Dame Laura Kenny and Sir Jason Kenny are expecting their second child after suffering heartbreaking loss last year

Dame Laura Kenny and Sir Jason Kenny are expecting their second child.

Great Britain’s most successful female Olympic athlete admits she is feeling “all kinds of emotions”, after suffering a miscarriage in November 2021 and an ectopic pregnancy last year.

The couple’s first child, Albie, was born in 2017.

Kenny announced the news of her pregnancy on Instagram, writing, “Today I felt like I couldn’t hide away any more. I’m already starting to show and the anxiety I have felt has been unreal.”

“Telling the world means I have to accept we are having another baby and this fills me with all kinds of emotions. I’m scared every single day that I might have to go through the pain of loosing another baby.”

“It makes you feel ungrateful for something you’ve so desperately wanted for the last year”, she said.

“But I also know there are going to be so many people, like I was, seeing my post and wishing I would go away with my happy ending. But I also know when I was lying in the hospital bed I was searching for people’s happy endings because it was the only thing giving me any comfort at the time. That maybe, just maybe I would get my happy ending.”

Kenny also posted a photograph showing four bikes leaning up against a fence, with a rainbow in the sky behind them.

Before sharing the happy news, Kenny reflected on her heartbreaking events of last year.

She wrote, “A year ago today I was sat in A&E knowing I was really poorly but not knowing what was wrong with me.”

“When I got the news I was having an ectopic pregnancy my world felt like it crumbled. We had already lost our second baby in November and I remember lying there searching for some sort of answers”, she said.

“I still feel this heartbreak today and I don’t think it will ever go away.”

After success at last year’s Commonwealth Games, Kenny said she needed time away from cycling to think about her future in the sport.

However, speaking to the Daily Mirror in December, she admitted she had dreams of further Olympic success – with hopes of adding to the five golds and a silver she has won at previous Games.

“I’d love to win in Paris but how do you know when you’re finished, how do you know when you’re at your peak? You don’t. I’m not for fairytale endings but I just want to leave knowing I have no regrets because that would be the worst. I’ll just keep going!”