Strictly couple Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec reveal they’re having their first baby after pregnancy struggles
STRICTLY Come Dancing stars Janette Manrara and Aljaž Škorjanec are expecting their first baby.
The It Takes Two host is set to give birth in late summer after a two-year struggle to get pregnant.
The couple were planning on starting IVF just before Janette, 39, fell pregnant naturally.
She says she became “overwhelmed with emotion” at the 12-week scan where the doctor told them their baby is “already dancing”.
Janette told HELLO! magazine: “For the past couple of years we hadn’t been using protection but nothing was happening, so we thought IVF was the next best thing for us to do,” said Janette.
“I turn 40 later this year and the NHS offers really good services to women under 40.
“The doctor said that as soon as I got my period we would start injections, but my period never came.
“I know that IVF can be really strenuous on a woman’s body and there is no guarantee it will work, so to know that this little miracle just came from a wonderful night we had together is amazing.
“I think the baby decided to make Mum and Dad panic a bit before saying, ‘ok, fine, I’m coming up now.'”
Janette quit her job as a professional dancer on Strictly two years ago so she and Aljaz could try for a baby.
Since then she’s been made host of Strictly’s spin-off show It Takes Two.
She has been secretly pregnant presenting the Strictly live tour since January.
Aljaz and Janette were engaged in 2015 and then married on July, 15, 2017.
They’d been together for six years before that.