When fans first met Stacey Solomon on the X Factor in 2009, she was a teenage mum from Dagenham with dreams of making it big.
Having fallen pregnant at 17 with childhood sweetheart Dean Cox, Stacey emotionally told how she spent those difficult years awash with 'shame'.
The aspiring star fell for car worker Dean while studying performing arts at Havering College. They split before their son Zachary was born, but Dean always continued to play a huge role in his son's life.