One half of the Peru Two drugs mules has described herself as "blessed" following her pregnancy announcement.

Michaella McCollum showed off her growing baby bump in an Instagram picture earlier today.

The mum-to-be, 24, donned a tight-fighting black dress during her stay at an unknown hotel.

She captioned the picture “Blessed” with a love heart emoji.

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Her comments were inundated with well wishers with one saying: “Wow you look amazing or blooming as they say when your (sic) pregnant.

“Hopefully all goes well for you and the little one.”

Instagram user Janine Mccoppin commented: “Looking beaut Michaella xx.”

Her fellow drugs mule Melissa Reid, from Lenzie, near Glasgow, now shares a home and dog in Kilmarnock with her other half - a backpacker who visited her when she was in a South American jail.

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A friend described how 24-year-old Reid and 34-year-old Gary Stafford “have really fallen for each other.”

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