Dame Laura Kenny is having a third child with fellow Olympic cycling hero Jason Kenny after the couple went through a series of heartbreaking complications to conceive
Olympic cycling legend Laura Kenny has announced that she is pregnant with her third child following a “heartbreaking” period trying to conceive.
Dame Laura has two children with fellow Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Sir Jason Kenny, named Albie and Monty. The 32-year-old has been open about her struggles having children, having previously suffered a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy – where the embryo implants outside of the womb and requires emergency surgery.
But in a video on Instagram which showed her two children wearing T-shirts which read “I’m going to be a big brother to a baby”, she wrote: “2024 was wonderful, 2025 is going to be even more special.”
She was quickly congratulated by fellow Team GB heroes. “I knew it. Congratulations to you both,” replied Jessica Ennis-Hill. Rebecca Adlington added: “Congratulations” with two love heart emojis.
Dame Laura married Jason Kenny in 2016 after winning two gold medals in the velodrome at the London 2012 Olympics and two more at Rio 2016. The couple had their first son, Albie, in 2017, but she suffered a miscarriage in 2021 before giving birth to Monty in 2023.
Having won two more medals at the 2020 Olympics to take her tally to six, Dame Laura became the most successful female cyclist in history, as well as the most successful British female athlete. She has spoken openly about how she believes her pursuit of glory on the track affected her efforts to have children.
“I had a miscarriage followed by an ectopic [pregnancy] while still training,” he said on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “I was training hard and I’ve trained hard for a really long time. Is there something that we’re doing to our bodies that is putting it under such extreme pressure that it can’t function to conceive a child?
“I maximised everything. I would say I took it to the limit, definitely. If I wasn’t sick after a race I would be like, ‘Did I try hard enough?’ Did I just run it empty? Was my body just running on empty and then it just said, ‘Well, hang on, there’s just no way we can do this?’”
She added: “Conceiving Monty was just hell. I’m not going to sit here and say it was anything other than that because it was horrendous. Having a miscarriage and an ectopic so close together was so hard to deal with.
“You get one heartbreaking outcome, having the miscarriage, and to then have an ectopic was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to go through because all of a sudden it wasn’t about looking after Albie any more, it was, ‘Am I going to survive this?’”
