Over a year after experiencing a heartbreaking pregnancy loss, Jessie J has announced that she is expecting a child.

“I am so happy and terrified to finally share this…Please be gentle with me. Honestly, ya girl just wants to ugly cry in public in a catsuit eating a chocolate covered pickle with no questions asked,” the singer captioned the heartfelt video which showed her cradling her stomach.

Last August, Jessie got candid about the grief she was still feeling nine months after her miscarriage in November 2021.

“When I was 16 years old, I wrote a list of things I wanted by the time I was 30,” she said in a lengthy caption. “[First] thing on the list was to be a Mum. Now I’m nearly 35 and some days the grief of losing a baby and it not being easy to have one, and wanting my life in that way to look completely different to what it looks like right now just overwhelms me.”

She continued in her message, hoping that her struggles would allow others to know they’re not alone. “I know it’s healthy and normal to have days of complete sadness and to honour all the feelings that come up, good and bad. The bad isn’t often at all and yes I could go through this moment right now today alone in private and usually do, but today I am here. Because I know thousands of people around the world feel just like I do.”

Jessie also opened up about the traumatic experience on Steven Bartlett’s Diary Of A CEO podcast. “I just knew something wasn’t the same,” she recalled in the episode, explaining how she woke up one morning after finding out she was pregnant and didn’t “feel right”.

She visited a doctor immediately and had an ultrasound to check on the baby, after which she was told that her baby’s heartbeat was “very low”. 

“There was that dreadful silence when you first have a scan and I was like, ‘Just tell me the truth – what’s going on?’ and she said, ‘Your baby’s heartbeat is very low and there’s this ring,’ and I said, ‘Well what does that mean?’” Jessie shared.

“She said: ‘It often means your baby will have some type of disability or deformity… the baby’s heartbeat is very weak.’ I said, ‘But it’s still there?’ She said, ‘Yeah, it’s still there.’”

However, the singer became tearful as she explained that following a second scan by a different doctor, she found out that her baby had no heartbeat.

“He did another scan and he said, ‘I’m really sorry there’s no heartbeat.’ That [scan] was within three or four hours of the first one.”

Describing the emotional impact of baby loss, Jessie said: “I felt like I’d been given everything I’d ever wanted and then someone had gone: ‘But you can’t have it.’ I’ve never felt so lonely in my life.”

On 24 November, the singer shared a now-deleted post on Instagram where she candidly discussed the experience of losing her baby.

“Yesterday morning I was laughing with a friend saying: ‘Seriously though how am I going to get through my gig in LA tomorrow night without telling the whole audience I am pregnant?’ she wrote.

“By yesterday afternoon I was dreading the thought of getting through the gig without breaking down… After going for my 3rd scan and being told there was no longer a heartbeat.

“This morning. I feel like I have no control of my emotions. I may regret posting this. I may not. I actually don’t know.”

“I decided to have a baby on my own. Because it’s all I’ve ever wanted and life is short,” she continued. “To get pregnant was a miracle in itself and an experience I will never forget and I know I will have again.

“I’m still in shock, the sadness is overwhelming. But I know I am strong, and I know I will be OK.

“I also know millions of women all over the world have felt this pain and way worse. I feel connected to those of you I know and those of you I don’t.

“It’s the loneliest feeling in the world.”

Pregnancy charity Tommy’s offers support and guidance for those who have experienced baby loss.

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