Cross-code couple Jacqui Yorston and Tanah Boyd have revealed they are having a baby.
AFLW player Yorston and NRL star Boyd wowed their fans, friends and family when they went public with the news and a gender reveal on Wednesday.
The loved-up couple posted a short video of the gender reveal on Instagram, and laughed and embraced when the blue confetti flew.
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Boyd plays for the Gold Coast Titans while Yorston played AFLW for Brisbane, Gold Coast and then Port Adelaide.
Their Instagram pages were flooded with messages of congratulations immediately after they shared their baby joy.
Canterbury and former Gold Coast star Jamal Fogarty said: “Congrats legends, how bloody good! Baby nudgeeehhh on the way Tanah Boyd.”
Port Adelaide superstar Gemma Houghton wrote: “A little boy 🥹 massive congratulations to you and Tanah 🩵 x.”
While AFLW player Courtney Ugle (Essendon’s inaugural VFLW captain who is now at the Bulldogs) said: “So wholesome! 🥹 congrats guys!! 🧡🧡🧡”
The footballers began dating in 2018 and Yorston’s trade from Brisbane to Gold Coast brought the pair closer together. And last October they announced they were engaged.
Boyd popped the question on a boat ride with his family as they filmed the 23-year-olds’ special memory.
“Forever with you. Still can’t believe it,” Yorston wrote.
Yorston took a 12-month break from her AFLW duties last year to “focus on her physical and mental wellbeing”.
At the end of her “inactive season”, however, she was delisted by Port Adelaide.
Her career took a devastating turn when she suffered a serious knee injury ahead of the 2021 season, tearing her ACL, MCL and lateral and medial meniscuses during a training session.
Yorston rebooted her career with a move to South Australia to play for the Power in 2022 but recovery, part-time football and full-time work took its toll.
“I remember getting in the shower and I just lost it, I started crying and I said to my partner, Tanah, ‘I can’t do this, this is going to be way too hard’,” she told the ABC during her first season with Port Adelaide.
“I said to him ‘how am I meant to do my rehab properly when I go back to work?’”
Yorston took more than three months of unpaid leave from work to focus on her fitness.
“I’ll tell you what’s torture: torture is waking up at the same time as Tanah,” she said of balancing recovery and work.
“We have breakfast and coffee together. He puts his training gear on, I put my work clothes and high heels on. I go to work, he goes to training.
“He’s home at two or three o’clock (in the afternoon) and I’m leaving work at four to be at training by five and home by 9.30pm.”
Boyd was a Broncos junior and was once dubbed the next Allan Langer – although laughs about the tag.