Montana Brown believes that appearing in the rigorous reality show Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins aided her pregnancy.
The former Love Island actress, 28, has previously spoken out about her inability to conceive her first child despite being in her twenties.
She and her partner Mark O’Connor welcomed their baby Jude in June, although becoming pregnant wasn’t as easy as she had hoped.
She’s now disclosed that she became pregnant nearly immediately after returning from the jungles of Vietnam for the programme after filming on the Channel 4 show concluded last year.
Montana stated that she ‘genuinely feels’ it was because she was in fantastic physical form after participating in the show and was not’stressed’.
‘My body was obviously in peak physical condition. It was like clockwork.’
‘I wasn’t even stressed about getting pregnant,’ she added to The Sun.
The diva also mentioned the ‘good diet’ she was on throughout the competition, as well as the physical activity, saying it ‘just reset everything’.
The mother-of-one also joked that her ‘SAS baby’ had prompted Mark to wonder if co-star and former footballer Jermiane Pennant was the father.
Doctors calculate pregnancy dates based on your last period date, and her partner pointed out that she was still on the show at the time.
‘But obviously it’s not Jermaine Pennant’s! That’s a joke,’ she clarified.
Montana was one of 16 candidates on the difficult programme, which also featured disgraced former health minister Matt Hancock and talents like as Gareth Gates, James ‘Arg’ Argent, and Michelle Heaton.
She has since characterised it as the most difficult challenge of her life, even more difficult than giving birth to her son, and has stated that she would ‘honestly rather give birth again’.
‘Childbirth is easier than the stuff we were doing. I gave birth with no pain relief, so I can wholeheartedly say that, yeah, for me the SAS experience was way harder,’ she said.
Montana shared that she ‘really struggled’ with not knowing ‘when it’s going to end’ and pushing herself to ‘absolute maximum capacity’ only to find out that she was just ‘a fraction of the way through the challenge’.
However, the star also said that she had ‘never felt more proud of herself’.
She and ex-rugby player Mark got engaged in April, shortly before welcoming Jude together.
