{"id":257284,"date":"2025-12-30T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257284\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:17:12","slug":"bonnie-ryan-announces-pregnancy-after-sharing-fertility-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257284\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Ryan announces pregnancy after sharing fertility struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After sharing her heart-breaking fertility struggle earlier this year Bonnie Ryan has shared the news that she is expecting her first child with husband John<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_bonnieryan_.jpg\" alt=\"Bonnie Ryan\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Bonnie Ryan(Image: Instagram\/bonnieryan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Bonnie Ryan has announced she is expecting her first child with husband John.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The influencer took to social media on Monday evening to confirm she was pregnant with her first child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Posting on Instagram, she shared a montage of photos of her cradling her baby bump, and sharing a kiss with husband John, she captioned the post: &#8220;Looks like we made it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We\u2019ve waited for this moment and finally here we are and, halfway cooked! So much love, gratitude and excitement for what\u2019s to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She finished by adding: &#8220;Sending love and luck to anyone on a TTC journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">It comes after Bonnie shared she had been struggling to conceive earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In a candid conversation with sister Lottie on their podcast, Bonnie opened up about her and husband John&#8217;s struggles to start a family and insensitive comments people make.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Speaking on her their podcast No One Else Will Listen, Bonnie recalled how tough it is to hear people assumed she and husband John don&#8217;t want children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">She then revealed that last year she found out she can&#8217;t get pregnant herself and never expected to be told that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t plan on talking about this in the podcast last week,\u201d <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rsvplive.ie\/all-about\/bonnie-ryan\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Bonnie<\/a> admitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cBut once the conversation started, it just\u2026 happened. It was honest and it was real&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Since the episode aired, both she and Lottie have been inundated with messages from women sharing their own experiences and struggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cA lot of people who I know have opened up to me to let me know they\u2019re going through the same fertility journey,\u201d Bonnie explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI am absolutely floored by how trusting people have been with me in my DM\u2019s, telling me their personal stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t have wanted a better reaction. Hopefully, it makes people feel less alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cWhen I shared it with our immediate family earlier this year, I took so much good from it. It was so good to have such support,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cBut there is the flip side\u2026there is a bit of stress from knowing our family is worried about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Opening up publicly, however, came with a different kind of vulnerability and a surprising sense of relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s nerve-racking opening up to a wider circle of people,\u201d she admitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThere is something really scary about sharing my fertility journey. But I feel the biggest sense of relief since opening up about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After sharing her heart-breaking fertility struggle earlier this year Bonnie Ryan has shared the news that she is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[132952,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-257284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bonnie-ryan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115806355160229327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}