Roxy Horner has shared a health update amid her pregnancy (Picture: Instagram/Getty)
Model Roxy Horner has revealed that she has been diagnosed with a painful condition during the last trimester of her pregnancy and been told to ‘rest up’.
The 32-year-old, who is expecting a baby with comedian partner Jack Whitehall, 34, first shared their happy news back in May and has since kept her 230,000 Instagram followers updated on her pregnancy journey.
Alongside gorgeous snaps of her cradling her growing bump though, Roxy – who will be welcoming a little girl with Jack – has also made room to be frank about the struggles.
On Sunday morning, the mum-to-be took to Instagram to announce that she had been in hospital last week and subsequently been diagnosed with symphis pubis dysfunction (SPD) after ‘struggling in pain’ to do day-to-day tasks.
‘Last week was tough for me, we lost our grandad and then I spent a few days in hospital,’ she wrote on the social media platform, alongside a picture of her and Jack’s rescue Cavapoo, Coco.
‘I’ve been diagnosed with symphis pubis dysnfunction which basically means I struggle to stand up or walk during this last bit of my pregnancy without having proper rest.’
The model revealed she had been diagnosed with symphis pubis dysfunction (Picture: Getty)
It came amid a ‘tough week’ for the star (Picture: Instagram/@roxyhorner)
‘I wondered for a while why I was in pain struggling to do normal things but it makes sense now and apparently quite common in last bit of pregnancy [sic],’ she added.
SPD is also known as pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain and is a collection of uncomfortable symptoms caused by a stiffness of someone’s pelvic joints or the joints moving unevenly at either the back or front of your pelvis.
Roxy, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2021, also shared a little peek at her baby’s nursery, featuring a pink fluffy carpet and white wicker crib with a sweet patterned inside.
‘Not finished yet but coming back to this made me smile,’ she shared, while Coco posed at the front of picture.
Roxy is expecting a little girl with her comedian partner Jack Whitehall (Picture: David Fisher/Shutterstock)
Plans had also had to be cancelled due to her diagnosis, with Roxy giving a quick tour of what appeared to be the couple’s living room in their £12million Notting Hill home, decked out in pink balloons.
‘I had one of our rooms set up to look pretty for when I was supposed to be hosting some friends this weekend but obviously my body had other plans and I’ve been told to rest up so it’s going to have to just look pretty for us now,’ she joked, adding a cry-laughing emoji.
‘I wish it looked like this all the time lol,’ the cover star admitted.
She is prepping for the baby’s arrival (Picture: Instagram/@roxyhorner)
Unfortunately Roxy has had to cancel plans in order to rest (Picture: Instagram/@roxyhorner)
Discussing the impact pregnancy had had on her diabetes, Roxy told presenter Steph McGovern on Steph’s Packed Lunch in June: ‘Your sugar levels kind of go up a lot higher during pregnancy because you become more resistant, so it’s quite hard to manage and it’s changing weekly – before I was pregnant I knew exactly my carbs to insulin ratio, whereas now it’s just changing all the time.
‘I’m having to up my insulin dose pretty much daily at the moment because I’m in the third trimester and that’s when it really kicks in.
‘You have to manage it a lot more tightly as well during pregnancy because it’s not just you, you’re thinking about the baby as well.’
She reckons Jack will be a ‘great dad’ (Picture: Instagram/Jack Whitehall/Roxy Horner)
She also recently shared her predictions on Jack’s parenting skills with Metro.co.uk, stating she believed he would be a ‘great dad’ and supply the laughs.
‘I know we’ll count on him to constantly make the baby smile and laugh! I hope to be someone our child can always rely on, we just can’t wait for them to be here,’ she added.
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The model is due to welcome a little girl with Jack later this year.