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Mumsy Natasha Kaplinsky's last minute dress rehearsal for motherhood
Updated 00:47am on 14 Aug 2008
Heavily pregnant Natasha Kaplinsky is preparing for the arrival of her bundle of joy, with the help of a little friend.
At a country fair at the weekend the newsreader took the chance to practise her mothering skills with her friend's young son.
While his mother stood by Natasha hopped onto a ride with the toddler, who smiled in delight as they trundled around.
The 35-year-old opted for a casual outfit - including a dark top that wouldn't show marks from sticky little fingers.
Mum-in-waiting: At a country fair with a friend's son
But the newsreader is making no compromises with her diet. Despite being surrounded by fast food at the Barcombe Mills Country Fair in East Sussex, she ate fruit salad.
And although many women in her condition would be waddling along in the comfort of tracksuit bottoms and trainers, Natasha is making few concessions.
With her bump becoming increasingly prominent, the heavily-pregnant newsreader dubbed 'Spangles' recently stepped out in a pair of shiny red stilettos.
She was seen leaving her London home in the vampish shoes, a smart white shirt and dark trousers.
Her refusal to dress down will be no surprise to her new employers Channel Five, since Miss Kaplinsky was famously reluctant to wear jeans for informal news bulletins.
Since confirming she was expecting her first child in early April, the Five News presenter has continued to get about in high heels.
Expecting: Natasha Kaplinsky shows off her baby bump, and her high heels, while leaving her London home on Tuesday
Natasha became Britain's highest-paid newsreader when Five lured her from the BBC in a £1million-a-year deal.
She boosted viewer figures by 72 per cent when she started on the channel earlier this year.
Shortly after, she announced she was expecting a baby with banker husband Justin Bower.
The Strictly Come Dancing winner is expected to take maternity leave from next month, but will not receive a penny in maternity pay because she was hired as a freelance.
Mum-to-be: Natasha is expecting a baby with her banker husband Justin Bower
Reader views (5)
Why shouldn't she wear killer heels! I have worn 3" Stilleto's since I was 14 and I wore them all through my 3 pregnancies. In fact I am far more comfortable in them than I am in flatter shoes and my back is as straight as it was 43 years ago. Leave these people alone.
- Louie, South East, 13/08/2008 21:31
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My dears, it is important to face facts and no amount of goggle-eyed celebrity adulation should be allowed to distract from them.
- Delphine, Oxford, 13/08/2008 15:09
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Delphine, lucky you are so perfect yourself to be calling such cheap shots .... not jealous about the £1m a year salary, perchance?
- Marianne, SW France, 13/08/2008 12:49
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Ooh, someone give Delphine a saucer of milk!
She does not have short stumpy legs - she has average length legs that look stumpier at the moment as she is carrying baby weight.
I wish women wouldn't pick each other apart like this all the time, its cheap and nasty.
- Lisa, London, 13/08/2008 12:46
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She's got such short stumpy legs, she can really do with the lift.
- Delphine, Oxford, 13/08/2008 10:19
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