The Project star Rachel Corbett announced live on air that she is pregnant with her first child.
“I can no longer hold it in as the wardrobe department is sick of trying to hide it. I’m pregnant!” Rachel told viewers and her co-stars, Carrie Bickmore, Peter Helliar and Waleed Aly.
Carrie delightedly responded, “Give us the goss, whats happening? This is amazing, Congratulations!”
After the panel let off some celebratory confetti party horn blowers, Rachel revealed that she is having a girl.
“I’m doing it solo, which is great for me, but you find when you tell people it’s hilarious because they think it’s a choice of last resort.”
“Then you have to spend the next 30 minutes explaining you’re not crying yourself to sleep at night. But for me it’s the perfect decision.”
“It feels like exactly the right thing to do and I’m really excited.”
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The happy news comes as a welcome reprieve for Rachel, who lost her mother to Alzheimer’s disease.
‘Mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease around 2005-2006. She kept it from us because honestly I think there was a part of her that was ashamed or embarrassed,’ she said.
“Towards the end of the disease, it got really scary. She became a very different person to who I knew but she was absolutely still so present.
“You could see this person who was struggling and lost and afraid and trapped in her own mind.
“‘I remember reading that it was around 10 years that people live with the disease.
“It was pretty much around that time that mum passed away. I just feel like a really wonderful, vivacious, positive, brilliant woman was taken too soon.”
While Rachel has been on The Project since 2015, her first television appearance dates way back to 2011, she was the first-ever intruder on Big Brother. However, her stint on the popular reality show only lasted four days.
In a 2009 interview with Radio Info, Rachel has hinted that she tries to distance herself from her reality TV past.
“Part of my past that I’ve tried to distance myself from and have so far succeeded,” she told the outlet. “I never for one moment thought about a career in entertainment either. I just knew I wanted to get out of law.”
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