Tina O’Brien, who played gymslip mum Sarah-Lou in Coronation Street was worried about all the booze she’d put away before the stick turned blue.

Tina, 24, has been going steady with co-star Ryan Thomas (who plays thick-but-fit builder, Jason Grimshaw) for five years but the pregnancy was unplanned.

Is having a C-section really a laughing matter? Well, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie certainly thought so this week during the birth of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

She was happy to chat and joke with partner Brad Pitt throughout the birth at Lenval Hospital on the French Riviera.

Hollywood hotty, Jessica Alba, has revealed that she “never felt less sexy” than when she was up the stick.

The new mum, 27, gave birth to Honor Marie in June told Cosmopolitan about her mixed feelings during pregnancy:

“I wouldn’t have changed it for the world…But I wanted to get rid of all the weight.”

Piling on the pounds can cut a man’s chances of becoming a dad.

But it’s not because they find it harder to find a mate – although that is certainly a factor!
It’s because fat men are more likely to be infertile.

Well, at least, that’s according to new study, which found that obese men tended to have poorer quality sperm.

Four cups of coffee a day could reduce a woman’s chances of having a baby by more than a quarter.

That’s according to researchers in Holland, who found women who got their caffeine fix more than three times a day were 26% less likely to conceive than those who drank less.

Once, we were entranced by Britney Spears’ pop princess persona - now we’re more bothered about the size of her belly, and what’s bloating it this week.

After rumours of pregnancy have been quashed by Britney’s camp, with her folks saying the bloat was purely down to her medication, she has now been snapped with a shrinking tum.

She was photographed wearing a floaty top the night before, that showed off her rounded stomach, but the morning after, the bulge was gone. Hang on a minute, what’s going on?

Tom Cruise has welcomed the recommencement of Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes’ friendship, but only if the ‘d’ word is banned.

Yep, that’s right. Posh Spice and the better half of TomKat are forbidden to discuss diets, in case Katie ends up becoming as thin as Victoria.

TomKat are hoping to start babymaking in the near future, just like the Beckhams, and Tom is worried that Katie will become too obsessed with her diet and fitness regimes.

The average woman spends a decade of her life on a diet.

According to a poll conducted by natural weightloss supplement manufacturers LIPObind, ladies will go on 104 diets between the ages of 18 and 70 – that’s two a year!

As the average length of a diet is around five weeks, that works out to be around 10 years. Ten years?! Now that’s a long time to deny yourself what you really want to eat.

Pregnant women who use mobile phones could be harming their unborn children’s health.

So say researchers in Denmark and America, who say that pregnant women who use handheld mobiles were almost 60 per cent more likely to have kids with issues such as hyperactivity.

The report – which tested thousands of Danish children and is due to be published in the journal Epidemiology – also stated that the rose sharply if the child used a mobile themselves before the age of seven.

That Dirrty bird from across the pond, Christina Aguilera, has told how having a baby has given her blooming boobs.

The singer’s cup size has increased to a fulsome E, after giving birth to baby boy Max Liron four months ago.

She has managed to lose over 3st of the 4st she gained whilst pregnant, but her breasts have continued to grow due to the fact that she is breastfeeding.

You may have been aware of rumours suggesting that Britney Spears had somehow managed to get pregnant.

Well, relax, because apparently she isn’t. True, Britney Spears might have a bit of a belly on her at the moment, but Britney says it’s just her bipolar medication bloating her stomach out.

But that’s the thing with psychiatric brain medication, isn’t it? Full of carbs. If only Britney Spears was diagnosed with another illness - like some kind of horrific wasting disease or the Ebola virus - instead of bipolar disorder, then she’d be lovely and happy and thin as a rake. No wonder she’s so mental.