Brittany Higgins has announced she and her husband David Sharaz are expecting their first child.
On Sunday, Higgins made the announcement on social media with an image of baby clothes hanging on a clothesline.
Writing on Instagram, she said, “Can’t wait to meet you!”
“Beyond excited to welcome a new member to our little family.”
“Your parents are already obsessed with you and you aren’t even here yet. 🤍🤍”
The announcement was followed by many congratulations and well wishes from friends, family and supporters.
“How wonderful – huge congratulations!!!,” renowned journalist Tracey Spicer writes.
“I just got as close as I can to jumping for joy oh my goodness 🥹 What a beautiful lucky glorious thing for this little one to have you as its mama ❤️,” said leading advocate and writer Hannah Diviney.
Influential business leader Wendy Mccarthy commented as well, saying: “I am so thrilled to read this enjoy every minute of prep and dreaming and planning and love.”
Higgins and Sharaz held their wedding on the Gold Coast about two months ago. They got engaged on New Year’s Eve in 2022 at Cape Byron lighthouse in Byron Bay NSW.
Last December, Higgins and Sharaz made the move from Australia to the south of France, where they reportedly bought a house.
The couple met in 2020 while Higgins was a Liberal staffer and Sharaz was a producer for Sky News Australia.
The pair are currently involved in legal action with Higgins’ former boss, Liberal senator Linda Reynolds, who is suing Higgins and Sharaz for defamation. In April, Sharaz bowed out of defending his case, saying he couldn’t afford the legal costs.
Since then, Reynolds has launched more legal action against Higgins, attempting to target the Commonwealth payout she received on the grounds of suffering psychiatric injury, economic loss, bullying and disputed inadequate support.
Earlier this, a Federal Court judge found that former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann did – on the burden of proof required in a civil trial – rape Higgins in Reynolds’ Parliament House office in March 2019.