--- title: Cheryl Cole Liam Payne Pregnant Maternity Shoot description: See pictures from the maternity shoot of X Factor U.K. judge Cheryl Cole, who's expecting a baby with One Direction's Liam Payne. canonical: https://time.com/4680076/cheryl-cole-liam-payne-pregnant-shoot/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-23T14:27:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:55.021Z og:title: Cheryl Officially Announces Pregnancy With Stunning Maternity Shoot og:description: She's expecting a baby with One Direction's Liam Payne og:url: https://time.com/4680076/cheryl-cole-liam-payne-pregnant-shoot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cbda0ad2dad14ae/6988bb85656a3f9445bcee1e/cheryl-cole-baby-bump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cheryl Officially Announces Pregnancy With Stunning Maternity Shoot twitter:description: She's expecting a baby with One Direction's Liam Payne twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cbda0ad2dad14ae/6988bb85656a3f9445bcee1e/cheryl-cole-baby-bump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cheryl Officially Announces Pregnancy With Stunning Maternity Shoot by [Karen Mizoguchi / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Karen Mizoguchi / People Contributor Feb 23, 2017 2:27 PM UTC  PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 02: Cheryl Cole attends the L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession Party at Hotel de la Monnaie on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/ Getty Images for L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession) PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 02: Cheryl Cole attends the L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession Party at Hotel de la Monnaie on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/ Getty Images for L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession)David M. Benett—Dave Benett/ Getty Images for L' by [Karen Mizoguchi / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Karen Mizoguchi / People Contributor Feb 23, 2017 2:27 PM UTC [**Cheryl**](http://people.com/tag/cheryl-cole/) has debuted her baby bump! The mother-to-be, who is [expecting her first child](http://people.com/babies/liam-payne-cheryl-pregnant-expecting-first-child/) with [One Direction](http://people.com/tag/one-direction/)‘s [Liam Payne](http://people.com/tag/liam-payne/), showed off her pregnancy curves in a photo shoot for L’Oreal and The Prince’s Trust, published in this week’s [_The Daily Mirror_](http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/cheryl-finally-confirms-pregnancy-cradles-9898627)_._ Dressed in a black, long sleeve ensemble, the _X Factor U.K._ judge smiled softly as she posed in profile and cradled her bump. In November, [PEOPLE confirmed](http://people.com/babies/liam-payne-cheryl-pregnant-expecting-first-child/) Cheryl, 33, and Payne, 23, were expecting their first child, though the couple never officially announced it. That same month, the singer let her baby belly peek through when the couple stepped out for the St. James Christmas Carol Concert in London. Cheryl and Payne, who [began dating](http://people.com/celebrity/liam-payne-and-cheryl-fernandez-versini-are-dating/) late last year, met when he competed on the _X Factor_ in 2010 with his future bandmates. The pair made [their red carpet debut](http://people.com/celebrity/liam-payne-and-cheryl-fernandez-versini-make-red-carpet-debut/) in May at Eva Longoria’s Global Gift Gala in Paris. _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/babies/cheryl-cole-baby-bump-photo/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4680076/cheryl-cole-liam-payne-pregnant-shoot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4680076/cheryl-cole-liam-payne-pregnant-shoot/"},"headline":"Cheryl Officially Announces Pregnancy With Stunning Maternity Shoot","datePublished":"2017-02-23T14:27:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:55.021Z","description":"She's expecting a baby with One Direction's Liam Payne","url":"https://time.com/4680076/cheryl-cole-liam-payne-pregnant-shoot/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cbda0ad2dad14ae/6988bb85656a3f9445bcee1e/cheryl-cole-baby-bump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karen Mizoguchi / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cbda0ad2dad14ae/6988bb85656a3f9445bcee1e/cheryl-cole-baby-bump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession Party","caption":"L'Oreal Paris Gold Obsession Party","creditText":"David M. 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