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Already have a son together: Carrie and Boris Johnson (archive image)
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie will be parents again.
According to media reports, the 33-year-old reported in a posting on her private Instagram profile.
"I feel incredibly blessed to be pregnant again," quoted the Guardian, among others.
"We hope for our rainbow baby for Christmas." She also put a photo of a light blue Christmas tree ball in the shape of a pram.
Grief over miscarriage
At the same time, Carrie Johnson also wrote that she miscarried earlier this year.
That "broke her heart", she felt "like a nerve wreck".
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Fertility problems can be very stressful for many people, "especially when it looks like everything is going to go well on platforms like Instagram," said Johnson.
"I found it very comforting to hear from people who have also suffered a loss, and I hope that in a small way it can help others to share this as well."
The former Conservative Party spokeswoman and Boris Johnson married in May 2021. They already have one child: their son, Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas, was born in late April 2020.
For 57-year-old Boris Johnson, the boy is at least the fifth child.
The politician has been divorced twice; in 2018, after around 25 years of marriage, he separated from Marina Wheeler, with whom he has four children.
He is also said to have an illegitimate daughter;
during his marriage to Wheeler he was said to have had several affairs.
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