Chantelle Houghton confirms she is living apart from Alex Reid - and she's planning to give birth in a 'sexy black nightie'
Filed under: Celebrity, Birth stories
PA
When you're a celeb there is no event that does not need careful What to Wear management, and that includes giving birth!
Whilst most pregnant mums are happy to labour in an out-sized nightie or one of their partner's old work shirts, glamour girl Chantelle Houghton is keeping her labour look all about the glitz!
Writing in her regular column in New! magazine this week, the model turned TV presenter turned girlfriend of Alex Reid turned pregnant celebrity reveals that she will be labouring in... wait for it... 'a sexy black nightdress covered in lace and diamanté.'
"My friend wore a maxi dress," she writes, "so I'm guessing it will be OK. I've got an appointment to see the midwife so that I can ask her any questions I may have – what to wear will be one of them."
Now, personally, we would not have put sexy in the same sentence as lace and diamanté, but each labouring woman to their own. We assume this particular design has neck to chest poppers for ease of boob access, pockets for breast pads, and a matching pair of 'sexy' black knicks with a gusset robust enough to take a mattress sized maternity pad... if not, Chan, love, you might want to reconsider... And we'll be very interested to hear what your midwife thinks, too!
Chantelle also confirms this week that she IS living back in her own flat on her own and not in the house she and Alex Reid had been sharing up until recently:
"I have very good reason for that," she writes, "but I don't want to go into any more detail
because it's extremely raw right now. It's been a really upsetting and difficult week for me
and not the best thing to have to go through when I'm so close to having the baby."
We really hope things work out for Chantelle (though perhaps not on the nightie front) Her pregnancy and relationship issues really seem to be taking their toll now!
Read the full story in this week's New! magazine out today
Celeb mums: TMI!
- Chantelle Houghton says she will keep going in the bedroom...<p> When asked in an interview about <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/15/chantelle-houghton-pregnant-with-alex-reid-baby/" target="_blank">pregnancy </a>sex with hubby Alex Reid, Chantelle Houghton didn’t hold back, sharing all the details, and making us quite angry to boot, saying she was determined to have lots of sex during her pregnancy, just to keep ‘her man’ happy. “Obviously, you can't go mental. That's the only bit that has changed! It's a bit…nicer,” she said. “I'm going to keep on going through this pregnancy. You've got to keep your man happy. If not he will go somewhere else!” Revolting. On all counts.</p>
- 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>
- Mel B uses sex and violence to induce labour<p> Not content with just joking about having a hot curry to coax her third baby out, Spice Girl Mel B revealed she tried everything (and we mean EVERYTHING) to try and hurry <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/09/01/mel-b-in-labour-paparazzi-shots-hospital/" target="_blank">baby Madison along.</a> “Ideally I want it to come naturally. But I've tried everything, I've tried the hot food, the running, the sex, the violence, I've tried it all,” Mel said just days before her new arrival made her grand entrance. “It just seems to be stuck and hibernating in there getting bigger and bigger, so it's coming out this week for sure!” And you know what, <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/09/02/mel-b-has-baby/" target="_blank">she was right!</a></p>
- 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>
- Kendra Wilkinson shares post-baby sex sessions<p> It seems childbirth wasn’t enough to put Girl of the Playboy Mansion Kendra Wilkinson off nookie. The former glamour girl reckons she and husband, Hank Baskett were ready for action just a few weeks after she gave birth to son, Hank. “At the doctor's appointment following up on everything, he goes, 'Have you guys had sex?' This was, like, five weeks after. We were like, 'I guess we have to be honest. Yes, we did!” shared Kendra. Nice.</p>
- 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>
- Lily Allen tweets about her leaky breasts!<p> New mum Lily Allen kept us all entertained on <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/MrsLRCooper" target="_blank">Twitter</a> a few weeks after giving <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2011/11/25/has-lily-allen-given-birth-sam-cooper/" target="_blank">birth to baby Ethel.</a> She tweeted her <a href="http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/01/11/new-mum-lily-allen-has-leaky-breasts-twitter/" target="_blank">breastfeeding woes</a> to her 3.4 million followers saying: "I left the house without breast pads and started leaking all over myself at the #Wolsley. Oh and I wiped out in the street earlier #glam." She then hit back at a fan on the social networking site who called her tweet ‘disgusting’ by tweeting back: “What do you mean it's BEAUTIFUL !!!!! Boobs are not just #sexyfunbags, they be feeding implements too." Go Lily! (although we’re all set with the leaking updates, thanks very much).</p>
- 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>
Share this article
82 Comments