Laura Kenny and her partner Jason Kenny have announced that they are expecting their second child. Britain's most successful female Olympian said she is full of emotion after suffering a miscarriage in November 2021 and an ectopic pregnancy in January 2022.

"A year ago today, I was sitting in A&E. When I got the news that I had an ectopic pregnancy, it felt like my whole world fell apart," Laura Kenney prefaced her pregnancy announcement on social media on Wednesday.

"We had already lost our second baby in November and I remember lying there looking for some kind of answer. Even now, I don't think this heartbreak will ever go away. But today, a year later... New Post"

Kenny gave birth to her first child in 2017, and in her corresponding pregnancy announcement, she posted a photo (opens in new tab) of four bicycles, two adult-sized and two child-sized.

"Today I felt I could no longer hide. I had already begun to show up and the anxiety I had been feeling was unreal. Telling the world means we have to accept that we are going to have another baby, and this fills me with all kinds of emotions," Kenny wrote.

Kenny is the most successful female cyclist in Olympic history, having won five gold medals and one silver medal at three Olympics: London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016, and Tokyo 2021. Kenny and her partner Jason, who won seven gold medals and two silver medals at four Olympics, were awarded dames and knighthoods by the Duke of Cambridge as Britain's most illustrious Olympians.

Kenny learned she was pregnant at the late Tokyo Olympics, revealing that doctors diagnosed her with an ectopic pregnancy (a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes) and that she had a miscarriage and surgery last year. In an interview with Eurosport (opens in new tab), she detailed her experience with an ectopic pregnancy and her subsequent struggles with mental health.

"I am scared every day that I will have to go through the pain of losing another baby. I feel ungrateful for what I have so desperately wanted for the past year," Kenny wrote on Instagram.

"But I know there are many people who see my post and wish for me to disappear with a happy ending, just as I did. But I also know that when I was lying in my hospital bed, I was looking for happy endings for people. I thought that maybe, just maybe, my happy ending would come."