Jesy Nelson, ex-Little Mix singer, is pregnant.
“She’s eating three now,” Nelson, 33, and boyfriend Zion Foster, 26, wrote in a joint statement on Sunday, Jan. 12, announcing what appears to be a twin pregnancy and sharing a simple maternity photo. In the photo, Nelson was holding a Polaroid of her and Foster. The English singer wore a white sports bra and camouflage pants that showed off her bare baby bump, while Foster rested his hands on her stomach.
Nelson also reshared the upload to her Instagram stories with two baby emojis, again seeming to indicate she’s expecting twins.
Her famous friends celebrated the good news in the comments section. “Huge congratulations! The best in the world xx,” wrote former Love Island UK host Laura Whitmore. Dancer Aron Pring added, “You deserve all the happiness Jesy! Congratulations.”
Nelson and Foster have been linked since January 2022. They collaborated on the duet Mine in August 2024.
Nelson wasn’t sure if motherhood was on the cards nearly five years earlier, as she shared in an interview with Glamor UK in October 2021.
“No, I don’t want children. It’s just not in me,” she told the news agency. “I think as a woman (motherhood is) either in you or it’s not. You either have that motherly feeling or you don’t, and I never had that feeling.”
The singer then said that even when she thought she was so in love and had met her person, she still didn’t want a child.
Nelson rose to fame as part of Britain’s Little Mix, alongside Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. The trio were put together as a group on The X Factor UK in 2011.
Nelson was the first member to leave, announcing her departure in December 2020. The rest of the musicians left indefinitely in 2024.
Nelson is the third member of the British band to become a mother. Pinnock, 33, shares 3-year-old twin daughters with husband Andre Gray, while Edwards, 31, and fiance Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are parents to 3-year-old son Axel.
Pinnock and Edwards waited at the same time.
