Zoella, 30, announces she is pregnant with her first child with the baby girl due to arrive in September
ZOELLA has announced that she is expecting her first child with her partner Alfie Deyes.
The 30-year-old shared the “super exciting news” with her nine million followers on Instagram today.
The blogger, real name Zoe Sugg, shared a video of herself flashing her growing bump followed by footage of her first sonogram.
It also saw dad-to-be Alfie holding a babygrow printed with the words, “Milking it.”
Captioning her post she wrote: “We’re super excited to share with you, that our baby girl will be joining us in September.”
The post received over 200,000 likes within the first half an hour with the vlogging couple receiving thousands of congratulations messages from well-wishers.
Alfie, 27, also shared a post announcing the exciting news on his own Instagram account.
In his video, Zoe comes and sits on his lap where the pair can be seen admiring photos from their baby scan.
Vlogger Zoe Sugg and her long-term boyfriend Alfie Deyes live in a £1.7 million pad in Brighton .
The Sussex mansion has four bathrooms, five reception rooms and a sprawling landscaped garden.
The couple previously lived in a £2,300-a-month rented flat on Hove’s seafront, before buying their first ‘Zalfie pad’, a five-bed place costing £1m, in February 2015.
Who is Zoella?
Zoella is the YouTube username of 30-year-old Zoe Sugg.
She was born on March 28, 1990, to parents Tracey and Graham Sugg and raised in Lacock, Wiltshire.
Her younger brother is Joe Sugg is also a vlogger and star of Strictly.
Zoella’s best friend is Louise Pentland who also has a beauty channel called Sprinkleofglitter. The two often make appearances on each others’ YouTube Channels.
Her debut novel Girl Online was released in November 2014. A sequel, Girl Online: On Tour was released in 2015 and a third entitled Girl Online: Going Solo was released in November 2016.
Zoella featured on the chorus of 2014 single Do They Know It’s Christmas as party of the Band Aid 30 supergroup, raising money for the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.
The single debuted at number 1 on the UK Official Singles Chart.
That same year she launched a range of beauty products under the name Zoella Beauty and has since unveiled a range of lifestyle products for the winter.
Now 30, Zoe became one of the UK’s first social media stars when she started uploading videos to YouTube in 2009.
She has accumulated 1.1million followers on Instagram and a whopping 15million on YouTube.
Each video lasts between 10 to 20 minutes and sees the pretty brunette talk to camera about everything from lipstick to anxiety, pets and beyond.
She currently has 11 million followers on YouTube, but has since stepped back to focus on her more personal Zoe Sugg channel, which has 4.8 million.
Her website reportedly earns £50,000 a month and she WAS named the most powerful beauty vlogger by Forbes Magazine.