‘This Morning’ star hid her pregnacy from ITV bosses due to THIS reason

This Morning star Sian Welby has opened up about hiding her pregnancy from ITV bosses.

On the latest episode of Giovanna Fletcher’s Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast, the 38-year-old Television presenter, who welcomed her daughter Ruby with her fiancé Jake Beckett in June 2024, shared the reason for hiding her pregnancy.

Welby quipped, “When you first start a job, you think ‘nobody knows what I’m actually like, that I’m trustworthy,’ and you have to prove yourself.”

The Capital Breakfast star went on to add, “I felt like I had proven myself, that I can do this and that. When I got that first This Morning cover with Dermot, I knew I was pregnant but I didn’t tell anyone.”

She further revealed that neither her co-host Dermot O’Leary nor any of the team members knew about it.

Notably, the presenter had only shared the news with her friends and family and was awaiting her 20-week scan.

Welby explained, “In the back of my mind I was thinking, ‘if I tell them I’m pregnant, will this put them off getting me in again?’ And will they think, ‘Oh, she’s gonna be off for ages?’”

Expanding on this, the mother of one noted, “I am sure so many women in any job, especially if they are starting a new one they must think, ‘I have just got this new job and I can’t tell them that I’m pregnant.’ It’s the fear that you’re going to be immediately judged or dropped or they’ll go ‘Oh why you didn’t tell us because that is really inconvenient for us now.’”

“You feel like that; you’re like this is so natural and normal why and I feeling so bad of it and so bad about it?’” she said.

Moreover, Welby recalled her struggle of getting some trousers on during the fit check for the show, but she somehow managed to hide her baby bump with ‘quite forgiving’ outfits.

“It was stressful because I still hadn’t publicly said anything. You can’t breathe in a baby bump! But I tried,” she stated.