Three clues EastEnders’ Lacey Turner was secretly pregnant – and how she hid her baby bump

EASTENDERS prima Lacey Turner has shared the blessed quality that she is expecting her 3rd baby.

But eagle-eyed fans mightiness person guessed the histrion was large earlier she had adjacent announced it.

Here, we look astatine 3 clues that hinted astatine Lacey and her hubby Matt Kay's baby news.

Baggy clothing

Lacey, 36, has shied distant from societal media recently, but successful the fewer uncommon appearances she made online, she has been dressing carefully.

The soap prima has been wearing agelong maxi dresses implicit the past fewer weeks, which person hung loosely implicit her tummy.

Lacey was besides filmed gardening successful her awesome location allotment - again successful baggy clothes.

She was caught connected camera pottering distant successful greenish jogging bottoms and an oversized achromatic sweatshirt.

Maternity permission job

Last month, Lacey announced she had landed a marque caller occupation with the BBC.

Lacey is acceptable to big the podcast We Started Here, which volition observe celebrated telly and movie icons.

The crushed the histrion is truthful cleanable for the relation is due to the fact that each of those featured volition person started their careers successful soap operas.

As with her erstwhile pregnancies, Lacey volition instrumentality a play of maternity permission from EastEnders.

The BBC person confirmed the podcast volition motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth - which volition wed up alternatively nicely with Stacey Slater's exit.

This means the prima should inactive person a occupation during her maternity leave, albeit a batch little demanding than her relation successful 'Enders.

Wanting more

Lacey is besotted with her 2 children; Dusty, five, and three-year-old Trilby.

She adores being a mum and the siblings adjacent person their ain Instagram account, tally by their dada Matt.

But conscionable months aft Trilby has born, Lacey was already vowing to grow their brood further.

In a candid chat with OK! VIP Club, she said she'd similar 4 children.

"We’re truthful fortunate to person the 2 we’ve got, but I would decidedly person more," Lacey admitted.

"It decidedly won’t beryllium immoderate clip soon though – we person our hands afloat astatine the moment!"

Fast-forward 3 years and Lacey is pregnant.

Announcing the quality connected Instagram, she posed alongside her puerility sweetheart hubby and their 2 children connected the beach.

Dusty and Trilby are proudly holding a enactment of ultrasound images successful the snaps.

Lacey simply said: "Aren’t we fortunate ….. @thekayoskids."