Aussie star couple Matthew Johnson – better known as Matty J – and wife Laura Byrne have shared a major family update.
The reality TV couple both announced on their respective podcasts on Wednesday morning that they are expecting baby number three and it’s something they’ve kept secret for quite some time now.
Johnson and Byrne already share two daughters: Marlie-Mae, five, and Lola, four.
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Byrne teased she had “big news to share” at the start of the latest episode of Life Uncut.
“The big news is, so you guys know that Matt and I have been talking a lot about whether or not we were going to have baby number three,” she started.
“And it turns out, we’re having baby number three!”
The announcement prompting cheers of excitement and congratulations from her co-host Brittany Hockley.
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“I’m pregnant, guys. I am very insane. And it turns out that for a very short period Matt and I got on the same page about whether we wanted [a third child],” she said.
Byrne revealed she is currently 18 weeks along.
The star said she’d “been keeping a little secret for quite some time.”
Johnson also shared the news on his own podcast, Two Doting Dads.
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Johnson said they had planned “if we are going to have a third, this will be the year that it happens.”
He explained his two daughters are only around 18 months apart so he and Byrne “want the third child to still be friends with Marlie and Lola.”
Byrne revealed she found out she pregnant when Johnson was on the reality show I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! and unable to be contacted.
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“So I knew for two and a half months before I told Matt that I was pregnant,” she said.
Johnson and Byrne have been together since 2017 after meeting on the reality dating series, The Bachelor Australia. They have been married since 2022.
The couple welcomed their first daughter, Marlie-Mae in 2019, followed by their second daughter, Lola, in 2021.
“As exhausting and relentless and isolating as parenting is, and it is those things for the vast majority of the time, whenever you get a brief moment where you get any affection from your kids and they want to give you a hug or a kiss and tell you that they love you, that is such an amazing little moment,” Johnson told 9Honey Parenting about being a dad.
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