This Morning” star Sian Welby has spoken openly about keeping her pregnancy a secret from ITV bosses. During the latest episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s “Happy Mum Happy Baby” podcast, the 38-year-old television presenter, who welcomed her daughter Ruby with her fiancé Jake Beckett in June 2024, shared the reasons behind concealing her pregnancy.
Welby joked, “When you first start a job, you think ‘nobody knows what I’m actually like, that I’m trustworthy,’ and you have to prove yourself.” The “Capital Breakfast” star further explained, “I felt like I had proven myself, that I can do this and that. When I got that first This Morning cover with Dermot, I knew I was pregnant but I didn’t tell anyone.” She also revealed that neither her co-host Dermot O’Leary nor any other team members were aware of her pregnancy at the time. Notably, the presenter had only shared the news with her close friends and family and was awaiting her 20-week ultrasound. Welby elaborated, “In the back of my mind I was thinking, ‘if I tell them I’m pregnant, will this put them off getting me in again?’ And will they think, ‘Oh, she’s gonna be off for ages?’” Expanding on this, the new mother stated, “I am sure so many women in any job, especially if they are starting a new one they must think, ‘I have just got this new job and I can’t tell them that I’m pregnant.’ It’s the fear that you’re going to be immediately judged or dropped or they’ll go ‘Oh why you didn’t tell us because that is really inconvenient for us now.’” “You feel like that; you’re like this is so natural and normal why and I feeling so bad of it and so bad about it?’” she reflected. Moreover, Welby recounted the difficulty she faced trying to fit into trousers during a wardrobe check for the show, but she cleverly managed to conceal her growing baby bump with ‘quite forgiving’ outfits. “It was stressful because I still hadn’t publicly said anything. You can’t breathe in a baby bump! But I tried,” she stated.
