Perrie Edwards announces second pregnancy with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Perrie Edwards announced on Saturday that she and her fiancé, footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, are expecting their second child together, sharing a short Instagram video in which their four-year-old son Axel kisses Edwards’s revealed baby bump. The Little Mix singer, 32, captioned the clip "Guess what hunnies" and wore a T-shirt bearing the title of her recent single, If He Wanted To He Would, on the back and the phrase "and He Did" on the front.

The black-and-white clip shows Edwards turning to reveal the growing bump before Oxlade-Chamberlain and Axel enter the frame for a family embrace. Messages of congratulations from fans and friends appeared quickly in the post’s comments. The couple began dating in 2016 and became engaged in 2022. Axel was born on August 21, 2021.

Edwards’s pregnancy announcement comes weeks after she spoke candidly about two previous pregnancy losses. On the We Need to Talk podcast, she recounted a miscarriage early in her first pregnancy and a later loss after Axel was born. She described finding out during rehearsals for Little Mix’s final tour that she was pregnant again, experiencing repeated bleeding during the tour and feeling something was...