Rosie Connolly has opened up about dealing with her unplanned pregnancy.
The top blogger recently married her love Paul Quinn and together they have a three-year-old son, and while they are now very much the perfect family, it was initally quite a shock, and sooner than she had planned.
“Out of all of my family, I was the least maternal and always thought, if I’m going to have kids it’ll be when I’m a lot older. I was living at home, Mum was going through chemotherapy at the time, and I thought how am I going to tell her? I remember thinking, what are we going to do? But Paul was very calm, he said we’ll deal with it. He was so level-headed, but it took me about three months to accept it was actually going to happen.”
Speaking to STELLAR Magazine in the July issue, Rosie admitted she didn’t feel like celebrating when she first found out she was expecting.
“When you’re pregnant everyone congratulates you, but I didn’t feel like it was something to be like ‘Yay!’ about. I think there’s such pressure on women to be so excited and be perfect, but I was so ill, I threw up for 26 weeks.”
The 28-year-old admitted that she took a test but never expected it to be positive.
“I’d been feeling really tired and I was a week late, so I just thought I’d do a test to put my mind at ease. When it was positive I just thought… oh my god. It was 7 am, I was heading to work when I did it. I couldn’t believe it. And actually, I can’t wait for the moment that we hopefully do have a baby that’s planned and I’m so excited about it from the beginning! But that was like hell on earth, I was petrified and I felt like I’d let my mum down.”
The popular Instagram star felt unready to have a child, but as soon as Harry came along, things fell right into place for her.
“I was 23, but I was also the baby of the family so I felt younger. I was selfish, just living life and spending all my money on myself, on clothes. But that’s why it was such a shock to the system.
“I remember thinking life is going to change, and I’m going to deal with it. I had Harry in December and mam always says I went into the hospital a girl and came out a woman. Even my sister said she hated me until I had him, I was so self-centred.
“But from the moment I held Harry, everything changed.”
Check out Rosie’s interview where she chats about everything from being a step-mum to how she fell into the world of influencing, and her relationship with new husband Paul, in this month’s issue of STELLAR.
