Silvija Nedeljkovic: “Twins on the Way”

Singer Silvija Nedeljkovic (42) posted a photo with her husband Sasa Stamenkovic on Instagram today, September 17, taken just before the birth of their twins. The news was first reported by Telegraf.

The photo shows her baby bump in the foreground, and according to Mondo, the couple stays close to each other as they wait to head to the maternity hospital. Alongside the photo, Silvija wrote a short caption, “Twins on the way.” The couple has not announced the exact due date.

Behind the joyful news lies a long struggle to have children. Mondo writes that Silvija and Sasa have been trying to conceive for 17 years, through several rounds of in vitro fertilization. Telegraf, on the other hand, describes the struggle as spanning “several decades,” without giving a precise number of years, so the two sources do not agree on the exact timeline. According to Telegraf, Silvija had a miscarriage about two years ago.

She spoke about this earlier in a statement to Blic, cited by both Telegraf and Mondo.

“I want to tell women not to give up. As long as we are standing on two feet, alive, healthy and doing it, it’s possible.”

On that occasion, the singer also said she believes a miracle can happen even when doctors’ prognoses are at their worst, and that such experiences, in her words, make people stronger, not weaker. She added that couples should not stay silent about pregnancy loss, since, as she put it, every other couple faces infertility, and an open conversation about it can help someone, somewhere.

Silvija Nedeljkovic is best known to audiences from the Zvezde Granda talent show, where she was once one of the favorite contestants before turning her career toward family life. Now, at 42, she is expecting twins with her husband Sasa Stamenkovic, who, according to Telegraf, is a professional footballer.

The road to this news was not easy, and Silvija makes no secret of it. Based on what she previously told Blic, the path to pregnancy involved several rounds of in vitro fertilization and the loss of a baby about two years ago, a period after which, she said, she thought there would be no continuation. Instead, in the singer’s own words, she returned to her faith and to her husband’s support, which, she says, “brought her back to the right path.”

Mondo also reports that alongside the photo of her baby bump, Silvija posted clips on social media from the final preparations before the babies’ arrival, including a shopping trip with her husband. The couple is signaling that the birth is near, though neither the date nor the sex of the children has been made public so far.

The news of Silvija Nedeljkovic’s pregnancy comes together with a story about her husband. According to what Mondo previously reported, Sasa Stamenkovic has also spoken publicly about the years of trying to have children, from his own perspective, describing how hard the waiting has been for him as an expectant father, even though, as Silvija says, he rarely shows it outwardly.

So far there is no official information on whether the birth has already begun. Neither Silvija nor Sasa has commented on the exact date, and the last Instagram post, the one with the message “Twins on the way,” remains the latest sign of how close the couple is to that moment.

Silvija has posted several similar updates in recent months, with photos of her baby bump and pictures with her husband, documenting the pregnancy for her followers on social media. That is exactly why the September 17 post feels like an announced final stop before the maternity hospital, though, as things stand now, only Silvija and her family truly know how close that moment really is.