Scots catwalk queen Eunice Olumide on new husband and baby which is due any day now

SUPERMODEL Eunice Olumide has revealed she got remarried in secret and is expecting a baby this week with her new husband.

Eunice, 36, previously wed Commonwealth Games gold medal gymnast Steve Frew - but they split up and still remain friends.

But after a whirlwind romance she has married a second time- to American IT specialist Dario Richards.

Eunice and Richards tied the knot in a quiet ceremony last year just eight months after they met - and not even her parents were invited.

The Edinburgh-born model, of Nigerian origin, grew up in the city's Wester Hailes housing estate.

She was discovered at the age of 15 by a modelling agency and has gone on to feature in Vogue as well as working with Prada, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen.

Now she is planning to juggle her stellar career with motherhood and marriage.

She said: "Dario is a systems manager in IT.

"We met in Jamaica on my birthday in October, 2022, and we got married in June last year, within eight months of meeting each other and I think that is enough time to know.

"Sometimes it's actually better if you don't wait a long time to get married.

"Also, when we got married, it was like nothing. It was literally just us and our witnesses.

"We decided to keep it totally quiet and keep it to ourselves in order to give ourselves as much chance to be successful as possible without any pressure.

"It's kind of like being pregnant. I just didn't tell anyone.

"If you bumped into me you'd notice I was pregnant, but I just announced my pregnancy publicly in the last 10 days."

Of the break-up of her first marriage, Eunice, who is due to give birth any day now, added: "We were best friends when we got married and we still are best friends.

"I think sometimes when you spend all your time with somebody it's quite difficult to know if that's the right one if you're best friends.

"But I just think, why not? It might work.

"I think it's better to try something and find out it doesn't work rather than to not try it and miss out on what could have been the best relationship of my life."

She is planning to give birth to her first child at home without NHS medical help.

Instead, the baby will be delivered in a traditional method known as freebirthing - without midwives or doctors in attendance and without drugs.

Eunice, who has featured on the cover of some of the world's leading fashion magazines, said: "If it's a girl we are probably going to give the baby my name just because that's my mum's mum's name.

"If it's a boy, it will be named after my new husband.

"You can actually get birthing pools in hospitals. But I would like to have candles and music and to have all my own stuff.

"I definitely want to be in a position where I can move around and I can adopt different positions for the birth.

"I have planned my birth through the home birth team. I have been for my scans.

"I'll have my husband. with me and then I probably will have what you call a doula, which tends to be a friend or a member of the family.

"It could be someone that you don't know who may or may not have worked as a midwife, but they definitely have studied birth a lot.

"I won't be doing any drugs and that's the other reason I want to do home birthing - .

"In hospitals, there's a big reliance on drugs and that you will be offered drugs or you might feel like you need that, whereas at home it's highly unlikely you'll have any drugs.

"I want to have a very organic experience.

"I feel that society looks at birth almost like you're not well as opposed to this being a natural occurrence. "It is totally natural. Your body is designed to do it like eating or sleeping.

"We have gone away from that, which I understand, and I would never put anyone off going to hospital."

Eunice insists she is not championing freebirthing, but that it is a valid option for expectant mothers.

"Certain women need to do that and may have been told after scans that they are at high risk in which case you have to go to hospital.

"It is all about safety and creating the best environment for you.

"I would never recommend a woman not to go to hospital but if you are one hundred percent healthy and you've been told there is no risk it's an option.

"If you're going to do a home birth or free-birth, there's going to be risks attached to that but then there's going to be risks in hospital as well .

"I'm not a doctor or a scientist but I've done some research into it. I feel that the risks are at minimum."

Eunice was awarded an MBE in 2017 for her extensive charity work mentoring young Scots.

She said: "I'm the first of my generation to be born on this side of the world'.

"I'm obsessed with Scotland and I love it. It's my identity.

"It's who I am. That's why I want to have my child here.

"But my mum and all her descendants come from a part of the world where there is no access to hospitals.

"I suppose in my subconscious I don't see this as radical because everyone else in my family wasn't born in a hospital.

"I trust myself. I trust my body. I trust my baby. It's a natural process."

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