The One Show's Alex Jones admits: I thought my time for having children had passed

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Alex Jones has admitted she thought she had missed the chance to have any more children.

The One Show – who has two sons, four-year-old Teddy and two-year-old Kit, with husband Charlie Thomson – recently announced she is expecting a baby girl - which was a surprise even to her.

Jones, 44, told Closer: “It's a huge gift. I suppose deep down I would never have said it because we were so lucky to have two lovely boys, but having a girl was always something that was there.

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"I thought our time had passed and it wasn't going to happen."

The Welsh TV presenter also admitted that she and her husband are both delighted to be having a daughter – but had been too scared to admit to one another they were hoping for a baby girl, until they had the gender confirmed.

Jones revealed: “We both said how amazing three boys would be. Then when we opened the email which told us what sex the baby was, [Charlie's] little face was a picture.

“We were too scared to say it, but I think we both felt the same. We both secretly thought it would be amazing if it was a girl. It’ll be really interesting to see the different dynamics.”

The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant recently revealed that she had been completely unaware she might be pregnant again - and put her feelings of tiredness down to her new vegan diet.

She said: "This is ridiculous in a third pregnancy, but I didn't realise the clues were there because I honestly blamed everything on the veganism."

Jones - who has hosted BBC's The One Show since 2010 - married her husband in 2015 and was worried that at 38 she had left it too late to conceive.

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She opened up about her own fertility struggles in BBC Two documentary Alex Jones - Fertility & Me. She fell pregnant with her first son Teddy in 2016.

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