Zoe Ventoura reveals how she kept her pregnancy and the birth of her son Austin Xavier a secret

Zoë Ventoura welcomed her first child Austin Xavier in December 2019 but his arrival was only confirmed in May last year.

And now, the 40-year-old actress has revealed how she kept her pregnancy a secret for so long.

Zoe told The Sydney Morning Herald’s Sunday Life she hid her growing bump while filming Home and Away by wearing big jackets.

‘For the first couple of months I looked pretty normal, but by the end of my contract I was starting to show quite a bit, so there were some big bags and some very big jackets,’ she said.

‘I was playing a doctor, so I was hiding behind folders quite a lot!’

Zoe also explained she wasn’t hiding her pregnancy but the secret ‘never came out’.

‘If someone had gone, “Oh god, she’s pregnant” I would have been “yeah”, but it never came out,’ she said. 

Zoe welcomed her son Austin with her ex-husband Daniel MacPherson in December 2019.

They have proven to be notoriously private about their only child, keeping him out of the public eye, as well as keeping the pregnancy and birth a secret.

In December last year, Zoe and actor Dan announced their shock split after just five years of marriage.

The couple shared almost identically worded posts to Instagram, revealing they had mutually decided to separate.

Alongside a photo of the pair with their backs turned to the camera at sunset, Daniel, 40, wrote: ‘With the greatest respect for each other, Zoë and I have separated.’

‘Together, we will continue wholeheartedly to raise our beautiful boy Austin. He is, and will forever be, our greatest priority.

‘We ask for your respect and will be making no further comment.’