Overview

• Hodgins is almost four months into her first pregnancy, marking the announcement with a scan captioned “First comes love, Then comes marriage, Then comes… Baby Whitehead.”
• She plans to take maternity leave from Emmerdale after 19 years as Victoria Sugden to focus on motherhood.
• The actress has experienced fatigue and mood swings during her first trimester but says she has not suffered severe sickness.
• Hodgins and husband Adam Whitehead have decided not to learn the baby’s sex and are designing a gender-neutral nursery.
• Co-stars including Lisa Riley and Daisy Campbell publicly congratulated her while fans speculate on how Emmerdale will write Victoria Sugden out during her absence.