‘Already obsessed’: Brittany Higgins announces pregnancy
Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz are expecting a baby, she has confirmed. Photo: Instagram/David Sharaz
Brittany Higgins has revealed she and husband David Sharaz are expecting their first child.
Higgins, who now lives in France, made the announcement on social media late on Sunday.
“Can’t wait to meet you!” she wrote on Instagram.
“Beyond excited to welcome a new member to our little family. Your parents are already obsessed with you and you aren’t even here yet.”
The excited post was accompanied by a snap of baby clothes.
It came about six weeks after Higgins and Sharaz wed in front of 80 friends and family at the Currumbin Valley Estate on the Gold Coast.
The couple met in May 2020 while he was a producer for Sky News Australia and she was a Liberal staffer.
Last December, they moved to the south of France, where they have reportedly bought a house.
They remain embroiled in legal action with Higgins’ former boss, Liberal senator Linda Reynolds.
She is suing Higgins and Sharaz in a pair of defamation cases resulting from the fallout from the former staffer’s claims she was raped in Reynolds’ Parliament House office.
In April, Sharaz said he was bowing out of defending his case because he could not afford the legal costs.
Reynolds has also launched separate legal action in France to try to freeze the Commonwealth payout Higgins received in the fallout from her allegations of rape.
The grounds for Higgins receiving the money included being raped in the workplace, suffering psychiatric injury, economic loss, bullying, as well as the disputed inadequate support.
Mediation has failed to resolve Reynolds’ defamation claims.
The case is due for mention in the Western Australian Supreme Court on Monday, with a trial date in August.
Earlier this year, a Federal Court judge found that another former Liberal staffer, Bruce Lehrmann, did – on the burden of proof required in a civil trial – rape Higgins in Reynolds’ Parliament House office in March 2019.
Lehrmann’s criminal trial on a charge of raping Higgins was abandoned due to juror misconduct.
Prosecutors opted against a second trial, partly out of concern for Higgins’ mental health.
Lehrmann has always denied any sexual activity between himself and Higgins.
He has appealed the findings against him in his failed defamation case against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.
