Pregnancy has made me love my body

Actress Melissa Johns

- BY JASMINE ALLDAY

(Melissa with husband Dan Hampton)

MELISSA Johns couldn't be more excited to welcome her baby girl with husband Dan.

The Coronation Street and Grantchester star is gearing up for the arrival of her first child - and being pregnant has changed her life in more ways than one.

The actress — best known to TV fans for playing Miss Scott in the ITV period drama ~ says being pregnant has made her feel empowered after growing up being told her body was “limited” after she was born without aright forearm or hand.

Melissa has documented her pregnancy in the way most parents do, with a gorgeous bump photoshoot. But for Melissa, these images represent more than just her own journey.

“It feels so empowering. I've grown up not seeing people with body differences in bump photoshoots and I’ve spent a lot of my life with people telling me that my body is limited,” she says. “Having a limb difference, people have commented on it, judged it and put their own limitations on it.

“There's something about carrying a baby that makes me feel limitless.”