Some very happy news for Kym Valentine after a rough few years.

She’s been through the wringer and come out the other side.

Kym Valentine, 38, is expecting a baby with her fiance, former AFL star Trent Croad, 35.

The actress, who is best known as Libby Kennedy from Neighbours, is ecstatic at the news after enduring a rough few years.

She’s already the mother of one daughter, Millana, 11, with singer Fabio Tolli. The couple separated in 2007.

Valentine and Croad became engaged earlier this year, and things seem to be blissful for the couple, but things haven’t always run smoothly for Valentine.

Things became tense on the set of Neighbours for Valentine after it was revealed she was in a relationship with actor Vince Colossimo in 2008.

Colossimo had recently split from Valentine’s Neighbours cast-mate Jane Hall, who openly blamed Valentine for the relationship’s demise.

That same year, Valentine collapsed on a flight to Melbourne from New York and was rushed to hospital where she was diagnosed with a collapsed lung and pneumonia.

In 2010, she was hospitalised with a life-threatening blood clot on her lung. Later that year, Valentine was admitted to a private clinic suffering from exhaustion.

In 2011, the Herald Sun reported she’d taken leave from her role again to undergo treatment for a depressive illness.

Valentine was axed from the show that year. She sued the producers of the soap for discrimination and demanded that they re-hire her.

Valentine alleged that she was unfairly dismissed from Neighbours and experienced sex and disability discrimination while on the show. She sought damages for lost earnings, “pain, hurt, suffering and humiliation,” from Fremantle Media, reported the Sydney Morning Herald in 2013.

She reached a settlement with Fremantle Media in 2013, and returned to the show last year for a special three-week reprisal of the role of Libby Kennedy.

Valentine is due to give birth in April. She is already mum to an 11-year-old daughter named Millana from her previous marriage to Fabio Tolli.

Croad is also a father to Keira, 7, and Sierra, 5, with his ex-wife Tanya Stewart.

Valentine told Woman’s Day that she and Croad feel “blessed beyond belief”.

“To be here with each other at this point in our lives is everything that happiness looks and feels like to us,” Valentine said.

The baby is due next April.

Congratulations, Kym and Trent! We wish you nothing but happiness.