Olympia Valance reveals delightful news after difficult personal journey

Neighbours star Olympia Valance has dropped a big secret she’s been keeping, as she revealed why she kept it under wraps.

Olympia Valance has announced she’s expecting her first child after suffering multiple pregnancy losses and undergoing IVF treatment.

The Australian actress, 31, who is married to former AFL player Tom Bellchambers, revealed in Sunday’s Stellar magazine she is 25 weeks pregnant with a baby boy.

As Valance prepares to enter her third trimester, the Neighbours star opened up in a candid interview about why she’s kept her big news under wraps until now.

Listen to the full interview on Stellar’s podcast Something To Talk About

Olympia Valance and her husband Thomas Bellchambers are expecting their first child.

The couple married in 2022. Picture: Magner Media

“I haven’t posted a photo on Instagram for a couple of months because I obviously look pregnant. I got this sick feeling in my stomach about announcing because of what

that feeling will do to other people,” Valance said.

“But also, I have to celebrate these little times. There have been so many years of bad news. It’s a hard place to navigate, even now that I’m pregnant.

“I have friends that are struggling to get pregnant and went through or are going through the same things we went through. I’m so sensitive with the things I say.

“They don’t want you to hide anything, but because I’ve experienced what I don’t want to experience from other people, it’s such a fine line,” she said.

Valance, the younger half-sister of Holly Valance, has previously opened up about suffering several miscarriages, as well as her gruelling journey going through IVF treatment.

Sisters Holly Candy and Olympia Valance. Picture: Supplied/Instagram

In July last year, Valance told fans she miscarried with twins during the Covid-19 pandemic, before having another miscarriage months later.

The model, who married Bellchambers, 34, in June 2022, said because of her difficulties falling pregnant, her inner circle found it hard to get swept up in the excitement.

Valance said it was hard to get excited initially after all she’d been through. Picture: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

“This whole thing has been really hard on our parents, on Thomas’s mum, my mum.

They’re petrified to ask how anything is going because they feel the pain just as much as

we do … It’s like no-one could be happy,” she said.

“But, God … Now Gaye – Thomas’ mum – is sending Thomas’ little clothes from when he was a baby. My mum … I can’t even begin to tell you the list of Greek baby names she’s sent me.”

Read the full interview in this week’s Stellar, inside The Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Herald Sun (VIC), The Sunday Mail (QLD) and Sunday Mail (SA).

Originally published as Olympia Valance reveals delightful news after difficult personal journey