Pregnant Lucy Fallon reveals game-changing hack that allows her to wear trousers after making maternity clothes complaint

Lucy Fallon has taken to Instagram to share a maternity-wear tip with fans after complaining about having a lack of 'nice' things to wear while pregnant. Yesterday (Friday October 14) the former Coronation Street star, who is expecting her first baby with Preston North End footballer Ryan Ledson, to social media to ask "any brands that have nice maternity clothes?".

She wrote: "Ok so maternity clotes are just not giving me life." She asked with a cryong-face emoji: "Any brands that have nice maternity clothes? I want to dress like myself not like I'm going to a PTFA meeting."

On Saturday she returned to social media to say "I still don't have any clothes and nothing fits me." But she posted a hack on how she's making trousers work for her and her blossoming baby bump.

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"I have these pants, they're from H&M and they're size 8. I however, I don't want to be negative, but I'm not a size 8. So I've put this bobble through here." Lucy, 26, who played Bethany Platt in Coronation Street, then demonstrated how to extend the pants with a hair bobble.

With the bobble threaded around the hook fastener inside the waistband, Lucy then pulled it through the button hole to meet the hook again and zipped up the trousers. "And then I can wear the pants," she announced triumphantly.

In a follow-up clip she added: "Not sure how lonmg I'm allowed to do that for. I am over 24 weeks. If I'm not allowed to do that anymore sombody needs to let me know because I'm going to do that in every single pair of pants I own."

The Blackpool actress revealed the news she was pregnant last month. The couple, whose love blossomed during lockdown after