'It'll be so nice for Bella to have a best friend'

Former TOWIE star Nicole Bass reveals her baby news and shares her hopes for a close bond between her daughters

- GEORGIA TREVITT

She only welcomed her first child, daughter Bella Rose, last November, and now former TOWIE favourite Nicole Bass is getting ready to do it all over again – as we can exclusively reveal she’s expecting baby number two.

Nicole, 31, excitedly tells us she’s having another girl, due two weeks after Bella Rose’s first birthday. And while Nicole knows she will have her hands full, she wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I feel really positive,” Nicole beams. “I feel really grateful and really lucky. Their age gap will be about a year. Me and my brother, Jamie, are the same and we are best friends. The relationship I have with him is beautiful. And I keep thinking the same for Bella – it’ll be so nice for her to have a best friend for life. I think it’s so nice that they can grow up together.

“It’s going to be a busy few years and I’m sure there’ll be times where it can be tiring, but I’m actually excited about it and I’m looking forward to it. I love being a mum. My mum has six children, and if she can do it with me and my brother, then I can do it!”

Nicole and her partner of four and a half years – whose identity she chooses to keep private – were open to the idea of another baby, but she explains it happened quicker than expected.

“It was a tiny bit of a shock because it caught me by surprise, but it was such a lovely one,” Nicole says. “It took me a while to fall pregnant with Bella, so it happening so quickly this time was beautiful.”