As if winning five stages and the green jersey wasn’t enough, Mark Cavendish has confirmed that girlfriend Peta Todd is pregnant after conceiving during the race.
- Mark Cavendish won the green jersey at the Tour de France
The world champion announced the news on Twitter and said: “I’m happy to announce, beyond doubt, my proudest moment of this year…. @petatodd is pregnant. I’m going to be a daddy.”
Page 3 model Todd told The Sun: “I’m four months gone, which means it was conceived in July, during the Tour de France. It’s a Tour baby.
“We haven’t found out the sex yet but we will. I think it’s a boy because I’ve already had a boy, but Mark thinks it’s a girl.”
The pair have been dating more almost a year after meeting in Los Angeles. In that time Cavendish, who will ride for Team Sky in 2012, became the first Briton to win the Tour’s green jersey, increasing his tally of stage victories to 20, before being crowned world champion in Copenhagen.
Todd, meanwhile, has been voted the fourth most popular Page 3 model of all time by The Sun’s readers but the 24-year-old, who has a five-year-old son, Finnbarr, from a previous relationship, revealed she was quitting the British institution after more than six years.
“I’m going to be doing more writing for the paper and a couple of columns a week for The Sun’s website,” she added.
“It’s emotional to be leaving Page 3. It’s been my life since I was 18 and I’m so grateful for the chances it gave me.
“I think Page 3 is an institution which should be celebrated. I hope I helped change people’s preconceptions about Page 3 girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.
“But I also feel ready to move on and focus on new things.”
