Atomic Kitten singer Liz McClarnon has opened up about her pregnancy after suffering two miscarriages – and revealed the gender of her baby. The musician, 44, announced last month that she was pregnant with her first child after years of trying to conceive.

Speaking in an exclusive chat with The Mirror, Liz shared how she began trying for children with her doctor husband Peter Cho through IVF when she was 40 but struggled when three embryo transfers failed. While last year, Liz suffered two heartbreaking miscarriages after their first successful cycles.

Liz McClarnon is now expecting her first child (
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However in May, Liz announced to her social media followers that she was finally pregnant after years of trying.

Now, in a live interview with Loose Women, Liz revealed that she is expecting a baby boy. “I am just about five months and we know what we’re having, if you’d like to know,” she said. “We’re having a boy. We thought it might be a girl.

“Lots of names going around in my head and we’re getting excited.”

Liz added that she’s “still very scared” at this stage in her pregnancy, but added that the “fear dissipates slowly”.

Opening up about her pregnancy journey, Liz revealed that it was “awful” for her and her husband. “The first time we got about 10 eggs and a couple were fertilised. Then we went on holiday because it’s so stressful – we went away to France for a few days.”

It was during this break that the couple were told that no eggs had reached the stage where the transfer could happen. “It was just the biggest shock of my life. I didn’t expect them to say that,” she said.

“You do have so much hope every single time. You have to have because I hated myself a little bit for having the hope but if you don’t go into it with that, then why are you doing it?”

Liz revealed that when she took a pregnancy test for the last time, she uncontrollably started crying. “I turned around and there was a faint line. Everything was amazing. I’m still super scared now but it was a good thing,” she said.

In her interview with The Mirror, Liz revealed that she met husband Peter on the dating app Hinge during the mid-2021 lockdown. They met in person in July that year and within four months, she moved to London from Liverpool to live with him.

Four months after that, Peter proposed to Liz on Pulteney Bridge in Bath and the pair married in 2023.