Perrie Edwards is on the brink of a tiny miracle. The former Little Mix star recently revealed that she and her fiancé, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, are expecting their second child together. This joyous news comes just weeks after Perrie opened up about the heart-wrenching pregnancy loss she endured only months after welcoming their first son, Axel, now 3, in 2021.
In a heartwarming video posted to Instagram on September 6, the 32-year-old singer donned a shirt with the playful message, “If He Wanted To He Would…” emblazoned on the back. As she turned around, she unveiled her blossoming baby bump, along with the front of her shirt, which completed the sentiment with, “…and He Did!” Shortly after, Perrie’s fiancé and their son Axel joined the frame, enveloping her in a tender embrace and showering her with kisses. In the caption, she playfully teased, “Guess what hunnies…”
This latest announcement from the couple arrives less than a month after Perrie candidly shared her struggles with pregnancy loss on the “We Need to Talk” podcast. Reflecting on a time when Axel wasn’t even walking yet and they found out they were expecting again, Perrie recounted, “I discovered I was pregnant while rehearsing for the Little Mix tour. At rehearsals, I felt off and had every symptom imaginable, so I thought, ‘I think I’m pregnant.’”
After taking a pregnancy test, she and Alex were overjoyed to discover that her intuition was spot on. However, as she embarked on tour with her bandmates Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall in April 2022, the X Factor alum began to sense that something wasn’t quite right. “Every night before a show, I kept bleeding,” she recalled. “I remember sitting there thinking, ‘This is it, I’ve lost the baby.’”
Despite doctors reassuring her that the baby was doing well during her regular checkups, everything changed during a scan after she reached the 20-week mark. “That was just the worst day of my life, absolutely horrendous,” Perrie, who had also suffered a miscarriage before her pregnancy with Axel, remembered. “I just knew something was amiss during the scan.”
“I was completely traumatized,” she continued, noting that she was too overcome with emotion to even drive home from the appointment. “I think when you’re fully carrying a child and you’re 24 weeks along, and you’ve already planned out their room and all these things, it’s incredibly hard to accept.”
