Kate Ferdinand shows off growing baby bump as she strips down to black bikini

Kate Ferdinand looks absolutely glowing as she prepares to give birth to her first baby with husband Rio Ferdinand.

The former TOWIE star, 29, recently took some time out to relax in Turkey as she, Rio and his three children enjoyed a sun-soaked holiday weeks before their baby brother is sister is due to arrive.

And Kate clearly loved her time in the sun as she’s been posting throwback snaps ever since she touched down back home.

Sharing one today, Kate gushed over her ex-footballer husband as she showed off her growing baby bump in a black bikini.

“I love you,” she captioned the shot, which showed her and Rio cuddling up together on the edge of the crystal-clear sea.

Wearing an enormous wide-brimmed straw hat and a pair of transparent sunglasses to shield her skin from the rays, the reality TV star grinned as she showed off her bump.

Rio – wearing just a pair of swimming trunks and his sunnies – looked happy to be standing proudly next to his pregnant wife.

Their fans instantly flooded her Instagram post with praise, with one writing: “Beautiful mummy to be.”

Another told her: “Most gorgeous couple xxx.”

It comes after Kate admitted she was struggling with swollen ankles and tiredness in her final trimester, as she shared more snaps of the family’s Turkish holiday.

Wearing a pale green silk slip dress, Kate told fans not to be be “fooled” by her sunshine snap.

Captioning the pic, she told her followers: “Favourite photo spot…

“Don’t be fooled by this pik, by the end of the night the feet were swollen, the heels were off and the bed was calling.”

She and Rio, along with his three children from his first marriage – Tate, 12, Lorenz, 14, and Tia, nine – have been preparing to welcome their newest addition to their family, after Kate spoke honestly about her struggling to be a stepmum.

Kate opened up in a BBC documentary earlier this year about how she coped with the children’s grief after their mum Rebecca Ellison died in 2015 of breast cancer, and confessed she found it difficult to suddenly be responsible for three kids.

“I used to get myself into such a state,” Kate admitted.

“I couldn’t cook, a house that wasn’t my own… I think I found everything hard.

“Even things like the doctors, they’d ask, ‘Have the children have chicken pox?’ and I would say, ‘I don’t know’.

“I found myself not having answers to a lot of things. It was difficult.”

Luckily the three children have taken to Kate and had been begging their parents for a little sibling before the happy couple surprised them with their baby news.