Brittany Higgins has joked that a sweet Valentines Day message to her husband David Sharaz will be ‘redundant’ if the soon-to-be parents break up.
Ms Higgins, 30, shared a carousel of photos of the pair at their June wedding, in the snow and walking their dog Kingston to Instagram on Friday.
‘My forever valentine. ***unless we breakup then this whole post is redundant. I love you @davidsharaz x,’ she gushed in the caption.
Ms Higgins is expecting to give birth to her first child, a baby boy, this month.
The former political staffer and her husband married in a lavish wedding on the Gold Coast last year, and in July announced they were expecting their first baby.
In October, Ms Higgins shared a series of photos of her blossoming baby bump as said the first half of her pregnancy had been ‘acutely stressful’ as she had received worrying news about her unborn baby.
That stress came after a defamation trial brought by her former boss, Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds, plus the recent death of her grandmother.
Higgins said that uncertainty in last few weeks had made her feel grateful for her unborn son.
‘A fortnight ago, David and I had the shock of our lives after the midwife told us halfway through my second trimester my blood test had raised some red flags,’ Higgins wrote.
‘Our baby had a high probability of a genetic disorder – which wouldn’t have mattered to us – but scarily could mean he may be incompatible with life outside of the womb.
‘After an amniocentesis and a seemingly never ending wait our prayers were answered. Our little guy is perfectly fine and healthy.
‘My mind can’t help but drifting back to that waiting room in the hospital, full of pregnant women, who were all having the same test as us and whether they had been so fortunate.’
The Valentines Day post came days after the couple were dealt a fresh blow over the sale of their taxpayer-bankrolled French chateau.
The home is expected to be sold at a massive loss, as it is still on the market six months after it was put up for sale, even after the price was slashed last year.
Ms Higgins’ French real estate agent is refusing to comment on speculation the price will be cut even further in the coming weeks in a bid to whip up some interest.
The three-bedroom mansion in Lunas, a village 100km east of Bordeaux in south-west France, has had ‘a couple of offers’, the agent told Daily Mail .
After entering the sale market last September, the 5000sqm estate had its price slashed in December from around €420,000 ($682,000) to around €367,500 ($596,500).
Reports vary on what Higgins and Sharaz paid for the house – estimated to be between $600,000 and $700,000 – but the final selling price could now slip as low as $100,000 below their original outlay.
A year before moving to France, Ms Higgins was awarded more than $2.4million from taxpayer funds for her loss of earning capacity, legal costs, medical expenses, domestic assistance and $400,000 ‘for hurt, distress and humiliation’.
The payout by the Albanese government was for her treatment in Canberra after her alleged rape by former colleague Bruce Lehrmann in Parliament House in 2019.
Although Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found in a defamation trial instigated by Lerhmann that on the balance of probabilities he had raped Higgins, Lehrmann has not been criminally convicted of the alleged crime.
Lehrmann’s criminal prosecution in the ACT Supreme Court ended in a mistrial after a juror misconduct in 2022, and the charges were later dropped against Lehrmann with any further retrial abandoned.
Daily Mail ‘s The Group Chat exclusively revealed last month that the couple are likely to set up a new home in Melbourne with their new baby.
They are hoping to buy in the well-heeled, family-friendly suburb of Malvern East.
Higgins has set her sights on Malvern East because her best friend, lobbyist Emma Webster, who supported Higgins daily during the defamation trial, lives there.
Malvern East has a median house price of about $2million and median unit price of is slightly more than $600,000.