The Home and Away actress will become a mother for the first time around her 46th birthday later this year.
In an official statement Emily, who has been dating Sydney radio director Paul Jackson for two years, said: “It has always been my greatest wish to be a mother.
“We are overjoyed at this chance to be parents together and to introduce a sibling to Paul’s children – Tommy, Georgia and Grace.
“Conceived through IVF, this a dream come true for us.”
Despite the amazing news, Emily confessed she’d almost given up on having a baby.
She told an Australian newspaper: “I very much thought it wouldn’t happen and I was too old.
“I thought it would be impossible but it isn’t. I’d given up really, I thought I had tried every avenue that was available to us.”
While Emily was married to second husband Lorenzo Smith she unsuccessfully attempted IVF twice. They split in 2005, but Emily later admitted she’d made peace with the fact children might never happen for her.
In 2010 she told the Herald Sun: “There’a a longing and a biological need to have a baby that I think men don’t have.
“But the flip side is that IVF can take over your life. It gets to the point where you’re so desperate to have a baby, everything else falls by the wayside. There was a phase when I thought, if I had a baby, my mum might stay alive longer. It was crazy; your hormones [go mad].
“But I’m at peace with that now. I understand it wasn’t meat for me.”
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