{"id":914695,"date":"2026-10-03T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:42:22","slug":"casey-donovan-reveals-she-is-pregnant-expecting-first-child-with-partner-renee-sharples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914695\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Donovan reveals she is pregnant, expecting first child with partner Renee Sharples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casey Donovan has announced her new role of a lifetime: she will soon be a first-time mother alongside her partner Renee Sharples.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Australian singer and actress shared her amazing life update on Instagram on Saturday with a heartwarming photo of her and Sharples showing off ultrasound images.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter extensive research, clinical assessment and absolutely no musical rehearsal\u2026 Baby arriving February 2027,\u201d Donovan wrote in the caption.<\/p>\n

The 2004 Australian Idol winner \u2014 who won at just 16 years old, becoming the show\u2019s youngest winner \u2014 was also seen in the photo holding up a brown baby suit that had the words \u201ccool bubs club\u201d written on it.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s pregnancy news comes after Donovan, from the age of 14, was told she was unlikely to ever become a mother.<\/p>\n

But thanks to IVF, her motherhood dream has come true.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m feeling so many emotions right now,\u201d Donovan told The Daily Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been told since I was a young girl that falling pregnant was going to be a massive issue or if it would ever happen at all, so I went into this going, \u2018It\u2019s not going to work, nothing\u2019s going to.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI was told it may be difficult to conceive a child, hold a child and, yeah, give birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still don\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sister Act The Musical star was diagnosed as a teenager with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), formerly known as polycystic ovary syndrome.<\/p>\n

She and Sharples have been together for six years and started their IVF journey at the end of 2025.<\/p>\n

They went through egg retrieval and fertilisation with sperm from a donor before the eggs were cultured into embryos.<\/p>\n

Donovan was always going to be the \u201ccarrier\u201d, and the powerhouse singer is coming up to 22 weeks pregnant.<\/p>\n

\"CaseyCamera IconCasey Donovan is going to be a mum for the first time. Credit: Karen Watson\/\u00a9 Karen Watson <\/p>\n

Her pregnancy announcement on social media was flooded with messages of congratulations from thousands of celebrity friends and fans.<\/p>\n

Brendan Fevola said: \u201cWhoooo this is the best. Congratulations to you both.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zan Rowe said: \u201cCongrats Casey & Renee! Such wonderful and exciting news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dami Im said: \u201cAmazing! Congratulations!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Mac, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Em Rusciano and Gisella Colletti were also overjoyed to hear the happy news.<\/p>\n

Donovan has been touring the country on a 50-date run of shows for her This Is Me tour with the last one happening in Melbourne on November 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casey Donovan has announced her new role of a lifetime: she will soon be a first-time mother alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,66706,1625,136],"class_list":["post-914695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-family-life","tag-lifestyle","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}