LOVE Island star Malin Andersson revealed she’s having a baby girl – and she’s due on the same date as her late daughter.
The reality star, 28, announced her pregnancy earlier this week after going public with her romance with her friend of four years, Jared.
Malin hosted a gender reveal party at the weekend and told her 80 guests that she is expecting a daughter.
The star – who sadly lost her baby daughter Consy at one month old in 2019 – revealed she’s over the moon with the news.
Speaking to OK!, Malin said: “From the get-go I knew it was a girl, I had this gut feeling. So I was super happy. It just made sense to me. I don’t know what it is but my family has a really strong feminine energy and I just thought I was having a girl.
“To make it even more special, my new baby shares the same due date as my daughter Consy.”
On the gender of her baby, she continued: “It is such a coincidence, but felt like a really nice sign, like it’s meant to be.
“When the plane was circling around the sky, it took ages to show the coloured smoke. Even though I knew what the gender was, because I went to the scan myself, when I saw the smoke it brought up loads of emotions.
“It made me feel really emotional. It confirmed it was real, in a weird way. It was like a little miracle and a blessing.”
Malin’s daughter Consy was born seven weeks premature and passed away in January 2019, one month after her birth.
She was named in tribute to Malin’s late mother, who had passed away in November 2017.
The star opened up recently about her fears her unborn baby will die as she battled “unresolved feelings and pain”.
Sharing a photo of herself cradling her baby bump in a one-piece, Malin penned: “It feels like I’ve been here with you before. I have. I’ll be honest, 3 years ago feels like a blur to me.. But feeling a new human growing inside me again feels so familiar. It scares me.
“So I’m here to welcome you on my journey with my rainbow baby. I know that sharing how I feel resonates.. and I want those that are struggling to conceive, or have lost a baby and are trying, pregnant with their rainbow baby or feel like their happy ending hasn’t come yet – to see a clearer view through my life. And that actually we must trust the timing in everything.
“I haven’t spoken to you much yet on how I’ve felt.. to be honest it’s been a very weird journey so far. I was hesitant to even reveal my pregnancy. I have this inner hurt, this pain & that voice in my head that tells me this isn’t real.. that my child won’t survive – that something bad will happen.
“I’ve been very quiet – Malin quiet? That’s strange – the queen of positive thinking.. waking up each day with not much to say. Just hope in her heart that baby will make it another day..”
The beauty went on: “See the reality is, we never really know what life can throw at us – we must remain present & mindful.. appreciate every minute. For sure I hope for the best, but I can’t help past trauma creep up on me.
“She’s integrated in me. Consy lives through me each day. I see her brown eyes open one last time.. and it gives me fear.. fear of the unknown. So what do I do?
“I’ve been going to therapy; remaining consistent. This has brought up a whole lot of unresolved feelings & pain that I seemed to have blocked out.. don’t get me wrong I have the most amount of love and joy in my heart – but as I said.. I’m only human. We tend to always think the worst.
“When I realise what’s growing inside me, I get goosebumps, I have to have a double take.
“Isn’t it sad that sometimes things seem too good to be true? Well maybe, just maybe they aren’t. I keep telling myself that this is my time.”
