I kept my pregnancy SECRET

Carefully constructing my Instagram announcement, I picked a cute baby photo of Jude and clicked ‘send’. Then I waited for the inevitable comments to roll in. ‘I didn’t even know you had a boyfriend, let alone a baby!’ screamed one friend. Because, like Nicole Appleton, I’d hidden my pregnancy for nine months – and then my newborn for another three.

‘It was SOOOOO difficult keeping her a secret from all my friends…’ Nicole wrote under a photo of her newborn daughter, Skipper, recently. Kylie Jenner went into hiding for nine months before the birth of Stormi, now two, while Anna Kournikova and partner Enrique Iglesias secretly had their third child,