Coleen Rooney expecting first child

TV presenter Coleen Rooney is pregnant with her first child, according to the Sunday Mirror. The paper reports that the 22-year-old - wife of England footballer Wayne Rooney - is due to give birth in September. And a friend of the couple said they were "absolutely thrilled". "Coleen and Wayne couldn’t be happier," the source said. "Their families are the biggest thing in their lives and Wayne has always said he wants at least three or four children. "Coleen has always maintained she wants a family when the time is right. "They don’t know whether it’s a boy or girl yet… they don’t mind either way." Coleen and Wayne married in a lavish ceremony on the Italian Riviera last summer, and made no secret of their desire to have a large family. Speculation had mounted that Coleen was expecting after she finished filming the latest series of her ITV2 show Coleen's Real Women in January. Since then she has been "lying low" according to friends - and has been dropping hints at a possible pregnancy. Recently she praised pregnant TV presenters Tess Daly and Holly Willoughby for their maternity wear, saying, "It must be so hard to find stylish dresses every week."

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