Kristina Rihanoff reveals she is three months pregnant with Ben Cohen's baby in shock announcement on Celebrity Big Brother
Kristina Rihanoff has revealed she and Ben Cohen are expecting their first child together.
The former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer told her elated Celebrity Big Brother Housemates that she is three months pregnant at around 8pm on Thursday night.
The 36-year-old Russian star said: 'There was something {that} happened in my life before I came into the house over Christmas.
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Big news: An emotional Kristina Rihanoff has revealed she and Ben Cohen are expecting their first child together while in the Celebrity Big Brother house on Thursday night
She said: 'It happened to be that I found that my boyfriend and I are going to have a little one' - the pair met on Strictly Come Dancing when they were partnered up in 2013
'And obviously I thought it’s very private news, you know but because we are living as one family now and everybody is sort of supporting one another now.
'It happened to be that I found that my boyfriend and I are going to have a little one.'
After being congratulated, hugged and kissed by her Housemates, an emotional and tearful Kristina admitted she only discovered the news recently.
She said: 'Well I found over Christmas. Thank you guys, I just didn’t know how to break it, what to say, when to say, it played on my mind and I wanted everyone to hear.'
Happy news: When asked how far gone by Hollyoaks star Stephanie Davis, Kristina confirmed she was 'almost three months
Overwhelmed: Revealing the news at 8pm in scenes which have not yet been filmed, the stunner was overcome with emotion
When asked how far gone by Hollyoaks star Stephanie Davis, Kristina confirmed she was 'almost three months.
Kristina’s spokesperson added: 'Kristina and Ben were surprised and delighted to find out that she was pregnant shortly before she entered the Big Brother house.
'She is well and looking forward to being a mum.'
Ben and Kristina met when they were partnered up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013.
Although at the time they were just friends, they later became an item when his marriage of 11 years to Abby broke down a year later: Ben and Kristina maintain that they didn't get together until after then.
Supportive: She was hugged by each and every one of her Housemates after her shock revelation
Kristina’s spokesperson added: 'Kristina and Ben were surprised and delighted to find out that she was pregnant shortly before she entered the Big Brother house'
The Russian-born star broke her silence on their romance a few months ago - after keeping quiet on the matter - describing their relationship as a 'work in progress'.
She told The Sun on Sunday: 'We are in a committed relationship, and of course, that involves love.
'We're constantly together - either at my place or his. We're still very new so there's much more left to grow hopefully. It's a work in progress.'
To this day, she insists she had no involvement in Ben's marriage breakdown with Abby, adding: 'Ben's said it many times and I'll say it again - I wasn't involved in the breaking up of his marriage.'
Meanwhile Abby, the sports star's estranged wife, has described the split and resultant divorce as 'the most traumatic thing to ever happen to me'.
The rugby player met his wife in 1995, at the age of 17, and the couple married in 2003 before having their twin daughters, Harriette and Isabelle in 2008.
She said: 'Well I found over Christmas. Thank you guys, I just didn’t know how to break it, what to say, when to say, it played on my mind and I wanted everyone to hear'
Speaking recently, Ben's estranged wife Abby said: 'My husband, who I was with for 23 years, unconditionally loved and was completely loyal to in every respect, has left me for a f***ing Russian dancer' pictured in 2014
Speaking recently, she said: 'My husband, who I was with for 23 years, unconditionally loved and was completely loyal to in every respect, has left me for a f***ing Russian dancer.
'He's done the dirty on me. I'm just trying to recover from what has been the most horrific time of my life.'
In 2013, Kristina revealed she broke up with her former dance partner Joe Calzaghe as they had disagreements about whether to have children which doomed their romance.
The couple recently called it a day after meeting on the BBC1 dance show four years ago when he had been a contestant and moving in together one year later.
While former professional boxer Calzaghe already has two teenage sons, Joe and Connor, and was not keen on having more, Rihanoff said at the time she was hoping to start a family.
‘I have always wanted children,’ she told Hello! magazine.
Awkward: +To this day, she insists she had no involvement in Ben's marriage breakdown with Abby, adding: 'Ben's said it many times and I'll say it again - I wasn't involved in the breaking up of his marriage'
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