Chelsea Clinton reveals she is pregnant

Chelsea Clinton has announced that she her husband, Marc Mezvinsky are expecting their first child.

The Former First Daughter, 34, revealed the happy news this afternoon in New York at the Clinton Foundation’s No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, which aims to empower young women.

She told the assembled guests: 'Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year.'

Chelsea has faced much pressure from her parents to start a family over the past few years - and in an interview with Glamour magazine last year, she hinted that she and Marc were trying for a child.

'2014 is the year of the baby,' she said. 'Call my mother and tell her that. She asks [Marc and I] about it every single day.'

Indeed, Hillary has made no secret of her desire to be a grandmother.

Speaking in the March 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar, she admitted that she'd probably be an 'unbearable' grandmother, but she'd 'love' Chelsea to have children.

She said of the suggestion: 'Well, no pressure, because I don't want to be one of those kinds of mothers. But obviously, someday, I'd love it.'

Chelsea later reassured her mother during a 2012 interview with Vogue, that she was gearing up to start a family 'in a couple of years'.

The couple, both Stanford University graduates, met when they were teenagers, but didn't start dating until years later in 2005. 

They tied the knot during a lavish ceremony five years later.