Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse is pregnant with her second child.
The South African professional dancer, 35, took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal she is expecting a new addition to the family, sharing a series of sweet snaps with her husband Marius Iepure and their daughter, two, while showing off her new bump.
In an accompanying caption Oti wrote: ‘Plot twist… We thought we had our hands full already, but life had even bigger plans.
‘Baby No. 2 is joining the dance party, and our hearts (and house) are about to get a whole lot fuller.’
The couple’s two-year-old daughter, who was born 10 weeks prematurely, suffered a traumatic birth and contracted sepsis.
Oti and choreographer Marius, who tied the knot in 2014, have never publicly revealed their daughter’s name.
Despite admitting she was left suffering after the birth, when asked if she would like more children, Oti previously said: ‘I’d like as many as I can afford. What I have been through shocked me, but it made me even stronger.
Strictly Come Dancing star Oti Mabuse is pregnant with her second child
The professional dancer, 35, took to Instagram on Thursday to reveal she is expecting a new addition to the family, sharing a series of sweet snaps with her husband Marius Lepure
‘For the first time in my life I have a purpose, which is for my family to have a good life. You can imagine if I’m ambitious in my work, how ambitious I am as a mum…
‘This industry has its ups and downs but I love it and I’m doing it all for my baby and my husband. I’m the breadwinner and I am taking care of my family.”
In 2024, Oti detailed the trauma of giving birth and the subsequent pain of seeing her daughter so ill: ‘You hug but then the baby gets taken away.
‘And then the next time you see them they’re in a box, wired up, not well, under blue light.
‘I remember crying because I couldn’t get the wheelchair close to her bed. Emotionally it was very exhausting. I didn’t get to hold her for about a week.
‘In the moment I was not traumatised. It was all I knew. Even when you have moments of weakness, when you feel like, “Oh my God, I’m discombobulating”.
‘You do what you have to do to be a good mum, to be strong for your daughter and be there for her, to change her and feed her and do skin to skin.’
Oti’s happy news comes after she revealed she was left ‘so hurt’ after she was snubbed from her sister Motsi’s secret vow renewal for their wedding anniversary.
Oti showed off her new baby bump as the couple’s daughter, two cradled her tummy
In 2024, Oti detailed the trauma of giving birth and the subsequent pain of seeing her daughter so ill when she contracted sepsis
The Loose Women panellist joined Janet Street-Porter, Judi Love and Charlene White on the ITV show on Tuesday, as discussion turned to getting wed in secret.
Reflecting on speculation that Tom Holland and Zendaya had tied the knot in a secret ceremony, Charlene, 45, asked her co-stars if they would be offended to miss out on a secret family wedding.
And Oti, was quick to bring up her experience with her sister, Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi, 44, who had a vow renewal in 2023.
Motsi failed to tell her family about the romantic renewal in the Maldives until after it had happened, sharing a series of snaps with Oti.
The professional dancer hit out: ‘Honestly, I’m so close with my family, we talk all the time. If I’m not calling one sister, I’m calling the other.’
