Tessa James’ baby joy after cancer battle

SOAPIE sweetheart Tessa James is pregnant with her first child, the news coming three years after she battled cancer.

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SOAPIE sweetheart Tessa James is pregnant with her first child, the news coming three years after she battled cancer.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal the 26-year-old former Home and Away actor and rugby league player partner Nate Myles are overjoyed that she is around five months pregnant.

James covered her growing baby bump as she walked the red carpet at the David Jones Spring Summer fashion show on Wednesday night with her agent at Atelier Management confirming the pregnancy.

James at the David Jones Spring Summer 2017 Collections. Picture: Getty Images

Tessa James is expecting her first child. Picture: Josie Hayden

“My main goal now is to be happy,” James previously said after undergoing intense treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2014 and 2015.

“I believe being consistently stressed creates bad health and I don’t need to put that on myself.”

James is well known and much loved to Australian television viewers for playing feisty teenager Nicole Franklin on Home and Away from 2008 to 2011.

Queensland State of Origin side player Nate Myles and girlfriend Tessa James. Picture: Claudia Baxter

The daughter of former Richmond AFL player Stephen James most recently appeared on TV drama Love Child and in local feature film, Spin Out.

James is extremely private and rarely speaks to the media. In September last year, she told the Telegraph: “I am excited, my life is exciting and I am in a really good place. I feel strong as a person and I am surrounded by really beautiful people. I am very much a believer that everything happens for a reason and that is my journey.”