By: Natasha Archary
Former Miss South Africa 2011, Melinda Bam and her husband Adriaan Bergh are expecting their second baby.
The happy couple who are currently on vacation in the French Riviera shared their news with a picture of Melinda’s growing baby bump.
“16 weeks, glowing and growing! Time away with my hubby is always irreplaceable. Regrouping, dreaming, praying, playing, envisioning what this new chapter will hold and a few conscious decisions on how we’ll approach certain things. Worth more than gold!”
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Melinda and her hubby welcomed their first child, a boy in April 2023 and the former beauty queen has shared how much motherhood has changed her life.
“People will try to tell you about that first moment.
Where you fall in love.
And you’ll nod, you’ll sit there in awe trying to make sense of a feeling that could never be put into words.
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Because how do you explain about knowing love but not like this, how it runs through your veins.
How with each inhale you’ll consume it forever from this moment forward.
That your new home is wherever they are, and theirs is simply you.
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How do you explain this pain with a purpose, the one that pulls every ounce of strength from your body. One you never knew you had, one that waited for you.How do you explain wanting the world to know about this perfect little person you’re staring down at, and in the same breath, wanting to protect them from it. That you’ve never felt so fierce and so vulnerable, that your arms have never felt so important.
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How do you explain that months of growing them, would be the beginning of them growing you. How you can be born again, still you and someone new.”
