Ola and James Jordan become parents for the first time as she gives birth to a baby girl  

Ola and James Jordan have become parents for the first time after the former Strictly Come Dancing star gave birth to a baby girl.

The professional dancer, 37, and her husband of almost 17 years, 41, announced the happy news via Instagram after welcoming their bundle of joy into the world on Saturday.

The new mother gushed about her little one while sharing a sweet snap holding her hand, and wrote: ‘She’s here and she is perfect.’ 

The couple, who have been together for 20 years, announced they were expecting their first child in September 2019 after a painful three-year battle with infertility. 

The television personality pair underwent IVF (in vitro fertilisation) and Ola fell pregnant during their first round.

Prior to conceiving, Ola said: ‘I would love to be a mum with all my heart and I just thought it would happen naturally.

‘I guess I just thought like most women that I could choose when the time was right for me.’ 

James added: ‘We had some tests and it looks like IVF will be our best chance of conceiving.’ 

The TV personalities previously admitted the stress of going through three years of trying to have a baby has made them ‘stronger’ than ever. 

Speaking during an appearing on Loose Women in January, James said: ‘My parents didn’t even know it took us three years [to conceive], it made them teary. You don’t want to worry them.’ 

Ola said: ‘We used to laugh it off, but after a while, you think, “How much can you practice?”

‘People guessed [that there was an issue]… it was our fault because we kept saying that we wanted to have babies, so people kept asking.’

James continued: ‘We’ve been with each other for 20 years. We have a strong relationship. It was upsetting. I broke down in front of everyone when I was on Dancing On Ice when they brought it up.’

The couple announced they were expecting a baby girl in December, and said their little one was ‘dancing’ in Ola’s 12-week scan.

She told HELLO! magazine: ‘When we had the scan it was funny because the baby was dancing. ‘I’m not sure if it was a cha-cha or a jive, but it was definitely dancing.’  

James said he and Ola had not wanted to ‘jinx anything’ after undergoing IVF, adding: ‘Because we were quite nervous going through IVF we didn’t want to jinx anything… now we know it’s a little girl it just feels very real now. It’s amazing.’

Ola joked that her husband would be a ‘terrible birthing partner’ and said James was ‘more scared’ than her about the labour process. 

‘I don’t know what to expect with the birth – I’m scared, but millions and millions of women do it, so it can’t be that bad surely?’ she said. ‘But James is more scared than me, more afraid. He’ll be a terrible birthing partner! 

‘He’s very protective of me – even now, when I’m just walking around, he’s making sure I don’t fall. So if things don’t go the way they should [during the birth], I think he will start panicking.’ 

James and Polish-born beauty Ola first met at a dance competition in Blackpool in 1999 and married four years later.

They were initially dance partners before their professional relationship developed into romance, James proposed two years later and the couple tied the knot in October 2003. 

The pair shot to fame as professionals on BBC One celebrity competition Strictly Come Dancing, which they both joined in series four back in 2006. 

James bowed out of the show after season 11 in 2013, while Ola left at the end of series 13 in 2015.