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PREGNANT Vick Hope showed off her growing baby bump after she revealed she’s expecting her first child.
The Radio 1 presenter and husband Calvin Harris, who tied the knot on their Ibiza farm in 2023, will become parents later this year.
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Vick, 35, shared a photo of her in an orange bikini and an oversized white shirt, with her bump peaking through.
The radio presenter and international DJ Calvin enjoyed a baby shower with her friends and family in Ibiza a few weeks ago.
Vick was also seen staring adoringly at her growing stomach while wearing a flowy turquoise green summer dress.
In another snap, the Strictly star opted for a patterned bikini top and a pair of blue shorts as she hit some balls on the court.
She flashed a big smile and held two racquets in her hand, which slightly covered her bump.
Vick captioned the post: “Touching grass lately: Friends, family, farmyard animals.”
Many fans were quick to share gushing messages of congratulations.
One wrote: “Looking fabulous. This era suits you.”
A second posted: “Beautiful mama to be.”
Calvin and Vick have a stunning 138-acre organic farm in Ibiza, known as Terra Masia.
The Spanish estate produces fruit, vegetables, eggs, and wine, and represents Harris’s shift from jet-set lifestyle to a more rural affair.
A source told The Sun in 2022: “Calvin employs an expert team, including farmers and chefs, but he’s also hands-on, regularly getting involved in planting and other farm activities. He’s truly passionate about the project.”
They also have a 10-acre estate in the Cotswolds, which Calvin purchased for £3.6m in 2019.
Over the last few years a bespoke new mansion has been built on the Oxfordshire site which will become the family’s primary residence.
Architect Ben Pentreath, a favourite of the royals, designed the property which will be completed this year.
A source told the Mail: ” There’s no expense spared and it’s going to be amazing.”
Vick shared her happy baby news live on Radio 1 today, telling Jamie Laing: “I should probably also say this is my final week before I go on maternity leave.”
Jamie told her: “You’re an amazing friend, an amazing person, and you’re just going to be an amazing mum,.”
She replied: “Oh, thank you.”
Vick and Calvin’s love story was a longtime coming, with its origins going back to 2007, when Calvin was in his ‘Acceptable in the ‘80s’ era.
He had a crush on BBC star Vick, but when he worked up the courage to ask her out, she rejected him.
She told You Magazine: “It’s something that we laughed about on our first proper date…
“We still laugh about it now.”
Vick later confessed on Capital Radio: “I went off with either Scouting for Girls or The Wombats. I don’t know which.
“I thought they were going to be bigger, but no, it turns out Calvin Harris was going to turn into an Adonis.”
Despite Calvin’s failed attempt at a date in the mid 2000s, he did eventually get the girl.
The couple made their first official outing at The Chelsea Flower Show in May 2022.
People couldn’t help but notice a sparkling diamond sitting on Vick’s ring finger – just five months after they got together.
They married in September 2023 at Hulne Priory, Alnwick, Northumberland.
During the ceremony, the pair shared their personal vows and listened to poems.
Nile Rodgers and Chic kicked off the reception with Luther Vandross’ 1981 hit Never Too Much, which was followed by songs by Madonna, Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams and David Bowie.
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VICK Hope has kept her pregnancy under wraps for months now – but dropped some major hints that left fans speculating.
The Radio 1 presenter and husband Calvin Harris, who tied the knot on their Ibiza farm in 2023, will become parents later this year.
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Vick shared the news live on Radio 1 today, telling Jamie Laing: “I should probably also say this is my final week before I go on maternity leave.”
Jamie told her: “You’re an amazing friend, an amazing person, and you’re just going to be an amazing mum,.”
She replied: “Oh, thank you.”
But many fans had already guessed that the DJ was pregnant months ago.
Here we take a look at some of the clues that Vick subtly dropped to hint at her pregnancy.
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Vick appeared to celebrate her baby shower a couple of weeks ago as she shared a picture playing a baby shower game – during a meal with friends.
Vick and Calvin certainly have solid foundations to give a baby the best possible early life.
Calvin and Vick have a stunning 138-acre organic farm in Ibiza, known as Terra Masia.
The Spanish estate produces fruit, vegetables, eggs, and wine, and represents Harris’s shift from jet-set lifestyle to a more rural affair.
A source told The Sun in 2022: “Calvin employs an expert team, including farmers and chefs, but he’s also hands-on, regularly getting involved in planting and other farm activities. He’s truly passionate about the project.”
They also have a 10-acre estate in the Cotswolds, which Calvin purchased for £3.6m in 2019.
Over the last few years a bespoke new mansion has been built on the Oxfordshire site which will become the family’s primary residence.
Architect Ben Pentreath, a favourite of the royals, designed the property which will be completed this year.
A source told the Mail: ” There’s no expense spared and it’s going to be amazing.”
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The popular radio star looked incredible when she walked the BRITs red carpet in March wearing a plunging dress halterneck satin gown.
The stunning frock also featured cut out details along the stomach, which appeared to show a growing bump.
The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant was joined on the red carpet by her superstar DJ husband Calvin Harris.
The couple put their arms around each other and posed for pictures, with Vick beaming at the cameras.
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Over the past few months, Vick has been attending various events, including Radio 1’s Big Weekender Launch party in March.
She attended the star-studded event in London wearing an oversized plaid coat.
Underneath she opted for a brown mini dress but her winter jacket was pulled tightly together to conceal her stomach.
Earlier this month, Vick shared a post of her recent work highlights.
One snap showed her smiling with Radio 1 co-star Jamie Laing while wearing a baggy grey jumper.
She also posed for a team photo with her new Countryfile family.
Vick wrapped up in a big black puffer coat, cream jumper and grey beanie hat.
In other recent snaps, the radio star is seen sitting behind a desk or wearing oversized baggy t-shirts.
And just a few weeks ago, Vick hosted with Greg James at the London Marathon as they cheered on their co-presenter Jamie.
Vick was seen wearing an oversized white teddy bear coat which kept her bump under cover.
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Just two weeks ago, Vick shared a photo of her blossoming bump.
Although the star had not officially announced her pregnancy, Vick was inundated with messages of congratulations from celeb pals.
Lisa Snowden wrote: “Congratulations darling. So happy for you both.”
Kate Thornton posted: “Congratulations on your beautiful news.”
Ashley James shared her excitement, commenting: “Omg Vick,” with a string of red heart emojis.
Vick was also seen cradling her bump during an interview with Florence Pugh two weeks ago.
Vick and Calvin’s love story was a longtime coming, with its origins going back to 2007, when Calvin was in his ‘Acceptable in the ‘80s’ era.
He had a crush on BBC star Vick, but when he worked up the courage to ask her out, she rejected him.
She told You Magazine: “It’s something that we laughed about on our first proper date…
“We still laugh about it now.”
Vick later confessed on Capital Radio: “I went off with either Scouting for Girls or The Wombats. I don’t know which.
“I thought they were going to be bigger, but no, it turns out Calvin Harris was going to turn into an Adonis.”
Despite Calvin’s failed attempt at a date in the mid 2000s, he did eventually get the girl.
The couple made their first official outing at The Chelsea Flower Show in May 2022.
People couldn’t help but notice a sparkling diamond sitting on Vick’s ring finger – just five months after they got together.
They married in September 2023 at Hulne Priory, Alnwick, Northumberland.
During the ceremony, the pair shared their personal vows and listened to poems.
Nile Rodgers and Chic kicked off the reception with Luther Vandross’ 1981 hit Never Too Much, which was followed by songs by Madonna, Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams and David Bowie.
ATLANTA — The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain-dead and has been kept on life support for three months has given rise to complicated questions about abortion law and differing views about whether a fetus is a person.
Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old nurse and mother, was about two months pregnant on Feb. 19 when she was declared brain-dead, according to an online fundraising page started by her mother. Doctors said Georgia’s strict antiabortion law requires that she remain on life support until the fetus has developed enough to be delivered, her mother wrote.
The law, one of a wave of measures enacted in conservative states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022, restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected and gives personhood rights to a fetus.
Smith’s mother says the law has left her family without a say in a difficult situation, and with her due date still months away, the family is left wondering whether the baby will be born with disabilities or can even survive. Some activists, many of them Black women like Smith, say it raises issues of racial equity.
Emory Healthcare, which runs the hospital, has not explained how doctors decided to keep Smith on life support except to say in a statement that it considered “Georgia’s abortion laws and all other applicable laws.”
The state adopted a law in 2019 to ban abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy, that came into effect after Roe was overturned.
That law does not explicitly address Smith’s situation, but allows abortion to preserve the life or physical health of the pregnant woman. Three other states have similar bans that kick in around the six-week mark, and 12 bar abortion at all stages of pregnancy.
David S. Cohen, a professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, said the hospital might be most concerned about part of the law that gives fetuses legal rights as “members of the species Homo sapiens.”
Cohen said that Emory may therefore consider Smith and the fetus as two patients and that once Smith was on life support, the hospital had a legal obligation to keep the fetus alive, even after Smith was considered brain-dead.
“These are the kind of cases that law professors have been talking about for a long time when they talk about fetal personhood,” he said.
State Rep. Nabilah Islam Parkes, an Atlanta-area Democrat, said Friday that she sent a letter to state Atty. Gen. Chris Carr asking for a legal opinion on how Georgia’s abortion law applies when a pregnant woman is brain-dead.
Antiabortion groups are divided over whether they should support personhood provisions, which are on the books in at least 17 states, according to the advocacy group Pregnancy Justice.
Some argue that fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses should be considered people with the same rights as babies after birth. This personhood concept seeks to give them rights under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which says a state can’t “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process or law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Some saw personhood as politically impractical, especially after personhood amendments to state constitutions were rejected by voters in Colorado, Mississippi and North Dakota between 2008 and 2014. Those who steered away sought laws and restrictions on abortion that stopped short of personhood, although they were often informed by the concept.
Personhood proponents argue this lacks moral clarity. Some personhood proponents have been sidelined in national antiabortion groups; the National Right to Life Committee cut ties with its Georgia Right to Life affiliate in 2014 after the state wing opposed bills that restricted abortion but allowed exceptions for rape and incest.
The Associated Press has not been able to reach Smith’s mother, April Newkirk. But Newkirk told Atlanta TV station WXIA that her daughter went to a hospital complaining of headaches and was given medication and released. Then, her boyfriend awoke to her gasping for air and called 911. Emory University Hospital determined she had blood clots in her brain and she was declared brain-dead.
It’s not clear what Smith said when she went to the hospital or whether the care she was given was standard for her symptoms. But Black women often report that their pain isn’t taken seriously, and an Associated Press investigation found that health outcomes for Black women are worse because of circumstances linked to racism and unequal access to care.
Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s abortion law, said: “Black women must be trusted when it comes to our healthcare decisions.”
“Like so many Black women, Adriana spoke up for herself. She expressed what she felt in her body, and as a healthcare provider, she knew how to navigate the medical system,” Simpson said, noting that by the time Smith was diagnosed “it was already too late.”
It’s unclear whether the clots in Smith’s brain were related to her pregnancy.
But her situation is undoubtedly alarming for those seeking solutions to disparities in the maternal mortality rate among Black women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women had a mortality rate of 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023. That’s more than three times the rate for white women, and it is higher than the rates for Latino and Asian women.
While Smith is on a ventilator and probably other life-support devices, being declared brain-dead means she is dead.
Some experts refer to “life support” as “maintenance measures,” “organ support” or “somatic support,” which relates to the body as distinct from the mind.
Emory has not made public what is being done to allow Smith’s fetus to continue to develop.
In another case in Florida, doctors successfully delivered the baby of a 31-year-old woman who was declared brain-dead while 22 weeks pregnant, but not without weeks of sustained monitoring, testing and medical care. The woman’s family wanted to keep the fetus, physicians with the University of Florida College of Medicine said in a 2023 paper.
On her first day of admission, doctors administered hormones to raise her blood pressure and placed a feeding tube. After she was transferred to an intensive care unit, an obstetric nurse stayed by her bedside continuously to monitor the fetus’ heart rate and movements.
She was on a ventilator, regularly received steroids and hormones, and needed multiple antibiotics to treat pneumonia. Her medical team encompassed multiple specialties: obstetrics, neonatology, radiology and endocrinology.
Doctors performed surgery to remove the fetus at 33 weeks when its heart rate fell, and the baby appeared to be in good health at birth.
“We don’t have great science to guide clinical decision-making in these cases,” said Dr. Kavita Arora, an obstetrician and gynecologist in North Carolina who raised concerns about the effect of prolonged ventilator use on a fetus. “There simply aren’t a lot of cases like this.”
The 2023 paper warned that “costs should not be underestimated.”
It is not clear whether Smith, whose mother said she was a nurse at Emory University Hospital, had health insurance. But JoAnn Volk, a professor, founder and co-director of the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University, said that for people with health insurance, it’s generally up to the insurer to determine whether care is medically necessary and covered under the plan.
While it is unclear how much it will cost to keep Smith on life support until the fetus can be delivered, or who will be responsible for that cost, her mother’s GoFundMe page mentions Smith’s 7-year-old son and notes that the baby could have significant disabilities as the effort aims to raise $275,000.
Associated Press writers Brumback and Thanawala reported from Atlanta and Mulvihill from Cherry Hill, N.J. AP writer Jeff Amy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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