Alex McKinnon’s ex-wife Teigan Power has announced the heartwarming news that she is expecting a baby with boyfriend Jake Nelson.
The pair had gone public with their relationship back in December 2023, almost two years after her marriage to the former Newcastle Knights star, McKinnon had ended.
Power and Nelson took to Instagram on Wednesday evening to announce the news.
They posed for multiple snaps on the beach with Power showing off her baby bump while the pair also shared a kiss.
‘What’s one more… Baby Nelson incoming,’ Power captioned the post.
It comes as the couple’s relationship had appeared to be getting more serious over the past 12 months.
Alex McKinnon’s ex-wife Teigan Power (pictured with her boyfriend Jake Nelson) took to Instagram on Wednesday to announce the exciting news that she and Nelson are expecting a baby
The pair also published a heartwarming snap of themselves sharing a kiss on Instagram on the beach
McKinnon (pictured right) has also found love since splitting with Power, announcing in 2024 that he was dating Lily Malone (pictured left)
Last July, Power shared multiple snaps of her and her beau Nelson on Instagram. In one image, the pair posed for a selfie with Power captioning the post: ‘Truly obsessed. Thank you for loving the girls and I.’
The pair first announced they were dating on Instagram in 2023, following a trip to the Hunter Valley Gardens Christmas Lights Spectacular, before celebrating their one-year anniversary in December.
Power and McKinnon, meanwhile, still maintain a strong relationship despite splitting up in 2022, after 12 years as a couple. They were married in 2017 and have three children together.
The pair were also recently praised for their co-parenting skills by some on social media after pictures emerged of them dropping one of their daughters off at preschool.
‘We are still really close,’ the former NRL star, who was paralysed in a tackle in 2014, said to News Corp on their relationship.
‘Being a parent is such an important job and having a strong relationship with their mum is just as important.
‘We are still good friends, we both realise we are role models for the kids and we need to show them that being supportive of each other is the only way to be.’
McKinnon proposed to his high school sweetheart back in 2014 just after his NRL career was heartbreakingly cut short.
Power and Nelson (pictured) announced their relationship in December 2023 with their relationship becoming more and more serious over the past year
Power and McKinnon (pictured) have three children together and have previously been praised on their co-parenting skills
The footy star, who was 22 at the time, fractured his C4 and C5 vertebrae in a horrific tackle during an NRL game between the Knights and Melbourne Storm.
‘Teigan was by my side through a really tough period in my life,’ McKinnon added.
‘I’m very lucky that she’s given me three beautiful girls, who have given me a lot of purpose.’
Last year, McKinnon announced that he had graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Science.
It was during his studies that he also met his new partner, Lilly Malone, with the pair confirming their romance on social media in December 2024.
Malone had been studying a Bachelor’s degree in social work and shared that she was hoping to become a qualified social worker.
Speaking on his time at university, McKinnon spoke on how going to university following his separation from Power, helped him refocus.
‘Going to uni, literally a month after we separated, it probably came at the best time of my life,’ he said.
The former footy star also revealed in recent months that he had graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Science (pictured right with Malone)
‘It got me out of my comfort zone, I met different people, there are so many lovely people that I met at uni over the last two and a half years that I have been there.
‘I suppose now in regards to relationships and meeting different people.
‘I’ve met a lot of different people over the last two and half years since being separated.
‘And it has allowed me to find myself again with self-confidence and identity, I’ve been very lucky.’
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