Chelsea star Sam Kerr and West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis announce pregnancy news

Chelsea icon Sam Kerr has shared the quality that she is expecting a babe with West Ham midfielder Kristie Mewis aft the brace had offered a uncommon penetration into their relationship

Chelsea guardant Sam Kerr and West Ham prima Kristie Mewis person announced that they are having a baby.

The brace person been unneurotic since 2021 and took to societal media to stock the news. Sharing a bid of images of them successful a photobooth, they wrote: “Mewis-Kerr babe coming 2025!”

Both Kerr and Mewis person been sent a big of congratulatory messages by some erstwhile and existent teammates. Ex-Chelsea prima Fran Kirby wrote successful response: “Omg. Congratulations some of you!”

Fellow Lioness Chloe Kelly wrote: “Congratulations to you both,” portion Blues goalkeeper Hannah Hampton besides offered a benignant word: “Omgggg congratulations.”

The congratulations were not conscionable constricted to the Lionesses. Bayern Munich and Sweden prima Magdalena Eriksson said: “Ahhhh congrats,” with Chelsea prima Guro Reiten besides replied with a bosom emoji.

Elsewhere, USA fable Carli Lloyd besides had immoderate benignant words for Kerr and Mewis. Reacting to the news, she wrote: “Congrats!

Mewis, 33, and Kerr, 31, person been unneurotic since 2021 and announced that they were engaged past twelvemonth pursuing weeks of speculation.

Opening up connected their romance successful the past, Kerr said: “We didn’t stock it for ages. Then it conscionable got excessively hard to fell it. I retrieve 1 clip we were with immoderate friends and immoderate fans asked for a representation and past we thought we don’t truly privation this coming retired from idiosyncratic else. We privation to beryllium the ones to stock it. Once we told our friends it benignant of started getting retired determination a small bit.”

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Mewis has besides said that she is arrogant of sharing her narration with Kerr online. She added: “I deliberation conscionable being retired and being 2 girls successful love, I deliberation if we tin alteration 1 oregon 2 people’s lives and the mode that they consciousness astir each different and however comfy they feel, past that means a batch to me.

“So I deliberation if we tin alteration the mode 1 oregon 2 radical consciousness astir themselves, they tin look astatine america and spot that we're blessed and we're trying to beryllium arsenic palmy arsenic we tin and we're an retired cheery couple. I deliberation that that's truthful important.”

While Kerr and Mewis are surely loved up disconnected of the pitch, they are rivals connected it. Kerr has 4 goals and 3 assists for Chelsea this play successful the WSL, portion Mewis has made conscionable 1 quality for West Ham this season.

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