Alex Jones is pregnant with her second child.
The 41-year-old presenter announced the news live on TV whilst presenting BBC One’s ‘The One Show’ on Monday evening (10.12.18) with Matt Baker, by joking that she hadn’t been eating mince pies.
Turning to the camera whilst cradling her bonny bump, she said: "A bit of news before we go. I’ve not been on the mince pie, there is a little baby [in there]!"
The Welsh beauty gave birth to her first child, son Teddy, with husband Charlie Thomson in January 2017.
Meanwhile, Alex recently admitted she thought she’d lose her job while she was on maternity leave.
The model returned to the topic magazine programme just three months after she gave birth to Teddy, now 22 months, because she was worried that bosses would find her a permanent replacement if she didn’t.
She said: "I think women find it hard to be able to admit that they want to go back to work and that they are going to go back a bit earlier than everyone thinks is acceptable.
"It’s ok to say I like my job and I want to continue doing it while I’m a mother. You’ve worked very hard to get where you are. Anyone who respects their job, they are scared about someone stepping in and doing it better. It is a worry.
"People expect you to say the baby is the most important, and of course it is, but side-by-side you still want to be the same person you were before. You’ll never be exactly the same, of course. I think it’s OK to say, ‘Yes I’m going to go back to work’. "
Alex wished she had waited at least five months before going back because it would have given her more time to bond with her baby.
She explained: "I went back a bit too soon.
"Before you have a baby you don’t really understand how it’s going to change you. I made promises that were a sort of unrealistic. Three and a half months was very early. But we made it work. In hindsight, five and a half months would have been better. But you don’t know before going off on maternity."
When she went back to work, Alex hired a nanny to help her out with the baby but she recently admitted that she found herself getting jealous of her at times because she was witnessing Teddy reach little milestones – like crawling – without her.
She said: "Jess [the nanny] is a brilliant girl and we couldn’t do without her. She’s wonderful in so many ways and we love her, however there is still that feeling that I want to be doing the things that she’s doing with Teddy.
"And it’s really tough. I remember the one where he crawled for the first time and she’d sent a video of it to Charlie [Thomson, her husband] and I. And both of us were crestfallen, thinking – I wanted to see it!"
Alex Jones is expecting her second child
