">little bit frisky,</a> saying: “I am definitely feeling 'intimate. I'm kind of unstoppable at the moment. Like, the big 'O' is like the biggest 'O' ever!" As ever Jess, thanks for the info…</p>
- Pink tweets about snot and poo (yes, really)<p> Once a bit of a hell-raiser, singer Pink is clearly embracing her new mum life with <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/06/03/pink-welcomes-baby-willow-sage/" target="_blank">baby Willow,</a> and the proud parent is keeping us all in the loop about her new life. She recently tweeted: “My life was once whiskey, tears, and cigarettes … now it’s snot, tears, and the color of poop. #bliss.” Although quite cute Pink, we could have done without the colour of poop bit, thanks very much….</p>
- Katherine Heigl's baby poo nightmare<p> American actress Katherine Heigl was probably wondering where the Hollywood glamour had gone when she found herself struggling to change her toddler, Naleigh’s nappy on a flight. After changing her little girl in the plane’s loo, she went to her seat, only to find her little lady’s smelly bot was lingering throughout the cabin! “It was brutal. I was like, 'What did you eat?'” says Katherine. “I had to walk back to get her because she was sitting with the nanny and trying to sleep and that whole plane smelled really bad. I had to wake her up because it was just really mean to all the people around her. Now I'm so committed to potty training!”</p>
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- Tori Spelling asks husband to shave her lower region!<p> Oh Tori, we know you love being pregnant (why else would you be <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/24/tori-spelling-pregnant-again/" target="_blank">expecting again five months after giving birth?!</a>), but we really, really don’t need to know about your poor, devoted husband Dean having to shave you during your nine months! Speaking about the changes to her body throughout her pregnancies, the 90201 star said: “I wasn’t prepared for losing sight of my lower region. I’d say, ‘Dean, how’s it looking down there? Do I need to shave?’ But of course I couldn’t shave. So Dean had to shave me. He’d hold up a mirror and say ‘How’d I do?’ Or he’d take a picture with his Blackberry to show me.” Please, please keep those pictures to yourselves guys, TwitPic really wasn’t designed for that….</p>
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- Michelle Heaton says pregnancy ruined her sex life<p> Reality TV star Michelle was never going to have a quiet, keep-it-to-herself kind of nine months, but the former popstar surpassed herself when she gave a magazine interview talking about her <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/09/12/michelle-heaton-reveals-pregnancy-has-negative-effect-on-her-sex-life/" target="_blank">pregnancy sex life</a>, actually using the phrase ‘what if it hits it?’. “Because it's our first, I think we get a bit scared - what if it hits it ?!" she giggled. Now a proud mum to baby <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/12/michelle-heaton-gives-birth-to-first-baby/" target="_blank">Faith Michelle</a>, we’re still <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/02/09/michelle-heaton-shows-off-new-tattoo-for-baby-faith/" target="_blank">getting regular updates, of course…</a></p>
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