Vogue Williams and Spencer Matthews announced the joyful news they are expecting their fourth child this week, during a family getaway to St. Barts.
And while they are completely overjoyed by the new addition, the couple have faced marriage crisis rumours in recent months.
Podcaster Vogue, 40, and her former reality star husband Spencer, 37, who share three children, Theodore, seven, Gigi, five, and Otto, three, tied the knot in 2018.
Vogue played down claims of difficulties within their relationship last year, after the couple failed to publicly mark their seventh wedding anniversary – months after Spencer stepped down from their joint podcast, Spencer & Vogue, to focus on his own project, Untapped.
It followed a rocky period with Spencer’s drinking habits, which almost ended their relationship at the time Vogue was pregnant with their first child.
Spencer admitted there use to be a ‘divide in their relationship’ when he kept drinking and he first realised his boozy habits ‘weren’t normal’.
After a difficult couple of years, sources say the couple’s ‘band-aid baby’ has made them stronger than ever and ready for a bright future ahead.
An insider explained: ‘Spencer is very aware of the issues he has surrounding drinking – the problem is when he gets together with his mates, loses control and makes decisions that he never would have made when he was sober.
‘He has promised Vogue he will be committed to his sober life again and has thrown himself back into his challenges, so there is no temptation to drink. It really is his demon.’
Vogue Williams, 40, and Spencer Matthews, 37, announced the joyful news they are expecting their fourth child this week, during a family getaway to St. Barts
And while they are completely overjoyed by the new addition, the couple have faced marriage crisis rumours in recent months
‘They might not want to label it as such, but this baby is a band-aid baby – but made with love. They are happier than even now. They feel like they are stronger, and Vogue is confident Spencer means what he’s saying because they worked through the toughest times and came out stronger at the other end’, they added to The Sun.
The Daily Mail has contacted Vogue and Spencer’s representatives for comment.
Vogue previously insisted that she and her husband are ‘happy’ and that their marriage is secure, while dispelling past rumours of a potential crisis.
Speaking to The Sun, the presenter said she has reached a point in her life where only ‘their truth’ matters, stressing that they remain very much a happy couple.
She recalled: ‘When he left our podcast, everyone was like, ‘What’s going on?”
Vogue also admitted to worrying about their children hearing the ‘baseless and cruel’ gossip at school.
She had previously addressed the claims in an Instagram post, telling followers: ‘It’s with great sadness that I have to let you know that Spen and I are NOT breaking up!
‘I usually avoid addressing baseless and cruel rumours, but this just keeps coming up.
‘It’s disappointing to see this narrative being pushed almost daily when it’s absolutely not true, and much more importantly, I don’t want my children hearing these lies in the playground.
‘We’re not sure what the angle is or where it’s coming from, but the whole thing feels very strange and mean. We’re very happily married and in love and I hope posting the truth on my own platform might make it stop.’
Asked whether her denial had helped silence the rumours, she told The Sun: ‘Of course not! I’ll probably not bother next time.’
In a series of sweet beach snaps this week, Vogue showed off her growing bump in a black and white bikini and matching sarong, while Spencer gazed adoringly at her.
Beaming for the cameras on the white sandy beach with their three children, the couple wrote: ‘BABY NUMBER 4 INCOMING… ❤️❤️.’
After a difficult couple of years, sources say the couple’s ‘band-aid baby’ has made them stronger than ever and ready for a bright future ahead
Podcaster Vogue and her former reality star husband Spencer, who share three children – Theodore, seven, Gigi, five, and Otto, three – tied the knot in 2018
Beaming for the cameras on the white sandy beach with their three children, the couple wrote: ‘BABY NUMBER 4 INCOMING… ❤️❤️’
Vogue previously confessed to the Daily Mail that she finds giving birth so easy that she would happily endure the often-painful work for other expectant mothers.
She said in 2022: ‘I would have a million kids, I love having children around us and having a big family and I hate the thought of never having a baby again because I love the whole newborn phase.
‘Being a mum is literally my favourite thing in the world. I would like to think that we’d have one more but right now I need to see how we get on as a family of five.
‘I had a lovely labour with Otto. I had a great day with Spencer. I loved the whole day.
‘I walked into the hospital and thought I’d do this as a job if I could just give birth for other people – and not be pregnant – I would happily do it.
‘We were lucky because I know it’s not the same for everybody. It’s painful, the gas and air was great fun, and I did that and had an epidural at the end, which was very much needed.’
