Steph Claire Smith has added her name to the list of influencers flocking to Noosa to leave their footprints in the golden sand favoured by A-list Aussies.
The pregnant fitness influencer, 30, gave the Queensland resort area her stamp of approval on Saturday, as she sunned herself and her growing baby bump on the beach.
‘I can see why everyone loves it here,’ she captioned a pouting selfie added to her Instagram Stories with a location tag.
Steph is luxuriating in a staycation babymoon with her husband Josh Miller on the Sunshine Coast.
After lashing out at the people who pressured her to ‘pop out’ more babies in a chat with Stellar Magazine this weekend, Steph broke out a fresh G-string ʙικιɴι to doze off on the main Noosa beach cradling her belly.
Strolling down the steps to the beach in a pair of black thongs, her new Kapri ʙικιɴι, and a crochet miniskirt cover up, Steph posted a pH๏τo from her neck down to show that from her perspective, she has to peer over her bump to see her toes.
She styled her skimpy green-and-white printed ʙικιɴι, which featured little cartoon peaches, with a straw sunhat and black sunglᴀsses for her outing.
‘Luckily I’m fitting into Josh’s pants at the moment,’ she captioned a pH๏τo of her Saturday night ensemble.
The couple spent the entire weekend lounging on the beach and treated themselves to ice creams and lazy naps.
Steph Claire Smith has added her name to the list of influencers flocking to Noosa to leave their footprints in the golden sand favoured by A-list Aussies
The pregnant fitness influencer, 30, gave the Queensland resort area her stamp of approval on Saturday, as she sunned herself and her growing baby bump on the beach
Her husband Josh got the resort wear memo, complementing Steph’s crisp ensemble in a white T-shirt, black-and-white board shorts, a pastel yellow cap and sunglᴀsses.
He wore a powder blue and white towel draped around the back of his neck and sipped a refreshing juice as his partner enjoyed a chocolate sundae.
Steph, who is now pregnant with her second child, told this week’s issue of Stellar that she was focused on her business, KIC, a wellness app, for some time after welcoming her son Harvey, three.
‘I think it’s still that presumption that if you’re going to have one, then you’ve got to give him a sibling. That pressure is a lot to deal with’ the 30-year-old said.
‘I wasn’t in a position where I could – nor did I want to – just pop [babies] out and [fall pregnant] straightaway. I didn’t have that desire’ she continued.
‘It would have been really, really hard with what we were trying to do with the business.
‘[KIC] was my baby for such a long time that it does get priority sometimes over some personal desires.’
Steph said that she and her husband Josh, who she married in 2019, had a lot of difficult conversations on the ‘right time’ to try for a second child.
Steph Claire Smith and her husband Josh pictured enjoying a beach day at Noosa
The influencer scoped out the prime position to lay out her towel
The fitness influencer, who is now pregnant with her second child, tells this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine that she was focused on her business, KIC, a wellness app, for some time after welcoming her son Harvey, three. Pictured with her husband Josh Miller
Steph flaunted her summer pregnancy style in a brand new Kapri the label ʙικιɴι and a cream crochet cover up
She lounged on the sand while Josh went for an ocean dip
She also considered the feelings of her business partner, Laura Henshaw, who she co-hosts the KIC podcast with.
‘With the first pregnancy, I was a little naive as to how that might affect the business or even my relationship with my co-founder’ Steph explained.
‘There were so many times that we didn’t have some of those important, honest conversations through that process.’
Steph is now expecting and posted to Instagram earlier this month to share the news.
Steph, who often features her three-year-old son Harvey in her social media posts, announced the news with a series of black and white pH๏τos.
The health and fitness influencer recently received backlash from her follows for taking her son Harvey to the gym.
Steph hit back at critics in early September when she came under fire for going to the gym with her toddler son Harvey.
‘With the first pregnancy, I was a little naive as to how that might affect the business or even my relationship with my co-founder’ Steph explained
‘I think it’s still that presumption that if you’re going to have one, then you’ve got to give him a sibling. That pressure is a lot to deal with’ the 30-year-old said
She shared a video of herself at the gym with her son in tow, prompting mum-shaming trolls to criticise her for not going without Harvey another time.
One follower commented: ‘If it was your day with him, why did you need to go to the gym. Wouldn’t you want to do fun things with him?’
In a since-deleted TikTok post and Instagram reel, Steph clapped back at her critics, saying she didn’t ‘need someone else’s judgement’.
She fumed: ‘If it’s not how you parent, fine, but casting this kind of judgement publicly is just so unnecessary.’
This comment was on my latest reel, where I showed myself getting a gym workout in, and taking Harvey with me for the first time ever.’
Steph also insisted that making time to exercise is not a selfish act for a parent to do and suggested that taking a toddler to the gym was a way to instill a healthy lifestyle.
Meanwhile, a glorious country home owned by the family of Steph’s eyewear entrepreneur husband Josh is set to go under the hammer.
Located in Bearii, a tiny town on the Victoria-NSW border, 157 km from Melbourne, the beautiful pad boasts seven bedrooms, five bathrooms and a golf course.
Meanwhile, a glorious country home owned by the family of Steph’s eyewear entrepreneur husband Josh is set to go under the hammer with a price guide of $8million-$8.8million
The 100hectare spread has been listed with a price guide of $8million-$8.8million.
The Soda Shades founder revealed to the Australian Financial Review on Sunday that the home had sentimental value since it was where he first met Steph.
The couple got engaged and later married in 2019 on the property. They also lived there for some time.
Josh recently ungraded the original plans to merge the two buildings, one a weatherboard home and the other the former Mornington Art Gallery.